Author: Raja Rajan

The next generation Xbox 360 development, with shockingly small amount of fanfare, Microsoft has ushered in striking new Xbox Development Kit which is designed to increase efficiency and reduce cost of Xbox 360 development teams. Boasting an undisclosed uptick in RAM, built-in flash memory, capacious hard drive and a slimmer form factor, this XDK will also be sold at significantly reduced price.

AMD has another refresh to its graphics card portfolio this spring. Radeon HD 6970 is the new one, the card will be with more specifications, and the new mid-tier card will be retail at $149. The performance offers no threat to AMDs single-GPU flagship, but the 6970s 840MHz graphics and shader clocks speed plus 1 GB of GDDR5 running at an effective 4.2 GHz data rate dont seem like anything to sniff at either. Reviewers agreed that its AMDs slightly delayed answer to NVIDIAs GTX 460, and with latter card existing retail availability to make room for the less powerful GTX 550 Ti, the 800 stream processors and 16 ROPs does expose the HD6970 to being cannibalized by AMD s own Radeon HD 6850 and that turns out to be exactly what happens.

An Indian gaming website leaked the images of Elena in Uncharted 3, they said that the pictures were sent by an anonymous tipster and it looks like a screen grab from the game. They also dont know from where and how he got it. They are sure about the pictures are of Uncharted 3.

GameStop is now beating heavily on a digital distributed future; it has announced the acquisition of Spawn Labs and got the agreement to acquire the Impulse game distribution platform. While Spawn Labs may not be the familiar name you may remember the HD-720 set-top box essentially a Slingbox for your gaming consoles. GameStop may got some grander ambitions for the technology than that, the company press release says its testing some new consumer interface that will give users immediate access to a wide selection of high-definition video games on demand on any Internet-enabled devices.

The Sonys Xperia Play faming centric Android Smart phone, Sony has released five PlayStation classics on Android Marketplace. These games are exclusively compatible with the Xperia Play and not just any Android enabled devices. Each game will cost $6.38 and will let you relive the good ones of PSOne gaming with tactile gamepad. The five games are in addition to Crash Bandicoot, which already comes pre-loaded with the device. Sony will release more titles in the future for sure. Here is the list of games available on the Android Marketplace are

Crysis 2 is the best looking game around the lack of Direct X 11 support, has left quite a few people puzzled. The absence of latest in PC graphics technology is most likely to be patched soon with the Direct X 11 for Crytek first person shooter. The studio PC fanboys would pride for bringing bleeding edge graphics and pushing the envelope of PC hardware and technology with games like Crysis.