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The Jeffgate Gamespot debacle to Giant Bomb

@AdzPearson: Yes, finally, Quantum Leap. Seriously one of the best themes alongside the Macgyver theme. I could go on and on about Quantum Leap. Except the last Season which was poor.

Here's my contribution, Due South.

I'm getting both. But if it was situation of life or death, I'd go Diablo 3. No Max Payne 3. No... AHHHHH!!

I can't pick. I'm getting both.

To all Australian gamers or visitors during June 28th and October 28th, the Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne will be hosting the Game Masters Exhibition.

So if you're not excited or convinced already by the idea of a video games exhibition or you want to know what it is, simply put, its a massive exhibition dedicated to video gaming. Featuring hand-on things of course, games put within a historical context (do you like wiki's and museums), public talks (Q & A sessions) from game makers and journalists, as well as a bunch of other things that haven't been announced yet.

The exhibition will be divided into three sections: Arcade Heroes, Game Masters and Independents.

Some of the announced games on exhibition and works by designers will include Tomohiro Nishikado (Space Invaders), Ed Logg (Asteroids), Toru Iwatani (Pac-Man), Yu Sukuzi (Hang On), Paulina Bozek (SingStar), Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear), Yuji Naka (Sonic the Hedgehog), Fumito Ueda (Shadow of the Colossus), Alex Rigopulos (Guitar Hero), Tim Schafer (Full Throttle) and Warren Spector (Deus Ex).

The independent developers showcased will include Jenova Chen (Flower), Matsaya Matsuura (PaRappa the Rapper) and Australia’s Rob Murray (Flight Control).

Tim Schafer and Peter Molyneux have been confirmed to attend the event and will be doing their thing. I recommend going during the first week for the seminars and talks.

Because gaming related events here in Australia fall under the radar most of the time, and lets be frank here; most of the time, whenever an event is held, they're underwhelming for a number reasons, mainly due to resources and public interest. I believe that this will truly be the exception. Come-on, even Tim Schafer's bothering to showing up.

http://www.acmi.net.au/game-masters.aspx

http://www.acmi.net.au/media-gamemasters-announcement.htm

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/blogs/screenplay/games-masters-coming-to-australia-20111020-1m95h.html

The recent mind-blowing, life changing experience of having cable internet has opened a cornucopia of options to modern living; I finally have an understanding of why some people go down the route of digital over physical retail. I was able to download 10 gigs of steam games and updates in less than an hour. Something I have never seen before. 'Wow! What-a Rush!' And at the same time, stream a 20 minute video of Jeff talk about the gamespot days.

Now in Australia, the NBN (National Broadband Network) is taking its sweet ass time to get to as many households as possible, so jumping the gun and getting the next best thing for decent internet is cable. Right now we’re paying less than $80 for 250 gigs at over 10 mbps and considering whatever Telstra (the big wig communications moguls here) decides to charge for the NBN fibre, the cable is a bargain.

The dilemmas now is 'what are my options for making the best out of cable?' and 'will I just become another junkie looking for my next stronger fix?'

For my media consumption, I have the two options of Free ("legal options") and Pay content. Right now in Australia both options are primitive in comparison, and getting Pay TV is just folding into the Murdochs’ power struggle. I'm left with poor options. I can't watch Comedy Central stuff, I can't watch Hulu or Current TV etc. Right now I'm looking into getting Boxee Box or a Telstra T-Box, both having free and paid content but both are just poor imitations of North American standards. So far it’s been a Playstation 3 with ABC’s iview, which isn’t bad but I want more. More! MORE! STRAP IT TO MY VEINS!

"Across the Universe" (2007) by Julie Taymor, the biggest whimsical hipster drivel garbage I've ever seen. And "Lovely Bones" (2009) I had no idea what that film was about, but I couldn't remember hating anything so much since Across the Universe.