Category: Graphics & display
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Is the GTX280 worth its price?
This is the question asked by ArsTechnica in a confrontation between the latest of the fast-running graphics cards from nVidia and a few older cards. The conclusion is hard on them: The price is not right. It’s better to purchase a Palit 9800 GX2 for 150 dollars less. They even insist that all is in…
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Fast Crysis
We have been used to receiving one update of Crysis, the PC FPS video game of the year, for a long time. But it seems that there is now an upcoming change: No update, just a new extension named Warhead or Crysis Warhead. Crytek was a little imprecise on this, but there is one major…
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Duke Nukem Forever – reborn
“When hell freezes over“. This expression has been replaced by “When Duke Nukem Forever is ready for launch” in some circles of PC gamers, of FPS gamers. This video game has been 12 years in the making. Announced about once per year for more than a decade, but never really seen, nobody really expected it…
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Only a few days before the GTX200
The newest graphics cards from nVidia are upon us. In less than a week, they should be officially launched, but nearly everybody seems to know what there is to know about this new generation of cards targetting both avid video gamers and lovers of cinema-on-the-PC. Let’s do a small summary. First, there will be a…
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News from the Radeon HD 4800
So, the newest graphics line from AMD ATI will be known collectively as Radeon HD 4800 and will contain more precisely two major cards: Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870. It is even clear that the first one will be sold around 200$ (so notably under 200€) and the second around 300$. AMD announced,…
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News of Project Origin
The video game saga collectively known as F.E.A.R. (FPS games with an horror/terror ambiance) keeps pushing news opus. Before the end of 2008, we should see F.E.A.R. Project Origin on PC, PS3, XBox 360. It will be hard judging from the pre-beta demo here. Beware: This is violent and bloody. Really not for sensitive minds.…
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News from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
It’s coming! The new FPS video game for PC is arriving. We had seen the first opus of the saga hitting our minds and PCs in 2007: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. A game definitely attractive, where the player can really go anywhere in several square kilometers, where there is always something happening (you’d better be…
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Get pixellated DOS games on your new PC
If you have an old collection of PC MS-DOS games that has been sleeping at the bottom of a drawer, you may have two approaches: A/ you prefer to forget the old pixels and buy new games, B/ you were so found of those that you want to play even on your newest PC. However,…
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Sequel to F.E.A.R. – Project Origin trailers
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