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[vamsi_krishna]

World wide Console Hardware sales[for weekend of nov.14]

The figures have been released for this week's hardware sales according to VGChartz. The Nintendo Wii is on top whilst the PS3 has sold more than Microsoft's Xbox 360 which sits in at four;

* Wii - 559,315
* DS - 493,958
* PlayStation 3 - 326,920
* Xbox 360 - 294,378
* PSP - 184,309
* PlayStation 2 - 69,276

Total: 1,928,156

Need For Speed: Shift DLC Introduces Online Team Racing

Electronic Arts is releasing its first DLC for Need for Speed: Shift, and it features a new online racing mode and five new cars. This DLC will be available December 1st on Xbox Live and December 10 for PlayStation Network for free.

DLC also includes 5 new classic cars.. that are playable anywhere in the game..

1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427
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1967 Shelby GT-500
*gameinformer.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/610x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/00.00.00.00.06/8233.NFS-SHIFT-Shelby_5F00_GT500.jpg

1969 Dodge Charger R/T
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1971 Dodge Challenger R/T
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1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV
*gameinformer.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/610x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/00.00.00.00.06/4087.NFS-SHIFT-Supra.jpg

Schools Can Use CryEngine For Free
Crytek recently announced that it is handing out free CryEngine 3 licenses to educational facilities. The developer had previously embarked on an initiative to compete against Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 in the lucrative middleware market.

The decision makes all kinds of sense. One of the biggest obstacles to convince developers to use CryEngine instead of Unreal Engine is the fact that as the de facto standard, UE3 is familiar to many designers, artists, and programmers. Allowing universities to teach using CryEngine for free means up-and-coming development talent will be more likely to have a working knowledge of the technology. Studio heads will have an easier time finding people who know the tools, making the true cost of using CryEngine lower.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^EA! Ye rock! BTW SHIFT's new patch too is comin' on Dec. 1st. Back to the wheel for me!

 

[vamsi_krishna]

Sorry guys. Been busy these days..

Mass Effect 2 MSR revealed

PC MINIMUM System Requirements
OS = Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
Processor = 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU
Memory = 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Drive = 15 GB
DVD ROM = 1x Speed
Sound Card = DirectX 9.0c compatible
Direct X = DirectX 9.0c August 2008 (included)
Input = Keyboard / Mouse
Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD3200, and HD4350 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. Intel and S3 video cards are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

PC RECOMMENDED System Requirements
Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
2.6+ GHz Cure 2 Duo Intel or equivalent AMD CPU
2 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better recommended
100% DirectX compatible sound card and drivers
DirectX August 2008
NOTES: For the best results, make sure you have the latest drivers for your video and audio cards. Laptop or mobile versions of the above supported video cards have not had extensive testing and may have driver or other performance issues. As such, they are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2. Intel and S3 video cards are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

Developers said that there will be only disk checking DRM program and no online authentication is required.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^Phew! But, ME2? Not interested.

 

[vamsi_krishna]

US army is building a super computer with PS3
The U.S. Air Force is using over 2,500 PS3 units linked together to conduct research on the future of supercomputing.

Read on..

 

[tkin]

New Prince of Persia coming our way

Back To The Sands Of Time Universe.

Due in May 2010

Prince of Persia series fans will be glad to hear that Ubisoft is working on a new sequel to the series, and it is set to arrive together with the upcoming movie.

The game is due in May 2010 and will launch on consoles and handhelds. The new installment returns to the Prince of Persia storyline but will feature elements from the original series as well as certain gameplay innovations.

The Sands of Time movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal is also due to arrive on 28th of May 2010, so the game should do a pretty good job of promoting the movie as well. Unfortunately, the details are still scarce at this point, but we should know more soon enough.

*prince-of-persia.uk.ubi.com/

Its not certain as of now but this game may not be available on PC, they are ditching us.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^Goddarn it! Phuc!!

 

[tkin]

^Goddarn it! Phuc!!

Yes , if they don't release it for PC then Phuc Ubi.

