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Letter from the Editor

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Section breakdown Digital Imaging Home Entertainment Personal Computing Wireless Total Gamer

Feature Test Lab

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Wireless desktop solutions

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Building the brains behind the brawn

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Fullmetal Alchemist Killer Handheld reviews: Nanostrag. Golden Eye.- Rogue Agent

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Editorial The Internet has funda‑ mentally changed the

way we communicate, the way we do business, the way we entertain ourselves and,

among other things. the way we research and access information. The Wild West days of the Net are, at least to a degree, behind us. The American Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA] has seen to that, for us in the Great White North too. Last month, we asked you how much you've come to rely on the Internet. The answer was, in essence and not altogether surprisingly, ”a lot." From students whose entire campus is wireless‑ enabled where lecture notes are shared between peers via email and professors push files onto student's laptops via the class network. to recent immigrants keeping in touch with family and friends back home via email, instant messaging and Skype, From new parents sharing videos and pictures of the latest addition to the family via email. adedicated photo sharing service or on a family Web site, to retirees keeping in touch, following hobbies or researching family histories online. It's hard to imagine the days before the Internet made its insidious creep into our everyday lives: From the

early days when augmenting a company title with a dot-com suffix would be a sure fire way to get some investment capital to now, when a downed Internet connection in the office is a terminal prognosis for productivity that day, it's clear that for good or ill, our reliance on the Internet ‐ forwork, play. communi‑ cation. research and much more ‐ is almost total. It is around the HUB offices, and, judging by the dozens of letters we received this month, for HUB readers too. Enjoy the issue. Andrew Moore-Crispin Editor-in-Chief Last month, we asked how reliant you are on the lntemet. Patrick than writes: As a university student. I would say that I'm heavily reliant on the Internet. Whether it be purchasing textbooks from online vendors, com‑ municating with classmates, paying for tuition. or even doing research for assignments and projects, I have found the lntemet to bean integral part of my edumtion. However, I'm reminded ofa point that was brought up in a lecture [regardingthe need to reference information]. While the Internet‘s convenience and accessibility are indeed valuable, being heavily reliant on the Internet for information without ensuring the credibility and accuracy of the information can be detrimental to not only students but general users as well.

L e t t e ro f t h eM o n t h 0ur Letter of the Month comes from Guy A. Costanzo For his letter, Guy wins a JVC 255MB XA~MP2 Digital Audio Player. who writes: My introduction to computing came in 1966 at URI: Congratulations Buy. in Computer Science 100/101. A lot has changed This month, in addition to general feedback on the since then. My working career spanned over 33 years as a researcher in the area of public health ‐ all ofthat time using computers. The introduction of Internet access transformed my working day. Now that I am retired. I spend a lot of time on my hobbies that include amateur radio and music. I can communicate with other hams all over the world using voice-over-Internet software called Echolink. I can try to communicate with the astronauts aboard the International Space Station by tmcking their orbital position in real time via the Internet. I can get sheet music. listen to almost any piece of music I can think of, and learn to play almost any instrument via the Internet. I amconstantly learning new things from par‑ ticipating in the various newsgroups on the Internet, Access to the Internet has enriched my life in so many ways that I can no longer live without it.

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Cordless Keyboard 8: Mouse Combo with Microban Protection If you've ever seen a feature story on the evening news detailingjust how disgusting the average office area is, you may be tempted by Fellowes' anti-bacterial come on. While the HUB electron microscope is currently in the shop for repairs [always happens when you need it the most, it seems], Fellowes assures us that Microban protection disrupts the normal functioning of micro-organisms, making it impossible for them to grow or reproduce. It's incorporated during the manufacturing process, and as such, won‘t wash orwear away. The antimicrobial protection afforded by the Fellowes solution is the key bullet point. As a wireless keyboard and mouse combo, the set is otherwise unremarkable. The keyboard element is good with a nice feel to the keys ‐ not too hard, not too soft - and a fairly quiet key strike. Customizable and simply-labelled function buttons on the top of the board take care of several Internet and email functions while three left-mounted buttons look after the most common word processing commands ‐ cut, copy, paste. A simple oval button array looks after media functions like volume, play, pause and skip. It works natively with Windows Media Player, but requires training for other media applications. The mouse portion ofthis particular combo is a major stumbling block. It's not ugly per se, but it's far from the most attractive thingto grace the desktop. While it's wireless and optical, it's still decidedly old-school. and not in that chic, retro way either. The scroll wheel works, but offers no benefit over other wheels, and when compared with Microsoft’s recent innovations in hardware with scroll wheels, it doesn't fare very well. It's essentially an oval lump to control the cursor on-screen and nothing else ‐ no useful extra buttons to be found here.

