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| Posted on: Sep 06, 2010 19:47:09 IST |
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With the success of the 690, Cooler Master has come up with the new version mid-tower cabinet named the "CM 690 II". The CM 690 II Advanced variant is available in two options - one with and one without the transparent side window. Gaming enthusiasts need a chassis that can hold more than two or more graphic cards, a powerful SMPS, and several hard drives to store their games and media. Cooling is an also an important factor especially for overclocker. Money is the next important factor. Considering all of these factors, Cooler Master has designed this new cabinet. Remember that the older 690 was a very popular case among people all around the world and even here in India.Package Contents:VGA card bracketMesh dust filterDifferent sized screwsSmall motherboard...
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| Posted on: Sep 06, 2010 15:14:08 IST |
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Cartoon Network, owned by Turner Entertainment Networks, has launched a massively multiplayer online game based on one of its most popular franchises, Ben 10. Developed in collaboration with Typhoon Games Studios, the game is entitled Ben 10 Omniverse: Rise of Heroes, and can be accessed at www.ben10.net. While it is only available in Australia and Hong Kong for now, it will soon be brought to other markets in the Asia Pacific region. Cartoon Network's first MMO, FusionFall, released early last year, and recently became free to play in April this year.A spokesperson from Turner Entertainment Networks spoke at length about the game and what it would mean for Cartoon Networks primary demographic, children: “We are excited to be able to offer our fans a unique Ben 10 experience that...
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| Posted on: Sep 03, 2010 19:54:45 IST |
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Video game classes at major colleges and universities aren't particularly new: they can be valuable teaching tools in many cases, depending on the course and the game. Making a single course all about the ins and outs of one particular game however is a little odd, but that's exactly what professors at the University of Florida are doing with EME2040: 21st Century Skills in StarCraft.The course will focus on build techniques and strategies, as well as how the skills that you learn playing the game can be applicable in the real world where you may be forced to manage multiple priorities and activities with limited resources. Sound familiar? Don't rush to enroll just yet though, the course does have a pre-requisite, and is only open to students who have "basic knowledge and...
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| Posted on: Sep 03, 2010 18:00:13 IST |
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Nvidia introduced its 400M notebook discrete GPUs, the GeForce GTX 480M, a couple of months after releasing its first DX11 GPUs based on the Fermi architecture, the GeForce GTX 480. Now, it has fleshed out the family, and offers seven Fermi-based notebook processors.The new processors are based on the 40nm fabrication process, and will all support CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX, and Optimus graphics-switching technology. According to Nvidia, the new 400M series offers 40x better performance than the previous generation of GeForce, and are 5 times faster than Intel’s integrated solutions.Check out the specifications below:...
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| Posted on: Sep 02, 2010 01:02:01 IST |
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Codemasters and Zapak Games have announced the upcoming release of one of the most exciting games of the year - F1 2010. With Codemasters’ wealth of experience in racing and simulation fields (think of such illustrious franchises as Colin McRae and Race Driver), F1 2010 is sure to get the adrenaline flowing, Formula One race simulator that's available in full HD.F1 2010 is the official game of the FIA Formula One World Championship, and will include all of the official teams, drivers and circuits from the coming season, as well as the newly returned 7-time F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher. The game will also contain a brand new track, the Korean International Circuit, for the inaugural 2010 Korean Grand Prix.F1 2010 aims to give players the most authentic Formula One race...
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| Posted on: Aug 31, 2010 20:19:57 IST |
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Electronic Arts and Milestone Interactive have announced a rather exciting contest, which can get you an entire year’s supply of EA games, equalling 12 titles of your choice (any titles that release until September 2011), on any platform. All you have to do is pre-order any of the following three games, which makes you eligible to participate in the lucky draw.The winners will be selected through a lucky draw 15 days after the release date of each game. There will be 3 winners for each title which means there’s going to be a total of 9 winners: FIFA 11 – October 1, 2010 Medal of Honor – October 15, 2010 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – November 19, 2010If you aren’t interested in the contest, you still have some incentive to pre-order the games,...
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| Posted on: Aug 30, 2010 20:02:37 IST |
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It’s been four years since AMD bought ATI, and almost anyone who had apprehensions about the deal then, have by now resigned themselves to the fact, and for the most part, are happy about the way AMD has maintained ATI’s gamer quotient till this date, and how they saved it from Nvidia’s ruthless market tactics. While many industry experts felt $5.4 billion was simply too much to invest in a graphics company when with a similar amount of money AMD could have built its own, the popularity of the ATI brand was perhaps the number one factor in favour of an acquisition over internal development. Things are different now – ATI is at the top of its game, it has even edged out Nvidia as the market leader in discrete GPU shipments, and AMD is doing really well with its...
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| Posted on: Aug 27, 2010 17:57:08 IST |
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AMD released its ATI Catalyst 10.8 drivers recently, and now, some codenames of upcoming GPUs have been found listed in them. What's certainly perplexing is that even though everyone knows the Southern Islands GPUs are the next slated release, these codenames have NI, or Northern Islands, attached to them, even on some obviously Southern Islands of the West Indies, such as Antilles, Barts, Caicos, Cayman, Seymour, and Turks. Whistler and Blackcomb are the only two actual Northern Islands of the Caribbean on the list .The consensus so far is that the 35 new cards listed in the atiicdxx.da_ file are the codenames of what's coming up next, i.e., 40nm, and we can expect the temporarily shelved 32nm Northern Island GPUs much later.While a lot of correlation with the naming schemes of the...
