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Assassin’s Creed II DLC coming
 Assassin’s
Creed II will be getting its first load of DLC later on this week. The
official release date for the Xbox 360 and PS3 downloadable content is
28 January and the first DLC pack will be The Battle of Forli.
Ezio will be working with Niccolo Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza, attempting to halt
the Templar siege of Forli in the first content pack. Six new memories
will be included with the add-on. The second will be released in
February, going under the title Bonfire of the Vanities. The second DLC
pack will include a new ability for Ezio and will open up a new
district of Florence in addition to having ten extra memories.
The DLC will be priced at $4 (PS3) or 320 M$ points (Xbox 360) for the
first instalment and $5/400 M$ Points for the second. The DLC
announcement follows Ubisoft’s announcement last week of a stand-alone
Assassin’s Creed title that will feature an online multiplayer mode.
PC players will be getting Assassin's Creed 2 in March this year
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Brett Venter
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Overclockers caught in cheating scandal, banned for life
 Four of the world’s top overclockers have been banned for life by
XtremeSystems.org and for one year by HWBOT for cheating in the recent
MSI Lords of Overclocking online competition. All were disqualified
from said competition
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Righthaven engaged in copyright trolling?
 Steve Gibson, the CEO of Righthaven, is taking on websites that are
illegally reposting content online by emulating patent trolls.
Righthaven is a new company that is buying up copyrights for newspaper
content posted online and then suing any blogs or sites that reproduce
that information illegally, which is apparently proving profitable for
the fledgling group
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Blizzard has embargoed all Wings of Liberty reviews
 Blizzard has introduced a global embargo on all StarCraft 2: Wings of
Liberty reviews, a move that is being reported by several sources
online, until after the game launches. According to Blizzard this is
mainly due to Battle.Net which the company would like reviewers to
experience in its entirety before publishing reviews
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UltraViolet the new DRM?
 There appears to be a new DRM (Digital Right Management) scheme on the
horizon, going by the name UltraViolet. Apparently backed by many of
the major players in the film and television industry, the official
site says that it is “designed to let consumers enjoy movies and TV shows without being locked into one specific format”
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Developer for female gamers launches
 Yesterday the formation of Silicon Sisters Interactive (SSI) was
announced. A Canada-based gaming company and the brainchild of Brenda
Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes, both of whom have been active
in the gaming industry for some time, Silicon Sisters aims to cater
specifically to female gamers
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Pinnacle makes offer to purchase Axiz
 Pinnacle Technology Holdings Limited (PTH) has made an offer to
purchase 100% of shares in Axis Technology (Pty) Ltd. Pinnacle’s aim is
to merge its solution focused distributor with Axiz which according to
Worgroup MD Doug Woolley will allow Worgroup to expand into new markets
as well as provide Axiz with Workgroups solution expertise
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Asus Crosshair IV Formula review
 The Asus Crosshair IV Formula is the first motherboard to arrive at the
PCF Ranch based on AMD’s new 890FX chipset. The 890FX is the flagship
of AMD’s 8-series chipsets and like its brethren lacks support for the
AM2+ socket/processors as well as DDR2 memory. AMD has given the 890FX
chipset a total of 38 PCI-E lanes which are split between four PCI-E
x16 slots which will have 8 lanes each, a single PCI-E x4 slot and two
PCI-E x1 slots.
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