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Microsoft Game Room, stepping away from the Xbox

  By Will | March 26, 2010 - 2:29 am | Gadgets, Games
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Microsoft released their Game Room yesterday as part of their “House Party” (or “Block Party” if you live in the USA) event. Apart from some intriguing teething problems its been an interesting experiment. Essentially Game Room is a MAME type emulator of arcade games (currently limited to Atari and Konami cabinets from the late 70s and early 80s) as well as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision consoles. And these seem to be the original ROMs based on the ROM boot sequence some of the games show. The emulation is wrapped up in a customisable virtual arcade for your avatar and friends avatars to roam through. The games are OK, but the brilliance is in the execution. When you first start (provided it can connect to the game room server, that’s where the teething problems lay), you can demo the games, usually for about 10 minutes (or less if you leave … There’s more →

Two Weeks Later, Living with 7

  By Niall | November 5, 2009 - 8:35 pm | Gadgets, The Culch, The Internet
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Microsoft is PC operating software king. Windows is the most dominant platform on PCs today, holding just over 96% of the market. So when the company brings out a new OS it’s time to sit up and listen. Their latest, Windows 7, launched with much fanfare two weeks ago today, on October 22nd, 2009. I promptly installed it on my desktop and on my laptop, replacing previous incarnations of Windows. So 14 days in what’s the new system like to use?

Are you Ireland’s biggest inner geek? Celebrate Geek and win!

  By darraghdoyle | September 30, 2009 - 12:16 pm | Events, The Culch, The Internet
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I feel somewhat conflicted in posting this, considering I really believe I could have won it if I hadn’t been asked to be a judge. A new competition has been announced today to search for Ireland’s “biggest inner geek”. NERDS √16 EVER! If you got that, you could be just the person Microsoft is looking for. To celebrate the launch of Windows 7 on October 22, the computer giant has begun a nationwide search for Ireland’s biggest inner geek The press release points to nominations for people who for example Know more people online than in the real world; Get their kids out of bed at an unearthly hour on Christmas morning just so they can play with their kids’ new gadgets; Prefer to instant message someone even though they are in the same room; Always have to have the latest and greatest MP3 player, mobile phone or computer game; … There’s more →