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August 10th, 2008

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Thursday update - 7th August

August 8th, 2008

More useless crud no one reads

• AMD and NVidia, why they should merge - A very intersting commentary on why these two stick together or get crushed by Intel. Don’t see it happening though.
• ASUS Eee PC S101, Macbook Air killer? - Might as well start the bandwagon here… Asus’ own Macbook Air killer - this thing looks great, slimmer than a MBA too, probably won’t toast your manberries either.
• Nvidia not out of the chipset business just yet - Preparing a new version of the 790i chipset, with cut down features, hopefully some of which actually work as described this time!
• GTA IV PC Version coming in Nov - Just in time for Christmas… not at all cynical. Although, there is an expanded multiplayer element in this one apparently.
• Awesome widescreen monitor - About 12m x 5m… yeah, not bad Hate to see the power bill though.
• Poms think they’ll top Australia’s medal haul at the Olympics - hahahahahahaha!
• More details on the new Golf Mk 6 - No details on the GTi yet though.

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Tuesday update - 5th August

August 5th, 2008

A few random things floating around today…

• The SSD you’ve been waiting for - 2.5″, 2.5watts, up to 256Gb and best of all, 250MB/s read and write. Micron has launched their new Solid State Drives today and they look amazing (on paper anyway), let’s just hope they aren’t priced as insanely as their performance would suggest.
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game delayed, but still coming - in 2009, according to this.
• Fury finally shut down - A shame, given it’s Aussie heritage.
• iPhone battery and security sucks - Gartner have concluded what everyone else has been saying for weeks… no wonder their services cost so much.
• 6 degrees of separation - According to MS, it’s actually true. They’ve done a study of their Live Messenger users and come up with the average of 6.6 degrees of separation between any two people on the planet.
• The VW Golf Mk 6 - Looks a bit like the new Scirocco (VW Australia, please bring this car to Aus!), which is no bad thing…
• Bulgarian bloke has nearly 1% alcohol in is blood - and lives! 0.851% and still managed to drive, albeit rather badly by the sounds of it. For reference, apparently 0.4% is often fatal.

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Sunday update - 3rd August

August 3rd, 2008

A few things bouncing around teh intarweb this weekend.

• XBOX 360 US Price cut in Sept - If this is true, hopefully we’ll see it in Australia at the same time.
• Activision dropping some Vivendi games - Ghostbusters, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault and more in doubt? Crash Bandicoot survived though.
• NVIDIA bad news - Out of the chipset business? Will anyone miss them?
• NVIDIA good news - Forceware 180 loaded with new features: about time too!
• One of the slower sheep in the iPhone flock? - Virgin Mobile Australia has just released the iPhone and it’s plans compare pretty well to the rest.
• Travelling to the US? - Don’t take your iPod or laptop with you.. unless you want to hand over all your data that is.
• The All Blacks take revenge - It was a painful game to watch as a Wallabies supporter.

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AOB Online - Alive once again

August 3rd, 2008

The front page has been eerily quiet for some time now, so it’s time to revive it. Hopefully, we should have a post up with interesting links, articles etc every day or two. So, stay tuned, here we go again.

As always though, the forums are fairly active.

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Mini-Review : Assassins Creed [XBOX360]

November 19th, 2007

Shags has managed to get his hands on Assassins Creed for XBox360 and has written up a review.

Take a look here.

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Team Fortress 2 Review

November 16th, 2007

Scoobs has written up a good review on Team Fortress 2, the cartoonishly styled FPS recently released.

Check it out here.

Tags: PC Games · Reviews · Software

Guitar Hero III Review - XBOX360

November 7th, 2007

Shags has written up a fairly comprehensive review of Guitar Hero III for the 360, definitely worth a read.

Read the full article here.

Tags: Music · Reviews · Software · XBox360

Mini-Review: Fury

November 7th, 2007

Scratch has taken a look at the new MMO/FPS Fury and posted his thoughts on it.

Take a look here.

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Crysis Single Player Demo released

October 28th, 2007

Yes, finally it’s arrived…

1.77Gb of the latest and greatest FPS goodness, in Beta form.

See the AOB forum discussion and impressions on it here.

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