News, Reviews and Guides on Games and Gaming Hardware
Crysis is one of the most anticipated FPS game this year. With the ultra realistic graphics and physics, it is one of the games that you must not miss, if you are a FPS fan. Make sure you have a GeForce 8800 or Radeon HD 2900 at least for this game, to enjoy the best graphics.
Crysis will be released on November 13, 2007.
You can read the Gamespot’s preview on Crysis here. They had a Crysis hand-on during the recent E3. Check it out.
Relic has released 1.71 patch for the best RTS game ever since Warcraft III.
General Fixes and Features
- Warning on option screen for excessive memory usage
- Crash fix on entity spawn (occurs with several mods)
- Various other crash fixes.
- Various memory leak fixes.
- Window maximize button switches windowed mode back to full screen.
- D3D10 sky shader fixed.
- D3D10 stippled scarring fix.
- Better colour for HTML news links.
Gameplay
- Allied War Machine has had its duration reduced to 25 seconds, cost increased
to 250 munitions and cool down increased to 150 seconds.
You can download the incremental patch (1.70 to 1.71) here.
August is coming, and that’s mean that the new season of soccer is going to begin soon. For the football simulation games fan, Football Manager 2008 is going to release soon, just before Christmas 2007.
FM 2008 has a lot of tweaks and improvements over FM 2007. SIgames took suggestions from the fans of this series and improve on them. Thank you, SIgames.
NVIDIA has released the latest driver for the graphics chipsets.
The latest Forceware 162.18 is for Windows XP and Forceware 162.22 is for Windows Vista (32bit). (Vista 64 bit)
The latest driver improves the compatibility for Lost Planet and has numerous fixes and compatibility fixes for games and application.
I have tested out the driver with my rather old system and there isn’t a significant improvement in 3DMark05 in the GeForce 7600GS.
My rig spec is as follows:
AMD64 Althon 64 3000+ @ 1.9 Ghz, 2GB DDR RAM, GeForce 7600GS.
Below is the 3DMark05 result (run at 1024×768, no AA/AF)
The improvement is a mere 34 points. But that’s only for my rig, the new drivers released these days improve the latest series of graphics card more than the older series.
Test out the new driver and leave your result here.
The World Cyber Games gaming rig is for pre-order, collect after the event ends on 5th August.
The specification of the WCG (Asian) Gaming Rig is as follows:
The CPU itself costs SGD 1599 with the 7% GST, and the LCD monitor costs SGD 499. Buying the CPU and LCD bundle will allow you to save SGD 99.
If you go down the the Singapore hardware shopping centre, Sim Lim Square, you can get the above set at an average price of SGD 1650 (with some variations of hardware due to hardware availability). Here is the breakdown of the component costs:
Considering the prices of the components, it is relatively worth it to buy the WCG gaming rig, since it is already assembled for you and tested (rigorously through out the 4 days). All you need to do is to collect it after the event ends. You can request for a deilvery, but it will cost you SGD 60.
If your PC is more than 3 years old, and you are deprived of the latest games and impressive visual effects, this is the one for you.
Getting a Quad-core may not be practical due to the lack of games that requires multi-threading. Most games only require a dual-core processor to attain the recommended specification. The graphics card is also not powerful enough to play games in the DirectX 10 environment in Windows Vista, i will recommend a 8800GTS 320MB over 8600GT.
If you are interested in this sale, you can email the organiser to pre-order the items.
Present to you the Guild Wars expansion, Eye of the North trailer.
Guild Wars is a subscription free MMORPG, developed by NCSoft. You can check out the details of the Expansion here.
Visit the official Guild Wars website for more details.
