In the spirit of the holiday season, this episode comes with bonafide topic links. See? Your Widget benefactors can be a giving people.

• AMD Bulldozer server edition is here! I bet AMD wishes they could go back in time to change all this.
•  nVidia Geforce 560 Ti 448 arrives.
•  AMD’s 7000 series GPU specs leaked
•  Western Digital is buying Hitachi’s hard disk business
•  Crucial M4 SSD gets firmware update that greatly increases performance.
•  Google Wave axed
•  Kindle Fire released
•  Samsung take the piss out of Apple with their Galaxy S II advert.
• Apple iTV rumours gather more and more momentum.
• Have a 1st gen iPod Nano? Trade it in before it explodes.
• Steam got haxored.
• Thanks to Super Mario Land 3D, the 3DS finally starts selling. On its way to beat first year DS sales.
• Minecraft pocket edition released to IOS. Minecraft proper is now at 1.0!
• Game publishers back Blockbuster rentals as a way to battle used games
• Doom 3 source code is now available, and with no Creative Labs owned code.
• Jurassic Park game devs scam Metacritic reviews ahead of launch
• Sony is working on their own version of Super Smash Bros
• Sega Genesis version of Super Street Fighter 2 updated to include online multiplayer
• Online bodyguard….anyone….anyone?
• Sonic the Hedgehog turned 20. Sega release special history of the character video online.
• Whoops. I just deleted an MMO.
• Space travel demands Counter-Strike.
• A little wee bit of Viewer Mail

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