Monthly Archives: November 2008

Left 4 Dead Review

November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Featured, Gaming

Left 4 Dead Platform: PC, Xbox 360 Zombies. Lots of Zombies. Throw in an excellent AI engine to spawn hoards of them, and four player co-op to sweeten the deal and you’d better fetch a change of underwear because you’re going to need them. Left 4 Dead is finally here, and we take a look [...]

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Apple says yes to antivirus software

November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

A recent spate of rather ineffective viruses for Apple’s Mac OS X platform has the company worried enough to recommend anti-virus programs to its users – a volte-face for many Mac fans. According to ITWire’s Stephen Withers, Apple has quietly been updating its knowledge base with an entry which “encourages the widespread use of multiple [...]

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The Monty Python Channel on YouTube

November 26th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Offbeat News, Technology

“For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off,” begins a recent Monty Python announcement “taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube.” Rather than firing off endless rounds of cease and desist letters, the Pythons have decided to tackle the problem by creating their own YouTube channel. The Monty [...]

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Call of Duty 5: World at War Review

November 24th, 2008 | Posted in Featured, Gaming

Call of Duty 5: World at War Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, DS, PS2 Normally, we’d start a review of a game like this with an explanation of the story – but today we’re not going to. There are two reasons for that. Firstly, this is World War II (again) and if you [...]

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Mirror’s Edge PC delay down to PhysX

November 20th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming

When it was first announced that Mirror’s Edge, the innovative and very well received free running first person platformer from DICE, would be significantly delayed on PC but not on Xbox 360 or PS3 there was whole heap of outcry and more than a few tin foil hats were produced with talk of the delay [...]

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Dog, Hit at 70mph, Gets Embedded in Grill and Lives

November 20th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News

A miracle pup clung to a speeding car for more than 15 miles after being knocked down. The motorist, Marco Menozzi, didn’t even stop when he mowed down the one-year-old pooch while doing 70mph on a side road in Cozze, southern Italy. But he hit the dog so hard he was embedded in the grill [...]

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