ausTech news Episode 82: VIRAL GAMING

Episode 82: Viral Gaming

On our third live show, I push the envelope further, having multiple guests in, and even talk to Adam live, a gameOP on Gamearena about a interesting area that he is pursuing.

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Shownotes:

Fatality Camp: $3500 to get good at Unreal Tournament 3
esreality.com

Spore - viral gaming?
gamespot.com

Tip of the week:

Launchy
Have you heard of quicksilver for the Mac?
It lets you launch programs by typing a few letters, and is much faster than the start menu.
Here is a light (runs ultra quick) version that is for windows!
http://www.launchy.net/

Pandora alternative
Although pandora is great, its also locked to anyone outside of the U.S.
Here is a version that will work in australia, and lets you type in an
artist you like, and it will play songs from them, and similar! great for
background listening, with no ads or annoying talkovers.
http://www.finetune.com/wii/player.php

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Next episode, tonight!

Next episode tonight!

Join me and others in, with me going live at 9:15pm AEST tonight. That's Melbourne time, you Aussies ;)

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ausTech news Episode 81: CALL OF DUTY 5

Episode 81: Call of Duty 5 Announced

In our second live show, I continue to experiment with the technology of presenting live, and bring down the big news of Red Alert 3 and Call of Duty 5 being announced. One of them looks destined to fail, one has a chance - can you guess which?

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Shownotes:

According to networkworlds predictions, 2.2billion text messages were sent on Valentines day... Lady sues best buy 54million dollars for her $1,100usd laptop. Claiming identity theft, I'm still not sure she has a big chance. Super Smash Brothers Brawl Sells 1 million copies in tokyo in two weeks, smashing the previous record set by Wii Fit, at 7 weeks. Again overseas, a californian judge has ruled that anonymous trollers like 4chan and the like are allowed to stay anonymous, and you can't be tracked down by making trolling statements on the web. The Bluetooth SIG group are looking to piggyback Wifi, by using wifi signals on devices with it - when it needs to send larger files. Microsoft since asking yahoo to be bought out, have got angry and are now directly going to ask their stakeholders to "sell out". Team fortress 2 has an update available, the biggest change being a new map called Badlands (a vertically based map which should be interesting). Lastly, On the phones front, a Nokia N96 overseas has been announced. Look forward to a 2.8inch screen, More leds for the flash (but still not xenon), and massive 16gig inbuilt memory. Doesn't have that wow factor though... Oh well, My Nokia n93 is still barely hanging on, I can wait. From experience, this means you will see this in the latter half of the year in aussieland.

Housekeeping:
The PhysX buyout by nvidia has some news - 8xxx Series will be getting phsyx software for their cards
tgdaily.com - source

The HD-DVD war looks over!
tgdaily.com - source

Intel Ships first Phase Change Memory chips
dailytech.com - source

Red Alert 3 Announced
pcgamer.com - source

Call of Duty 5 Confirmed for the Wii and DS
computerandvideogames.com - source

More Grand Theft Auto IV Media released
shacknews.com - source

Microsoft plans to deploy friendly worms
it.slashdot.org - source

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Episode 81: Coming live, Sunday 8:30pm AEST!

Episode 81, Coming live to you, Sunday 8:30pm AEST.

Thats Melbourne time, for those confused - +10 GMT, so if you know your timezone, you might be half an hour to an hour different.

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After the show, it will be available as a downloadable podcast just like normal, so don't be afraid if you miss it!

ausTech news Episode 80: Microsoft likes Yahoo

Episode 80: Microsoft likes Yahoo

In our first official live show, we go live to the world! The podcast was available live on gamestah.com and anyone was welcome to come in and ask a question, or put in their opinion.

It was a lot of fun, and I'll let people know in advance next time, so they can jump in! Thank you to everyone that was in the actual podcast tonight, as well as people listening in live that I gave shoutouts too.

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Shownotes:

Short news

The most expensive pcs that you can get! Includes a case with a swing open door that puts lamborghinis to shame for between 40-$70,000usd, and to top that off, pcs that have gold plated cases ( don't believe me ? ) Which sap away your wallet with a mind meltingly high price of over $500,000 and a not so skyhigh graphics card of a Nvidia 8400 (That doesn't look like a misprint), Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for yahoo in a what the heck kind of moment. In other news, google searchers ask whats yahoo, and if its still a search engine these days. Call of Duty 4 has a 1.5 patch, which says to fix the bugs with the server browser. A quick test of it so far shows its not really that much different. Duke Nukem forever said to come out in 2008, according to some random newspaper.

The real price of SMS messages
slashdot.org - source

NVIDIA to buy AGEIA
dailytech.com - source

3DMark enters the game business
futuremark.com - source

EB Australia at war with Microsofts 360?
kotaku.com - source

Video of the week:

5 Video game rage clips
Have you ever had a friend that's taken it a bit too far in their game,
shouting and screaming at their virtual enemies? if you thought it was funny then go
see these people taking it a step further.
Go check them out

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