2K Games, the developer of BioShock 2, gave American viewers of NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a 3 minute 15 second launch trailer to salivate over on Tuesday. Offering a piece of Rapture - a nice bit of cut-scene footage, the trailer is filled with breathtaking action set in the decaying underwater world of Rapture, and will really whet the appetites of BioShock fans. The clock is ticking, BioShock 2 - one of the most eagerly awaited games of 2010 - will release on February 9th, giving fans and first-timers alike the chance to test their trigger fingers and berserker-mindsets on the game’s explosive first-person shooter combat and a brand new multiplayer section, while being drawn-in to the world of Rapture with BioShock’s compelling storytelling. Get your...

After tantalizing us with demos of the prototype GF100 – the new 40nm DX-11 capable-GPU built on the brand-new Fermi architecture – NVIDIA has finally released the names of the first two production models to be released. The two cards will be called GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480. Note that these are NVIDIA’s answers to AMD’s top-of-the-line single GPU, the Radeon HD 5870. If you have already read all the tasty titbits (PolyMorph and Raster Engines, CUDA Cores, Graphics Processing Clusters) of information that NVIDIA has released in a slow trickle about the GF100 and Fermi architecture, then you will probably be eagerly awaiting the long-awaited announcement of the final specs! And now that the names are out, it follows that the specs must be out too...

BioWare continues the chronicles of Commander Shepard, humanity’s poster child in the science fiction world of Mass Effect. The sequel has one of the more ominous starts to a game with you and your ship being blown to bits. Cerberus—the alleged bad guys from the first game, recover what is left of Sheppard’s remains and spends two years and truckloads of money to resurrect the Commander. Cerberus shares a common enemy with Sheppard and they have a mission for you — saving the universe from Reavers, the antagonist alien race from the first game. When you think about it, the main plot is not a lot different from the first game. The only thing that has changed in the sequel is that your character will be aligned with Cerberus and not the Alliance. The big...