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Finally got some speakers yesterday after having been confined to tinny laptop whine and earphones for the last couple of months… Picked up a set of Logitech X-540s (5.1, 75W RMS) for $98 AU – and to be fair, they sound really rather good. As I’m using an ALC889 chipset w/ Alsa 1.0.19 ATM and it doesn’t recognise the true 5.1 nature of the beast I’m down to clicking the matrix-mode button to convert 2.0 to 5.1 – but as I’m mostly just listening to music, which is stereo to begin with, it’s not bothering me too much at all.

For the equivalent of £50 it’s a very good piece of kit, and although not having optical connections, will still put out a solid 5.1 from component cables if I wanted to hook it up to my 360 for example.

Most impressed.

There’s a thread over on SomethingAwful titled “Make video game covers classy” – and what they’re aiming to do in a Photoshop Phriday kinda way is reproduce game covers as if they were 70′s book covers… and by golly it works!

My favourite so far though has to be the R-Type cover below… Always a fan of R-Type and keen to take a swing at the evil Bydo Empire (recently updated and released on XBLA in the form of R-Type Dimensions, btw) – this just captures the essence of it perfectly for me…