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Archive for December, 2007

Sydney knock off Adelaide to improve finals chances

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

A-League 2007/08 Round 18
Sydney FC (7-6-5) 3
Adelaide United (5-8-5) 1
@ Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA
Crowd: 25,039 (SA Football Record)
Despite the score, in many ways Sydney dodged a bullet in this one — Adelaide dominated the early proceedings and deservedly went a goal up, only to give up the ghost after being reduced [...]

Eternal Sonata - First play-through impressions

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Eternal Sonata / NamcoBandai / Xbox360

Finished my first play-through of Eternal Sonata and, apart from the plot going slightly fruity towards the end, enjoyed it immensely. Probably the best feature is the way the battle system changes slightly as your party levels up — by the end you have access to fantastic multi-character chain combos [...]

Xbox 360 December Update

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

In a word: nice. In more words: sweet, a patch that really does improve things. Most significant new feature for me is the additional media formats supported for playback. Now it really is as easy as bunging a bunch of DivX/Xvid/MPEG4/x264 files on a memory stick or external USB HDD, hooking it up to the [...]