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The Week in Video Games news – March 1

Each week I present the latest Video Games news for GameArena.com.au.

Skype 5.8 for Windows

One of the most popular applications for making free voice and video calls is Skype, and the latest update to the program makes chatting with friends even easier. For starters, Skype verion 5.8 for Windows is now capable of full high-definition video calls with the right camera and broadband internet connection, plus you can now even make video calls to[Read More…]

The search for Australia’s next Top Geek has started

The search for Australia’s next Top Geek has started

Are you a video games enthusiast? Love anything and everything to do with Computers? Maybe your Comic book collection stacks up taller than you or you live for photography or fashion…then you could be Australia’s next Top Geek. The iiNet TopGeek 2.0 competition will see contestants show off their unique talents in one of five geeky categories. They’ll work their[Read More…]

Hands-on with the Playstation Vita

Hands-on with the Playstation Vita

I spent last night floating in Sydney harbour with Sony Computer Entertainment and a mix of media and members of the Video Games industry for the launch of the Playstation Vita, which will hit retail stores on Thursday. What is the PlayStation Vita? It’s the successor to the PlayStation Portable, the portable games and entertainment device that’s been on the[Read More…]

Quickflix brings movies to Samsung devices

Owners of Samsung home entertainment and mobile devices will soon have direct access to online streaming movie rentals. Quickflix already offers the largest range of dvd & blu-ray movie and TV show rentals via mail and streaming video rentals to computer along with Playstation 3 and some Sony Bravia TVs, and in the coming months the same service will be[Read More…]