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A Look at Windows Vista Gaming

Hard|OCP's [H]Enthusiast site has an article up regarding the framerates in Vista. I think it covers what most of us already know, but it's nice to see it evaluated and published. The conclusions page has a good summary. Linky link:

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTMzNCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Professional Gamers get pay raise.

TeamXBOX.com reports the Championship Gaming Series (CGS) announced that in 2007, salaries and bonuses for professional gamers will exceed $5 million. Keep practicing noobs :P

Story here: http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13340/CGS-Announces-5-Million-Annual-Player-Payroll/

ATi Radeon HD 2900 XT

There is some info at Engadget.com regarding the new ATI video card. Unfortunatly there are no actual benches shown, you'll just have to take them at their word. Time will tell. Here's the link:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/24/atis-radeon-hd-2900-xt-benchmarked-trumps-nvidias-geforce-880/

**UPDATE** Here are some benchmarks over at Daily Tech:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7043

It appears ATI's new flagship is pretty much on par with a 8800 GTS. We can only hope to see a price war ensue :)

Nintendo outsells competition...AGAIN.

Nintendo outsells competition...AGAIN.

Nintendo has the top two spots again for the best-selling new video game systems in the US for March. Regardless of the shortages for both the Nintendo DS™and Wii™systems, over half a million consumers grabbed a DS™ and so far this year, Nintendo has sold more video game systems than all other manufacturers combined. o has the top two spots again for the best-selling new video game systems in the US for March. Regardless of the shortages for both the Nintendo DS™and Wii™systems, over half a million consumers grabbed a DS™ and so far this year, Nintendo has sold more video game systems than all other manufacturers combined.

Lansomnia III - Signup now!

Lansomnia III Signup is now active, signup now!

Headon over to http://www.lansomnia.ca

BTW, this is the first news update in a long time...
If you're interested in writing news, please write anything game, hardware, software, maritime related and submit it... we admins can be a bit lazy from time to time

BF2142 Demo out tommorow!

Thats right, tommorow tune into your favouite demo downloading station and pick up the demo

ED Fest 2006 is comming!!!

Well ED Fest 2006 is comming along nicely. It seams like we are getting more and more sponsors each day.

If you still have not heared about it then check out our website http://www.monctonlanparty.com/ .

Also a quick reminder that Advance registration is ending on October 15th and early registration is over on the 10th. Even if your not sending your payment right away please send in your reg form ASAP so we know to get the bigger room or not. Also so we can start posting team that are going to be at the party.

We also annouced officialy today that we are going to be using ALP during the LAN.

For more info visit our site or E-mail me.

Lansomnia II - Geared up and Ready to go!

Just over two weeks left until the largestl LAN ever in Atlantic Canada!

The prize list is finally online and the time to sign up is NOW

www.lansomnia.ca

Prize List

Come and compeat against the best Atlantic Canada has to offer.

...seriously, you could win a sword, what more could you want!

Battlefield 2 1.3 Patch

The latest patch for Battlefield 2 (version 1.3) is now upon us. Head out and get it at your favorite watering hole.
Make sure you have it installed and tested before LanWars, as we all know how friendly the BF2 upgrade process can be...

Lan Wars VI Schedule

Ok folks here is the Schedule for Lan Wars VI. Please remember this is subject to slight change but we will do our best to stiick to this. This schedule will be posted on the intranet sight during the event so you can see what's going on as well as the schedule will always be up to date on the sight. We will be using the ALP lanparty management software to administer the event head on over to the website and check it out. We have been using it for the past few events and have had great success with it. Read more for the schedule.

Oh yeah...for all of you that are coming, we scored some sweet swag. Were giving away
- BFG GeForce 7800
- ASUS GeForce 6800
- ATI TV Wonder Elite
- Vantec Nexus Fan and Light controller
- Antec Supoer LanBoy
- Antec Neo Power HE 500 W PS
- A bunch of Case mod stuff
- A pile of 1 Gig USB mem sticks and much more

So if you don't come you can't score the swag !

We would like to thank Munro electronics, ATCOM It Services, Data Doctor, Hampton total Communications, Cyber Solutions and Gamezilla for all teh great swag they have thrown our way. Patronize these great places if you can.