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Tuesday, 19-October-2004 12:08:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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ABIT have awarded USD $125,000 to a Chinese gamer who beat "the world's top gamer", Fatal1ty, in a DOOM3 tournament recently, while showcasing their new Fatal1ty Gaming products. Based on Intel's 925 Line of Chipsets and offering full support for the ultimate in performance - DDR2 and PCI-Express, ABIT’s Fatal1ty AA8XE is designed to give gamers an edge. Also launched at the ACON Fatal1ty Great Wall Shootout was ABIT's Fatal1ty line of VGA cards. More info here.
AMD announced that a dual AMD Opteron system was used for recording and mixing Mark Knopfler's latest album, "Shangri-La". "By reducing technology bottlenecks, AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture allows premier artists and master producers like Mark Knopfler and Chuck Ainlay to maintain their creative rhythm and tempo when the inspiration is flowing," said Charlie Boswell, director of AMD’s Digital Media and Entertainment group. More info here.
Blizzard Entertainment announced plans to release its highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft® in Australia and New Zealand. The game will be available for purchase in both regions at the same time as in North America and Korea, marking the first simultaneous release of an MMORPG in these four regions. More info here.
Gigabyte revealed their ATI Radeon X700 powered range of video cards recently. Powered by the ATI® RADEON® X700Pro core chipset, the GV-RX70P series graphics card uses high-level 0.11 micrometer processing and includes a 16x PCI-Express interface. The GV-RX70P series graphics cards offer power and performance with 8 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex engines, with a clock speed of 425 MHz. More info in this 143KB DOC.
Kingmax Australia, an OCAU sponsor, announced that they have become the exclusive Australian distributor for the world recognized Condor Small Form Factor computer. ... For a limited time Kingmax will be bundling a copy of Power Cinema with the Condor so once set up you can get the most out of your new Home Theater box straight away. With excellent expandability not seen on many other Small Form Factor computers you will find 1 8X AGP slot for a High End Graphics card like an X800XT as well as 2 PCI slots for a HDTV card or anything else you think the system may need later on. More info in this 330KB DOC.
Kingmax Australia also announced their "Mars Series DDR2" memory. Also, KINGMAX has developed high-tech anti-counterfeiting measures to protect the rights of end-users by adding to each DDR2 memory module a red ASIC decoder chip, which uses our patented TinyBGA "color compound" packaging technology. This high-tech anti-couterfeiting method is the first of its kind within the PC industry. More info in this 24KB DOC.
Vivendi Universal Games have apparently, finally, really announced that Half Life 2 has finally, really, no really, we're really not kidding this time, gone gold. A press-release is popping up all over the net, but not yet on their website, so hold onto your grain of salt until we see something official. Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) today announced that Half-Life® 2, the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed PC titles in gaming history, will ship to retail outlets around the world in November. The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004. The press release is here on BluesNews with more info here on CNN. I think the release procedure for this game has really confused everyone, but I'll admit it kept our interest up.
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