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From Jeremy: Episode 16 of Good Game will be airing Monday night, featuring reviews of Haze and Race Driver: GRID. We'll also look into the hidden side effects of Game Piracy and how it effects the industry, and meet hospital patients who are using immersive games as a form of therapy.
TechWareLabs report on MacWorld 2008. There is a first time for everything, and this time an Apple fan got to go to the Macworld 2008 Conference and Expo in San Francisco, CA! Will his head explode from all the Mac-related goodies? Maybe from Steve Jobs' keynote presentation, or maybe from "something in the Air"? Read on to find out what happened to Ricky on his California adventure.
CPU3D meanwhile went to Channel Expo 2008 in the UK. It's meant to be UK's largest channel event for showcasing the latest products, services and technologies, all under one roof. Distributors, resellers and retailers all come here to do business. This year's Channel Expo 2008 at Birmingham's NEC was a little bit better than last year's.
From Manaz: The SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is a one day technical conference held in Melbourne. It is organised by the SAGE-AU Victorian Regional Chapter. This symposium aims to provide a forum for systems and network administrators, systems managers, developers of systems administration software and their managers to meet and share their knowledge and experiences.
LG are working on a two-sided LCD panel. LG Display Co Ltd developed a reflective LCD panel that can display different images on front and back sides of the glass substrate and unveiled it at SID2008.
NVIDIA is apparently acquiring a raytracing software company called RayScale, report PCPerspective and HotHardware. Word from Sunny Santa Clara-based NVIDIA Corp, is that the graphics giant has moved in on an acquisition of Utah-based RayScale, a 10 year-old start-up and productization of development work from few key people at the University of Utah. RayScale currently has a product available for Autodesk Maya, dubbed LightNow.
Meanwhile, PCPerspective have some info on an NVIDIA GPU client for Folding@Home. Apparently we aren't allowed to talk about specifics on performance of the client, mostly because the numbers we saw were based on an "upcoming NVIDIA GPU". Remember, OCAU is Team 24. :)
There's a 3DMark Vantage hotfix available. 3DMark Vantage received some strong feedback on some of the choices made during the development. There were also some small but annoying bugs found only after launch. A hotfix to polish things up was announced a couple of weeks ago. It took slightly longer than originally anticipated, but it's here, and offers some important changes and fixes to 3DMark Vantage.
Shacknews have an interview with Doug Lombardi from Valve about the state of PC gaming. But talking purely in terms of the Wii, the PS3, and the 360, if you added those together and looked at the whole picture, I'd bet you PC would be even, if not bigger than those three systems in terms of the money that's changing hands and the opportunity for doing business.
Greenpeace however wish that video game consoles were greener. "Whether game consoles are classified as toys or not, they can still contain hazardous chemicals and materials that could harm humans," said Dr. Kevin Brigden of the Greenpeace Science Unit. "The technology is available for the manufacturers to design out toxins and produce greener game consoles now."
The Phoenix mission should arrive at Mars this weekend, to analyse subterranean ice. Phoenix has to land in a process that requires it to slow itself from 12,000 mph (19,000 kph) to zero in seven minutes. Also, the shuttle Discovery will be launching on May 31 to visit the International Space Station.
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