It goes to show that the power of the air guitar is absolute when a game like Rock Band can stroll off with the Best Game gong at the recent E3 show.
Rock Band takes Guitar Hero to the next level by allowing numerous players to axe those guitars, thrum those bass lines or get all ‘Animal’ on the drums. The Game Critics Awards named Rock Band as the ‘best in show’ ahead of graphics heavy beauties like, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock and Mass Effect, among others.
That said, Mass Effect for the Xbox 360 was voted as the best console game, Killzone 2 took the gong for best graphics and Sony’s innovative LittleBigPlanet took the prize for most original game. Jump now to see the full list of award winners-Martin Lynch
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I realise that the idea of advertisers lying to us consumers comes as a big surprise but, according to Which? Online, there is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and those you actually get.
In as survey of 300 people that signed up for 8Mbps broadband, the average speed came out as 2.7Mbps. The maximum speed reported was 6.7Mbps while the slowest speed was just 0.09Mbps, which is as close to dead as broadband can get. Which? Online Editor Malcolm Coles said:
"It’s shocking that Internet service providers can advertise ever-increasing speeds that seem to bear little resemblance to what most people can achieve in reality. If it’s unlikely you’ll reach the advertised speed it should be made clear up front, so that you know with some certainty what you’re buying. Do your research to check what speed you’re likely to get before upgrading, and if you think what you’re getting differs vastly from what you’ve paid for, speak to your provider – or if they won’t help, report them to Ofcom."
Should broadband companies still be allowed to use the phrase ‘up to’ when disguising dismal average speeds on high-speed packages?-Martin Lynch
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I covered some early reports on this a week ago but now it’s all official and Hitachi really has gone and created the world’s first Blu-ray camcorder.
The company will launch two models. The first is the DZ-BD7H which sports a Blu-ray drive and a 30GB hard disk drive and can record up to record roughly four hours of 1920 x 1080 full high-def video, or 8 hours 1440x1080 high-def video.
The second model is the DZ-BD70, a non HDD version that can record a measly one hour of 1920 x 1080 video or two hours of 1440x1080 video on an 8cm BD disc. It might not sound like a lot on the second camera but those discs can still store five times more than a blank 8cm DVD.
The cameras are launch next month in Japan and worldwide in October. The prices – there – for the DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 are around £800 and £675, respectively.-Martin Lynch
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