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Max Payne 2 on Xbox Originals
28 April 09 06:01 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Awesome, in a word. Max Payne® 2- The Fall of Max Payne Wins my award for most heartbreaking game ever. With some pretty funky action along the way. I wasn’t as much of a fan of the first one, though if you play them back to back, they run very well together. Read More...

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Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows: Installation Experience
01 March 07 08:26 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

"Experience" is a lovely word for a corporate blog. Discuss. Anyway, my experience was that it didn't work the first time round. That was at 7pm. it's now 9pm, and I've just finished my first laps around Barcelona in RFactor , using the Wireless Racing Read More...

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Player
03 February 07 01:45 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   

About time! March brings us Aussies the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on. $249 looks like the magic number - nicely equivalent with the US RRP. Can't wait to watch MI3 and Superman Returns... And Kotaku said it even ships with King Kong in the box ! Awesome! I Read More...

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Xbox Live - Free Gold Weekend for Aussies
24 November 06 10:07 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

If you've got an Xbox and broadband but haven't upgraded from Silver, give it a go! It's free until 10pm Sunday. I've been playing Gears of War this week, and am *itching* to take it online, but my phone line decided to suddenly choke my ADSL connection Read More...

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August 31, 2006 (Australian Time)
30 August 06 11:44 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Today: 1. Saints Row should become available locally for the Xbox 360. Liked the demo. On the subject, did anyone try out the Just Cause demo from Marketplace? That was really over-the-top latin american fun! I wonder if it'll have Live capabilities, Read More...

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Dystopia Tomorrow...
09 September 05 05:46 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

The Dystopia mod demo for HL2 should ship tomorrow. Read More...

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Dystopia Nears Release
05 September 05 12:19 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

One of the other GTSC guys popped up on the Friday over lunch at Tech.Ed, and told me I had to check out the Dystopia stand - cunningly incognito under the "MEDIA CASTING" pod banner. I hopped over to have a look ( holding my pants up on the way) and Read More...

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B-Day (no, not bidet) for Battlefield 2
22 June 05 03:57 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   

Now We Just Need The Drivers Read More...

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Ben Armstrong - Virtual PC Guy - blogs about games in Virtual PC (a Ninja Feature!)
16 October 04 03:53 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   

( Wild divergence warning - skip to Back To The Topic At Hand if you don't want to read about my childhood) I sometimes raid my collection of 200+ game CDs (yes, all purchased legally) to dig out some of the old DOS games I grew up with. It often happens Read More...

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Dug from the XBox AU Newsletter: Live Alerts
09 October 04 01:22 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

(It's clickable) I don't know when it happened, but I'm glad it did! Xbox Live Alerts are now enabled for the Aussie Live crowd. Might have to try it out later, when my homies get back. Now all we need is that Messenger tab that shows you when all your Read More...

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