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80GB PS3 coming to Australia on 27 August

A larger hard-drive PS3 and Platinum titles confirmed for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe countries.

Mario tops post-Christmas game sales

What was the number one game post-Christmas? Read the full story to find out.

The Dual Shock 3

The rumble-enhanced Sixaxis won't be packaged with PlayStation 3s, but GameSpot still took it for a spin at Japan's biggest game event.

GDAA calls out to federal government

Aussie game developers ask the government for rebate similar to that being planned for the film industry.

Wikipedia co-founder plans 'expert' rival

Larry Sanger plans to launch this week an alternative to the free online encyclopedia.

Pandemic's Derek Proud on Destroy All Humans 2

CNET.com.au sister site GameSpot AU talks to Pandemic's Derek Proud to check out exactly how everyone's favourite anal-probing alien -- Crypto 137 -- plans to take on the Russkies in Destroy All Humans 2.

Can German engineering fix Wikipedia?

An experiment planned for the country's version of the online encyclopedia could be a blueprint for improved accuracy.

Belatedly, Britannica lambastes Wikipedia findings

A December report compared Wikipedia favourably with the old-school encyclopedia. Now Britannica says, not so fast.

Growing pains for Wikipedia

After two scandals in one week, Wikipedia's founder decides to make a change to the anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia.

Is your PC a drug mule?

Today, criminals are making more money from cybercrime than from drug-related crime. But before you ask what's being done about that, maybe you should see what's running inside your own computer.

New 360 titles unveiled at X05

Xbox 360 launch titles unveiled at Microsoft's X05 event. Australian release date still set for early 2006.

Morpheus put to sleep

Enigmatic sage of the Matrix films meets his maker in the Matrix Online MMORPG.

King Kong, Godfather, Call of Duty 2: A private showing

E3's Conference Program continued in style on Wednesday morning Los Angeles time with the fourth annual Sneak Peeks session. Lucky attendees were treated to special previews of The Godfather, King Kong, and Call of Duty 2.

Be Jack Bauer

Sony is developing a game based on the hit television show 24, and plans to have it released by spring this year.

Who you callin' spyware, spyware?

You can't be sure that any given antispyware tool will catch what you want it to and ignore what it should, so you'll need to run more than one.

When games get gory

A key sequence in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" requires the player to steal a police SWAT team tank, machine gun rival gang members and incinerate employees of a rival crack dealer -- all acts covered by the "Mature" rating prominently displayed on each copy of the video game.