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Gamespot has unleashed some juicy details about the X360 version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008:
“The Xbox Camera can also be used to add your own face (or your friends) to player created characters. Pro Evo’s face mapping tool is [...]

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A nice find! (thanks rick)
Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) is used by business school admissions officers to measure academic ability.
Data has shown that GMAT scores are consistently good, though imperfect, predictors of academic success in the first year of business school.
The Medical College Admissions Tests (MCAT) is a computer-based multiple choice examination used by [...]

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NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.
The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified Apple of [...]

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‘The Mist’ is based on a book by the horror master himself, Stephen King.
The story starts following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist.
Check out the new trailer:

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World Wrestling Entertainment has suspended 10 of its wrestlers for violations of a policy that tests for steroids and other drugs, the company said Thursday.
WWE says it issued suspension notices based on independent information from the prosecutor’s office in Albany County, N.Y., which has been investigating illegal steroid sales.
Neither the WWE nor the Albany County [...]

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The most popular piece of downloadable content on Xbox LIVE Marketplace will come without a price tag this Labor Day
With nearly 500,000 downloads to date, the “Gears of War®” Hidden Fronts Map Pack has become the No. 1 piece of premium downloadable content on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Beginning Monday, September 3 at 2:00 a.m. PDT, the [...]

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Maxconsole has reported that a group called the ‘Ottom@n team‘ are claiming that they will release a PS3 loader on September 9th 2007.
Apparently it will allow you to play ‘downloaded‘ or ‘ripped‘ Playstation 3 games from your hard drive and/or an external USB solution.
They have released the following video and state their loader [...]

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Ever had a problem reading CD or DVDs?
This generally boils down to 2 reasons:

1) A scratched disk
2) A dirty laser on your playback device.
Before you waste any money on rip-off cleaning tapes, discs etc, check out the video below.
To remove scratches off a disc, check out last months video tutorial here

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The Wachowski brothers are no more - Larry Wachowski is undergoing a sex change!
For those who aren’t familiar with the Wachowski brothers - They were the directors of 1999’s blockbuster movie, The Matrix.
It is no big secret that Larry Wachowski, one half of the filmmaking duo “The Wachowski Brothers”, has been undergoing gender reassignment. [...]

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Ending months of rumors, Hewlett-Packard appears to have released its first mass-market PC with pre-installed Linux.
Specifically, the company will soon be selling RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Desktop 5 on its HP dx2250 PC to Australian customers.
HP, long a staunch Linux supporter both on the desktop and the server, had never offered a pre-loaded [...]

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A teenager claims to have killed his room-mate then eaten parts of his brain and internal organs!
The 19-year-old, named only as Robert A, has confessed to murdering the 49-year-old man he met in a homeless shelter, it was reported.
Robert crushed his room-mate’s skull with a 9kg iron bar before using a butcher’s knife to remove [...]

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One for the Brits.
You can now get 10% off all purchases (excluding delivery charge) at Empire Direct!
Instructions
1) Go to the Empire Direct website here
2) Find what you want and add the item to your basket
3) Click on your basket and look towards the bottom-left
4) Enter these details:
Voucher ID: EM3694
Username: 10percentoff
5) Proceed to checkout [...]

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One for the Americans.
Amazon has an amazing deal - 60GB Playstation 3 with 8 Blu-Ray DVDs for $499.99!!
Instructions
1) Go to the Playstation 3 offer page here
2) Add the 60GB Playstation 3 console and THREE Blu-Ray DVDs to your cart (there’s a small square check box next to each item. Only DVDs on these 4 pages [...]

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Emgadget shows off a few leaked shots for HP’s upcoming new desktop dubbed ‘Virtus’.
Nothing more has been revealed about this sexy looking machine other than the name and pics below:
                 

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This is a fantastic office prank!
Instructions
1) Crank up the volume on the “victims” computer
2) Disable the volume icon on the “victims” machine:
(start > control panel > sounds and audio devices > take the tick out of “place volume icon in the taskbar”)
3) Send him an email titled “Rick Astley Will Never Give You Up” (or [...]

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