Sneak peek at rAge 2009
rAge will be hosted from 2 – 4 Oct 2009 in the Coca-Cola Dome. Situated on the corner of Northumberland and Olienvenhout avenue, Northgate Johannesburg.
Tickets will be sold at the door from R50 per person (day tickets) or R80 per person (weekend pass). Family tickets are also available at R160 (two adults and two children). Kids under 6 enter for free.
Be prepared for an information overload on new gadgets and games on the market. Oh and let’s not forget why most of us are coming to the event, the hot booth babes.
rAge expo also hosts the largest LAN event in South Africa, with this year hosting 1822 gamers all connected to one network for 53 hours of non-stop gaming.
Here’s a sneak peak at what you can look forward to at rAge 2009:
Friday 2 October 2009 @ 10:00
Intel Core i7
Intel will be officially launching their Intel Core i7 Processor. Making it easy to:
Yes that is right, the money hungry giant is actually releasing software for free. Yes, as hard as that is to believe they have.
Microsoft Security Essentials
With the need for better computer security growing with every passing second the need for a stable and strong anti-virus grows as well. Microsoft knows this and have thus released a free anti-virus for their operating systems.
rAge 2009
rAge has always been an awesome event and this year it will be no different. With an 1800 man (and woman) LAN, gaming information and of course the ability to try out tons of new games; this years rAge is getting any gaming enthusiast anxious to get to the end of this week.
We of course will be there in full force making sure you have the latest news and information regarding gaming gadgets etc.
Have a look at Tx Gaming for a few sneak peaks of what you can expect this weekend including the mammoth layout of tables for the 1800 gamer LAN. Looks insane. I’m excited.
rAge
So with 3 days to go until the start of rAge 2009, I thought I would give you guys a sneak peak at the setup of the expo and the LAN area. As Friday draws near the exhibitors are scurrying to fortify their stands to defend them against the hordes of people with a lust for technology, waiting to get their hands on as many freebies as possible. So without further ado…
1st Tier Defence
As you can see, one of the early strategies was to erect a LAN area to keep 1800 gamers distracted from pretty much the rest of the world… Who needs food or drinks or even sleep for that matter when you have 1799 other people to leech from, let alone play games. I wonder how many PC stores made money off hard drives only for this event?!
I am pretty sure most of us have had to live through the harsh experience of 1000+ remotes in your living room that control all your multimedia devices. Luckily for us some genius came up with the idea of 1 remote that controls everything, except that remote could not control everything and was a mission to program. Good news, Logitech have released the Logitech Harmony 700; a remote control that promises to clear your living room of unnecessary clutter and leave you with one sexy remote.
Harmony 700 Remote
We wrote about EyeOS a while back and were quite excited to see what people would offer with this new cloud computing software. We have subsequently been contacted by Eye-OS.co.uk, a new start up so to speak. We immediately smashed some questions back at them to get more information of where they are at and where they are heading.
EyeOS Desktop
XPERIA X2 Closed
As the smart phone market gets tougher and tougher it has become more necessary for manufactures to getting to the market as quickly as possible. Sony Ericsson finally have launched a phone that can rival the HTC Magic/Dream, iPhone and Nokia N97, meet the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2.
The XPERIA X2 will be running Windows Mobile and will obviously offer all your favorite Microsoft applications like Exchange Active Sync. Windows Mobile seems to be the choice of many business users because a majority of them use Microsoft applications at the office and even at home.
Back onto the phone…
Afrihost Logo
We wrote about MWEB giving you more bandwidth for the same price and now we have just received news that Afrihost has slashed their prices for broadband.
The lastest price cut by Afrihost is really going to blow the broadband market wide open with a 1GB package starting at R29. Now these are the prices that we want to see and even though we need to go lower with both line rental prices and the price of broadband, South Africa is heading in the right direction in terms of making broadband available to a majority of the public.
Check out the packages Afrihost have to offer over here.
Update: apparently this is a marketing move so there are only a few accounts available so you better sign up quickly
Well they don’t really. The Sony Ericsson MH907 headphones are actually motion activated and will turn your music on or off depending on what you do to them. Sounds fantastic.
