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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 16-April-2009 14:09:47 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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It seems the first game banned from Australia in 2009 is NecroVisioN, as reported by GoN. The title, which takes gamers all the way from World War I battlefields into a demon-infested underworld, is officially the first game to be Refused Classification in this country in 2009, effectively banned from release due to in-game "depictions of violence that exceed a strong playing impact".
NASA's Mars rovers are still exploring, although Spirit is having issues. Spirit and Opportunity, which are both working on the Mars equator but on different sides of the planet, have been on Mars for five years, far outlasting the three-month projection set by engineers at its launch.
Speaking of NASA, they had a minor PR issue after Stephen Colbert used his TV show to swing the voting in a poll of what to name the next space station module. NASA eventually went with "Tranquility". "However, NASA is naming its new space station treadmill the 'Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill,' or COLBERT. We have invited Stephen to Florida for the launch of COLBERT and to Houston to try out a version of the treadmill that astronauts train on."
Wow, this anti-piracy campaign is almost hilariously bad, and not just for the pronunciation of "warez" as war-ezz (juarez?). Cnet report that the BSA are equating software piracy with real actual Somalian pirates as well.
OC3D checked out ATI 4xxx series cards from XFX. This collaboration has produced a new range of graphics cards and the ones I will be looking at today are the overclocked XXX editions of the budget 4850, the 4870, the latest release 4890 and the stock clocked but mighty 4870x2. I will also be calculating these card's cost per frame to evaluate how much bang-per-buck you get for your cash.
Tech-Report have a system guide posted for April. Say what you will about the recession and the global economy, but we've seen some absolute bargains in the PC hardware market these past few months—and that trend only seems to be accelerating.
VIAArena report on some mini-mobos from VIA, namely the double-sided Em-ITX and the super-tiny Pico-ITXe. The VIA P710-HD Module adds HD capabilities and DirectX 10.1 support in embedded devices based on the Pico-ITXe platform.
Tweaktown report on how Kingston's rebadged Intel SSD responds to the recent Intel firmware update. Meanwhile Guru3D looked at OCZ's 120GB SSD. With the Vertex series SSD, OCZ offers an extremely high performing SSD with a new controller and ... in addition to that a nice phat 64MB cache to tackle the slow small file write issue.
Today's timewaster is deepleap, a fast-paced word game.
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