Ciarán Walsh

Month: May 2005

  • Henry gets the Golden Shoe

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    Thierry Henry has won the Golden Shoe according to Arsenal.com. He shares this award for the top goalscorer in Europe with ex-Man United striker Diego Forlan, who is now playing with Villareal in Spain. This is Henry’s second piece of golden footwear, after he won the Golden Boot for top goalscorer in the Premiership this…

  • Edu completes move to Valencia

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    As confirmed on Arsenal.com, Edu has completed his move to Valencia, where he has signed a five year contract.

  • Arsenal release five players

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    “Arsenal Football Club can confirm that Adam Birchall, Jordan Fowler, Danny Karbassiyoon, Frankie Simek and Olafur-Ingi Skulason are being released by the Club when their contracts expire this summer.” Full article here at Arsenal.com.

  • Halo news roundup

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    Bungie reports that Volume 2 of the Halo 2 Soundtrack has been mastered, so it should be available to purchase soon. They also have their E3 report up, and the lowdown on the latest Halo Humpday Challenge. HBO have announced that they have opened their new Halo Cutscene Library. It only has the opening Pillar…

  • Liverpool win Champions League Final

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    Liverpool last night won the Champions League Final in a penalty shootout with AC Milan. It was a thrilling game, with AC Milan dominating the first half, scoring inside the first minute, and then twice more to leave the score 3 – 0 at half time. Then Rafa Benitez changed his formation and brought on…

  • Ars Technica discusses details of the XBox 360’s Xenon processor

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    Major Nelson points out this article on Ars Technica that delves into the innards of the Xenon processor which will power the XBox 360. The article talks mainly about procedural synthesis, which is essentially using the CPU to generate vertex data for the GPU in real-time based on higher-level descriptions of objects that take up…

  • Halo 3 vs PS3 – perhaps not

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    HBO reports that Robbie Bach, Chief XBox Officer, has contradicted Bill Gates’ claim that the Playstation 3 will run into Halo 3 when the PS3 is launched next year. I liked this quote in particular from Robbie: With all respect to Bill, I don’t run Bungie’s studio, and neither does he.

  • Xbox360.com has been updated

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    The Xbox 360 web site has been updated. The interface is now more interactive and encourages you to explore and experiment. Among the things that you can find include downloadable images of the console and the controller, as well as other promotional images. More interestingly there is a new video segment featuring J Allard that…

  • Neon lightsynth to be included in XBox 360

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    The XBox 360 is to include the Neon lightsynth from Llamasoft – a name which might be familiar to gamers who grew up in the 1980s 🙂 I believe that we got a preview of this in the MTV special, where there were large screens behind the bands that played in the show, and these…

  • Arsenal win the FA Cup 5-4 on penalties

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    Arsenal became the first team ever to win the FA Cup via a penalty shoot-out yesterday in Cardiff. Manchester United dominated the match and had several attempts on goal, including one put in the back of the net by Rio Ferdinand that was ruled outside. But for Jens Lehmann’s goalkeeping and a last-gasp goal-line header…