 

[vamsi_krishna]

440,000 PS3s sell during Thanksgiving week, 360 sales unclear


Nintendo announced the Wii had sold 550,000 units in the US during the Thanksgiving holiday week, the traditional start of the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa shopping season. Today, Sony responded in kind, announcing the PlayStation 3 sold 440,000 units domestically during the same period--an "all-time high" according to the company.

But although the $199 Wii is still outselling the $299 PS3, the sales numbers show that momentum is shifting. Sales of Nintendo's console were down 31.3 percent from the 2008 Thanksgiving week, and only up 8.5 percent from October's monthly total of 506,900 units. By contrast, sales of the PS3 increased 37.2 percent from the console's October 320,600-unit tally. When compared to an estimate offered last year by rival Microsoft, which then bragged its Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 3-to-1, the PS3 appears to have come close to quadrupling its 2008 Thanksgiving week total.

One year later, Microsoft isn't bragging about the 360's sales…much. Though the company has not yet released a formal statement on the console's sales during last week, Xbox 360 product management director Aaron Greenberg used his Twitter account to boast of the console's success. "Great #BlackFriday results just in, biggest sales week of the year for #Xbox360, more than 2xs previous week sales," he tweeted.

When asked for exact 360 sales figures for the week, a Microsoft rep said that the company does not reveal internal numbers outside of earnings reports. (The same was true in 2008, but an approximate figure of 388,000 units could be extrapolated.) However, looking at the 360's US performance so far in 2009 may offer a clue to the console's Thanksgiving performance. During its four-week October reporting period, the research firm the NPD Group reported 249,700 360s had been sold in the US, a weekly average of 62,425 units. Were that figure the same during the week before Thanksgiving, 124,850 units of the console would have been sold.

 

[tkin]

PC games sales slump 38%

*www.fudzilla.com/images/stories/Logos/y_analyst.jpg

According to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, 2009 was a horrible year for the gaming industry, as October sales plummeted 38 percent year-on-year.

PC retail sales in October went down to $27 million, but as always there is a catch. It appears Pachter's numbers did not include e-tail sales or online distribution sales. In contrast, console games were down 18 percent, from last year's $698 million to $573 million.

Although analysts expect PC game sales to rebound over the coming months, it is clear market focus has shifted to consoles. Sadly, PC gamers can look forward to more console ports and new, shiny DirectX 11 GPUs probably won't make much in quite a few of them.

More here

Courtesy- *www.fudzilla.com/

 

[dinjo_jo]

Dirt 2 PC Leaked on Internet

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

Assassin's Creed II DLC out next year

Two initial slices of new content will be offered, with Battle of Forli arriving in January, and Bonfire of the Vanities hitting in February.

Beyond these titles, it isn't known what these new packs will offer - although we're told both will weigh in at 1GB in size.

The content will be released for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. More soon.

 

[vamsi_krishna]

A man beats World of Warcraft


A Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully "complete" World of Warcraft, collecting the game's staggering 986 Achievements to effectively do everything there is to do in the hugely successful MMO.

'Little Gray" is his nick in WoW

A Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully "complete" World of Warcraft, collecting the game's staggering 986 Achievements to effectively do everything there is to do in the hugely successful MMO. This is literally the most amazing news of the day.

Little Gray beat the game after killing 390,895 creatures, administering 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completing 5,906 quests (averaging 14 quests a day), raiding 405 dungeons and hugging 11 players. I believe we can safely add another statistic to the numbers -- he has had sex 0 times during this period.beat the game after killing 390,895 creatures, administering 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completing 5,906 quests (averaging 14 quests a day), raiding 405 dungeons and hugging 11 players. I believe we can safely add another statistic to the numbers -- he has had sex 0 times during this period.

Some people calim that he earned one achievement due to glitch.. but he says, he ain't.

Any way, you rock.. little gray. After all you are the first human being to complete the WoW.

