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Lunchtime Deal: Quakecon 2011 Steam Sale

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12:30PM August 8, 2011 | Danny Allen

To celebrate Quakecon, Steam has been running different price cuts all weekend. Today’s deal: 66 per cent off Fallout 3 (now $US6.75) and 50 per cent off Fallout: New Vegas (now $US20). Though Steam tends to make Aussies pay more, it’s still something I guess. The Quakecon Pack 2011 looks interesting, too: US$70 gets you every single game from id Software and Bethesda Games. Including Commander Keen! [Steam]


Gaming

id Unleashes Impressive Rage On The iPhone

7:16AM August 13, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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During his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2010, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone, running at 60 frames-per-second and able to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2″. More »


Computing

BBQ Grill Casemod is Cookin’ Up Some Gaming Goodness

12:00PM August 7, 2008 | Sean Fallon

With all of the heat a serious gaming rig can produce, it was only a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to turn a grill into a PC case. There isn’t any information as far as specs are concerned, but we can see that this QuakeCon competitor has a decent sized monitor mounted inside the lid with some orange glowing fans in the range representing hot coals. It’s a nice casemod—but unless he has some sort of setup that can cook burgers with processor heat I’m not all that impressed.

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