Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category

15 Mar 2009

New Burnout Legendary Cars from Criterion

After the historic Jansen – 88, Criterion has revealed three new Burnout Legendary vehicles from the 80s, which includes General Lee, KITT and Ecto one. This year is going to be a great surprise for the Burn out paradise people with the introduction of its three new Burnout Legendary vehicles.

The burnout paradise architects, who introduced Jansen – 88, have now included only the most famous legendary cars that had rocked the 80’s. Having striking similarities to the best vehicles of that period, the burnout paradise architects have included Carson Knighthawk, Manhattan Spirit and General Lee.
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Read full article. Published on March 15, 2009.
7 Feb 2009

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285: Is it a worthy successor to GTX 280?

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285: Is it a worthy successor to GTX 280?

Manufacturing process shrink is something that can excite both vendors and customers alike. Such changes normally lead to an increment in efficiency and performance. At the same time, it also helps in reducing the production cost and increases units’ count produced/wafer. However, the eventual advantage of designing firm often comes at huge upfront price. Since these significant alterations generally result in bugging, they may require fixing prior to starting a full production run. Every test run leads to expenses in thousands. Even, production delays are a costly problem, if new architectures are involved. This is why Nvidia generally updates their products prior to launching new ones. GeForce GTX 285, an updated product from the reputed maker, offers improved efficiency amd performance in comparison to GeForce GTX 280, on which the hardware is based.

Most notable improvement in GeForce GTX 285 is the increase in GPU clock speed by almost 8 percent. Memory clock has been increased by a larger value (12 percent), but it has no impact in performance. This updated graphics unit has both these processors. However, each one of them is handicapped with reduced memory speed, memory bus width and GPU speed.

As per a test conducted on GeForce GTX 285 (model GX-285N-ZDDF), the card sports a GDDR3-2500 and core clock of 670 MHz. Such larger numbers appear more exciting than what they actually are. The figures are less than 1 percent in RAM and 4 percent in GPU of the reference specification. Apart from the basics, XFX comprises of an S/PDIF breakout cable, door tag and DVI-to-HDMI adapter. Breakout cable connects the internal S/PDIF audio output of the motherboard to the power connection of the card. You can access the combined audio/video signal through the output of HDMI adapter.

While such methods have been available on different Nvidia products in the past, most of the packages were without the special cable.

Read full article. Published on February 7, 2009.
1 Feb 2009

Hardcore Gamer – Your Wild Card entry to the Gaming Industry

Hardcore Gamer - Your Wild Card entry to the Gaming Industry

Hardcore Gamer Magazine, is out for sale at ebay and the auction is still going on. It is a nationally distributed Video Game print magazine, which is there in the industry for many years and is highly reputed. The magazine is recognized by all the Big fishes of the Gaming industry, to name a few, Nintendo, Sony, EA Games, Konami and many more.
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Read full article. Published on February 1, 2009.
30 Jan 2009

Mafia Mofo — Not Just Any Mafia Game

Mafia Mofo — Not Just Any Mafia Game

What’s on the racks?
Well the all-new Mafia Mofo is now ready for you to play. It is a game based on the lifestyle and work of Mafias or social outlaws, who live a dangerous but extremely thrilling life. This game is launched amidst, a lot contemporary games which, deal with the same subject. However, there are a few things, which set this game apart from the others. Read on to know how.

Good News!
This is not a MySpace game, so needless to say it is far more easily accessible. You also do not have to give a very good performance to enter the game. This game is packed with whole lot of new features and some really interesting activities, which goes a long way to provide an virtual experience, par reality.

Some Special Features:
This game gives you an almost real life feeling, which other virtual games only tries to achieve, but often fails. In this game at first, you need to workout in the gym, to increase health point and train yourself for combats and assignments. In case you get injured while working on an assignment, there are some provisions, like a pharmacy store from where you can buy painkillers and other drugs. Then as you gain money and reputation, you can start buying new high-end equipments from the Equipment shop. Stock market, bus lots, used car lot, black market, pawn shops and many other features constitute towards bringing in the real life experience during game play.

Tutorial:
This game is new, so it might seem to be bit confusing at the beginning. However, the players do not have worry about this, as there is Player Tutorial, which informs the player of the necessary information. Moreover, once you start playing you will gradually get hold of the game. So Good Luck!

Read full article. Published on January 30, 2009.
29 Jan 2009

The Coolest Portable Media Player

Oppo has been one of the biggest names in the field of MP4 manufacturing companies. Being found in only 2004, the company through it wide range of different models of media player, have gained considerable popularity and reputation. Now each of its products, which are due for release, is already eagerly awaited by the customers and has created an appreciable market for itself.

