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About the Wii Fit

The Wii Fit Balance Board is a new accessory from Nintendo, which, following almost two years of intensive development by a full-scale Nintendo team, is now available on the shelves in Japan, with the European release date scheduled for 25 April 2008. Australian and North American release dates are set for 8 May 2008 and 19 May 2008 respectively.

To use the Wii Fit Balance Board, the user stands on the board and controls the on-screen action with their movements. Essentially, the Board is a highly accurate set of scales which measures body weight and tracks the user’s centre of gravity. The initial concept for the board was inspired by sumo wrestlers who, because they are so heavy, need to use two sets of scales to weigh themselves. Read more »

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It’s not that I think people who play or create shooter games are stupid (although the Publishers are lacking in vision for the future).

It’s just that I generally get tired of repetition. Some people find this comforting, indeed there are many people who choose to play just one game for years.

I don’t just mean WOW (World of Warcraft) players, I mean Solitaire, Poker, Scrabble, Counterstrike, Sims players… you name it, they’ll play that one game for years and years. Take UO (Ultima Online) - that game’s been going for over ten years and still thousands upon thousands play it day in, day out.

However, there is a big reason why I relish the reality of a much wider spectrum of games currently being developed and appearing on shelves. Read more »

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Today, in case you hadn’t already noticed, Google is black.

This is to symbolise ‘Earth Hour’, which aims to help make people more aware of the energy they use on a daily basis, by asking them to turn out their lights between 8pm and 9pm (in their time-zone) tonight, Saturday, March 29th.

To find out more about Earth Hour and what you can easily do to help save energy, visit Google’s Earth Hour Page.

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After yet another onslaught of ‘Shooters’ in 2007, including Halo 3, Crysis, Unreal Tournament III, Quake Wars, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect… OK there was Portal (bundled with Half Life 2 - but essentially wasn’t it just reiterating what Prey had innovated, albeit in a much slicker, more puzzlesque way.

I for one am getting tired of seeing one after another of these male-teen-targeted games pouring into an overflowing ultra-stereotypical genre. It’s like movie-makers only made action and horror films. It’s patronising to the average gamer, we’re not all stupid.

But, alas, no, they just keep on coming, like an infinite loop. It’s almost as if one team produced a game engine (and called it Unreal Engine), then a bunch of different artists created ever-so-slightly different textures and packaged these into similar-looking boxes with similar-looking advertising campaigns. Oh, how creative, how imaginative. Read more »

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Colossal Squids (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) are larger than the more well-known Giant Squid. The species was first discovered in 1925, realised from tentacles found in the stomach of a Sperm Whale. There have only been eight specimens of Colossal Squid recovered since their discovery. Read more »

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Adobe’s multimedia authoring environment, Adobe® Director® 11 software has been over four years in development. However, despite the extra years that they have had over Adobe’s Flash development team to update and improve it’s features, it is unfortunately looking like just a patch Read more »

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The online video site Youtube has a webpage for the top 20 user videos uploaded in 2007, as voted for by the users of Youtube.

The various categories for the videos include comedy, instructional, short film, animation, sports, politics an more.

I find this comical short clip below particularly amusing… It’s had 13 million views so far, and still counting.

You can visit the awards webpage, featuring all the winning videos by following this link: Top 20 Videos of Youtube 2007

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Well this may sound ridiculous, and some may not believe it. However, there are certain types of coffee beans available to buy which have been especially eaten and pooed out by animals before the grinding process. Who ever said that coffee from vending machines ‘tastes like cr*p’? Oh no, I’m sure they would be charging far more if it really did… Read more »

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