This Week...
The Father of Wing Commander has a new MMO, AMD gives away
RAMDISKs, YourGTX690 will work in Windows 8 and The most boring release of
Kepler ever is here!
Wing Commander is trying to make a comeback! Well not
exactly but father of the franchise Chris Roberts is pitching a new MMO called
Star Citizen based on the Crytek 3 engine which promises to be one of the best
looking game experiences on the PC in a long time. In a video Roberts pitched the idea
Kickstarter style to drum up the 2 Million needed to bring the Space Combat
simulator to life. Along with the MMO
gameplay is a single player mode as well which is a departure from the
competitors like Star Trek Online and Diablo 3.
If you've got a spare 100K or so you may want to visit the game's site.
In a move that's raised the ire of Battlefield 3 fans
especially those who shelled out the extra $50 for premium membership; it's
been revealed that the final two DLC packs (Aftermath and End Game) has removed
content originally promised. Apparently
new weapons have been removed and the premium content store page updated to
reflect the change. Just like the
promised 5 vehicle unlocks that never happened with Armored kill it seems more
and more that what EA and Dice giveth, they can taketh away regardless of
whether you paid for the game twice.
In a related story there's been some rumbling in the BF3
forums over Armored Kill Servers. It
appears that players who purchased the DLC pack separately are finding it hard
to find servers to play on since many are premium only which effectively blocks
access to all others. Apparently
membership has its privileges. I'll
exercise my privilege to not spend any more money on BF3...
A link to one of the posts..
Nothing's worse than paying the better part of a grand on a
vdeo card and finding out it doesn't work with your shiny new OS. Amidst fearful rumors that the Top end Nvidia
GTX 690 wouldn't work on Windows 8 Nvidia released a Windows Hardware certified
driver (305.97)
that puts them to rest.
Like the Thermaltake Level 10 case but wish it was a little
less flashy...and green? Saying Level 10
and less flashy is an oxymoron. At
launch these cases were touted as being designed by BMW with a $1000 price tag
to match. Succeeding versions have been
in the $250 to $300 range and the newest arrival is sporting USB 3.0 ports, hot
swap drive bays and an olive drab paint scheme to match your FPS fatigues and a
$300 price tag.
Want to use the new Windows Store to pick up a copy of Mass
Effect 3 or Modern Warfare 3? If you
happen to live in a country that uses the PEGI 18 rating system (ESRB=Mature)
look elsewhere for your purchase because it's not going to happen. So far the U.S. is unaffected by the
restriction although games produced in countries (mostly Europe) that use the
rating may not be available to anyone using the Windows Store.
Ever wish you could run Battlefield 3 4000 times faster? Ok,
not really, everything would be a blur...AMD has made a free version of their
RAMDISK software that can create a 6GB ramdisk on AMD certified memory everyone
else only gets 4GB. There's also an
unlocked paid version for 18.99 that allows you to create a ramdisk of any size
on any platform. In case you're too
young to remember, ramdisks enjoyed some popularity n the DOS days when most people
used them to load resident programs and games they wanted to speed up.
Ramdisks use your system memory as a virtual hard disk and
offer read and write speeds up to 4000 times that of even the fastest
SSD's. The downside is that since they
live in RAM they have to have their contents loaded at every boot which
increases startup times. Check it out if
you're interested.
Get it here...http://www.radeonramdisk.com/
Borderlands 2 gets its first expansion DLC October
16th. Called Captain Scarlet the DLC is
a pirate themed affair with appropriately styled NPC's, Bosses and perks. So far availability appears limited to the
$29.99 season pass.
Looking for the entry level Nvidia Kepler GPU, wait no more. The $150 GTX 650 TI is available now and
comes with a free copy of Assassins Creed 3.
This is definitely the low end of Kepler with 1GB of VRAM, 128Bit memory
interface, 925Mhz clock, 768 CUDA cores, 64 texture units and 16ROP's. Don't expect CPU boost or SLI either, it's
not there. It's likely it will go below
$100 in a few months.
The release of Grand Theft Auto 5 is reportedly going to
launch in March of 2013 according to a listing on Gamestop's website
recently. Checks of both the UK and US
retailer sites currently show a status of TBC, however.
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