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Monday, 18-February-2008 01:36:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Apparently EA are offering refunds to Australian customers who bought Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 expecting there to be network multiplayer available. Jenkins would not say why Australians were forced to miss out when the online component was present in the North American, European and Japanese versions.
LegitReviews have more info about mixing different video cards in CrossFire. This goes to show that ATI has made great improvements to their CATALYST drivers as taking an ATI Radeon HD 3870 and running it in CrossFire mode with an ATI Radeon HD 3850 was found to be stable and offered great improvements over a single card of either model.
Another game has been refused classification in Australia, which means it can't be sold here. This time it's Dark Sector, report IGN. After all, while the Board is simply making a decision based on its own guidelines, in a country where the average gamer is in his or her mid twenties, it seems a little strange for a game to be refused classification because it is "unsuitable for a minor to see or play".
Mr_insideout spotted this story about the world's smallest bodybuilder. Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight. My 1yo son weighs over 10kg and he's not a particularly big baby!
Bit-Tech have an interview about Spore. Hmm, the press machine does seem to be slowly grinding into action again about Spore, after not hearing anything for months. We have just published an interview with Thomas Vu, one of the lead producers on Will Wright's Spore. During the interview, we asked him about the female gaming market, DirectX 10, creationism and, um, probing. In fact, Dopefish noticed the current launch date is September this year.
Tech Report have a bit more about the plans to port PhysX to GeForce 8 GPUs. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made no announcements regarding the deal until asked in the question-and-answer session, but he was happy to divulge a decent number of details.
Tech Report also have a hardware survey running. The survey is based on our brand-new poll engine, and it includes 15 questions pertaining to anything from your primary computer's processor and chipset type to your main operating system and the aspect ratio of your monitor.
MYSRH sent in a link to some upcoming Xbox360 rumours. There is not one but two secret Xbox cats that Microsoft has kept in the bag. Currently there are three more Xbox 360 motherboards in the works right now. They are.. dun dun dun.. Jasper, Opus and Valhalla.
HWZone conducted an Avivo / PureVideo HD Showdown. With Blu-ray taking a major step towards outright winning the HD format war, we take a look at how graphics cards today can reduce the workload on your CPU. Read on for the ultimate comparison between ATI's Avivo HD and NVIDIA's PureVideo HD solutions.
Meanwhile Bit-Tech have a watercooling fluid shootout. But all of this was for one worthy goal – is there a fluid that reigns supreme? Does anything do water's job better than water? The numbers don't lie – nothing is better than pure, straight up water so far, at least where temperatures are concerned.
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