Hardly anybody seems to give two hoots for the closure of LIVE for the original Xbox - except when it comes to Halo 2. There, we have not just two hoots but enough ruckus for a planet inhabited entirely by owls. Once you get past denial and anger, you eventually arrive at the same step as Bungie: acceptance. The team behind the game have asked fans to come together one last time to farewell the perennial favourite.

It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another helping of Monday Screens to make your afternoon move along a little bit faster. For me, it means that my afternoon can actually begin, after having been without power for the majority of the day - not the best way to spend a rather hot Monday, and not the best start to the week - in any case, the screenshots we've collected should cheer you up, they sure did cheer me up.

The beast stirs. There are multiple titles of note due out this week, with 2K's underwater splice-fest BioShock 2 leading the pack. PS3 gamers may wish to consider MAG, where it's theoretically possibly for up to 256 players to battle online simultaneously. Super Monkey Ball returns to Wii this week, and on DS there's a new tactical strategy game based on the popular anime series Bleach...

While the South Australian Attorney General has already become a household name amongst gamers for his draconian stance on video game ratings, he is quickly gaining infamy in mainstream society. South Australian legislators recently introduced an unprecedented net censorship law, forcing anyone commenting online on the upcoming election to list their real name and post code. Under the new law, anonymous comments can attract fines of up to $5000...

Hope springs eternal for Afghan President Hamid Karzai. It's Mr. Karzai's ambition to re-integrate Taliban fighters into mainstream society with a scheme to offer free jobs, training, and land to terrorist turncoats. Saudi Arabia has launched a similar policy initiative: a touchy-feely terrorist rehabilitation program that includes video game therapy. Unfortunately, the Saudi program is less than 100% successful -- one of its alumni went on to mastermind the dastardly Christmas Day 'Panty Bomber' plot...

AMD shared some more details with us about Llano. The 32nm processor will feature power gating and a host of other power optimizations that lead us to believe we'll see CPU & graphics turbo in AMD's first APU....

If you could get twice the performance for only a 50% increase, would you be willing to fork over the extra money? Compared to Atom, Intel's current CULV products offer exactly that, albeit with slightly less battery life. We have three representative models to look at today, and after seeing what CULV offers, you might think twice about buying that new Atom...

Cedar, AMD's final Evergreen chip, launches today with the Radeon HD 4500. What does bringing Evergreen, audio bitstreaming, and DX11 do for the low-end of the market? We find out...

Intel let loose some new information on Westmere today about power efficiency as well as its upcoming quad-core and 6-core chips. Updated: Desktop quad-core plans not certain!...

Update: NVIDIA has confirmed that the Twitter account is indeed theirs, so this information is official. With a skeptical eye towards Twitter, a post was made on the NVIDIAGeForce account 4 hours ago announcing the names of the first two GF100 cards. As we’re largely sure this is a legitimate NVIDIA account we’re going to go ahead and post...