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Interplay returns; brings Fallout MMO

Anybody who has lived and played video games before 2000 will have heard of Interplay, and with good reason – they were the makers of some of some of the most awesome games in video game history, with Fallout, the Descent games, the MDK games and many more cool titles.

However, encountering financial troubles, Interplay crashed into an unknown abyss, never to be seen again. Last December, Interplay announces their return – which they will finance from the money they got by selling the Fallout IP to Bethesda.

Interplay has released details now, and their plans appear ambitious enough to have them at the forefront of the industry again! Interplay will be working on a Fallout MMO (that’s right), sequels to Descent, Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance and MDK!

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AMD cuts 10% of workforce

AMD the only processor maker who has a chance to rival Intel has announced they will be cutting 10% of the global workforce. This is down to a 15% drop in profits expected for Q1 so it’s purely a cost cutting measure. The 10% of the workforce means an expected 1,650 jobs gone.
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Blu-ray price will stay high long into the future

In short according to the makers of OEM Blu-ray drives for PC’s and other computers while the price of some components are falling other are increasing. This goes against the usual expectation that with the technology getting older and becoming surpassed that the price would fall to a more home user friendly level.

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Windows 7 still going for 2010, Gates’ statement wrong

Regardless of how much you hate Microsoft Windows, we just know you had that delightful sparkle in your eye when we told you earlier this week that Bill Gates has said that Windows 7 will ship next year. Turns out that is too good be true, and Microsoft is still holding on to the whole “3 years after Vista” charade, meaning that no Windows 7 for you till 2010.

But there’s more to this software mutiny, after the break!

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs teaser trailer

One of my favouritest animated films of all time is Ice Age, and for that effort alone I am willing to check out any sequel it gets, regardless of quality. Now, I’m the sort of guy who thinks Ice Age 2 wasn’t really that bad a movie – sure, it was too commercial and it wasn’t as charming as the first, but it wasn’t disastrous either.

This time, in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs it seems that the trio is faced with another problem: dinosaurs! This seems a little weird, because I’m no paleontologist, but didn’t dinosaurs exist before mammoths, sabretooths and sloths? And also, in the first movie we had humans and Flintstones mythos aside, everyone knows that dinosaurs existed way before humans.

What is the mystery here, then? Is this a prequel, or do our heroes find some secluded island inhabited by dinosaurs, taking a jab at Jurassic Park? Whatever the case, take a look at the teaser trailer and decide!

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Del Toro confirms Hobbit role

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Mexican film-maker Guillermo Del Toro has confirmed he is likely to direct ‘The Hobbit’ and a sequel to be shot in New Zealand – however the deal has yet to be signed off by New Line Cinema and exec producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.

Del Toro, best known for the films ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and ‘Hellboy’, had been rumored since January to be directing the $US150 million film.

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