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Apple announced a release date for the newest version of OS X (Leopard), for October 26. Apple says about Leopard "With 300+ new features, Leopard is the most impressive Mac OS X version yet." Part of the release is the finished version of Boot Camp, a program they have been beta testing that allows Intel Macs to run Mac OS X and Windows together. This upgrade will be available to must users for $129, unless you bought your computer this month, in which case all you pay for is shipping.

According to Gaming Excellence, Rockstar is thinking about adding a 16 player, fully unlocked and explorable world right out of box. So, this means that you, and all of your friends can run around without having to ever actually play through the story, but who would want to play the sory when there are hookers to be killed?

As we feared, it was announced that the game will only be available this year as a bundle, including the game, guitar, drum and mic. The bundle will retail for $169 and will be available November 23.

The much anticipated NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams will be releasing on December 18th, just in time for people to NOT want to go to the store because of the crowds.

"NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams delivers a reinvented A-life system, online capabilities and a rich storyline, delivering a truly spectacular flight-based action adventure experience," said Don Mesa, Director of Marketing at SEGA of America, Inc. "Appealing to the imagination of gamers of all ages, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is on track to become one of the most innovative Wii games on the Wii platform."

Hitachi was the first manufacturer to utilize perpendicular technology, allowing them to make a consumer drive over a terabyte. Now, they are talking about smaller heads, allowing them to create a 4TB desktop, 1TB notebook drive, available to the public within the next 4 years. That is an announcement that should make any media freak happy: no more stacking hard drives to hold all of your Survivor episodes.

It is being rumored that Rare, the UK manufacturer of Viva Pinata, Diddy Kong Racing DS, and many others, is working on a third Perfect Dark game.

For those of you who do not remember, the original Perfect Dark was a fantastic first-person shooter that was a must-have on the N64. We here at PT really hope that this game will be more the the original, and a lot less like the terrible prequel Perfect Dark Zero.