Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The PC version of Mass Effect is going to include some fairly serious security measures that may prove to be more of a threat to the game's popularity than they are to piracy.
According to Derek French, Mass Effect's technical producer at BioWare, the game's security begins with the same SecuROM ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
By our count, Nvidia and its add-in board partners offer no less than five designs based around the company's G92 GPU: the 8800 GS, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512MB, 9800 GX2, and 9800 GTX—and that's not even counting memory variants. That's a lot of seemingly different products based on the ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
NVIDIA is at the top of its game, and looks set to remain so in the meantime as they prepare to saturate the market with even more graphics cards for gamers of every strata and level of society. The new products will be from the GeForce and nForce lines, including ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Intel has quietly begun shipping its hottest quad core desktop processor ever, the Core 2 Extreme QX9770. We built a PC, to see just how fast the 3.2-GHz, 45-nm chip, complete with a 1600-MHz front-side bus, really is.
Our previous project, where we put together a system last fall with Intel's ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The trend toward ever smaller and cheaper PC components is, of course, nothing new. Chips have shrunk and prices have fallen for over 30 years now. Yet that trend has accelerated dramatically in recent years, spurred onward by the rise of mobile computing and signified by the success of low-cost ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In many businesses today, graphics play an increasingly important role. TV, movie, and video game production companies are obvious examples of businesses which require high quality graphic cards to support their needs. Other, less obvious, examples require the same attention be paid to their graphic cards. Some of these businesses ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Advancing its architecture at what most independent observers would now agree is a breakneck pace, Intel offered further details today on how soon it would begin phasing out the Core Microarchitecture it introduced in the summer of 2006.
With the second phase of its 45 nm generation microprocessors -- what it ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Gaming computers cost several thousand dollars, right? That's common knowledge, you'd think. Of course, those of us in the do-it-yourself community know better. You can build a perfectly capable gaming PC for little money. In fact, for years we've been challenging ourselves to build a decent gaming rig for less ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Publisher Take-Two Interactive today officially confirmed that a sequel to 2K Boston and 2K Australia's underwater shooter BioShock will arrive during the company's fiscal fourth quarter in 2009.Take-Two's fourth fiscal quarter runs from August through the end of October.
BioShock 2 is under development by the Novato, California-based studio 2K Marin. ...
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