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The ZuneHD is one sexy piece of hardware but unfortunately if you live in Australia, don’t expect to get your hands on it any time soon.  Microsoft will be releasing the new HD version of the Zune media player in the States this Autumn with the Zune Marketplace becoming available on Xbox Live in the [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when WOW is involved!

If you thought Blu-Ray and Holographic DVD’s were impressive then read on as this new Melbourne developed process uses the same technology and hardware as our existing DVD standard.  This is not a new optical medium.
A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have used nanotechnology to boost the [...]

Here are some impressive lego creations from Half Life fan ORRANGE™

Duke Nukem Forever publisher Take-Two has confirmed to Shacknews that it is no longer funding development of the 3D Realms project.

“We can confirm that our relationship with 3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever was a publishing arrangement, which did not include ongoing funds for development of the title,” said Take-Two VP of communications Alan Lewis [...]

Winners have been announced for The Game Artist Scene From A Movie competition.  Thanks Dread for the link.

Entrants were asked to choose a scene from a movie and create a 3D environment based on itin Realtime -  either using a game engine or a 3D app.
For this competition, you must choose a scene from a [...]

The Open Source XBMC fork; Boxee, has been going from strength to strength adding some new “most requested” features and also managing to get Hulu into the front end thanks to a unique legal workaround.  The new version is currently only for Mac platforms at this stage with Windows and Linux soon to follow.
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This has created a big stir on the internet, the real ACMA Blacklist “CleanFeed” has been released making a mockery of the wikileaks attempt at fooling the general public.
The Usenet group alt.binaries.conroy has been flooded with various files in the past 24 hours with the updated blacklist amongst other intriguing and extremely disturbing documents.  I [...]

Here is another impressive Half Life inspired fan video, initially looking to be part of some sort of viral marketing campaign for HL2 Episode 3, Doug Lombardi has confirmed the “What Is In The Box” video was made by fans.:
Edit: The box has been opened!

Two of the people involved, Tim Smit and Steven Roeters, [...]

This short clip is unbelievably impressive.  If you thought a movie based off the Half Life universe was a bad idea you need to watch this video.  It is made by a talented team called The Purchase brothers on a $500 budget and it just reaks of awesomeness.