Ciarán Walsh

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  • XBox 360 will be backwards compatible – sort of

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    At last night’s pre-E3 Microsoft press event about the XBox 360, it emerged that only the “best selling” XBox titles will be compatible with the XBox 360. Eurogamer has the details here. This sounds to me like the hard disk will include pre-compiled binaries of the most popular games. The program code for games such…

  • Henry ruled out of FA Cup Final

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    According to Arsenal.com, Henry aggravated an Achilles tendon injury in the match against Everton last week, and so will miss Saturday’s FA Cup Final against Manchester United in Cardiff. Wenger will make a decision regarding Reyes’ fitness in the next day or two, but it looks like everyone else will be fit for the match.…

  • Who will make Halo 3?

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    narcogen over at rampancy has an interesting take on the question of whether Bungie will be doing Halo 3. Based on the precedents that Bungie have already set with Marathon: Infinity and Myth 3, he raises the possibility that Bungie may not develop Halo 3 themselves, but that some other developers will continue the franchise.…

  • Halo Story Page updated

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    Jillybean has been keeping an eye on the HBO Forum and the HSP mailbag, and has posted some more signposts to the Tru7h over at the HSP.

  • Birmingham beat Arsenal on the last day of the season

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    On the last Sunday of the 2004/2005 Premiership season, Birmingham beat Arsenal 2 – 1. Bergkamp equalised for the Gunners after Pandiani had put Birmingham ahead, but Heskey pounced on a Campbell pass to snatch the game for Birmingham. Full match report here (Arsenal.com). In many ways this was another meaningless end-of-season match, with nothing…

  • Fable, and getting whupped with Halo 2 on Live

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    On Saturday I picked up a new XBox, primarily to play on XBox Live, since my old one can do so no longer. I also picked up Fable, which is a fantasy RPG which sees you start out as a young boy who survives the destruction of his village and is brought into the Hero’s…

  • "Movies, music, downloadables. And, oh yeah, games."

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    The MTV special on the XBox 360 was shown in Ireland on Friday night. Having read some comments about it, I wasn’t expecting much detail – and boy did I not get it! The sub-heading in MTV’s article about the XBox 360 says it all. This was all about music, multimedia, changeable face-plates, and being…

  • Geek makeovers

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    Seth Godin has come across J Allard’s makeover. He doesn’t quite get the fact that Geek on Stun have use the marketing hype about the high definition next-gen console and dubbed Allard’s transformation as “HD Allard”, but it’s still interesting to see how the man has changed.

  • Flying In Ireland

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    After much more hunting around in Google than I expected to have to do, I found Flying In Ireland, which seems to be the centre of the online Irish aviation community. I still think that there’s very little online information relating to the PPL that is specific to Ireland, but perhaps that’s because most of…

  • Happy Birthday Dara

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    Today’s my brother’s birthday. He had the misfortune to be born on Friday 13th, poor sod 🙂 He’s 28 today, so happy birthday Dara!