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Grand Theft Auto 4 Like Gears of War
As the GTA4 marketing campaign livens up for a Q2 release of GTA4, IGN got some poop about how the shooting mechanics in GTA4 will be much more like Gears of War (with a proper cover and aiming mechanic) that gamers have come to expect from shooters (cough COD4) like Uncharted and Gears of War. That’s [...]
Continue reading...Resistance 2 Screenshots
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Ted Regulski sends in news of simply “This is why you own a PS3″ then points to the NeoGAF thread with the new released screenshots for Resistance 2 are. Given what Insomniac did with Resistance: Fall of Man, and the expertise they showed to create the best launch title for the PS3, then following that up [...]
Continue reading...World of Moneycraft
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Holy piss-goblins… World of Warcraft officially passed the 10 million player mark. Let’s break that down… 10,000,000 x $15/mo = $150,000,000/mo 150,000,000 x 12 months = $1,800,000,000 Umm… this game makes Blizzard almost $2 billion a year. I think… yep… that’s more than I make right now. I think the US Govt should retire the Fed and just use [...]
Continue reading...Circuit City Game Clearance: $8.96
Monday, January 7, 2008
CC is having a mega-clearance sale on many games across the XBox, GameCube, PSP, Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, and PS2 - Every game is $8.96. Each stores inventory is not the same so, YMMV. Click below to see the full list:
Continue reading...CES: DLP Dual-View TV for Local Co-Op Gaming
Monday, January 7, 2008
I’m giving this the “stupidest tech at CES” award. With multiplayer on the rise, broadband becoming more and more pervasive… the need to invest a dual-display DLP that requires wearing stupid special glasses in order for 2 players to see 2 separate images from the same TV in order to cater to local multiplayer only… [...]
Continue reading...CES: Alienware Wrap-Around Gaming Monitor
Monday, January 7, 2008
Grant Gochnauer just sent in this goodie. It’s the new Alienware curved gaming monitor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq52×6LmUew And yes, for the astute folks out there, it is a DLP-based monitor (just as the tech is dying in HDTVs, gaming monitor folks pick it up… why?) and has a response time of 0.02ms, so more or less instant. The interesting part [...]
Continue reading...Crysis Physics: 3000 Barrels
Saturday, December 15, 2007
For the readers that remember the “Crysis Extreme Physics” post from a few weeks ago, here’s a new one to whet your appetite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5qDeWHNmk 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 [...]
Continue reading...Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Review (PS3)
Friday, December 14, 2007
Summary Introduction Review Running and Gunning Jumping Around (Platforming) Story and Environment Conclusion Areas of Improvement Bonus (End of Game) Summary [7.5 out of 10] Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is a diamond smeared with peanut butter. Uncharted oozes polish from every pore except for shooting mechanics… and unfortunately for it, shooting makes up more than 1/2 your time in this adventure. The constant dying you will [...]
Continue reading...How Would You Feel About Topless Women in Games?
Saturday, December 8, 2007
This is the question Deep Shadows, developers of White Gold, asked their users recently in the official forums. Seriously? What would gamers, say 90%+ ratio for FPSs, think of topless women in games? Here’s a hint… topless women have been awesome since Duke Nukem 3D: Also it’s a scientific fact that boobs are more awesome than [...]
Continue reading...Amazon Game Blow-Out Sale (Up to 50%)
Friday, December 7, 2007
VE3D had the scoop on a game blow-out sale, for all platforms, that Amazon was having. Some games, mostly the PC games, are heavily discounted down to about 50%, but there are plenty of games for the PS3, XBox 360 and Wii that look tasty on the list. My quick picks for you guys (this list [...]
Continue reading...Ghostbusters Preview
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
We covered Ghostbusters before with a brief segment showing what the gameplay with the proton pack looks like, but IGN AU has coughed up a great preview of the game along with lots of snazzy screenshots. Word on the street is that the tech lead on Ghostbusters is really toughing just how much time they are [...]
Continue reading...Assassin’s Creed Review (PS3)
Monday, December 3, 2007
Summary [8 out of 10] Assassin’s Creed, if played right, is fantastic. The epic story (dual-intertwined story arcs), flawless animations, excellent voice acting, striking environments and generally excellent graphics will have you hooked if played in chunks. Trying to burn through the game end-to-end in a marathon could leave you annoyed with some the repetitive game [...]
Continue reading...Extreme Physics in Crysis
Monday, December 3, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA GeForce 9 Cards in Feburary and June
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wow… DigiTimes is reporting (via Engadget) that NVIDIA isn’t planning on releasing it’s revised GeForce 9 series cards until February ‘08 with the initial D9E high-end card, and then rounding out the offering with value parts in June. While not much is known at this point what the new cards will bring, a few goodies [...]
Continue reading...Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in a link to 2 interesting stories (Games Radar, PC Games Hardware) that cover the history of water in games. This is actually something that I have always loved and used as a benchmark to “feel” how real the world was. The first thing I would do is run over and [...]
Continue reading...Sign of the Apocalypse?
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Is it April 1st already? Personally, I’d take this with a ton of salt, but rumors are that we might see Duke Nukem Forever in 2008. An insider reveals that significant progress has been made on the PC code of the game and development has finally picked up its pace over the year. The game’s [...]
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