Category: Gaming

Microsofts direct X has been a main stay of mainstream PC gaming since the inception. Its existence hasnt been without its tension. The notable graphics guru John Carmack of id software ignoring it in a favour of Open GL until last week finally he acknowledged the Direct3D has out grown its cross-platform alternative and was now the preferable API for PC game development. But plenty of game developers, Richard Huddy, Head of AMDs developers relation team dont want any API at all. The modern graphics cards can pretty much stomp any console hardware into the dirt in a straight fight and yet fail to show the full extent of their superiority in actual game visuals. He had prefer to see the developers given direct low-level access to the hardware, so they can improve their talents and really push things forward. The beauty of Direct X is that its a standard that every Windows games designer can code to, leading to predictable and more compatible results.

Farmville just now got the English Countryside level is a brand new addition. Players who have reached the level 20 can kick in for English Countryside level.Farmville English Countryside, which ahs a British slant to it. The regular version of the game will be starting from tomorrow. This game got a country specific content, open to every player irrespective of their nationality.

The PS3 fanboys have been braving taunts from their PC and XBOX 360 counterparts for a long, but it is finally addressed now with release of PS3 demo. After the release of demo, it was riddled with frame rate, issues, jaggies, poor shadows and relatively lacks in visuals, it seems to be gotten worse. Reacting to IGN’s criticism, on unoptimized Crysis 2 PS3 demo, Crytek Executive Producer Nathan Camarilio spoke to PSN blog that he didn’t see any difference at all between PS3 and XBOX 360 versions.

Last week, Sony has listed the price of “PSP Go” to be $150 in their US website, revealing an obvious reduction of its price by $50. The new price of $150 was clearly listed on PlayStation US website but now, the price change has been reverted. Sony PSP Go now continues to carry the previous price tag of $200 in US.

Shift 2: Unleashed the much awaited sequel to Need For Speed Shift has been delayed by a week (March 25 UK release to April 1), and this is no April Fool’s joke. However, this bad news was offset with a pleasant one. Shift 2 will be the first game to incorporate the license for Pagani’s Huayra supercar.

With Dragon Age 2 nearing release, BioWare has confirmed that it will not use SecuROM DRM in the PC version of the game. Instead of SecuROM the game will have online activation that requires your EA account. BioWare also listed many restrictions that will work as DRM for the PC version of the game.

Reports states that, Sony to bring Online saving to Playstation 3 subscribers, Service will give Playstation Plus subscribers to save the game in the remote servers.

Sony announced the new device NGP the successor of PSP, but not the name and release date. PSP2 is not a real name, the code named it as NGP. They announced the NGP device on Jan 26th night on Tokyo, Japan. Here comes the specification for you and the status is not rumored now because Sony announced the specification fully.

Sony announces Killzone 3 single player demo on February 15th this year. Killzone fans will be able to take the Guerilla Games. The game will be playable on 2D and 3D. The PlayStation Plus members seems to be download the demo on Feb 8th guerrilla Games producer Aryeh Loeb revealed on the PlayStation Blog.

Sony is about to announce the next PSP tomorrow. Nikkei a Japanese newspaper reports that Sony is partnered with NTT DoCoMo in Japan, that make them to give a 3G support to the new PSP2 device and an Wireless LAN service. According to Nikkei the device will allows you to download games, music, movies and software.

EA has officially announced Crysis 2 XBOX 360 demo release today. There is no mention on PC and PS2 versions. The most anticipated game will be on from 25th January and ready to be online to be connected with the game. Nanosuit will be ready for action next week. Crysis 2 is out on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on March 23rd on North America and March 25th in Europe. officially said from EA.

Hail to the king, baby. Duke’s coming back; Yes finally after years of delay, the president of 2K games announced the release on May3 2011, posted their release date on their official website toohttp://www.dukenukemforever.com/