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Monday, 20-August-2007 14:54:31 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station and started its return journey, a day early amid concerns about Hurrican Dean approaching North America. There were some concerns about a gouge on the heat-shielding on the shuttle's belly, but they've decided it would be more risky to repair it than to leave it.
Diehard sent word of 5GB Hotmail and Fujitsu powering a datacentre using hydrogen fuel cells.
ExtremeMHz and TweakTown both have articles on overclocking the G0 SLACR stepping Q6600 CPU. With a lower stock voltage compared to the B3 stepping, along with a huge test field it seems clear that the G0 is a real winner.
OC3D checked out ATI-based mid-range video cards from ASUS, the 2600XT and 2600Pro. In the spirit of making the lower chips have higher numbers than the top end, ATI have named their mid-range R630. With a scaled down version of the R600 architecture and boasting a nice 194 GFLOPS of power, the 2600 series looks pretty sweet on paper.
YouGamers have some preview info and videos of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, an upcoming MMORPG. For example, they were particularly keen on pointing out that this is all about the world of Conan and if you've ever read any of the books, then you'll know what you're in for: no elves or gnomes, just hacking off heads, drinking beer and shouting "Crom!" at every buxom women that dares cross your path.
Daniel suggests this freeware burning program called FinalBurner. Its users will benefit from the opportunity to create data, audio, and video disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL. No tedious or confusing configuration needed. You just select a few main settings and start burning. FinalBurner's artificial intelligence will find the perfect recording balance.
BenchMarkReviews have their most anticipated games listed. Benchmark Reviews walks though five of the most anticipated video games ending 2007. We have: World in Conflict, Medal Of Honor: Airborne, Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis, and Assassin's Creed. Feast your eyes on some of the most exciting games to hit the widescreen!
Bit-Tech meanwhile report on the World of Indie Games. Indie games are, I think, understood by most not as being separate from a large publisher, but a recognition of creativity and inventiveness which pushes back against the grain of current gameplay trends. Take, Narbacular Drop for instance. It’s a wildly imaginative indie game produced by a collection of programmers which sees the Princess No-knees trying to escape a dungeon by using a system of inter-connected portals which she can create on the fly.
Drillbit sent in this interesting-looking cloud game. You have to download that one, but here's a web-based timewaster from Diehard: bloon tower defence. Pretty much like all the other tower defence varieties out there. :)
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