Games

Steamships Ahoy - Virtua Tennis 2009

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Steam News announces the release of Virtua Tennis 2009 through Valve's online marketplace allowing you to get in touch with your inner McEnroe Federer (almost showed my age there). Word is: "Create...

Americas Army 3 Patched

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Steam News announces the availability of another new automatic update for America's Army 3, the first-person shooter from Uncle Sam and the American taxpayer. The new version improves console help,...

Borderlands DLC? Yes, Demo? Maybe

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

The Borderlands Interview on Shacknews spoke with Mikey Neumann of Gearbox back in the old days of E3 about their upcoming cel-shaded shooter/RPG. They discuss the game's art design, dynamically-gener...

Frozenbyte: Trine Pricing "A Big Mess"

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Eurogamer chatted with the developers at Frozenbyte about the varying price points for Trine, the action/platformer that will cost more on PCs than consoles, and will possibly be priced differently...

Direct2Drive Sales

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Some weekend sales are listed on Direct2Drive where they are offering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for 30% off, Call of Duty: World at War for 30% off, the Company of Heroes Complete Bundle for $20....

Batman: Arkham Asylum Movie

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

A new "inside the asylum" developer diary movie from Batman: Arkham Asylum offers another look at the upcoming game based on Batman's pleasant visit to Gotham's hospital for the criminally insane....

Divinity II: Ego Draconis Movie

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Divinity II: Ego Draconis is showcased in a new cinematic movie taken from Larian Studios' upcoming RPG sequel, the first of three clips setting the background story for the game. Word is: "In a...

New HL2 Zombie Panic

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

A new version 1.61 of the Zombie Panic modification for Half-Life 2 is now available. The new version offers a few fixes as described in the change log. Thanks Ant and Half-Life Fallout.

Saturday Screenshots

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Left 4 Dead 2 on GameInfoWire.

Saturday Consolidation

Blue's News - 5 hours ago

Thanks Mike Martinez. Valve: expect news about Team Fortress 2 on 360. Ubisoft has filed a trademark registration for Just Dance. Telltale engine doesn't support PlayStation ... yet. Tecmo Koei asks...

Australian Broadband

3's new roaming rates revealed

Whirlpool.net.au - 2 days ago

3 will enable roaming onto Telstra's NextG network this month, with reduced roaming fees of 50c/MB on X-Series plans.

April Fools: Conroy dumped as minister for broadband

Whirlpool.net.au - 4 days ago

Senator Stephen Conroy has been sacked as Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

Exetel trials content filtering technology

Whirlpool.net.au - 7 days ago

Exetel will begin a surprise trial of "whitebox" filtering technology today to prepare for the federal government's proposed internet filtering regime.

Optus joins filtering trial

Whirlpool.net.au - 12 days ago

Optus has joined the federal government's Internet filter trial, after being initially excluded.

Wikileaks to Conroy: your move

Whirlpool.net.au - 14 days ago

Wikileaks claims it now has up to date ACMA blacklists of banned websites dated 11 March and 18 March — only days old.

ACMA blacklist leaked to Wikileaks?

Whirlpool.net.au - 16 days ago

ACMA's secret list of banned web pages has reportedly been leaked to Wikileaks.org.

3 begins Next G roaming

Whirlpool.net.au - 19 days ago

3 has begun to enable its new 3G roaming on Telstra's Next G network, but not all areas will get access to the alternative network.

Major international link down

Whirlpool.net.au - 23 days ago

A major Internet link between Australia and the rest of the world has failed, affecting multiple ISPs and their customers.

Telstra to boost cable to 100Mbps

Whirlpool.net.au - 25 days ago

Telstra will upgrade its cable internet to 100Mbps by Christmas, announced outgoing Telstra chief Sol Trujillo.

Government to go it alone on FTTH NBN

Whirlpool.net.au - 28 days ago

Kevin Rudd has announced that the NBN tender process has been terminated, and that the government will go it alone on a new $43 billion broadband network.

