Gaming
Xbox 360 price cuts no surprise in battle for supremacy
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
After the Nintendo Wii and PS3 launched in 2006, preceded by the Xbox 360’s 2005 debut, all three consoles now have excellent software libraries and plenty of users. While the Nintendo Wii still leads in total consoles sold, Microsoft has more than 300 games and great popularity all its own, a nice price cut pre-Christmas looks a very timely move.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
After the Nintendo Wii and PS3 launched in 2006, preceded by the Xbox 360’s 2005 debut, all three consoles now have excellent software libraries and plenty of users. While the Nintendo Wii still leads in total consoles sold, Microsoft has more than 300 games and great popularity all its own, a nice price cut pre-Christmas looks a very timely move.
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Asus delivers “world first” Quad Core gaming notebook
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Although high powered notebooks have been available for some time from the likes of Toshiba, Alienware, Dell and others, Asus says its quad core G Series gaming notebook is a "world first".
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Although high powered notebooks have been available for some time from the likes of Toshiba, Alienware, Dell and others, Asus says its quad core G Series gaming notebook is a "world first".
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Will the Xbox 360 survive past Christmas?
By: Davey Winder
The red rings of death issue simply refuses to go away for Microsoft, and no matter how much it reduces the cost and extends the warranty one simple question remains: will the Xbox 360 ever be fit for purpose?
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By: Davey Winder
The red rings of death issue simply refuses to go away for Microsoft, and no matter how much it reduces the cost and extends the warranty one simple question remains: will the Xbox 360 ever be fit for purpose?
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Nintendo’s DSi – perfect or could have been better?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nintendo’s upgraded handheld games console has been dubbed the DSi, coming with interesting new features that could well have been better, although only Japan will get it before Christmas, with the rest of the world missing out – until 2009!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nintendo’s upgraded handheld games console has been dubbed the DSi, coming with interesting new features that could well have been better, although only Japan will get it before Christmas, with the rest of the world missing out – until 2009!
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The Music Playing, Photo Taking, Enhanced Internet Connected Nintendo DS
By: Davey Winder
In the four years since Nintendo launched the DS, precious little has changed apart from the somewhat slimmed down DS Lite hardware of course. Until now, that is. Prepare yourself for the beefed up DS complete with music playback and digital camera.
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By: Davey Winder
In the four years since Nintendo launched the DS, precious little has changed apart from the somewhat slimmed down DS Lite hardware of course. Until now, that is. Prepare yourself for the beefed up DS complete with music playback and digital camera.
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Halo 3 controversy: Maddie, where are you?
By: Davey Winder
Halo developer Bungie stands accused of using the disappearance of 4 year old British girl Madeleine McCann to publicise the forthcoming Halo 3 expansion pack. Could anyone really be that sick?
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By: Davey Winder
Halo developer Bungie stands accused of using the disappearance of 4 year old British girl Madeleine McCann to publicise the forthcoming Halo 3 expansion pack. Could anyone really be that sick?
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Nokia new N96 launches – is it the iPhone’s biggest threat?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s long-awaited successor to the N95 series has arrived: the N96. Coming after the iPhone 3G, Google Android phone and the HTC Touch, the N96 aims to deliver the most complete mobile experience and compete fiercely for market and mind-share. Not just built to consume digital content and enable communication, the N96 is also being positioned as the ultimate handheld content creator for digital media and the web. On first inspection, does it deliver?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s long-awaited successor to the N95 series has arrived: the N96. Coming after the iPhone 3G, Google Android phone and the HTC Touch, the N96 aims to deliver the most complete mobile experience and compete fiercely for market and mind-share. Not just built to consume digital content and enable communication, the N96 is also being positioned as the ultimate handheld content creator for digital media and the web. On first inspection, does it deliver?
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Xbox Pure was actually contaminated
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Xbox Pure was meant to be the name of an upcoming Xbox 360, perhaps a slimline version or a new 360 successor, but has turned out to be a fake blog posting to see which games sites would run with it. With so many rumours online, was this a fair test of a gamer site’s fact-checking skills?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Xbox Pure was meant to be the name of an upcoming Xbox 360, perhaps a slimline version or a new 360 successor, but has turned out to be a fake blog posting to see which games sites would run with it. With so many rumours online, was this a fair test of a gamer site’s fact-checking skills?
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Microsoft gives gamers the Blues with SideWinder X8
By: Stephen Withers
Hot on the heels of Microsoft's BlueTrack announcement comes news that the company will be building the technology into a SideWinder gaming mouse. Don't bother asking Santa for one - it won't arrive until February 2009.
