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by David Swan
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The OFLC has effectively banned upcoming 360 and PC title Left 4 Dead
2, refusing it classification and therefore deciding it cannot be
released in Australia.
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by Mike Bantick
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Flying around in a Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game is hard enough at the best of times. But the experience becomes excruciating when lag interferes with your playing experience. The extremely-popular-in-Asia MMO Aion is about to be launched in the west, and for Australian and New Zealand players there is good news.
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by Mike Bantick
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The war is escalating again! The video game console war that is. Feeling the sales pressure from the PS3 Slim and its new sexy price tag Microsoft has revealed its new weapon, a 250GB hard drive equipped Xbox 360, themed and bundled with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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by David Swan
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Opera Software today released Opera Mini 5 beta, the newest update to
the world's most popular Web browser for mobiles. What’s new, and is it
an essential download?
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by Mike Bantick
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Only two weeks after the release of 3.0 of the PlayStation 3 firmware Sony has released another update. 3.01 contains only bug fixes, and according to Sony, improvements to system stability. With some extreme reports coming in regarding ‘bricked’ PS3’s, I am downloading my update now.
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by Jake Widman
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The latest version of iTunes, released last week, sports a redesigned iTunes Store, wish lists, and other new buying features. But iTunes 9 also adds some welcome, little-noticed new capabilities to its basic functions as a personal media manager.
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by Jake Widman
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The ability for players of Guitar Hero 5 to play as Kurt Cobain, even when performing songs by bands other than Nirvana, has led to a flurry of charges and countercharges among Cobain's ex-wife, his ex-bandmates, and the GH5 publishers.
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by Mike Bantick
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NPD Group has released the August North American sales for video-game hard and software. Whilst the Nintendo DS and Wii are still king and queen of the race, the big mover was the PlayStation 3. Overall however, the industry has suffered its sixth straight month of decline.
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by Mike Bantick
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Another story to file in the burgeoning Rumour file? Reports are coming through of the existence of the mythical 250GB PS3 Slim, with some saying the device will be on retail shelves this October.
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by David Swan
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They’ve done what our cricketers and tennis players couldn’t…
Blackberry developer BigTinCan are on top of the world, literally, after reaching the number one spot on the Blackberry App World chart.
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by Mike Bantick
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RockStar Games has released a new video from the upcoming The Ballad of Gay Tony as part of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. Tony himself features heavily.
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by Stephen Withers
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iTWire reported Apple's iPod announcements earlier today. Now here is the Australian pricing and availability for the complete iPod range.
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by David Swan
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Facebook... Is there anything it can't do? Two girls were rescued
from an Adelaide drain last night after alerting friends through
their saviour, Facebook.
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by David Swan
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In a 'blink and you'll miss it' post on its official Facebook page, Navigon has
announced a new iPhone car cradle, which will directly compete with a
similar product from TomTom.
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by David Swan
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VicRoads today launched a new iPhone application designed to educate
younger drivers about the dangers of using their mobile phones while
driving. Will it race up the charts, or crash and burn?
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by Mike Bantick
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It is the time of the Renaissance, but still an assassin’s work is required. Developer Ubisoft has released a rockin trailer for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed II, featuring a swag of slick in-game footage.
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by Mike Bantick
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Rockstar Games and Timbaland present Beaterator, the music mixing game/application now has a rocking trailer.
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by Mike Bantick
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Now sitting on 1.5 million iPod Touch and iPhones around the world, the Australian developed Flight Control is a run(a)way hit for Firemint.
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