 

[tkin]

A man beats World of Warcraft


A Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully "complete" World of Warcraft, collecting the game's staggering 986 Achievements to effectively do everything there is to do in the hugely successful MMO.

'Little Gray" is his nick in WoW

A Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully "complete" World of Warcraft, collecting the game's staggering 986 Achievements to effectively do everything there is to do in the hugely successful MMO. This is literally the most amazing news of the day.

Little Gray beat the game after killing 390,895 creatures, administering 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completing 5,906 quests (averaging 14 quests a day), raiding 405 dungeons and hugging 11 players. I believe we can safely add another statistic to the numbers -- he has had sex 0 times during this period.beat the game after killing 390,895 creatures, administering 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completing 5,906 quests (averaging 14 quests a day), raiding 405 dungeons and hugging 11 players. I believe we can safely add another statistic to the numbers -- he has had sex 0 times during this period.

Some people calim that he earned one achievement due to glitch.. but he says, he ain't.

Any way, you rock.. little gray. After all you are the first human being to complete the WoW.

And let me guess, no girlfriend, no social life(in reality), lives off parents and ............... LOL.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^He's a crazy Phucer. I guess he doesn't know what "people" is.

 

[Krow]

And let me guess, no girlfriend, no social life(in reality), lives off parents and ............... LOL.

Or is a Naga Sadhu in the Himalayas, using a chinki alter-ego who is a complete Brahmachari.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

Dead Space 2 officially revealed

After all the leaks and magazine scans, EA has finally put official confirmation on Dead Space 2, on its way to PS3, 360 and PC.

"Isaac Clarke returns for another heart-pounding adventure, taking the fight to the Necromorphs in this thrilling action-horror experience," says the official blurb, which gives away very little in the way of gameplay specifics.

"New tools to gruesomely slice and dismember the Necromorphs complement Isaac's signature plasma cutter, empowering him as he meets new characters, explores epic zero-G environments, and fights against a relentless Necromorph onslaught. Survival isn't the only thing on Isaac's mind in Dead Space 2 - this time, he calls the shots."

Steve Papoutsis, executive producer of Dead Space 2 adds: "The infection continues to spread throughout space and our hero Isaac Clarke is the only person able to contain it. There are still loads of Necromorphs that need killing.

"In Dead Space 2, not everything is exactly as it seems. Expect plot twists that will surprise you and a huge cast of twisted, disgusting monsters that are sure to scare the daylights out of you."

No rough date or anything, though. Guess it's still all eyes on those magazines, then...

Excerpt from CVG.

 

[vamsi_krishna]

Logitech Denies Developing UMD Add-On For PSP Go

There were rumors going on few days before that the Logitech is going to make a UMD addon to PSP GO. Which will facilitate the players to boot the games from their UMD disks..

Logitech has told Joystiq that the rumors regarding an UMD add-on for the PSP GO are untrue. "This is not something that our company is working on," states the company.

 

[vamsi_krishna]

Dante's Inferno: Divine, ps3's exclusive edition

Visceral Games, an Electronics Arts studio today announced Dante's Inferno "Divine Edition" exclusive for the PlayStation 3. In addition to the game, all those who purchase Dante’s Inferno on the PlayStation 3 will receive this special edition which includes developer commentaries, a Wayne Barlowe digital art book, the soundtrack to the game and a digital version of the complete Longfellow translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno all for the standard retail price of $59.99.

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The studio also announced that a Dante's Inferno downloadable demo for PlayStation 3 is available for free on the PlayStation Network today. The demo will also be available on Xbox LIVE on December 24, 2009.

 

[vamsi_krishna]

Batman Arkham Asylum Sequel Teaser Trailer at 2009 VGA Awards

*www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnxZvxJqeQ

arkhamhasmoved.com is the currently official website of the game...

UPDATE: The video has been pulled down by Youtube. They call it copyright violation... Sorry fellas.

Update 2:

*www.gametrailers.com/video/batman-arkham-spike-tv/59828

game trailer is hosting the video.. go watch it..