The good news is that the latest gadget that is anticipated to be leashed out from the stable of Oppo Digital Inc. is the Oppo Muse G11. Even before it has hit the market, the gadget has created quite a stir among its competitors.

Oppo Muse G11 is a Portable Media Player, as well as a portable Game System. It has a very high-resolution 3.2-inch touch-screen, which can rotate. At only 136 grams, the gadget is quite light, considering the amount of power it packs within itself.

The MP4 player can play media files of almost any format, for example WMV, MP4, MPG, MPEG, DAT, VOB, ASF and many other. The Muse has independent Wolfen sound chip that supports APE, FLAC and standard Sennheiser MX400 dynamic headphones. So be prepared to be mesmerized by its sound quality.

It also has gaming console, which you can use to play all the standard 16-bit games. In addition to all this cool gadget has a few powerful English learning software, installed inside it. It has a built in Intelligent Oral Evaluation system, which can read out your scores and can also teach you the correct pronunciation of English words.

With an onboard memory of over 4GB (flash type), it can pack in a lot of stuffs meant for your entertainment, as well as stuffs which you will need to carry out important work. This thing store software like Power Word and Word King.

Read full article. Published on January 29, 2009.
18 Jan 2009

Xbox 360 gains over play station 3 on Resident evil 5

Xbox 360 gains over play station 3 on Resident evil 5

Of the two versions of the Resident Evil 5, the Xbox 360 has gained over PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 is graphically much better than PlayStation 3 version. The Xbox 360 version has a warmer look than the play station 3 version. The Xbox 360 is more pleasing to the eye with its high quality graphics.

Though the Xbox 360 is graphically much advanced than the play station 3 version, one cannot come across much difference between the two versions of the Resident Evil 5. The two versions are almost identical, which makes it hard to differentiate between them.

The play station 3 version runs in a lower resolution than the Xbox 360 version. While the Play station 3 does not present screen tearing, the Xbox 360 has it. In Xbox 360, more frames are displayed and the image quality is enhanced because of high resolution. Coming to the colour, the Play station 3 gives a red tone where as the Xbox 360 has a green tint. Well, for some the red tint could be soothing to the eyes and for other the red tint; but it really depends on the players.

Well, the shadows are cast more heavily in the Xbox 360 than the shadows that appear in the play station 3 version, which runs in a low precision mode. While the Xbox 360 version has better texture and shaders, the Play station 3 version lacks certain effects like heat haze, dust particles and self shadowing.
Though some of the differences have been talked of here, one cannot find out a virtual difference between the two at one glance. The differences are so minute that one cannot come across them at any point of playing the Resident Evil 5. However, the Xbox 360 is more advanced than the Play station version.

Read full article. Published on January 18, 2009.
16 Jan 2009

The New Revolutionized Nintendo DSi

After the ground breaking sales record of Nintendo DS, which came only a few months ago, Nintendo has come back with yet another of its wonderful creation New Nintendo DSi. It has released in Japan last November, and is due for release in America shortly.
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Read full article. Published on January 16, 2009.
22 Dec 2008

Ubisoft’s Fry Cry 2 launches in HD

Ubisoft's Fry Cry 2 launches in HD

Its good news for game aficionados! The recent launch of Far Cry 2, Fable 2 and Fallout 3 has evidently revamped the monotony grabbing the gamers till now. No doubt, these two weeks have been benediction for gamers, with the ever craved sequences marking their advent.

So get set going game freaks! You indeed need to take a day off and have the gala gaming time to experience the enticing effect of these games. You definitely have missed the best thing in life. But, we are there for you! For all those, who crave to know more, here’s presenting you with the goodness of Far Cry 2. Just for you!

This is the first person video game for shooting created by Ubisoft Montreal. With new settings and characters, the game is a pleasant surprise from its previous scientific fiction and turns out to be more real and engaging. This open ended game play has been critically acclaimed by the reviewers from across the globe. Universal praise, especially from hardcore gamers, has been conferred to the graphics and the reality based designing of Far Cry 2.

Few spots are included in Far Cry 2. In these spots, you can jump in your tumbling endeavor from the hill top to the end of the valley. You even have the option of hanging glides in the game. Don’t worry! the length of these glides is not that long. So no matter, whether you are in African Savanna or in a jungle, you will be not in troubled waters.

But yes, do not miss out the opportunity of the fun of enjoyable and scenic glides. With settings at 1920*1200’s high, this was filmed in the Alienware m17* notebook.

Read full article. Published on December 22, 2008.