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E3: Sony – PSP gets hardware love, PS3 software love
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-02 19:57:25
To round out this year’s pre-E3 show conferences, Sony has revealed the new PSP, some surprises on the software front and - not to be outdone by Microsoft’s Project Natal – a motion controller for the PS3.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-02 19:57:25
To round out this year’s pre-E3 show conferences, Sony has revealed the new PSP, some surprises on the software front and - not to be outdone by Microsoft’s Project Natal – a motion controller for the PS3.
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E3: Nintendo fall back on old favourites and precision
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-02 18:40:23
Nintendo’s pre-E3 conference brought few surprises but some classic Nintendo Icons have been dusted off for new appearances. Nintendo has also confirmed its intention to look after our physical health with the Wii Vitality Sensor.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-02 18:40:23
Nintendo’s pre-E3 conference brought few surprises but some classic Nintendo Icons have been dusted off for new appearances. Nintendo has also confirmed its intention to look after our physical health with the Wii Vitality Sensor.
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E3: Microsoft movie download service to "make Blu-Ray obsolete"
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-02 00:11:18
iTWire spoke to local Xbox Product Manager Andrew Jenkins about the Microsoft E3 conference announcements and how they will affect the Australia/New Zealand markets. Finally Australia gets that HD movie on demand service that we have been so envious of, and possibly another nine-inch-nail in the coffin of video disc formats such as Blu-Ray?
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-02 00:11:18
iTWire spoke to local Xbox Product Manager Andrew Jenkins about the Microsoft E3 conference announcements and how they will affect the Australia/New Zealand markets. Finally Australia gets that HD movie on demand service that we have been so envious of, and possibly another nine-inch-nail in the coffin of video disc formats such as Blu-Ray?
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E3: Microsoft gets social and invisible with Xbox future
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-01 17:50:59
The Microsoft conference held today showed the expansion of its vision for home entertainment and the Xbox brand. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) held in LA was an opportunity for Microsoft to show off its new invisible game controller, integration with Facebook and Twitter, movie streaming and oh! Some exclusive games.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-01 17:50:59
The Microsoft conference held today showed the expansion of its vision for home entertainment and the Xbox brand. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) held in LA was an opportunity for Microsoft to show off its new invisible game controller, integration with Facebook and Twitter, movie streaming and oh! Some exclusive games.
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Review: inFAMOUS – It is really not all bad
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-01 06:48:01
The PS3 now has a superpowers game with a mature theme and a metric ton of glitches to overcome. But the sum of inFAMOUS’s parts actually hits the sweet spot.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-01 06:48:01
The PS3 now has a superpowers game with a mature theme and a metric ton of glitches to overcome. But the sum of inFAMOUS’s parts actually hits the sweet spot.
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It’s Doom for the iPhone
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-29 00:49:17
John Carmack of Id Software fame is currently hard at work designing an iPhone app that may steal your soul.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-29 00:49:17
John Carmack of Id Software fame is currently hard at work designing an iPhone app that may steal your soul.
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Interview: Chris Ansell at Radical answers some PROTOTYPE questions
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-28 21:39:57
In a week or so PROTOTYPE will be unleashed on Earth. The game is all about power, super human power. iTWire spoke to Chris Ansell from developer Radical Entertainment to find out what our fellow mutants could expect from a game centred around them.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-28 21:39:57
In a week or so PROTOTYPE will be unleashed on Earth. The game is all about power, super human power. iTWire spoke to Chris Ansell from developer Radical Entertainment to find out what our fellow mutants could expect from a game centred around them.
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Warhammer 40K Space Marine game detailed
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-28 20:34:17
The rumours have been flying around for some time now, but THQ today firmed up the details of a third-person perspective action title based around the super-human angels of death from Games Workshops iconic table top universe Warhammer 40,000. Space Marine is under development by Relic, makers of Dawn of War.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-28 20:34:17
The rumours have been flying around for some time now, but THQ today firmed up the details of a third-person perspective action title based around the super-human angels of death from Games Workshops iconic table top universe Warhammer 40,000. Space Marine is under development by Relic, makers of Dawn of War.
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Rent a designer bag – Rent a designer brain
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Services
2009-05-28 00:17:59
Nintendo have teamed up with high fashion rental service Love Me & Leave Me to insert some brain training into each luxury hand-bag borrowed.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Services
2009-05-28 00:17:59
Nintendo have teamed up with high fashion rental service Love Me & Leave Me to insert some brain training into each luxury hand-bag borrowed.
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Nintendo DS wins sales speed record to two million
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2009-05-27 23:37:23
Nintendo has claimed another sales crown with the news that over two million Australians have their grubby mitts on some iteration of the DS hand-held.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2009-05-27 23:37:23
Nintendo has claimed another sales crown with the news that over two million Australians have their grubby mitts on some iteration of the DS hand-held.
