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Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:02:22 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Hopefully !!!.
GeForced money making chip designed Nvidia has worked in silence and
solitude and managed to tape out its upcoming high-end-oriented G92
chip on schedule. The 65nm part is set to power the high-end models of
the GeForce 9 series and will bring PCI-Express 2.0 support for Nvidia
cards.
The first G92 cards will arrive sometime in November and will replace
the GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra at the top of the graphics chain. The
chip's specifications are still up in the air but one can expect
significantly more transistors than on the G80 and more Stream
Processors. And if we're really lucky, a 512-bit memory bus. Wait for
it.
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www.tcmagazine.infoPosted by Ghosty
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:31:20 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Promise is possibly the most powerful weapon in videogames. The promise and possibilities that a title like BioShock dangles tantalisingly in front of us keeps us all hanging on in there, keeps us believing, keeps us pre-ordering. Even when the shelves are awash with me-too pap, cheap knock-off licensed fodder and hyped sequels, a title like this stands out like a beacon of hope amid a sea of mediocrity. No pressure.
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:09:17 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
The
active-play phenomenon started by Wii Sports now spreads to your whole
body thanks to the pressure-sensitive Wii Balance Board (name not
final), which comes packed with Wii Fit. The board is used for an
extensive array of fun and dynamic activities, including aerobics,
yoga, muscle stretches and games. Many of these activities focus
towards providing a "core" workout, a popular exercise method that
emphasizes slower, controlled motions. Family members will have fun
staying active and talking about and comparing their results and
progress on a new channel on the Wii menu.
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Source. http://e3nin.nintendo.com
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:00:26 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
While the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title Shadow of Chernobyl had a rather bumpy time in development, the new prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is shaping up much faster than its delay-plagued older brother. Officially announced on the first day of E3, GSC Game World was ready to show the new title to the press in the form of a short demonstration of a level of game play, highlighting the improvements made over the previous release. As you may have heard this game takes place roughly a year before the events in SoC, following the story of another Stalker as he climbs the ranks of various factions, seeks out the power plant deep in the middle of the zone, and ultimately finds himself at odds with the protagonist of the first game.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:51:54 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
The same creative talent that put together the insanely addictive
hack-and-slash game Diablo is now hard at work on a new game that's all
about blasting through waves of evil demons who have invaded a
near-future version of our world. Unlike other action role-playing
games, Hellgate: London plays from a first-person perspective, and the
recently revealed hunter class actually plays a lot like a first-person
shooter character. We recently got our hands dirty with the hunter
class, and the spell-slinging cabalist, in both single- and multiplayer
play.
Even though Hellgate: London looks a lot like a first-person shooter,
it's actually an in-depth RPG with all the trimmings--your character
has ability scores, various skills and powers to unlock, and an
inventory that includes various slots for armor items your character
can wear, as well as weapons that can be equipped in your character's
main or offhand. Both the templar profession, which specializes in
hand-to-hand combat, and the cabalist, which uses high-tech weapons
enhanced with eldritch magic, mostly need to point their weapons in the
general direction of their enemies and attack using mouse clicks (the
left mouse button causes your character to attack with the weapon
equipped in his or her main hand; the right mouse button attacks with
the offhand). However, the hunter doesn't automatically lock onto
targets and must manually aim.
Hellgate: London's development seems to be progressing nicely. Now that
the game has all three of its character classes created and a great
deal of content built for it, it's looking more than ever like the
game's fast pace, open-ended skill system, and piles and piles of
different weapons and items will eventually make hopeless addicts out
of anyone who gets a kick out of hacking and slashing away at monsters.
The game will be released...when it's done.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:00:47 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Nvidia 's next flagship graphics chip will be twice as powerful as its existing GeForce 8800 GTX GPU. And it could appear before the end of the year. That's the implication following a recent announcement in which the Californian graphics outfit revealed the first details about the upcoming GPU.
Thought to be codenamed G92, Nvidia says the chip will crank out nearly one trillion floating point operations per second - otherwise known as 1Tflop. That's around twice as many as the GeForce 8800 GTX. Speaking to investors during a recent conference call, Nvidia representative Michael Hara did not reveal any further architectural details.
New card for Christmas?
However, he did confirm the company plans to stick to the product launch cycle introduced with the GeForce 8800 GTX. In practice, that means the new chip is due out before the end of the year, with mid-range parts to follow early in the new year.
Various rumours are currently circulating regarding the finer details of the G92 architecture. The smart money indicates the chip will be closely related to the GeForce 8800 but will offer higher clock speeds.
A die shrink from 90nm to 65nm is also on the cards along with a few more of those fancy stream processors for good measure. The GeForce 8800 GTX packs 128 of these shader processing units - expect the new chip to boast as many as 196.
For ATI, Nvidia's sworn enemy in the graphics business, the announcement is slightly sickening news. ATI's recently released Radeon HD 2900 XT is already well off the pace compared to the GeForce 8800. And that's despite being launched fully six months later.
If Nvidia really does launch a 1TFlop chip before the end of the year, things could get very ugly, very quickly for ATI.
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