|
Advertisement:
|
OCAU News |
Wednesday Evening
(16 Comments)
(link) Wednesday, 7-November-2007 18:26:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
|
A popular toy called Bindeez has been recalled around Australia because it contains a chemical that the human body turns into a drug. More info here. Chinese-made Bindeez, which won the 2007 Australian Toy of the Year award at the Melbourne Toy and Hobby fair, contains hundreds of beads which can induce seizures, drowsiness or a coma if eaten.
Lurks sent word that there's now Mac and Linux clients for EvE Online, for all your whizzing around in big spaceships fun.
YouGamers wonder how much video memory you actually need. So if you're out to buy a new graphics card, what do you do - buy the one with the most memory, the fastest memory, the latest memory type?
IGN have interviewed Tim Schafer about Brutal Legend, their upcoming metalhead console game. Not only is it coming from the brilliant mind of Tim Schafer (yes, he of Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Pyschonauts and many more) and Double Fine, but it's designed as the ultimate homage to heavy metal.
Pro-Clockers reviewed an interesting AM2 motherboard from ASRock. Today, we have the ASRock ALiveNF7G-HDready Micro ATX Motherboard on our test bench. With onboard support for dual monitors and 720p Blu-ray / HD-DVD playback, this budget motherboard is sure to make consumers take a double take when they see it on store shelves.
Phoronix report on Reside@Home, a Linux-based solution for aged care. The Reside@HOME product consists of a tabletop device (referred to as the "Reside@HOME Monitor") that is located with the care receiver and then a web-based control panel to facilitate the caregiver interaction.
ThePirateBay are working on an alternative to BitTorrent, thanks Sniper. But BitTorrent has seen some long-awaited success in working with major media companies, and as its ties with the industry grow, it might add features to discourage trading pirated materials, said Pirate Bay's co-founder, Peter Sunde.
ojk007 spotted this Crysis demo modification that seems to enable DX10-like effects under XP. After extensive digging and searching for trying to figure out a way to run dx10 on xp. I finally found a credible source that actually allows and enables you to play what looks exactly like a DirectX 10, "Very High" settings version of Crysis under XP aint that kool ;)
Matt sent in this clever VB ad, where an orchestra plays the entire VB theme on VB bottles (7.2MB MPG).
Return to OCAU's News Page
|
|
Advertisement:
All original content copyright James Rolfe.
All rights reserved. No reproduction allowed without written permission.
|
Advertisement:
|
|
|