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Brett Ratner wants to make Guitar Hero Movie

Brett Ratner wants to make Guitar Hero Movie

16th Sep 2008 Brett Ratner has been pressuring Activision to let him make a Guitar Hero movie it seems, but Activision is saying no. [21]

Piracy softmod comes to the Wii

Piracy softmod comes to the Wii

16th Sep 2008 The first homebrew channel for the Wii has been released that will let the console run pirated games without a hardware fix. [9]

Best Buy to buy Napster

Best Buy to buy Napster

16th Sep 2008 US retail chain Best Buy is to purchase digital music distributor Napster for $121 million according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [2]

First 'hackintosh' modchip surfaces

First 'hackintosh' modchip surfaces

15th Sep 2008 The first modchip - an internal USB dongle - aimed at getting MacOS X running on an off-the-shelf PC has started to surface in eager users hands around the globe. [21]

Guitar Hero: World Tour setlist revealed

Guitar Hero: World Tour setlist revealed

15th Sep 2008 The full setlist for the new Guitar Hero game, Guitar Hero: World Tour, has been leaked. [28]

Microsoft fires Xbox 360 whistleblower

Microsoft fires Xbox 360 whistleblower

15th Sep 2008 Microsoft has terminated games tester Robert Delaware for publicly speaking about Xbox 360 failure rates to the press. [15]

Spore DRM allows only one account

Spore DRM allows only one account

15th Sep 2008 Spore has seen several changes to the DRM within apparently, with users getting an increased number of activations but only one account.  [34]

iTunes 8 Vista bug fixed

iTunes 8 Vista bug fixed

15th Sep 2008 A flaw in the ASPI driver bundled with iTunes 8 saw Vista users BSODing each time an iPod was connected, but Apple has since released a working update. [11]

BenQ intros new 16:9 LCD monitors

BenQ intros new 16:9 LCD monitors

12th Sep 2008 BenQ introduced four new 16:9 'Full HD' LCD monitors yesterday in London and also made some interesting predictions for the monitor market. [34]

ToughBooks get Gobi

ToughBooks get Gobi

12th Sep 2008 Panasonic has announced that its ToughBook rugged notebook range is to get Qualcomm's multifunction Gobi 3G radio device for international wireless broadband. [6]

Gizmondo 2 to go on sale in December?

Gizmondo 2 to go on sale in December?

12th Sep 2008 The Gizmondo 2 has been unveiled and demoed for the press, with the company claiming it will go on sale late this year.  [9]

Halo Studio working on next-gen game

Halo Studio working on next-gen game

12th Sep 2008 Microsoft has begun recruiting for programmers to help the Halo Studio work on a new next-gen game. [21]

Chex Quest 3 Released

Chex Quest 3 Released

12th Sep 2008 Chex Quest 3, the third chapter in the popular cereal-based Doom conversion, has been released after a ten year beta session. [9]

Lenovo ditches desktop Linux

Lenovo ditches desktop Linux

12th Sep 2008 Lenovo, producers of the popular ThinkPad notebook range, has decided to cease offering Linux as a choice at the consumer market level - leaving Windows as the only option. [7]

Asus Maximus II Formula Winners Announced

Asus Maximus II Formula Winners Announced

11th Sep 2008 We've got the winners to the latest Asus competition - click inside to find out if you've won! [21]

T9 creator unveils gesture-based input

T9 creator unveils gesture-based input

11th Sep 2008 Cliff Kushler, inventor of the T9 predictive text entry system for mobile 'phones, has unveiled a new system for touch screen devices, based on swiping gestures. [18]

Valve: Left4Dead demo coming to PC and 360

Valve: Left4Dead demo coming to PC and 360

11th Sep 2008 Valve's Gabe Newell has confirmed that a single and multiplayer demo for co-op zombie shooter Left4Dead is on the way. [18]

Ubisoft to launch dog coaching game

Ubisoft to launch dog coaching game

11th Sep 2008 Ubisoft has announced that it will be launching a new dog coaching game on the PC and DS based around the work of Cesar Milan. [15]

Crysis PC fully specced

Crysis PC fully specced

11th Sep 2008 EA has now released the full specs for the Crysis Warhead branded PC, which will apparently ship with Windows XP. [35]

HP laptop gets 24 hour battery

HP laptop gets 24 hour battery

11th Sep 2008 HP is to launch a high-capacity battery for its EliteBook device next month that will allow for up to a full twenty-four hour runtime between charges. [5]

Nvidia faces class action suit for GPU failures

Nvidia faces class action suit for GPU failures

10th Sep 2008 An angry Nvidia shareholder has filed a class action suit against the company. The plaintiffs allege that it covered up the issues for 8 months. [19]

Apple updates iPod range, releases iTunes 8

Apple updates iPod range, releases iTunes 8

10th Sep 2008 Steve Jobs last night unveiled the winter 2008 range of iPods at the same time as announcing iTunes 8. [44]

Amazon opens MP3 store to indies

Amazon opens MP3 store to indies

10th Sep 2008 Amazon has announced that it is to open the doors to its MP3 download site for independent publishers via its CreateSpace venture. [4]

HMV: Games to trump music sales

HMV: Games to trump music sales

10th Sep 2008 HMV has been devoting increasing amounts of shop space to selling games lately as it believes that game sales will soon trump music sales. [9]

Creationists object to Spore

Creationists object to Spore

10th Sep 2008 The first inevitable backlash against EA's Spore has started, with creationist bloggers starting a massive anti-spore campaign. [92]

Microsoft closes Halo Wars developer

Microsoft closes Halo Wars developer

10th Sep 2008 It has been confirmed that Microsoft is closing down Ensemble Studios, the developer behind the upcoming Halo Wars game.  [9]





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