Ken Levine Keynote Speech at PAX 08 (http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1323)
Ken Levine, creator of Bioshock, stood in front of hundreds tonight at PAX 2008 to give his keynote. After several minutes of applause, Ken took us down a journey from a geeky youth to a geeky adult who designs games for a living. Ken described being ashamed of his love for Dungeons and Dragons and comic books. He told how his sexual development began with his desire to have sex with the Scarlet Witch.

Hal Halpin Talks About the ECA and Censorship from PAX (http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1326)
While covering the PAX Expo in Seattle, I was able to speak with Hal Halpin, President of the ECA. The Entertainment Consumers Association is members based advocacy group that fights for gamers rights. I want to thank Hal for taking the time from the very hectic convention schedule to talk with us. GVK: Can you give the readers a brief background of how this got started?

DemiGod Preview from Mike Mari (http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1319)
While covering the PAX Expo in Seattle, I got a hands on look and interview with lead designer Mike Mari about the very impressive looking Demigod which is due this February. GVK: What is the background and setting for the game?

News on Diablo 3 Straight from the Blizzard Booth (http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1325)
During our coverage of the Penny Arcade (PAX) Expo in Seattle, I got the chance to stop by the Blizzard booth and talk to one of the talented people behind the pending Diablo 3. While our time was limited, I was able to get some information on the game. I want to thank Kacy for taking the time from the very busy convention to arrange this. Barbarian and Witch Doctor are confirmed classes and each will have their own unique abilities and items. Health orbs after kills. In one of the most interesting changes to the series, the roles of potions will be changed. They will no longer be as abundant as they previously were. Instead, gamers will collect health from fallen foes to replenish health. This will allow for more action as injured players will have to face off and defeat enemies to gather needed health.

Left 4 Dead: We Played It! (http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1316)
Get ready for something…original. Left 4 Dead had a kiosk set up in PAX and we were fortunate enough to get our hands on it. The first thing you notice in the game is its constant attention to detail. The walls have phrases written on it that the developers said were there to help expand the story, each Zombie out of the hundreds looks unique, and the environments have such a texture to them that rivals that of anything released prior.

Reporting from PAX 2008 (http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1311)
This year, PAX is held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. Originally, the Penny Arcade Expo was held at the relatively small Maydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, and is now ten times bigger. PAX 08 occupies 300,000 square feet of the trade center and features over 70 exhibitors and acommodates over 50,000 attendees. Wil Wheaton returns to PAX this year, not as the keynote speaker but as a panel speaker. Wil’s panel is Sunday afternoon, and we hope to bring you more from Mr. Wheaton. You can read about Wil’s awesome keynote from last year. You can also download the entire hour-long audio. We have already seen a bunch of costumed gaming patrons, as well as some cute girls… of course we’ll add to our world-famous Booth Babe gallery as we snap more photos.

CPU3D Review: ATP ToughDrive Camo (8Gb) USB Flash Drive

Large capacity USB flash drive are now widely available … however, for may users size isn’t everything. Nowadays, consumers are now demanding a lot more … including durability, shock resistant, water-proof and rugged construction. ATP’s Special Edition ToughDrive Camo features  all of the above as well as Desert Camouflage Print and a large 8Gb of storage.

“ATP have produced a very good USB flash drive that features excellent build quality and rugged construction. It’s Windows Ready-Boost ready, water-proof, shock resistant and offers very good read/write performance. “

Read the rest of the review … http://www.cpu3d.com/content/view/5774/51/

Quote: Fancy an Orange Pearlescent case or maybe a black case with holographic flakes? We put WaterCooling UK’s case spray painting service to the test on a mistreated CM Praetorian.

Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/misc_content/watercooling_uk_case_modding_services/1

Title: Samsung LN40A650 40inch LCD HDTV at Overclockers Online
Link: http://www.overclockersonline.net/?page=articles&num=1961
Quote: The LN40A650 comes packed with features including multiple HDMI
inputs, VGA input for older computers, ATSC tuner, LAN, InfoLink, WiseLink
and Anynet. The Samsung panel produces magnificently stunning and mouth
dropping pictures. Everyone who has seen my new TV was envious of it.

NEW CONTENT (Motherboards) - GIGABYTE EP45-Extreme Motherboard

QUOTE: “P45 not only supports true Crossfire thanks to its twin x8 PCIe slots, but it also manages to support DDR2 and DDR3 along with the latest ICH10R Southbridge and PCI Express 2.0 support. The best thing is that all this falls into the mid-range PCs price point. Who could argue with that?

Today GIGABYTE has sent us their latest high-end offering, based on the P45 chipset. This baby is dubbed the EP45-Extreme and we will show you why soon.”

For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1580/gigabyte_ep45_extreme_motherboard/index.html

Best Regards,

The TweakTown Team
http://www.tweaktown.com

Palit 9800GT Super+ 1GB Single/SLI Video Card Review

Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-01-2008

Two 9800GTs beat a GeForce GTX280 which is pretty amazing considering the performance of that card. Palit 9800GT Super+ 1GB is available online today at a price of $170, meaning that two of them would cost you less than a GeForce GTX 280 which they would outperform and be a better value. Palit has released three versions of the 9800GT including the reference clocked one, this card which offers better cooling and 1GB of memory and the 9800GT Sonic card which has a higher clock speed. The addition of PhysX enabled software allows the card to improve frame rates up to 20% as it offloads the physics to the GPU from the graphics card. This is a serious Hot Product as in SLI mode you get one kick ass pair of VGA cards that can almost just plain wallop the GTX280 standard edition card.

Review Link: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1812_1.html

The full press release is here: http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release

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