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Posted by Ian 

The other night my Vista PC informed me that were new updates to be installed. Naturally I proceeded with the update procedure and was quite happy to find that the update it was going to apply was Vista Service Pack 1.

The download didn’t take too long (I’m on a 4mb cable broadband line at the moment), but the installation procedure certainly did and involved several reboots too. I believe I was waiting about an hour all-in-all for it to finish applying the service pack.

I can tell you though that it was more than worth the wait for me because Microsoft’s promises of greatly improved speed performance when copying files have all come true. I tested it this evening with the latest episode of On the Spot from Gamespot. Vista copied the file (which was almost 1gb in file size) in about 50 seconds over my network to another PC. Before the update this would have taken around 20 minutes.

There are a few other key updates to the service pack, as well as all of the previous security patches that MS have released for Vista. I believe that the service pack is being rolled out in stages, so not everyone will get it at the same time. Indeed, I’m now waiting for my Vista laptop to get the update - no sign of it yet though.

Nice one Microsoft, but next time let’s test the OS’ basic file operations first eh, instead of making users wait over 12 months for their PC to work properly.

If you want to find the full details of what’s included in Vista Service Pack 1 click here. (PC Pro)

Posted by Rob

Ok Ok i know its only by 1 week but i had gone and got myself super pumped about condemned 2 but here is the kicker…………. Its now out on the exact same day as Dark Sector AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

it seems like whatever games i have the remotest interest in seem to gravitate towards each others release date, however upon reflection i have decided to treat this as a blessing rather than a curse because……….. thats right im gonna get both lol.

Anyone who knows me probably expected this anyhow but seeing as i have £35 worth of vouchers to spend it means i only have to actually pay for one of them so WOO HOO more achievement points for me.

Posted by Ian 

We’ve been working hard on the site this past week. You can now find a page dedicated to the podcast (all 1 episode of it so far - lol). We’ve also added iTunes subscription links now that we’ve officially been accepted into their directory.

Episode 2 of our podcast will be recorded tonight and will be made available both online and through the iTunes store either tonight (depending on what time we finish up) or tomorrow.

We’ve got a whole heap of stuff to talk about this week, so it should be another good show.

At the moment the main task is to get more content onto the site (especially the podcasts), but this will obviously take some time. We’ve already had someone trackback our article about the Far Cry 2 tech demo at play.com live - so that’s good considering we’ve done nothing really to publicise the site yet.

 Anyway, keep watching (and listening) and we’ll keep on delivering.

Word!