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Grand Theft Auto IV goes gay
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-26 22:09:51
Well not quite, the next in the series of exclusive download material for Xbox 360 owners of Grand Theft Auto IV has been announced. In many ways it is diametrically opposite the first episode “The Lost and Damned”. Prepare to whistle along to “The Ballad of Gay Tony”.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-26 22:09:51
Well not quite, the next in the series of exclusive download material for Xbox 360 owners of Grand Theft Auto IV has been announced. In many ways it is diametrically opposite the first episode “The Lost and Damned”. Prepare to whistle along to “The Ballad of Gay Tony”.
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New Star Wars Battlefront game for hand-held’s announced
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-26 18:51:50
Activision has given us a heap of details on Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron. Available on the PlayStation Portable, and to a lesser extent, on the Nintendo DS, Elite Squadron will have us spending time in a galaxy far, far away just about anywhere.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-26 18:51:50
Activision has given us a heap of details on Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron. Available on the PlayStation Portable, and to a lesser extent, on the Nintendo DS, Elite Squadron will have us spending time in a galaxy far, far away just about anywhere.
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Review: Terminator Salvation – No one can save the Governator General
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-26 17:38:00
What is more important to a media entertainment company, the movie or the video game? Well, the actual answer is the follow-up movie related merchandise. But can either the success of movie or video-game be destroyed by an unpolished partner? The well explored Terminator franchise has not been blessed with a good video-game spin-off, and this tradition continues with Terminator Salvation.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-26 17:38:00
What is more important to a media entertainment company, the movie or the video game? Well, the actual answer is the follow-up movie related merchandise. But can either the success of movie or video-game be destroyed by an unpolished partner? The well explored Terminator franchise has not been blessed with a good video-game spin-off, and this tradition continues with Terminator Salvation.
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Review: UFC 2009 Undisputed – Best modelled sweat ever
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-26 06:36:26
Grapple, punch, upper-cut, kick, dodge, duck, clinch. Being an Ultimate Fighting Champ in UFC 2009 Undisputed is a tiring business, and this is just a video game.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-26 06:36:26
Grapple, punch, upper-cut, kick, dodge, duck, clinch. Being an Ultimate Fighting Champ in UFC 2009 Undisputed is a tiring business, and this is just a video game.
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Pics of new Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for PlayStation
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-26 01:38:04
Feel like throwing AU$400 at a play guitar? Well Logitech have a deal for you. Presenting the wireless Guitar Hero controller; featuring a wooden neck and body, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets. If it wasn’t for the coloured fret buttons and the fact you are standing in front of a PlayStation, you could be playing the real thing.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-26 01:38:04
Feel like throwing AU$400 at a play guitar? Well Logitech have a deal for you. Presenting the wireless Guitar Hero controller; featuring a wooden neck and body, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets. If it wasn’t for the coloured fret buttons and the fact you are standing in front of a PlayStation, you could be playing the real thing.
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Review: Godfather II – EA makes us an offer we cannot refuse
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-22 20:29:40
There are no dead horses, but EA’s Godfather II packs enough brutality into the game to make even the most ruthless of criminal wince.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-05-22 20:29:40
There are no dead horses, but EA’s Godfather II packs enough brutality into the game to make even the most ruthless of criminal wince.
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PlayStation to see Fallout 3 DLC
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-21 19:02:14
PS3 owning Fallout 3 fans have been watching the download content streaming to Xbox 360 and PC platforms for a while now. Bethesda have given details on further episodes for the mammoth game, including plans for the PlayStation Network.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-21 19:02:14
PS3 owning Fallout 3 fans have been watching the download content streaming to Xbox 360 and PC platforms for a while now. Bethesda have given details on further episodes for the mammoth game, including plans for the PlayStation Network.
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The death of Blu-Ray? New DVD disc stores 1.6 terabytes
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2009-05-20 21:24:21
There has been speculation about the long term future of disc media, speculation that grew as the HD DVD and Blu-Ray optical disc formats fought out a close war for domination of the HD video market. Blu-Ray’s format win could be short lived, if a new disc format – known as 5D DVD -promising 1.6 terabyte storage capacity hits the commercial market.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2009-05-20 21:24:21
There has been speculation about the long term future of disc media, speculation that grew as the HD DVD and Blu-Ray optical disc formats fought out a close war for domination of the HD video market. Blu-Ray’s format win could be short lived, if a new disc format – known as 5D DVD -promising 1.6 terabyte storage capacity hits the commercial market.
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Bizzare Creations set to Blur racing
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-19 22:30:14
Developers of the Project Gotham series of Xbox exclusive racers has been working on a new action experience. Activision has given the green light to details on Bizarre Creations’ newest project Blur.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-19 22:30:14
Developers of the Project Gotham series of Xbox exclusive racers has been working on a new action experience. Activision has given the green light to details on Bizarre Creations’ newest project Blur.
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Wii MotionPlus Aussie release details
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-19 22:11:41
The enhanced movement detection of the Wii-mote is not too far from Australian shores. The Wii MotionPlus promises greater accuracy with compatible games, including the upcoming follow-up to the greatest selling game of all time Wii Sports.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-05-19 22:11:41
The enhanced movement detection of the Wii-mote is not too far from Australian shores. The Wii MotionPlus promises greater accuracy with compatible games, including the upcoming follow-up to the greatest selling game of all time Wii Sports.
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