THQ has released the system requirements for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. They are not too demanding at all, compared to some of the more beefier games out there today. The game will hit shelves on February 27, 2009 for the PC.
Minimum Requirements
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
P4 3.2 GHz (single core) or any Dual Core processor
1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) – Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent
5.5 GB of Hard Drive space
Recommended
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
AMD Athlon 64×2 4400+ or any Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB RAM (XP and Vista)
A 256MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) – Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900, or equivalent
5.5 GB of Hard Drive space
Blizzard has updated the StarCraft II website with a few beautiful screen shots. It’s not much, but it’s enough to tide us over until the release. You can view all of them in their high-resolution glory at the official website. In addition to the screen shots, a new Q&A batch has been released. The game is slated to be released sometime this year for Vista, XP, and OS X.
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We’re really anxious to see what Prototype’s Web Site is going to reveal in about a day. Following the link below will get your right at their home page which features a countdown timer. According to it, in about 1 day and 5 minutes we’re going to see what Activision has planned for us. The game developer, Radical Entertainment said that the action adventure game will arrive sooner than planned, although it failed to give us more details. And that was before Christmas! In just a day we should finally find out what the Prototype is all about. Keep your eyes on CES 2009.
The Office of Film and Literature Classification has reversed its banning of Konami’s survival horror Silent Hill: Homecoming in Australia. The game’s rating has been revised to fit the standards for an MA15+ rating. The board mainly had objections with the game’s content involving “high-impact violence, copious blood spray, decapitations, partial corpse dismemberment, and depictions of torture”.
It really won’t be the same without a few of these elements, namely head decapitations, but it’s much better than having the title behind bars. It is unknown what date the game will be reaching Australian shores, which is for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
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PETA has stepped away from criticising games like Cooking Mama and has instead decided to reward games for celebrating non-animal cruelty.
The organization has awarded Lionhead Studios’ Fable 2 with the title of Most Animal-Friendly Video Game, quite a braggable title.
Below is PETA’s reasoning behind awarding Fable 2 with the title:
Created by Microsoft Game Studios, Fable 2 is a vegetarian’s dream come true. Why? In this virtual fight between good and evil, characters powered by tofu are just as powerful as their meat-eating counterparts—and are more fit and attractive to boot. Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up “purity” points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil. A fun and innovative game, it’s also an effective tool that teaches gamers the real-life benefits of a vegetarian diet.
So there you have it, thanks to the in-game ability to eat tofu and the “strong pro-vegetarian theme”, Fable 2 is PETA’s Most Animal-Friendly Game of the Year.
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After announcing record Euro Christmas sales, Microsoft has announced that they sold 28 million Xbox 360 consoles to date. Furthermore, there are over 17 million players on Xbox Live. The company also revealed that since the launch of the Xbox 360, players have spent more than one billion dollars on Xbox Live content, and that there were over 1.5 million “concurrent” users online between Christmas and New Years eve.
In comparison, Nintendo’s Wii has sold just over 40 million, while the PS3 is at around 20 million units sold worldwide.
There’s a lot of turmoil on the online battlefields of Gears of War 2 these days, main concerning exploits such as invisible shields and melee attacks that go through walls.
Epic’s Mark Rein popped into the official forums and revealed that the new patch should be ready for release this month, and that many of the mentioned bugs will be fixed, including harsher penalties for those who quit early (you know who you are!).
The patch should also fix bugs, add an achievement progress numbers to the War Journal and better spawn protection against planted grenades.
Midway is in deep financial trouble, until now, the company had until January 19 to pay back some of it’s massive 150 million dollar debt to bond owners — this deadline has now been extended to February 19, 2009.
Back in December, the developer/publisher closed it’s Austin studio and simultaneously cut their workforce by 25% — some 180 jobs.
Logitech has always supported serious PC gaming. During the years hardcore gamers have chosen its mice and keyboards, its headsets and so much more. And after the G13 gameboard filled with buttons, Logitech has created various new peripherals which will support any game you decide to play.
First of all we have the new G19 keyboard which features a 320 x 240 color LCD and 12 G-keys which can have up to three macros assigned to each. The G19 will cost $199.
You might want to bundle that with the $129 G35 which is a 7.1 surround-sound headset with integrated voice morphing options. And last but not least we have the G9 mouse or the G9x which will get you a maximum DPI of 5000. The G9x will cost $99 and it will arrive in April following the G35 and G19 which will be launched this March.
