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AMD’s top-of-the-range Radeon R9 290X looks like it’s getting a suitably top-of-the-range RRP in Europe. Videocardz.com has obtained a list of prices for AMD’s new graphics cards from MSI and they suggest that the 290X will be a very expensive bit of kit on this side of the Atlantic. The …
Read More »PS3 was delayed for one year after plans to ship without a GPU were scrapped
Part of Ken Kutaragi’s vision of the PS3 was for the console to ship without a dedicated graphics processor, with the now infamous Cell chip handling ALL the processing. The intention, IGN reports, was for PS3 to arrive alongside Xbox 360 in 2005. However, Kutarai and his team were eventually …
Read More »Watch Dogs will look better on Wii U than it does on PS3 or Xbox 360
The creative director of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs reckons the Wii U version will be graphically superior to its current-gen counterparts. "I would say the Wii U version is pretty much in between what the current gen is and what the next gen is from a version standpoint," Jonathan Morin …
Read More »Intel: "Somebody paid a lot of money" to keep Grand Theft Auto V off PC
Everyone and their dog seems to think that GTA V is heading to PC, but theories as to why it’s not yet happened are pretty varied. Perhaps the most colourful has come from Intel notebook marketing director Chris Silva who made the following forum-worthy claim to PC Gamer. Somebody paid …
Read More »MadCatz prices its Mojo Android console at £219.99
Mojo, the upcoming Android console form peripherals specialist MadCatz, has been given an eye-watering 219.99 RRP. That doesn’t compare favourably with the higher-profile Ouya, which can currently be had for just 99.99. MadCatz is trying to differentiate its device by allowing it to run vanilla Android, meaning players will be …
Read More »Sony opens pre-orders for new head-mounted 3D display
The US arm of Sony is now taking pre-orders for its upcoming wireless 3D head-mounted display. Priced at $999, the HMZ-T3W includes two OLED screens and 7.1 surround sound. It has HDMI input for use with consoles, PCs, tablets and smartphones. This newest version of the device is lighter than …
Read More »James Pond Kickstarter is scrapped
The attempt to crowdfund a return for the James Pond IP has been scrapped. The project, fronted by one of the game’s original devs Chris Sorrell, was Kickstarted last month by rights holder Gameware Europe. However, with just 11 days to go it had raised just 16,000 of its 100,000 …
Read More »Call of Duty: Ghosts PC specs list GTX 780, 50GB HDD space
Another triple-A title has revealed some pretty hefty requirements for PC gamers. Although not in the same league as the frankly astronomical CPU needs named in the Watch Dogs spec sheet, Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts specs certainly contain a couple of notable highlights. The Minimum specs require a comparatively …
Read More »DICE promises changed single player for Battlefield 4
The single player component of Battlefield 4 will feel quite different from what was offered in Battlefield 3, DICE has said. "We got a lot of feedback from the Battlefield 3 single player,” DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson told CVG. Based on what we intended to deliver the team did …
Read More »Ubisoft releases new, even more demanding Watch Dogs PC specs
A revised version of the minimum and recommended specs for the PC version of Watch Dogs have been released by Ubisoft. And the fact is that they’re even more demanding than the apparently rubbished list that appeared last week. The Minimum specs require a quad core CPU – specifically either …
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