The weeks leading up to a major technology launch are always going to
be riddled with Internet leaks, and the upcoming introduction of
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 graphics card - codenamed Fermi - is no
exception.
Scheduled to be launched on March 26th,
NVIDIA's card has already been priced, pictured and
detailed
over the course of the last month. Accompanying the steady flow of
information is a set of in-house NVIDIA
benchmarks, which claim the GeForce GTX 480 to be superior to AMD's
fastest single-GPU competitor, the ATI Radeon HD 5870.
NVIDIA's own benchmarks have to be taken with a pinch of salt, but
the first of what appears to be real-world benchmarks have now arrived
to back up NVIDIA's claims. Surfacing at Arabic technology site arabhardware.net, the brief benchma... Read more »
Halo 3: ODST left many reviewers divided over the game's
additions to the franchise, though one area that was readily apparent to
everyone was how the game looked. Running at a sub-720p native
resolution and having animation and facial detail that was roughly
unchanged since Halo 3, the game was not as visually appealing
as certain other titles that released in 2009. Bungie community manager
Brian Jarrard was aware of the various complaints, and he talked with
IndustryGamers during GDC about how Bungie plans to improve Halo
in the graphics and animation department.
"We've definitely heard [from them] and taken it on the chin a little
bit in the past,” said Jarrard. "For our team, we've built massive,
simulated living breathing worlds with open-ended sandbox-like
encounters and unscripted elements, but with that, we've made trade offs
between things like f... Read more »
It seems Gamestop doesn’t know the meaning of the word "free”. Many
excited Monster Hunter fans have written in to let us know that upon
asking for a free Monster Hunter Tri demo, they were forced to pre-order
the final game, and pony up $5 in order to receive the demo. This is
bad news for Capcom, as the Monster Hunter franchise has only recently
begun gaining steam in North America. By attaching strings to the free
demo, Gamestop is sure to alienate more than a few gamers that would
have otherwise taken the demo home, and taken the game for a test drive.
We can only hope that Capcom will find other ways to get the demo out
to anyone who wants it. Monster Hunter Tri hits store shelves on April
20th, so hopefully this mess will be sorted out by then.
Some people like to take things a little further
than most, and in the case of the pictures below, one person has done
just that.
To celebrate the launch of a certain God of War III, one Brazilian
has decided to paint himself up as that man Kratos and to be honest he
does look rather convincing don’t you think?
