Category: Video games
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – some news
These days, I received a number of news in preparation of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky launch. This is an FPS video game for PC that should attract many players already in love with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be shown by GSC Game World in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (with…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – game requirements
To play with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, you will only need a small PC configuration. This FPS video game will accept: Minimum requirements Processor: Athlon XP 2200+ or Intel 4 @ 2GHz Memory: 512 MB SDRAM Graphics card: DirectX 9c on an (old) graphics card with 128MB memory Recommended requirements Processor: CPU dual core (Intel CoreDuo…
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Radeon HD4870 performance
Sapphire announced that its Radeon HD4870 would be available in France in the coming days at 249€. 3Dguru has a nice review of the upcoming Radeon HD4870 graphics card. It’s supposed to be the fastest offering from AMD and it is stacked against the GTX260 from nVidia, cheaper Radeon HD4850 and older nVidia GeForce 9800…
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Radeon HD4870, better than a HD4850
You loved seeing the arrival of AMD’s Radeon HD4870? Here comes her stronger sister in graphics cards: Radeon HD4870. The first one was available for a measly 150€, what makes it a nice little entry point for the powerful 3D graphics cards (understand: “for video games“). The Radeon HD4870 has been spotted in France at…
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Cryostasis, another FPS from cold Russia
Russia is fast becoming the new national home of FPS game development. We had S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – The shadow of Chernobyl (and we are awaiting its prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear skies), but an old project that was known to some but nearly never discussed before just surfaced in the flow of video game information news: Cryostasis:…
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Open the bottle for Wine 1.0
After years of preparation and beta-phase, finally, Wine has been able to reach launch as Wine 1.0. Why is it significant? Because this is the software package designed to be able to run many Windows applications from a GNU/Linux distribution. If you want to switch to Linux, you may not be willing to abandon some…
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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…