button array is separate from the keyboard [with the same media control array] itself. The idea seems to bethat mobile professionals can carry the number pad and mouse with them on the road, leaving the keyboard at home. As very few laptops include a number pad ‐ Dell only

recently announced number pads on some of its widescreen notebooks ‐ this could prove a boon for mobile professionals. Desktop users looking for a sleek and stylish wireless desktop solution are well served by Logitech's latest. While the key design and travel takes some getting used to after using a regular format keyboard,

it does work well. The software that ships with the DiNovo integrates well with Windows, finding the default mail application [Thunderbird in our test case] and media player [Windows Media Player 10] then mapping these to the appropriate function buttons on the left and right ofthe keyboard. The smallerthan usual format may not be comfortable for all users; it‘s clearthat the DiNovo was designed with portability in mind ‐ whetherof all orjust some ofthe components. The mouse is diminutive next to a regular mouse and the keyboard is similar to a full-size laptop board. The modular number pad incorporates a digital display to give a read on the time and ambient temperature or, by pressing one of two context buttons, can be used as a calculator, sans computer. DiNovo Wireless Desktop The DiNovo is also available in a Bluetooth version with arechargeable, Users looking to escape a laptop-style keyboard might be advised to full-sized mouse for an extra $100 or so. Wetested the RFversion. look elsewhere; the “Zero Degree Tilt" key design of the DiNovo desktop is very similarto a laptop board. That said, the desktop is designed to be Wireless Optical Desktop Elite modular with the smaller-than-average optical mouse. The wireless As keyboards and mice go, Microsoft‘s hardware arguably leads the receiver can be used as just a USB dongle or kept on the desktop in a pack. While even its Mac-compatible keyboard / mouse combos cur~ stylish one-port USB hub, and the number pad with media control rently refuse to incorporate any Apple-specific keys, users might be

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willing to forgive upon using the desktop. The actual keyboard leaves a little to be desired; it merges seamlessly with Windows as one would expect, but the keys are overly loud. Aside-mounted version of Microsoft's excellent vertical and horizontal scrolling wheel makes up for this somewhat, as does a row of favourites keys, keyboard shortcuts for common applications, and an extended battery life. Microsoft offers a wide variety of keyboard and mouse combos, from the straight-ahead version as tested here to ergonomic split-key and semi-split boards. The mouse element is where the Elite really shines. The same click-less vertical and horizontal scroll wheel is wrapped in a very com‑ fortable and ergonomic design. The wheel scrolls easily and rocks left and right to allow for horizontal scrolling in documents and web pages. The mouse can also function on just one AA battery when replacements aren’t nearby. Two side-mounted customizable buttons are default mapped to Internet browser forward and back functions and actually add to the web browsing experience.

functions like putting the computer into sleep mode. However, the impressionistic icons that label said buttons are open for much interpretation and require some thinking about before pressing. A media control button array looks after the standard media player functions and a rotating wheel in the centre of the keyboard allows for easy adjustment of the volume level. The volume control knob feels sharp to the touch however and offers up too much resistance to be used with one finger. The mouse that ships with the PilotBoard combo is unremarkable. Rubber ribbing on the side of the mouse is comfortable to use and the left and right click buttons function as they should. The scroll wheel is ofthe clicking variety and functions as a third, user-definable button.

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"My name's Emru,‘ I answered. ‘Emru, huh? That's a nice name.“ I was impressed. I was speaking to an animatronic robot on a noisy exhibition floor, and it (he?) had managed to pluck my name out of my spoken sentence and pronounce it correctly ‐ something most humans have trouble doing. Of course, I should have expected the extraordinary. I was at the annual SIGGRAPH conference. which is usually thought of asthe place to be for the latest and greatest in computer animation and special effects. But aside from focusing on the current state of the art, SIG~ GRAPH also keeps its eyes on what’s around the comer. Its Emerging Technologies ['E-Tech' for short] component is partly theoretical - it features 1?hours of panel discussions ‐ but also has a practical side that‘s pretty amazing. Imagine a science museum that doesn't describe what is or what was, but what could be‐ and encourages you to get your hands [as well as eyes, ears, mouth and feet] on every‑ thing. It's not just seeing the future. but experiencing it. This year's SIGGRAPH was held in Los Angeles in early August, and I managed to spend two hours exploring the E-Tech displays. Interest was high ‐ despite repeated visits, this talking robot, part of aCarnegie Mellon University project called the Interbots Initiative, was the first I had a chance to interact with.

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HUB: How much t i m e do you actually get to spend playing other peo‑ ples' games7 BG: it depends. for Hulk. Ultimate Destruction, i spent a lot oftimr: on games that were closely related to that I played a lot of Devrl May Cry. and then God of War came out, which was awesome. but l'. was really too late to influence some of our development We work pretty crazy hours, and I'm a family man so my time is preCious, but I've tailo'ed my gaming now to what l'm currently interested tl'l making lptayed Power Stone (1999, Capcom] qune a bit, because that has a lot of good boss fight material for Hulk Ultimate Destruction,

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developer-friendly. The other thing is licenses. It's definitely true that there are a lot of

licensed games coming out. that‘s the big thing is licensed properties as everyone knows. HUB: Certainly with Radical and the Simpsons and Hulk lGx Yeah. 50 it could be just my own personal bias, but l'm even saying that you know every other game you see advertised will be a licensed property, or a sequel of some sort.

