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Tuesday, 24-July-2007 02:10:29 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Gords spotted this interesting Wikipedia page about the territorial evolution of Australia. New South Wales, according to Arthur Phillip's amended Commission dated 25 April 1787, includes "all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean" and running westward to the 135th meridian. These islands included the current islands of New Zealand, which was administered as part of New South Wales.
Thermaltake have an online game where you can win stuff including a 1500W PSU. Users not only can win over US$5000 worth of prizes by playing the spectacular game at the online campaign website, they can also learn more features that Toughpower Series have to offer when visiting the website. We will randomly choose 10 lucky winners from the top 30 scores.
Virtual-Hideout have a visit and interview with CoolIT. Then when they released their Freezone and Eliminator coolers, they proved that they could actually deliver a unique and very desirable high end product.
If you enjoy the "Will It Blend?" series of videos, Manaz thinks you might like these "Watch It Shred!" ones on a similar vein from an industrial shredder company. We're not talking about sheets of paper here, it's big things like cars, engine blocks and a big pile of computers and printers. Mmm, crunchy.
Those of you who remember the VIC-20, C64 and Commodore Amiga might be interested to know that the current owners of the Commodore name, "Commodore Gaming", are making pre-built PC's now. TrustedReviews checked out the Commodore XX Gaming PC. Not really anything to do with the old Commodore anymore of course, apart from the logo. They seem to be tackling the Alienware market. The problem is that this system just doesn’t make you feel special when you’re using it, and if you’re spending over two and half grand I think that’s a problem.
I keep getting emails about this Galaxiki website. It's a "virtual galaxy" where you can buy stars etc. I have to say I don't really get it, but anyway, there it is.
Pulsee sent in this Mag Wheel PC mod. The site isn't in English but the pictures tell the story. The site is also pretty slow at the moment and might have some dodgy ads on it.
From Phalanx: A different angle to the mac/pc ads, all pretty good parodies. I read about them on the guardian.
From Tarrith: After doing a search for classic games I came across one I wasn't expecting. Some of your readers may remember The Last Starfighter. Well...someone liked it so much they made a game based on the movie. "Didn't Atari already do that?" I hear you ask. Actually Atari intended to release it but never got around to it, so some fans of the movie decided to make their own game, including the design for the game cabinet used in the movie.
Bit-Tech have an article about writing FPS games. We sat down with Rob Yescombe, screenwriter for Haze and Martin Lancaster, writer for Crysis and Far Cry, to discuss the process of writing first person shooters and some of the problems involved.
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