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BBC Group Controller Erik Huggers has revealed a collaboration with Nintendo UK to support the BBC iPlayer on the web-browser enabled console that has reached fruition.

If you’re a BBC-loving UK resident you can now use the excellent BBC iPlayer service on your Nintendo Wii via the Internet Channel and need only navigate to www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer to get started.

The BBC iPlayer is currently only available to UK license payers and is being continually developed by the BBC to create a better, more flexible service that you can enjoy through the Wii or your desktop computer with ease.

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Since looking at the TerraTec Headset Master and the Razer Barracuda Headset I have been investigating just what makes these products not only similar but almost identical in some design aspects.

With no real clue which product came first it was difficult for me to make any accusations against either TerraTec or Razer for blatantly ripping off the others product.

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Review by Johnus Maximus

Released in March for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is a story driven World War 2 first person shooter.

The game is developed by Spark Unlimited, and published by Codemasters and promises to offer both wartime authenticity and a fresh perspective on the genre. Sadly, it fails.

Imagine now, if you can, a series of remarkable events taking place in the past which changed the outcome of WW2 and ultimately lead to the Nazi invasion of the United States of America. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well for Dan Carson, an average New York construction worker, this nightmare becomes a reality, and he’s faced with the daunting prospect of single-handedly taking down an immeasurable number of well armed and motivated Nazi soldiers, blowing up the White House and its recently installed Nazi president and as if that’s not enough, he also has to destroy an Atomic bomb before it can be dropped on his home soil!

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From April 1st anyone picking up a new Korg PA800 will receive a Korg branded USB ROM stick loaded with a revised songbook.

The new songbook contains easier to understand song titles, re-assigned genre and artist name details, 15 custom lists, 4 single touch settings per song title and an additional 300 song titles cross-referenced to several of the popular Busker book series.

This means that playing your favourite songs and music has been made much easier and quicker with the Korg PA800. All you need to do is press the “SONGBOOK” button, find the song title and press “SELECT”; the correct Style, tempo, sounds for the left and right hands are all automatically recalled.

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Review by Johnus Maximus

Sega’s most iconic character has returned with a sequel to 2006’s Sonic Riders. This time around Sonic and friends can increase their speed and manipulate the race track with the help of gravity controls. Despite an awkward control system, the game boasts a decent mix of tracks, characters and game play modes and is a fairly decent racer with which to pass time until Mario Kart Wii is released. Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity was released in February for Wii and PS2.

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It’s a very rare occasion that I am so impressed with a product I have purchased that I decide it deserves a review. The SlingBox SOLO is one such product and the SlingBox PRO is it’s bigger brother.

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I’ve been a big fan of Unreal Tournament since first playing the PC demo of the, now GoTY edition, original UT. It was, perhaps, the first game I ever rushed out to purchase and tear from its grossly oversized cardboard box, as was the style at the time.

The original Unreal Tournament was uncomplicated fun and entirely focussed on online play like Tribes was to Starsiege, this design ethic hasn’t changed in UTs evolution and Unreal Tournament 3 is true to its origins; bringing back fond memories of classic UT moments and creating just as many new ones.

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Not a bad deal if I say so myself. Play.com are offering £40 off selected Acer laptops when you use the promotional code ACER40

As is typical of Play.com the prices are already slashed and the extra £40 sweetens the deal and will net you an Acer Aspire 5720 Z for just £330 delivered.

The code is only valid for the four laptops linked above and expires at midnight on Wednesday 26/3/08.

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A Korg Pa2X Pro now sits upon the studio desk at Gadgetoid and I’ve had a single evening with it to form some initial opinions and recognise some of the more obvious good and bad points.

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Adding another low priced laptop TV Tuner to the lineup TerraTec introduces the Cinergy T USB XXS which, as its name eludes, demands one of your precious USB ports in return for sweet, sweet digital freeview television.

If you’re a couch potato to the max and simply must have digital television on your laptop computer the Cinergy T USB XXS will do just that, it includes a remote control, ariel with suction cup and an adaptor to allow you to connect to your house roof ariel.

In my experience the roof ariel adaptor is a must, as I’ve never really been able to get a digital tuner ariel in just the right position to obtian watchable TV.

Still, at £29.99 if you want TV-to-go it’s a lot cheaper than the Slingbox Solo/Freeview Tuner setup I would opt for. You’re also likely to get a better picture, better control and, of course, a digital recorder so you can fill up your hard drive with stuff to watch on the go.

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