HUI: It's less of a risk to take for sure. IG: Right, it is. The publishers feel comfortable because they know that if you've got a fan of Harry Potter, the mom is going to go to the store, and she knows the kid likes Harry Potter so she'll pick up the game. She might not necessarily know if it's a good game or not, but there's defi‑ nitely that element.

HUB: What do you like and dislike about working m the industry" 86: I think that the best thing about working in the indust'y i; that there's so much reward for what you do ~ once you ge'. a game or. there on the shelfarid you get farts and people make Web S i t e s aoau' i'.

and people are talking about how cool it is i remember as a kid Just lovrng games, and now i get to share that

Games are starting to get the respect they oeser 15- in terms oi a me art form. lthink it took the fact that we finally make more than the fitm

industry to make people see that this can bean an form in o‘nseh’, are, it has been really cool to be part oft'nat sort of mange l'm p a r t ofthe mainstream gamingindustry, but you ve also go: ali these irdeaendent game developers that are trying to play wnh experiments game It's kind o f like film, where you w e got m a i n s t r e a m Film an: tneo y:u r e got indie film, and that's cool.

HUI: Doyou think the trend of license-based games is good overall? I s : Well, one thingl will say about it is that l'm an old-school gamer, l've been gaming forever, and in the past, licensed games have kind of sucked. I mean, like ET. on my Atari 2500 was just awful. there are some things that we no probe: management. Radical is great ‘or long he

HUB: You had that thing? That was legendary! 86: That's kind of the worst case example. That's not really fair. But in general, hardcore garners wouldn't get excited about those titles. I do think that's changing. That‘s why l'm glad to be a part of Radical, because I think we're part of changing it. Our first Hulk game did pretty well, and with Hulle Ultimate Destruction, at least from the reviews I've seen, everyone’s been loving it. I mean, you're still going to have some [licensed games] that just aren‘t very fun, but I hope that if we‘re going to continue doing licensed products, we at least invest the time in gettingthem right instead of just sort of relying on, asl said, the mom

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The hulking Alphonse trails behind as a sidekick. He‘s largely computer‑ controlled, but is strong and smart enough to hold his own in combat. Edward's transmutations are the coolest part of the game, which is otherwise pretty standard action-RPG fare, relatively short and easy to complete with uneven boss battles. The in-game dialogue can be tedious [despite using the excellent voice actors from the series] because it advances slowly by way of repeated button presses. However, the anime-style cutscenes are welcome, and the game is presented in a pseudo cell-shaded look that gives the impression that the characters are being plucked straight from the show. By Erin BEII

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For evidence that videogames are maturing as an art form, you need look no further than Killer P.Where many of today’s games rated "M for Mature“ are actually anything but ‐ containing an overabundance of exaggerated violence, naughty words and puerile sexuality ‐ Killer 7 tackles some pretty heady subject matter in ways that are both disturbing and beautiful at the same time. Make no mistake, Killer P has sex, violence and vulgar language in spades. But the difference is in the execution. Where notoriously “Mature" games like Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto are full of sensational violence, the violence in Killer Pis stylish. When enemies are dispatched, they spurt red ribbons of blood or explode in thousands of tiny dots. The esthetic backdrop is stylized and surreal as though you were navigating through aninteractive manga. Even the premise is gloriously messed up. A sort of post‘apocalyptic Earth is threatened by a strange scourge of monsters known as the

Heaven Smile. Hired to fight them is a syndi‑ cate of seven assassins known as the Killer ?, who in actual fact are all different personalities of the leader ofthe syn‑ dicate, Harman Smith. The seven personas have distinct weapons,

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Ahandheld rehash ofa mediocre console shooter. Can't be all bad, right? Actually, yes, that is right. And in many ways, the handheld version of Rogue Agent actually bests its console brethren. Perhaps it‘s because we can forgive Rogue Agent for many ofthe same transgressions that appeared in the console versions given that the 05's current FPS library is so bleak. it's a shame too, given that the Metroid Prime Hunters DSdemo cartridge has shown the USas the perfect handheld for FPS gameplay thanks to its lower touch screen and stylus / thumbpad pseudo-mouse / analog [respectively] control. There's not a lot to the single player game; running through various Bond-esque locales, shooting various Bond-esque baddies with the occa‑ sional boss battle and sort of gameplay puzzle thrown in for good meas‑ ure. However, on the USit comes across quite well.

Amultiplayer mode adds value to the proposition and is similar to the classic Golden Eye onthe Nintendo 64. The multiplayer maps can also be played with computer-controlled bots, but that's nowhere near as mUCh fun as having a human opponent to play against. For best results, you'll need seven friends sporting a DSand - to get access to all maps ‐ a copy of the game. Upto eight gamers can play together onalimited number ofmultiplayer maps with only one cartridge, however. The music is a major failing point, filled with blips and bleeps more at home in a 19PO's arcade than a current generation game. Load up your MP3 player before sitting down for a session with Rogue Agent. Powers stemming from the game's namesake prosthetic eye that appeared in the console iterations are present and accounted for and do help to add a little extra interest to what is otherwise a decidedly middle‑ of-the-road FPS.

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