It is with great sadness that I have to inform you all that the NBS Review crew will no longer be producing any more episodes of the podcast for the foreseeable future. From the very start of this project all the decisions we have made have been joint decisions between the three of us (Hiren, Brett and Richard) this again is a mutual decision.

There are many reasons both personal and professional for stopping the podcast which I won’t get into here. This website will continue to be maintained and you can still access all of our shows here.

Finally we would like to thank all of our listeners and contributors for their time and support. When NBS Review does return it will be worth the wait.

- NBS Review Crew (Brett, Hiren, Richard)

The NBS Review Team would like to wish all our listeners and readers a Merry Christmas for 2006. We hope you all get want you wanted (material or otherwise).

- Hiren / Richard / Brett

Listen Now:

 The 2006 Awards [48:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

NBS Award Winners:

Game of the Year: Dead Rising (Rich), Oblivion (Brett), Lego Star Wars 2 (Hiren)

Product of the Year: Intel Core Architecture (Unanimous)

Best Company of 2006: Brett nominates NVIDIA (we all agree)

Worst Company of 2006: Sony (Unanimous)

Worst Game 2006: Broken Sword 4 (Rich), Dark Star One (Hiren),

Worst Product Launch of 2006: PS3 (Unanimous), Zune (Richard, Hiren), AMD Athlon AM2 (Richard)

Best Podcast of 2006: NBS-Review (Obviously)

Best Gadget of 2006: Plantronics Audio 510 USB Headset (Hiren), Logitech MM28 Speakers (Brett), Tom Tom’s (Richard)

Worst Gadget of 2006: Sapphire Motherboards (Richard), BMWs iDrive (Hiren), ATI Chipsets, Windows Mobile 5 (Brett)

Product/Service most anticipated in 2007: Office 2007, Wii Virtual Console (Richard), Wiimote (Hiren), Steam (Brett), Virtualisation (Richard)

Episode Notes:

Off topic heaven! Core - 680i - Overclocking - Free ones? - Shared Cache: Core versus K8L? - Cache architecture - History of cache implementation - software using it.. Wooooo.

In hindsight, I think Brett is totally on the money nominating NVIDIA as the company of the year. If you’ve been following NV’s stock price it’s almost doubled in the last twelve months!

691 Million TRANSISTORS. Not transsexuals. I should think before I talk.

Games that should be remade and not fucked with: Freelancer (Good call, Brett).

Broken Rec-Rec-Rec-Rec-Rec-Record Time: Ripping it into Sony. Actually the rootkit was 2005, but the building defacing was this year, along with Racist advertising and lets not forget the most recent Viral Advertising. Anyone else think they should have stopped at PS2? Maybe we shouldn’t bring up Betamax or the Bookman, maybe Blu-Ray will win? It might end up like their UMDs, although the MiniDisks were slightly more successful. I could go on, but I’m sure I’m boring you.

NOT! That I ever imply that women can’t read maps. That was not an insinuation I made, merely arguments do happen and as we were all guys, obviously the most likely person to have in the seat next to us is the significant other.

Brett tells me you can get 45 hours battery life with 4AAs on his Logitech speakers. It is an awesome bit of kit.

Lets hope ATI’s RD600 doesn’t suffer from the same problems as previous ATI chipsets. Lets hope Sapphire doesn’t get a hold of it.

Music: FOUR MINUTES of the awesome Whispers from Lagoona by Andreas Viklund! Hiren, posted the whole track! WOOT!

Anyone has any other nominations; feel free to leave a comment!

- Richard

I hope you all enjoy our first (and possibly last) award show, we thought it was the right time to reflect on the years technology progress and look foreward to the future.

- Hiren

Hi, a quick post to let you all know that NBS-Review is taking two weeks off from shows. As Richard is currently enjoy a well deserved holiday in the US with fellow team member Brett. Whilst I am currently busy with school work, regular work and family comitments.

We shall return on the weekend of the 9th of December for our much talked about NBS-Review 2006 Award show

-Hiren

Edit:/ 2nd time I’ve tried to post this now, work damn you!

You say we’re taking “time off” like it’s something new?

- Richard.

Listen Now:

 NBS Review EP18.66 - Behind The Podcast. EP19 - Violence Is A Given, In High Definition. [39:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode Topics:
Downloading Games: The future of distribution?

PS3 Launches. Violence is a given, in High Definition.

Banning Games for Content? Or are they liable to the artistic expression excuse that movie content survives in.

Should people pre-disposed to violence not be allowed to play violent games or see violent movies?

Episode Notes:

Yes, my introductory “questions” are excessive, I know, but I’m trying to produce some seed of conversation transforming it into a utopia of flourishing discussion. Clearly, I fail miserably.

Apparently Hiren had a bitch of a job editing it since the levels were all over the place. Despite doing seriously well, he’s committed to learning Audio Hijack Pro and it’s plugins so hopefully it’ll turn out even better in the future. He obviously got lazy though and couldn’t be arsed to put in some end music, so repeated the intro..

To confirm: The PS3 harddisk is a 2.5″ harddisk, the same as the 360.

- Richard

Sorry guys, unfortunatly the software gremins got the better of us this week and our recording is toast. Being that it is my responsibilty to record the show I have to take full blame for this. So my apologies to Brett and Richard as well as all our listeners.

Normal service will be resumed next week.

- Hiren