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Sony Announces Linux for PlayStation(R)2
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has announced the release of a version of free operating system Linux for PlayStation 2 console. The release is targeted toward the Linux development community... (more)
posted by Stryder · 30 Jan 2002
GeForce 4 Next Month?
Are you having trouble finding a GeForce 3 Ti500 lately, namely of the Leadtek flavour? Well, a little birdy told me today that this is because they are running down (not... (more)
posted by shadow · 30 Jan 2002
It all began with Daikatana…
Doom and Quake co-creator and reasonably large industry ego John “I’ll Make You My Bitch” Romero is selling his celebrated Ferrari. Could be because of his company Ion Storm’s demise,... (more)
Cheaper GBA
Nintendo have announced a global price drop for the GBA handheld. In the US it equates to a 20% drop - nice one. No official price for Australia yet.
Incoming!
With all the talk recently about the impending X-Box and Gamecube, I thought I would post what EA Australia currently have planned for these next gen consoles. Without further ado, read... (more)
posted by shadow · 29 Jan 2002
Next Gen Benchmarking
AnandTech have a very cool new article up that attempts to attempts to benchmark next generation game engines with current generation video cards. Using a current build of the Unreal... (more)
Telstra sux!
This isn’t the first time I’ve said it. And I’m afraid it won’t be the last. This money grubbing, greedy, monopolistic corparate giant has decided that they haven’t... (more)
Problems a plenty
We apologise, but the email-sending scripts on BigKid are currently out of action due to problems with our web host. This means you cannot sign up as a new member,... (more)
posted by Bob342 · 26 Jan 2002
European/Australian GCN release date
Computer and Video Games.com released information detailing the release date for the Gamecube in Europe/Australia. This isn’t 100% official as Nintendo itself haven’t released any information, but they seem... (more)
posted by Bob342 · 25 Jan 2002
Street Advertising Dead ?
According to this Australian IT article, Microsoft’s council-offending Xbox street spraying program has killed off that kind of advertising - for the time being at least. The article claims the... (more)
Neverwinter Nights gets new publisher
Yahoo - Neverwinter Nights has a new publisher (Infogrames) and is still on schedule for a Q102 release. Interplay (original publishers) and Bioware (developers) have resolved their differences, and the... (more)
Summoner 2 for PlayStation 2
Summoner 2 is the sequel to last year’s Summoner by Volition , a role-playing game for PC & PlayStation 2. Summoner 2 is also being developed by Volition and... (more)