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By: Stephen Withers
Hot on the heels of Microsoft's BlueTrack announcement comes news that the company will be building the technology into a SideWinder gaming mouse. Don't bother asking Santa for one - it won't arrive until February 2009.
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Apple seeds new iPods, offers surprises – and disappointments
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
So those pics of the new iPod nano were spot on, as were the rumours about iTunes. The nano comes in 9 colours, there’s a new iPod Touch with speakers, volume control, Nike+ and 36 hours of audio, and OS 2.1 software arrives at last – but there’s no 64GB iPod Touch, and no 32GB iPhone 3G.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
So those pics of the new iPod nano were spot on, as were the rumours about iTunes. The nano comes in 9 colours, there’s a new iPod Touch with speakers, volume control, Nike+ and 36 hours of audio, and OS 2.1 software arrives at last – but there’s no 64GB iPod Touch, and no 32GB iPhone 3G.
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Film Industry to Games Industry; “Stop whinging”
By: Mike Bantick
In a little ‘creative differences’ war of words, Australian film industry insiders are none to impressed with the calls from local game developers for parity of support from the government. Amalgamate or die they say.
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By: Mike Bantick
In a little ‘creative differences’ war of words, Australian film industry insiders are none to impressed with the calls from local game developers for parity of support from the government. Amalgamate or die they say.
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Virtual Outsourcing: gold farming employs 320,000 Chinese cheaters
By: Davey Winder
It sounds like something right out of a Roald Dahl story, but this is much stranger than any fiction: gold farming has become a $500 million global virtual outsourcing business.
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By: Davey Winder
It sounds like something right out of a Roald Dahl story, but this is much stranger than any fiction: gold farming has become a $500 million global virtual outsourcing business.
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Sony takes page out of Xbox 360 book in PS3 hardware change
By: Stephen Withers
Sony has used the Leipzig Games Convention to announce forthcoming changes to the PlayStation 3 hardware, including an Xbox 360 style text keypad. Other changes include a major upgrade to the hard drive capacity.
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By: Stephen Withers
Sony has used the Leipzig Games Convention to announce forthcoming changes to the PlayStation 3 hardware, including an Xbox 360 style text keypad. Other changes include a major upgrade to the hard drive capacity.
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Rumour: Xbox 720 and PS4 release dates
By: Davey Winder
The Games Convention Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany has not been the most exciting of events. Apart from one fleeting moment during an otherwise uneventful keynote presentation the future of gaming graphics. Could Cevat Yerli have inadvertently announced the expected arrival dates of the Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4?
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By: Davey Winder
The Games Convention Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany has not been the most exciting of events. Apart from one fleeting moment during an otherwise uneventful keynote presentation the future of gaming graphics. Could Cevat Yerli have inadvertently announced the expected arrival dates of the Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4?
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I'm too sexy for your Nintendo
By: Davey Winder
Think geek and sexy girls (or guys for that matter) with very little on does not usually come to the front of your imagination. That could all change as controllers built into underwear make pressing all the right buttons much more interesting...
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By: Davey Winder
Think geek and sexy girls (or guys for that matter) with very little on does not usually come to the front of your imagination. That could all change as controllers built into underwear make pressing all the right buttons much more interesting...
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Sony announce 80GB PS3 date
By: Mike Bantick
Ooops! Put the credit card back in the wallet, not long to wait for the Australian release of a PS3 with double the capacity of the current 40GB model.
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By: Mike Bantick
Ooops! Put the credit card back in the wallet, not long to wait for the Australian release of a PS3 with double the capacity of the current 40GB model.
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Sega eye off iPhone
By: Mike Bantick
Sega will increasingly turn to a more casual relationship with its customers, looking to platforms such as Facebook and iPhone to capture market share according to North American president Simon Jeffery,
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By: Mike Bantick
Sega will increasingly turn to a more casual relationship with its customers, looking to platforms such as Facebook and iPhone to capture market share according to North American president Simon Jeffery,
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Gaming on Ubuntu Linux
By: Hamish Taylor
After my last few articles on how to connect Ubuntu Linux to network shares and a network printer, I want to have a look at some of the more fun aspects of Ubuntu Linux. I thought this was appropriate at the moment, so...let the games begin!
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By: Hamish Taylor
After my last few articles on how to connect Ubuntu Linux to network shares and a network printer, I want to have a look at some of the more fun aspects of Ubuntu Linux. I thought this was appropriate at the moment, so...let the games begin!
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