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| Posted on: Aug 27, 2010 13:45:37 IST |
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The new slim Xbox 360 250GB Kinect-ready console is now available in India, for Rs. 21,990. Unfortunately no Indian pricing has been revealed for the Kinect as yet. More power efficient with a brand new and first of its kind SoC inside, the new console also comes with Wi-Fi 802.11n, a Kinect port, touch sensitive buttons, and an HDMI-out port (HDMI cable to be purchased separately).While the new console does have a 250GB HDD, it won’t be able to use your old memory cards without a data transfer cable, which also has to be purchased separately. The Xbox 360 250GB console comes with a headset, one wireless controller, and a composite AV cable. ...
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| Posted on: Aug 26, 2010 13:43:45 IST |
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Hot Chips is certainly making calorie intake seem glorious, and apart from AMD showcasing their next gen Bulldozer and Bobcat processor technology, Microsoft showed off the new SoC (system-on-chip) processor of the new Xbox 360 250GB Slim Kinect-ready model. It’s a lot faster than the original processor, but that’s irrelevant, as latency had to be introduced to ensure identical speeds.Manufactured with the IBM/GlobalFoundries 45nm process, Microsoft's new SoC is actually the first production desktop-class processor to combine a CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O logic onto a single piece of silicon, and is in homes ahead of AMD’s Fusion and Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors. The combination allows for better power efficiency, as well as much more inexpensive manufacturing...
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| Posted on: Aug 20, 2010 17:09:44 IST |
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The Quake series has been developed by iD Software (the creators of Doom and Wolfenstein), and over the course of its history, has become synonymous with intense multiplayer action. Just like Unreal Tournament, it was one of the first franchises to give people a real taste for deathmatches and capture the flag games. Though three of the four games in the series focussed on a story that followed a Doom-like marine protagonist fighting against alien monsters known as the Strogg, the fourth, Quake III Arena, is the least story-centric and the most tournament-driven game of the four, and the most similar to Quake Live.Free-to-play and freshly out of beta (for Windows and Linux...the Mac version is still in beta), Quake Live is a browser based (Firefox or Internet Explorer)...
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| Posted on: Aug 20, 2010 12:54:14 IST |
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Certainly well built, the 15.4-inch Intel Core i7-powered MSI GT640 gaming laptop is priced at Rs. 75,000, and is the smaller sibling of the 17-inch GT740. Seemingly well-specced, the laptop is built out of plastic and aluminium alloy, and features a brushed metal texturing on the palm-rest. All this doesn’t make it seem as heavy as it is, going far beyond the impression of solidity by weighing in at 2.7kg (including battery). There are heavier 15.4 inch laptops, but we can safely assure you, carrying one of these in a backpack for an extended period of time is not a prospect we relish. Maybe that’s why it comes in a cardboard carry case.The 15.4-inch screen is unfortunately just short of a full 1080p HD rating, with a resolution of 1680x1050, and a near ‘golden’...
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| Posted on: Aug 19, 2010 18:16:39 IST |
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I waited for the alien attack, but it never came, then I waited for the machine uprising, but no cake.What is it about a game that you expect a constant state of doom? Moonbase Alpha is a game developed by NASA in which you play an “astronaut working to further human expansion and research.” Unlike most games involving extraterrestrial locations, there are no aliens to fight, no monsters, your “enemies” are the forces of the universe and time itself. Your “weapons” are the tools of any astronaut's trade, a welding machine, a wrench... Fortunately, in space no one can hear you yawn.If you spent your entire life dreaming of grand space adventures to exotic locations filled with futuristic technology, this game will offer a rudely shocking reality check....
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| Posted on: Aug 13, 2010 17:03:34 IST |
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id Software's Rage coming to the iPhoneQuakeCon 2010. Id Software’s programming genius John Carmack shockingly reveals that the highly anticipated Rage will also be developed for the iPhone. Id Software requires no introduction – creators of some of the most loved and famous franchisees in the gaming industry like the Doom and Quake series, the industry veterans have been known to have a Midas touch with any title they develop. And after this startling revelation, came another – Rage on the iPhone is going to be released this year – much ahead of the scheduled 2011 release on PC, MAC and consoles. Carmack is a known iPhone lover, and had earlier described the iPhone as being “more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined”. Although developed for...
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| Posted on: Aug 06, 2010 20:00:18 IST |
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The next episode of one of 2009’s most realistic period shooters, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, has now been announced by Zapak Games and Codemasters, and it will be titled Operation Flashpoint: Red River. The title marks the third game in the franchise, the first being Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, which was jointly developed by Bohemia Interactive and Codemasters.Taking the series to Tajikistan, Operation Flashpoint: Red River will release in 2011 (no precise/approximate date available) and give players the chance to play an infantryman in the US Marine Corps again, clashing with the enemy along the beautiful Vakhsh River.According to Codemasters, the Operation Flashpoint: Red River “depicts a fictional conflict with contemporary geopolitical themes, which...
