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Sunday, 23-September-2012 16:11:23 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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With the R18+ guidelines released, a few sites have had time to digest them and share their thoughts, including Kotaku and SMH's DigitalLife. We should be clear: the R18+ we have is not an MA15+ rating with a false face — it’s an easy conclusion to leap to (and I made the same mistake initially) but it’s inaccurate. The new R18+ rating accounts for ‘high’ impact video games (in terms of violence and sexual content) while the MA15+ rating will be applied when that impact is ‘strong’. The terms are relative, but the difference is important. Allowing for different interpretations a game like, say, Mortal Kombat may have been classified in this country. Discussion continues in this thread.
The iPhone 5 is out, bringing with it iOS6, and Apple's maps product - which people have found a lot of problems with. More info here. Apple could have kept Google's more reliable and mature mobile mapping app, but it made a strategic decision about something it needed to own and monetize. Put another way, getting rid of Google Maps was more important than delivering a less-flawed Apple Maps app and dealing with the grumbling. Make that a lot of grumbling. And ridicule. HotHardware have posted their thoughts as well.
Raspberry Pi owners will be happy to hear there's an official overclocked mode now available. Giving a Raspberry Pi extra voltage is a quick way to squeeze out additional processing power and void its warranty, but the folks behind the tinker-friendly board have devised a turbo mode that boosts performance by roughly 50 percent while keeping warranties intact.
Matcat sent word of Black Mesa Source, a re-imagining of the original Half Life using the Source engine - and it's free. It should be noted that the project is being built from the ground up and is not a simple port of Half Life maps and models into the Source Engine. The idea is to remake the storyline used in Half Life into a new polished Source Engine version with new models, maps, soundtrack, voice acting and textures. This total conversion will not require Half-Life: Source to play - only a copy of any Source Engine game installed on Steam. Discussion here.
Sciby spotted this cool site which tracks flights all over the world in (mostly) real time.
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