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GTA4 was not delivered by the postman today
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

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I took a drive down to Mahon Falls in Waterford today. Its a natural beauty spot in the Comeragh Mountains, easily accessible by road from Dungarvan or Carrick on Suir. It was beautifully sunny on the way down but once I got up into the mountains the clouds became very low and dark very fast.

I’ve put a few photos on Flickr here (took ages to upload a mere 20 or so MB, I need faster upload speed). I had another go at HDR although this time from only a single exposure. I used Nikon’s RAW software to generate JPEGs with 7 different exposure levels from the one RAW file (.NEF in Nikon land) and then fed those into Photomatix and fiddled about with it to get the following.

Straight from camera:

HDR’d up the ass:

Click the photos for the flickr page with full size versions available.

In the past I would never do anything more than cropping or rotating a bit to fix lopsided shots but I think this photo really benefited from the tone mapping shenanigans of Photomatix. Which do you prefer?

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This email arrived moments ago from sendit.com:

We thought you might like to know that we shipped a parcel today to:
< < address >>

containing:
Grand Theft Auto IV GTA (Xbox 360)

\o/

Although given the speed of An Post I have my doubts about it arriving on Tuesday, it’ll be here soon enough

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10/10.
WANT.

Sorry for the ad.

Update 28/04/2008: Gametrailers has a very good 11 minute video review up now

UBERWANT.

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7 days to go.

/twitch

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Best motivational poster spoof ever!

Seriously, click it.

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Extreme Pizza recently opened their first branch outside of the US here in Kilkenny. I’m just after having their “Ragin’ Rooster” pizza and it was absolutely bloody delicious! I’m not usually one for pimping businesses but credit where credit is due.
The ragin’ rooster consists of chicken marinated in barbecue sauce, red onions, coriander, cheddar and mozzarella and it rocks. Hopefully this chain expands across Ireland in the future.
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Anyone remember the free game Trackmania Nations from a couple of years ago? Well its brand new follow-up, Trackmania Nations Forever has been released and its still free

Its a 504MB download. If you’ve got the not-free Trackmania United (like me) you can download a 900MB update that overhauls its graphics and makes it fully compatible with Trackmania Nations Forever in multiplayer

Free stuff is great.

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Yes it is. An early review of the Xbox 360 version has been leaked to the internets. I’ve had it preordered for about 6 months from a web shop, hopefully it will arrive close enough to the release date.

I’m sure it will appear for PC a few months down the line. That’ll be a guaranteed purchase too. I’ve always preferred the GTA games with a keyboard and mouse!

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Not content with making europeans wait for months after Rock Band was released in the US, the game’s distributor, Electronic Arts has decided to give us all a good hard shafting too.

Rock Band retails for $169 in the US. This includes the game and all of the peripheral instruments. Here in europe you can have it for €240. Yes. Lets do some currency conversion, shall we? At today’s rates, $169 will get you €106.65. Even when you take the difference in VAT over here and US sales taxes over there into account we’re still getting ripped right the fuck off. We’ve accepted the dodgy $1 = €1 style european RRPs for a long time now, but this is taking the piss.

Fuck you, EA.

Unless you’re able to shit gold bricks you should join me in boycotting this game. Show them that we’re not a bunch of saps that will bend over and take it in the ass just because we don’t live in the US.

There’s loads of flames being thrown on various Eurogamer comment threads about Rock Band. Feel free to throw your tuppenceworth in there too.

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