PSP and Sky to launch GO View! in Europe

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When Sony said they wanted to make the PSP and the Playstation 3 vital parts of the media hub they weren’t kidding.

Sony and Sky have launched a video download service called GO! View offering sports, films and range of Sky TV shows for the PSP, video-on-demand stylee. It’s the portable console’s first official video download service in Europe.

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Hey, don’t kill that frog! I have an ulcer.

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Ok, I know you are thinking I’ve gone completely mad.

But, according to a new book “Sustaining Life”, published by Oxford University, a new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for thinning bone disease and kidney failure, and new cancer treatments may all stand to be lost unless the world acts to reverse the present alarming rate of biodiversity loss.

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Dark Knight virals, spoil the movie?

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There used to be a time when a synopsis for a movie was considered a spoiler but in recent times everything up to and including the script is online before the movies come out. Take the Oliver Stone George Bush movie W for example. (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
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StuffWeLike meets Darth Vader!

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As if seeing James Bond’s car in the flesh wasn’t enough, look who I happened to bump into at the play.com videogame event on the weekend. Only thing missing was the Lightsaber. Hmmm, maybe that explains the lost expression.

Hit the jump for a closer look into the dark side, and a great polish job.

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Tip-toe through your supermarket

Its bad enough to see fat Americans zipping around supermarket aisles in motorized carts, now comes a product which will contribute to their “dumbing down” as well.

First announced back in January, by MediaCart Holdings, Microsoft Corp. and Wakefern Food Corporation at the National Retail Federation’s 97th Annual Convention & Expo – the MediaCart is about to roll out into supermarket aisles.

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Who is Ben Mauro?

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Like many of you, Ben is a BioShock fan. But his obsession with the game goes far beyond sitting behind his PC or Xbox 360. As part of an architecture course, Ben designed six pieces of “organic” art for BioShock 2.  

Not only did he create the art depicting scenes of the underwater city environment but now there is buzz that 2K Games will pick up his artwork and incorporate it into the next version of the game.

Ripten is reporting that the community manger for 2K Games contacted them to say they “really loved” the artwork first posted by the site March 3rd .

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