Real World

Don't 'aggravate tensions', US warns N Korea

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 1 hour ago

The United States has urged North Korea not to "aggravate tensions" as it slammed Pyongyang's latest missile test, apparently timed for the US Independence Day holiday, as "not helpful".

Police defuse Warrawong siege

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

A three-hour siege on the New South Wales south coast has ended peacefully.

Iran hangs 20 drug traffickers in a day

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

Iran has hanged 20 people for drug trafficking at a prison in a town near the capital, Tehran.

'Ron Weasley' catches swine flu

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

Actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, has contracted swine flu, his publicist said, three days before the latest Potter blockbuster premieres in London.

Serena downs Venus to win third crown

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

Serena Williams has celebrated American Independence Day by beating sister Venus 7-6, 6-2 to win her third Wimbledon title overnight.

UAE finds $2.5m hash in animal feed

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

Police in Abu Dhabi have seized than 700 kilograms of hashish with a street value of $US2 million ($2.5 million) smuggled in by two Asian nationals, Emirati police said.

Taliban claim to down Pakistani chopper

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 7 hours ago

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a Pakistani helicopter crash that killed 26 security personnel, as helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant hideouts in the north-west.

Crew of hijacked Belgian ship head home

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 7 hours ago

Crew members of a Belgian ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia in mid-April will be re-united with their families early next week, Belgium's Government crisis centre said in a statement.

African Union defies ICC over Bashir extradition

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 7 hours ago

Africa's leaders have agreed not to co-operate with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) attempt to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to face charges of war crimes in Darfur.

Pay childcare workers more: union

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 7 hours ago

The union representing childcare workers says improving skill levels would encourage more people to take up the profession, but they also need to be paid more.

Technology

Camera catches Samsung's OLED iPhone wannabe

The Register - 13 hours ago

Jet takes off Video  ?

Things 1.3.8

The Register - 13 hours ago

Task organiser that's more about tasks than organisation iPhone App Review Task manager apps all pose the question: 'How organised are you?' They imply that you're not very organised at all, or you wouldn't be considering software to help you get on top o

McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide

The Register - 22 hours ago

When AV attacks IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death.?What is your recession

Firefox Gods summon New Ice Age

The Register - 1 day ago

Fur enough Strategy Boutique You might notice that there's something subtly different about the new look of Firefox - the popular virtual memory stress test tool that's cunningly disguised as a web browser. With an icy blast from the Arctic, the British I

iTunes minus the player: hack your Apple beats

The Register - 1 day ago

Dodge the shareware sledgehammer Mac Secrets QTMovie, the principal class inside the QTKit framework, isn't just for playing movies.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Kentucky payroll phishing scam nets small fortune

The Register - 1 day ago

Blue grass county hit by Trojan-fueled cybercrime A gang of cybercrooks has made off with $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky following the conclusion of an elaborate phishing scam, The Washington Post reports.?Offloading malware protect

NSA plans massive, 65kw, $2bn data center in Utah

The Register - 1 day ago

Yes, Utah The ultra-secretive National Security Agency plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center in Utah as it seeks to decentralize its computing resources and tap regions with ample supplies of lower-cost electricity.?What is your recession sal

Lamson - email app coding without the palm sweat

The Register - 1 day ago

Doing what Java never did "Can you integrate this with my e-mail?" It's one of the more dreaded questions in software development. For any programmer who has been around the block a few times, it evokes a long repressed fear of Sendmail m4 macros or Outlo

Swiss public sector allowed to buy Microsoft software

The Register - 1 day ago

Putting the Swiss army knife in A Swiss federal court has handed Microsoft a temporary reprieve that allows the firm to sell its products and services to public sector customers, even though it could face an annulment in the final judgment.?Web threats: W

Who wants T-Mobile UK?

The Register - 1 day ago

Forget the customers, grab the spectrum and run T-Mobile UK will be sold in the next few months, and the markets are salivating at the synergies possible - but it could easily be T-Mobile's network that remains in place when the dust settles.?Case Study: