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Torsten Allard explains the significance of beta tests

By Gavin Mannion
July 9, 2008
in :  Gaming
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In part 1, I told you who I am, what I do and, most importantly, why I carry out beta testing. Today I want to tell you how exactly our beta testing works and how, with a little luck, you might become beta testers yourselves. For me, a beta test begins with organizational work behind the scenes. I make sure …

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Unreal Tournament and SBK 08 Competition

By Gavin Mannion
July 9, 2008
in :  Gaming
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Hey don’t forget we are running an awesome competition in conjunction with SterKinekor at the moment where you can stand in line to win a copy of Unreal Tournament AND SBK08 AND a T-Shirt AND a Lanyard… I think that’s more than enough to classify as a prize hamper, possibly the first hamper we have ever given away… All you …

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PS3 Price Drop?

By Gavin Mannion
July 9, 2008
in :  Gaming
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The first rumours of another PS3 price drop are starting up and the new price for the 40GB being pushed around is $299… Now that would be a very good price. However even the overly hopeful guys are only expecting this price drop to come into effect in January 2009, which is a very odd time to drop the price …

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Xbox 360 60GB nearly confirmed

By Gavin Mannion
July 9, 2008
in :  Gaming
12

So that 60GB 360 model that I called BS on earlier seems to be true. Well that is if a leaked memo from the retailers is to be believed, which they normally are. Apparently the new drive is going to also be released in a bundle along with 3 months Live membership, a headset and a network cable for $99.99 …

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PlayStation Firmware 2.41 Released

By Gavin Mannion
July 8, 2008
in :  Gaming
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The US PlayStation blog has announced that the latest PS3 firmware edition has been released. Version 2.41 has nothing in it apart from some tweaks to stop version 2.40 breaking the systems. Most people were not affected by the bugs in the last version but if you were on of the few affected then this will be good news. In …

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Worst Game Ever?

By Gavin Mannion
July 8, 2008
in :  Gaming
5

IGN has recently reviewed SPOGS for the Wii and apart from it having possibly the worst title ever it also is possibly the worst title of this generation. Once you have suffered through the 2 minutes 20 seconds of that really awful video above try to think back and recall if there is any game worse than this? So what …

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Gears of War 2 Finishing moves

By Gavin Mannion
July 8, 2008
in :  Gaming
4

Man I cannot wait for this game. The more I see of the gameplay the more I believe that if you were not a fan of the first Gears then this isn’t going to be your type of game at all. Which is the best news possible for the millions of Gears fans out there. I mentioned yesterday that I …

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Pioneer announces 400GB optical disc

By Gavin Mannion
July 8, 2008
in :  Gaming
14

Pioneer has announced that it has created a Blu-ray type disc that can hold over 400GB, it doesn’t currently plan on releasing it but if it did we would only require a small change to the existing Blu-Ray players to get them to work. You can check it all out here. It does raise a big question around the longevity …

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