MH907 Black
Exactly how do they work, you ask. Well by simply plugging in both the earphones your music playback is resumed allowing you to jam to the latest beats. Then when that irritating person tries to speak to you, hoping that their voice will carry through the music playing from the earphones in side your ear, you can simply pull out one of the earphones which magically pauses your music allowing you to speak to the irritation. Simply place the earphone back in your ear to continue your music experience.
“Elaine Marley: Let’s face it, LeChuck. You are an evil, foul-smelling, vile, codependent villain and that’s just not what I’m looking for in a romantic relationship right now.
LeChuck: Darn yer riddles, ya saucy female! What d’ya mean?” – The Curse of Monkey Island.
Tales of Monkey Island is an epic 5 part adventure, with chapters being released monthly untill the end of the year. The first 2 installments which are availabe already, are named Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal and Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay.
The 3rd installment in this series Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan will be released on the 29th of September.
As the story goes so far, Guybrush Threepwood is trying to reverse the effects of an evil voodoo plague which he set in motion right at the start of Chapter 1.
We just love fun and games here at Tx Daily and we also are fairly entertained by old school antics. Remember those days when whilst playing your favourite games on Sega or PlayStation 1 you could hit a key combination which would activate a cheat or do something cool. Well those days are still around with websites joining in on the act.
Blueworld has a little “cheat” up their sleeve much like Facebook did a while back. Basically if you enter a key combination their little mascot pops up, nice. You got to have a look at it yourself and listen to the song. So visit the Blueworld website, punch in the following combination on the keyboard Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A and what you should get is this:
Blueworld Fun and Games
If you don’t do this go get a Sega and practice.
Mede8er Multimedia Monster
I’m quite a fanatic when it comes to High Definition TV, media and hardware. I have a 42” Plasma screen set-up together with a new 23.6” AOC monitor. Having a plasma screen I am very picky when it comes to video and the quality thereof. I have been keeping up with the times and been enjoying Full HD content a lot, this leads me to the subject of this post.
There are a few media players on the market but to date I have not even considered getting my hand on one of them. Mvix did in the later models support Full HD content which was the first product I looked at. However it only had HDMI 1.0 support which means no sound through HDMI, so I was still not sold. I am pleased to say that I have found a media player worth looking at. This nifty device is called the Mede8er MED500X.
"Google Earth" view
I’m sure anyone who has ever played a pc game will remember this one. X-com 2 – Terror from the deep is a turn based strategy game developed and published by MicroProse. And is the sequel to the highly popular X-com 1 – Enemy Unknown.
In the first X-com you were tasked with defending earth from invading aliens. Forty years after the first alien war, which lasted 3 years, was won, you are faced with a new alien threat which is emerging from the depths of the ocean. The game plays out under water. Your base is under water, the mission you take will be taking place under water. Basically the only time you will go onto land is when the aliens decide to attack a shipping dock or some tropical Island. (more…)
Logitech Squeezebox Radio and Touch
I love streaming audio and I love connecting my world of music to every part of my house. This has made me continuosly look at possible solutions to making this possible and more importantly easy. Well Logitech have caught my attention with the Squeezebox™ Radio and Squeezebox™ Touch. They look great and by the sounds of it do a good job as well.
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“An ancient evil lies dormant within Deepholm, the domain of earth in the Elemental Plane.
Hidden away in a secluded sanctuary, the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing has waited, recovering from the wounds of his last battle against Azeroth and biding his time until he can reforge the world in molten fire.
Soon, Deathwing the Destroyer will return to Azeroth, and his eruption from Deepholm will sunder the world, leaving a festering wound across the continents. As the Horde and Alliance race to the epicenter of the cataclysm, the kingdoms of Azeroth will witness seismic shifts in power, the kindling of a war of the elements, and the emergence of unlikely heroes who will rise up to protect their scarred and broken world from utter devastation.” – Official World Of Warcraft Cataclysm website. (more…)
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