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I will be heading off to the Cayman Islands this Sunday to do some research, but while I'm there I will be testing out at least two neat things:

I will take the GoPro Hero HD down very deep underwater, and I will take the JH Audio JH-16 Pro with me, of course, inside its Otterbox 1000 case.  I believe this will be the deepest any JH Audio product will have gone and I am happy to be (hopefully) the first to do it.  Let's see how they sound after 44 extra PSI attempts to crush its case.  I will record the depth and show the case underwater with me with the GoPro Hero HD camera mounted to my head.  Let's hope that it works out well.

I will also be testing two new watches I recently got, along with my trusty favorite Tudor Submariner.  I recently hit up Amazon's gold box deal and got an Invicta Pro Diver Automatic which should be good for 200m under the sea.  I also have a new (but old) Zodiac V-Wolf Quartz dive watch supposedly good to 300m.  Of course, I will also be taking my as of now favorite dive watch, my Tudor Submariner-- good to 200m.  I've gone underwater to about 70 feet before with the Tudor and hopefully it will do me no harm again.  While these tests don't really go with the Tech aspects of the site, I will post a quick summary in my blog about them.

While I'm gone, I will be with very limited internet access since I will be on Little Cayman Island (pop ~70) on a rudimentary satellite internet line.  Because of this, I will not have the opportunity to write much and David Boehm, our PC editor, will take over my duties.  I believe he and the rest of our staff have some fun things planned for while I'm gone including a thermal paste shootout, possibly a review of some new speakers from Scythe, and hopefully some gaming peripheral reviews in addition to some console games and other fun things.  Even though I'll be gone, keep watch for more to come.  I'll try to keep in touch with twitter and this blog too!  I have prepared myself to film over 500gb of HD video while gone and when I return will do lots of editing  until I get some nice clips from the GoPro HD Hero to show our readers.  We will also be unveiling our Youtube channel as well after my return where we will feature video reviews as well as test footage.

Until then... enjoy and keep sharing pnosker.com to your friends!

MMA was definitely out in force this year at E3.  The big hitters were obviously UFC Undisputed: 2010, which had a massive octagon shaped booth complete with UFC ring girls and EA MMA, which was both as impressive as THQ's offering and very similar to it. Slightly lost in all of this was one other title, Supremacy MMA, which was not on the show floor.  We got a chance to take a look at this much more arcadey take on MMA from Kung fu factory walked out intrigued about their interpretation of one the fastest growing sports in America.

Pirates of the Caribbean have a lot of things going against them in theory.  First off, there has never been a truly great pirate game, so there is hardly any template of what to do to succeed in the genre. Additionally, all of the past games have been movie games, which automatically puts them on a deadline and hinders development.  However, after taking a look at the latest title, Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned in the series, it looks like Disney interactive may have found the magic formula to make the first great pirate game.

In todays video game environment, it seems as if there are very few niches which have not been fully explored.  With that in mind, it seems surprising that there have not been very many paintball games ever made.  Paintball seems to have all the makings of a solid videogame: it not only has a solid fan real-life fan base but it also has a pre-defined group of gamers who would be receptive to it in shooter fans.  In spite of this, really the only paintball games which have been released have been from the Greg Hastings Paintball series.  While at E3, we got a chance to check out the latest title in the series, Greg Hastings Paintball 2, and walked away rather impressed by what Majesco has done in the first iteration of the game for next-gen consoles.