Back in November we let you know that Microsoft was gearing up to launch a wireless adapter for the Xbox 360 that would allow for 802.11n compatibility. Well, here we are a few months later and the product is still sitting at a rather expensive $99.99.
Luckily, our buds over at Amazon.com have discounted the device as their Video Game Deal of the Day dropping the price from $99.99 to $74.99. Of course, it’s still a steep price to pay to give your console wireless, especially when the PS3 has it out of the box, but what can you do?
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We all know that the Wii isn’t exactly for the hardcore crowd considering most of the games are marketed towards casual gamers. However, there are in fact some hardcore games out there. Sega, for one, has been known to develop a few hardcore titles such as The Conduit and House of the Dead: Overkill.
Unfortunately despite the fact that these games exist for the Wii, they failed to sell a lot of copies. So, this has led Sega to say that they probably won’t be doing anymore mature/hardcore titles for the Wii.
Don’t be too discouraged as this decision could potentially change as some point in the future.
via joystiq
UK gamers love Modern Warfare 2, and the hype around the game hasn’t seem to slowed down since its launch back in November. According to GFK chart track, the game has remained on the top stop for the eight straight week, despite sales slowing down by 41 percent over that period. But it’s not like MW2 saw any serious competition from other games during the period. It was the first time a game was on the top spot for 8 weeks since Need For Speed Underground 2 topped the charts, a good five years ago.
Nvidia’s upcoming DirectX 11 graphis chip, codenamed “Fermi”, will, according to the company’s Facebook postings, support up to 32xAA — which is some rather serious anti-aliasing (Wikipedia entry on anti-aliasing, in case you’re not familiar with it).
Nvidia also revealed that the new chip, supposedly named GF100, will power the 3D playback of Blu-ray movies. The new chip is expected to be showcased at CES, with a launch in March.
The IGF — Independent Games Festival — has revealed the nominees for their 12th annual festival, featuring indie games released in 2009. And we must admit, we haven’t heard about half of these games last year. That’s how indie they were.
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Joe Danger (Hello Games)
Monaco (Pocketwatch Games)
Rocketbirds: Revolution! (Ratloop Asia)
Trauma (Krystian Majewski)
Super Meat Boy! (Team Meat)
Excellence In Visual Art
Shank (Klei Entertainment)
Owlboy (D-Pad Studios)
Trauma (Krystian Majewski)
Limbo (Playdead)
Rocketbirds: Revolution! (Ratloop Asia)
Excellence In Design
Miegakure (Marc Ten Bosch)
Star Guard (Sparky)
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Dejobaan Games)
Monaco (Pocketwatch Games)
Cogs (Lazy 8 Studios)
Excellence In Audio
Super Meat Boy! (Team Meat)
Shatter (Sidhe)
Closure (Closure Team)
Rocketbirds: Revolution! (Ratloop Asia)
Trauma (Krystian Majewski)
Technical Excellence
Closure (Closure Team)
Limbo (Playdead)
Heroes Of Newerth (S2 Games)
Joe Danger (Hello Games)
Vessel (Strange Loop Games)
Nuovo Award
Today I Die (Daniel Benmergui)
A Slow Year (Ian Bogost)
Tuning (Cactus)
Closure (Closure Team)
Enviro-Bear 2000 (Justin Smith)
The Beta for MAG — Massive Action Game — is now open to everyone to participate, worldwide. The 256-player supporting multiplayer game will have the beta running until January 10. The beta features two playable modes on two maps; sabotage which supports 64 players and domination which supports 256 players. The game will hit the stores on January 26.
EA Games has announced that it’s shutting down game servers for a lot of sports games, in particular, 20 of them. And some of them are quite new, like Madden 09, which has been out less than a year and a half. Great way to force gamers to upgrade to the latest versions, EA. The full list of games that will have no online multiplayer after February 2:
* UEFA Champions League 07 – PC and Xbox 360
* Facebreaker – Xbox 360 and PS3
* Fantasy Football 09 – Xbox 360 and PS3
* FIFA 07 – PSP, PS2, PC
* Fight Night Round 3 – PS2
* Madden 08 – Wii
* Madden 08 – PC
* Madden 09 – Xbox 1
* Madden 09 – Wii and PSP
* March Madness 07 – Xbox 60
* NBA Live 07 – PSP, Xbox 360
* NBA Live 08 – PS2, PSP, Wii
* NBA Live 09 – Wii (Europe only)
* NBA Street (2007) – PS3 and Xbox 360
* NCAA Football 08 – PS2
* NCAA Football 09 – PS2
* NASCAR 08 – PS2
* NASCAR 09 – PS2
* NASCAR 09 – PS3 and Xbox 360 (Europe Only)
* NFL Tour – PS3 and Xbox 360
* NHL 07 – PSP and Xbox 360
* NHL 08 – PC
* Tiger Woods 07 – PC
* Madden 09 – Xbox 360 and PS3
* Madden 07 – Xbox 360
Capcom has released the hardware requirements for the upcoming action game Dark Void, the minimum system reqs are as followed:
- Processor: Intel 2.4Ghz or AMD 2.0 GHz
- Video card: GeForce 7900 or Radeon HD 3850 series DX 9
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Games for Windows
- OS: Windows Vista/XP
- Hard drive: 10 GB free space
So we’re looking at quite steep minimum specs for the game, which is set for release next week.
The first review of the new year deals with a rather new and somewhat unknown FPS game Shattered Horizon, made by Futuremark Studios, the ones behind the very pretty Futuremark PC testing and benchmarking tools. Is their first venture into PC gaming a successful one? Read on to find out.
One thing you need to know abut Shattered Horizon right away is that it’s by no means a fully fledged game, it’s actually multiplayer-only, and serves more as a tech demo than a game — and this is also the biggest drawback of the “game”, as the pretty visuals come with steep hardware and software requirements, as the game doesn’t support Windows XP, and only runs on DirectX 10 and 11 (supported under Vista and Win 7). However, while this means that the game features somewhat gorgeous visuals, they’re aren’t justified by the hardware requirements, as it seems more demanding than Crysis at times, but certainly doesn’t look as good. Read the rest of the review
The Steam holiday sales are soon over, and it was good while it lasted. Very good, indeed. The last day has such deals as STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl for only $2. The other deals include:
