Wednesday, May 28, 2008

ausTech news Episode 93: GOOD TO BE BACK

Episode 93: Good to be back

Besides a bit of eFame being on Gamearenas own weekly street talk (In brown, episode 23, at 1:31!), I casted the event with shoutcasting. In between getting ready to move house, I fill people in with tips on helping you take screenshots easier, and other tech news worth talking about.

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Shownotes:

Creative launch new PCI-e based sound cards
press release from creative

MSI and Asus also going to war
engadget.com - source

Wii-ware hacked
dailytech.com - source

Wii-ware out, launch titles revealed
joystiq.com - source

EA announces new copy protection for Spore and Mass Effect
bioware's forums
*Update* - Since this announcement, a major backlash cause EA to rethink this idea, stepping back slightly on its copy protection.

ausTech news and Gamestah casting the WcG finals
writeup of the event here!

I was lucky enough to cast for the Get Into Games Expo, in its Call of Duty 4 Section. Listen in to the show here how I talk about how it was, and the results of the matches. It was a lot of fun, and can't wait to be there in the future, helping out local LAN cafe store Guf set-up a impressive array of gaming machines and equipment to make the event run smoothly.



Tip of the week:
The Snip tool (vista)
Want a easy to use and fast way of taking screenshots and putting them on the web?
try this out - it comes with your Machine! Click on start and type in "snip" if you want to
jump straight in to the program, otherwise read on in the link to find out more about it.
But basicly, the features you can look forward to is scribbling on the image (to add annotations), as well as resizing and cropping.
Go watch video tute on about.com


Our email address is austechnews@gmail.com . However feel free to leave a voice mail for feedback and comments on the show as well. Thanks for supporting the show and listening to it!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Ballarat GiG Games expo 16-17th May

Ballart Get into games Expo


16th - 17th May.

Part of the Ballarat GiG Expo or Innovations by the Council, this is an excellent way to learn more about the industry some people take for granted, and see if you are interested in pursuing a career in it with the Tafe and Uni people there (who will have lots of fun gadgets to try out).

As well as this, the World Cyber Games qualifiers are being held right here in Ballarat!
I'll be there, so if your around, have a look at the Ballarat GiG and Gaming website and see what is on for yourself.

Of note however, which hasn't been mentioned in the newspapers..... There will be 20 PC's for Gaming, as well as 20 Xboxes! Game-on!

Monday, May 12, 2008

ausTech news Episode 92: GTA IV

Episode 92: GTA IV

Live in the Gamestah studios, we cover about the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, with many little bits of info about it. As well as that, we talk about Intel and Nvidia going at odds with each other, but I think that pales compared to the trailer of Burnout coming to the PC. Listen in!

Remember you can always subscribe by clicking the podcast icon in the top right, or by putting
this link into your iTunes/podcast program: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AustechNews - Its easy and free to subscribe, and gives you the show as soon as we make them!



You can have a listen using the player here:




If you'd like, you can download this show straight away (47:56, 27.4mb), by clicking here (if you get a prompt, you want to save it to your computer)

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Shownotes:

Microsoft Delays, then releases XP sp3
engadget.com - source

Intel and Nvidia go to war
engadget.com - source, and a great quote

Crysis and UT3 Developers get whooped by pirates
tgdaily.com - source

Burnout Paradise is coming to PC
criteriongames.com - developers website with video

Microsoft to provide voice recognition software for Hyundais
nytimes.com - source

GTA cost 100 Million USD to make
tgdaily.com - source

China Introduces Game Fatigue System
games.internode.on.net - story

Aussie books for the lose
ttheage.com.au - a good read. HA. I get it.


Video of the week:
Take it to the next level
Nike put out this years high budget ad. This time?
Its in the view of a soccer player. Gets the Adrenaline flowing
Go watch on youtube

Another Video of the week!:
Gears of War 2 gameplay
Very graphic, and cinematic, this just shows how far gaming has come to
be able to present worlds as vivid as this.
Go watch on gametrailers

Our email address is austechnews@gmail.com . However feel free to leave a voice mail for feedback and comments on the show as well. Thanks for supporting the show and listening to it!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Episode 92: Sunday, 9pm AEST

Sunday, Sunday Sunday!

A special on Grand Theft Auto IV, to be streamed live thanks to gamestah.com
Be there in the audience either on the irc channel at irc.gamesurge.net #gamestah , or in the Ventrillo server live as well.

Be there as we catch up with two weeks of news, and cover one of the largest game releases for this year!

Live Sunday 9pm +10GMT (melbourne time)