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BAFTA - video gaming award winners announced

BAFTA (British Academy for Film and Television Arts) has announced the winners for video games.  A bit out of date considering most were released over a year ago.  Even in Europe.  Plus I'm sure most of you wont agree with the winners in each category...

[QUOTE]Call of Duty 4 took three awards at the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts video game ceremony.
The surprise winner of game of the year, the biggest award, was Super Mario Galaxy.
More surprising was the fact that best-selling title GTA IV went home without any awards - despite being nominated in seven separate categories.
Fifteen video Baftas were on offer, with TV presenters Jonathan Ross and Konnie Huq among those presenting.[/QUOTE]
[URL=http://"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7936204.stm"]BBC news[/URL]

Gameplay: Call of Duty 4
Casual: Boom Blox
Sports: Race Driver: Grid
Story and Character: Call of Duty 4
Strategy: Civilisation Revolution
Best use of Audio: Dead Space
New Talent: Boro Toro
Multiplayer: Left 4 Dead
Best Technical Achievement: Spore
Original Score: Dead Space
Handheld: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
People's Choice: Call of Duty 4
Artistic Achievement: LittleBigPlanet
Best Action and Adventure: Fable II
Best Game: Super Mario Galaxy

PS2 most played console of 2008 in the USofWii

[code]Rank Console        Usage minutes %
1  Playstation 2        31.7
2  Xbox 360              17.2
3  Wii                  13.4
4  Xbox                  09.7
5  Playstation 3        07.3
6  GameCube              04.6 
    Other                16.2[/code]
source: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nielsen-top-tens-2008-final15.pdf

Pentagon to Look at Possible Applications for Nintendo Wii

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=248843

New Jasper Xbox 360 motherboard

It looks like the first Jasper motherboards (which should have the new 65nm GPU) are now out in the wild!



The new power supply is now 150W (25W less than those used with Falcon boards) and the plug has of course been changed so u can't plugin this PSU into an older motherboard.



Other unannounced change ... the onboard flash chip has grown from 16MB to 256MB. Microsoft included internal memory storage, so the Arcade SKU now ships without (external) Memory Unit and the new NXE dash will install fully on the flashchip (rather than requiring a HDD or external MU).

Xbox 360 premium console upgraded to 60GB, price drop for old 20GB model

Microsoft is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360® console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.) estimated retail price.

Available in retail stores in the U.S. and Canada starting in early August, the upgraded Xbox 360 will include a 60GB hard drive for storing the growing wealth of digital entertainment available for the console, including music, movies, television shows, and game content. In addition, Microsoft today dropped the price of its 20GB Xbox 360 console in the U.S. and Canada to just $299 (U.S.) (ERP) while supplies last, a savings of $50.

"We know consumers need more and more space to store the amazing digital content Xbox 360 offers, and we're giving it to them at no extra charge," said Albert Penello, Xbox director of product management at Microsoft. "No one device offers the depth and breadth of entertainment that Xbox 360 can deliver, and now you'll have three times the storage to manage all that great content."

While this is certainly good news for potential American Xbox 360 owners, a permanent price cut is what's higher on the need list. 

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