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Patrick sent in some stuff about Battlefield: Bad Company, a single player Battlefield spinoff for Xbox 360 and PS3. The interesting thing is that the terrain is completely destructible. I remember Agg and others talking about such a game a while back on the podcast. Video of this can be found here. Battlefield: Bad Company, currently in production for Xbox 360 and PS3, takes players on a cinematic single-player campaign in a world where nearly everything is destructible. Get a flavor for the tone, the destruction and the action that awaits in Battlefield: Bad Company in the first teaser trailer.
The Playstation 3 has launched in Australia however attracting few to launch events. Over 500 retailers around the country threw open their doors as the clock struck 12:00am, expecting the frenzy that accompanied the games consoles overseas debuts. But most stores were virtually deserted, despite the 20,000 pre-orders Sony said it had received. Even at the official launch event held at Myer's Pitt Street store in Sydney's CBD and attended by Sony's local managing director, Michael Ephraim, media and security outnumbered PS3 fans until at least 11:00pm.
People are discussing their experiences of the PS3 launch in this thread.
On a similar note Hexus has reviewed the Playstation 3, so has TrustedReviews. Right, it’s here, Sony’s much awaited PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 killer. The machine that everyone, according to that top Sony bod, should just work harder to own as it’s a bit pricey. Now, prior to its launch that kind of arrogance, even if it was a misplaced attempt at humour, has earned Sony little sympathy among the gaming community... and the numerous delays and stories of production troubles have hardly helped either.
Bit-Tech have taken a look at game ratings. To that effect, it's a broad misconception held by European gamers that the US ratings system is its own problem, or that what affects it won't affect the European markets. Many big publishing houses (and a bulk of developer studios) reside in the US, and it accounts for a tremendous amount of game sales. Therefore, the cries from Congress for a harsher rating system there, more government oversight, or even chains like Wal-mart flexing moral muscle by refusing to carry certain ratings will alter the games that the industry releases as a whole.
LegitReviews have done a roundup of 24 ATI Video Cards. Not many publications have the ability to show performance of a dozen video cards over several generations of GPU's, but that is exactly what Legit Reviews has been able to do. We've taken a handful of our 'retired' graphics cards out of the closet to get some updated benchmarking numbers. In 2005 and 2006 we tested all of the graphics cards on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, but now that the Intel Core 2 Duo processor is the hot item we have moved over our testing platform to bring you numbers that you can actually use.
TrustedReviews have written an article about gaming laptops. These are the same factors that have led to a dramatic swing away from desktops to notebooks in the home. Notebook PCs are expected to take over 50 per cent of overall PC sales in 2007, and much of this is down to the consumer market. Even if the average consumer doesn’t need mobility in the classic sense, there’s something about a system that can be carried from room to room, used on the sofa, and packed neatly away at the end of the day that we find irresistible. The only problem for gamers was that the vast majority of notebooks have – until fairly recently – been utterly useless for playing games.
This guy has posted his thoughts on the conspiracy to kill the Cable set top box. I recall the arguments when Cable TV was first getting started which concluded no one would ever be stupid enough to pay for something they can get for free. Well there are clearly a good chunk of us who are terminally stupid because cable was a success although I think many of us probably wish it hadn’t been.
Todays timewaster is Silver Sphere where you need to push the boxes around to move the ball into the hole.
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