In order to try and promote our new site me (Totally Unr3al) and Bkram1 will be giving away some Demonoid invitation codes over the coming weeks. We know how hard these are to find and that most people are just dying to get their hands on them. Once a week over the three next weeks I will make a post just like this and give you a unique code. I hope you guys wrote down the week 1 codeword because its gone for good, read on to find out this weeks codeword. Read the rest of this entry »
The new DS was just announced by Nintendo, it’s called the Nintendo DSi. It will be available in Japan November 1 for $225 AUD. It has 2 cameras, one which is 3MP, multimedia support and an online game store! Sounds great! More news soon!
Microsoft has finally shared some information on the slim version of their Xbox 360 gaming console. There have been rumors about this for a long time and finally Microsoft executives confirmed it exists and said you can expect the official announcement sometime in December. It is expected that the actual device will be shipping in 2009. It is also rumored that it will use a 45nm Valhalla CPU/GPU motherboard, and it should come in a slim case.
Windows Live has a brand new suite of applications and it’s updated all of it’s previous ones!
As if ATI hadn’t shaken up the graphics card market enough with its HD4800 series, they are set to create even more of a stir with the release of their latest card the HD4830 set for next month. To give you an idea of what to expect we have obtained this chart which has the 4830 pitted against its rival the 9800gt across a number of gaming benchmarks including Call of Duty 4 and Half Life 2.
Looking over the results, it would appear the little RV770LE based 4830 is quite the performer and leaves the 9800 GT constantly trailing behind. It could prove to be another fantastic bang for buck card from AMD, typical of their 4000 series as a whole.
This week, this image was released to the internet and release dates were discussed.
For everyone who wants to get in on the Little Big Planet action, this is great!
Dell quietly updated their Canadian online store with the new S2309W. It is a 23″ beauty with 5ms response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, DVI/VGA input and 1920×1080 resolution! Although it is not out here yet, I’m sure it will make it’s way over soon.
To alleviate much of the confusion regarding Nvidia naming schemes for their current cards they are generically naming all the 9 series cards under the GT100 branding. The new naming convention will apparently apply to all 55nm GeForce 9 series cards. It is reported that by the end of 2008, Nvidia will be offering today’s 9000 series as G100, GT130, GT140 and G150 models.
It has also come to light that Nvidia also has newer GTX 200 series cards ready to launch on October 15th. It is unknown what “new” cards Nvidia is making available but we are betting its the 55nm die shrink of the GTX 280 aka the GTX 280+ and maybe even the GTX 350. Exciting times as usual in the world of graphics cards, I can’t wait to see what Nvidia has in store for us.
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Those of you expecting miracles with game performance on Core i7 CPUs are going to find this disappointing. It is reported that some titles will get a performance boost of 10 to 15 percent, but most will get less than 10 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
Halflife2.net forums has recently posted system requirements for Valve’s upcoming shooter Left 4 Dead. Although not specified we assume these are the minimum requirements, so you should probably double all of these specs to receive the best experience. Users of the forum have been complaining the 7.5gb is steep but its a small price to play for this kind of carnage.
The requirements are as follows:
OS: Windows Vista, XP or 2000
CPU: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 or AMD64X2 (or higher)
RAM: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Drive
HD: At least 7.5 GB of free space
Graphics: Direct X 9 compatible video card (Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for pixel shader 2.0)
Audio: Direct X9.0c compatible sound card
Those of you who havent seen Left 4 Dead yet should probably check out this trailer
After a relatively short wait the countdown timer on Halo 3 developer Bungie’s website. The countdown was to a trailer for Bungie’s new game. Enjoy!
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Adobe CS4 will support NVIDA CUDA which means GPU acceleration which will result in performance boosts of up to 7x!
If you go to Bungie.net, this is what you will see, but what does it mean?
Seriously Unreal 