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Video Game Sale - Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 - $35

From Dealsea. Dell Home has some video games on sale. Free shipping $129+. [Comments] Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) $60 - $25 coupon “24LVPRK0T8ZS9?” = $35 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3) $60 - $20 coupon “SBFTVHQS0B76FH” = $40 Madden NFL 09 (PS3) $61 - $25 coupon “$BF6K8D$QHRXSC” = $36 Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Bundle (PS3) $99 - $40 coupon “RSS0N0WK52L125″ = $59 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360) $60 [...]

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Giant Crysis Warhead Screenshots

Looks like the German PC Games got a hold of some stupid-huge Crysis Warhead screenshots, here they are for you and for the folks that have dual 30″ monitors to view them on: Thanks VE3D!

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Crysis Warhead Screenshots

For those that don’t know the back-story behind Crysis Warhead, originally Crytek, the creators of Crysis, intended to have a much longer post-game support cycle behind Crysis after it’s launch with a planned expansion pack and the long-hyped “1.3″ update that was going to boost game performance across the board. NOTE: Even though Crysis is known [...]

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Crysis on Crack Series

For the Crysis fans out there this is a series of goofy Robot-Chicken-esque movies put together by spike800 using the Crysis Sandbox editor. Little scene after little scene with something crazy set to music and sound bites, I found them entertaining. If you dig those type of Gary Mod craziness videos or insane-physics movies from [...]

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Crysis Extreme Physics - 5000 Exploding Cars

If you dig those crazy-physics movies that people create with game engines like Crysis where 10k barrels will explode or 5k watermelons will careen down a mountain (in Oblivion) then you’ll dig this… some guy blowing up 5k cars in Crysis… really looks brilliant: Crysis Videos

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Crysis Physics: 3000 Barrels

For the readers that remember the “Crysis Extreme Physics” post from a few weeks ago, here’s a new one to whet your appetite: Just a reminder, this isn’t a movie recorded at real time. The processing power required to actually calculate all those physical bodies is something that no PC can do right now. The actual How-To [...]

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Extreme Physics in Crysis

These are some pretty sweet physics in Crysis, some of the more interesting stuff (like a giant man made out of 1000s of boxes) start around 2mins in and go to the end, pretty entertaining to watch. NOTE: No computer currently can run these physics at an acceptable framerate, the person that recorded this video did [...]

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Crysis Primarily a PC Title, “Next-Gen” Consoles not Powerful Enough

TeamXBox is reporting that after speaking with the Cyrsis developers (Crytek) it looks like Crysis will be a PC/Windows-Vista title as DirectX 10 will be shipping with Windows Vista and not available on the current XBox 360 or upcomming Playstation 3. If you haven’t gotten a chance and possibly doubt this, take a few minutes [...]

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