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| Tuesday December 1, 2009 | ||
| Top stories All-out assault for movies at home  SIMON TSANG | The video-on-demand war has been renewed with such fervour you can almost smell the gunpowder and hear the battle cries. Flickering screens plague new iMac owners  LOUISA HEARN | Owners of the super-sized 27-inch iMac are flocking to Apple's user forum to report a multitude of hardware problems and voice disappointment with their new product. Gadgets Blog Apple's Magic Mouse - reinventing the wheel  ADAM TURNER 3:41pm | The Magic Mouse is the first mouse to use "Apple's revolutionary Multi-Touch technology". If only it actually offered some revolutionary features. The death of dodgy downloads  VICTOR KEEGAN | An explosion of new companies are offering tracks free, legally, without consumers having to go to peer-to-peer sites, thereby avoiding the risk of getting bogus tracks or viruses. Record breaking Call of Duty tops $3 billion  12:28pm | Activision Blizzard said on Friday its Call of Duty video game franchise pushed past the $US3 billion mark in global retail sales. Adult classification hits a dead end  MATT DE NEEF | Some scenes like this from the zombie-killing video game Left 4 Dead 2 won't be experienced by Australian gamers after the Classification board deemed the game "unsuitable for a minor to see or play". Windows 7 helping PC sales, says Acer  12:58pm | Acer, the world's No.2 PC maker, said Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system launch last month has been positive for year-end PC sales, though the gains were within expectations. Building the home theatre of your dreams  ROD EASDOWN | Setting up the home theatre of your dreams takes time, money and patience but you'll never regret it. Inside the mind of an assassin  MIKE WILCOX | Rather than focusing on a trained killer from the start, the plot of Assassin's Creed 2 follows Ezio as a young nobleman-turned-assassin who wants retribution for the murder of his family. How to get the most out of Blu-ray  ROD EASDOWN | You can't argue with the improvements in picture and sound quality of Blu-ray discs over DVDs but do some homework before you buy a Blu-ray player this Christmas. It could be wasted money if you don't have a full-high-definition screen and good sound system to hook it up to. Screenplay Your favourite moments of video games  JASON HILL 11:35am | What were your best moments from the 40-year history of video games? Tech Gadget Christmas Guide  3:37pm | Everything a gadget geek could want to see under the Christmas tree - and around the house! Review - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition  JAMES O'CONNOR 2:12pm | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition has arrived on Wii. It may be late to the party, but the Wii's lack of good, non-Metroid FPS games means that there's still a massive market hungry for this port of an ageing yet still impressive title. Review: Canon PowerShot G11  TERRY LANE | The G11 is the same as the superseded G10 on the outside, with all that camera's virtues and its one vice corrected. |
