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Archive for March, 2010
PAX EAST 2010 Graphics Part 1: NVIDIA
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I spent a decent amount of time at PAX talking to people at both the NVIDIA and AMD/ATI booths. This event was undoubtedly dominated by nVidia, since they were using it as the launch event of the new GTX 470 and 480 series of video cards. Here is what I gathered from the two booths. The ...
My First Day at PAX: A Short Retrospective
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by Antilles C. Scrimshaw
in News
On this day, my first at any gaming convention, and also my first as a member of the media, I had quite a time. I saw developers and gaming journalists get into it a bit (and the journalists were still somewhat wrong). I missed the keynote because that whole panel ran long. I wandered about ...
PAX East exhibitor list
0685 days
by Antilles C. Scrimshaw
in News
This was actually posted on the PAX site on 3/15, but in case you missed it, here's the full exhibitor list: 2K Games, Aksys Games, Alienware, AMD, Antec, Asmodee, Atomic, Becker College, Boston University School of Digital Imaging, Compleat Strategist, Computer Power Magazine, Cooler Master, D3P, Depaul University, Disney, EA , EVGA, Fangamer LLC, Foam Brain ...
I Just Don’t Know What to Think Anymore, EA
0687 days
Dear EA, I've been over this before: in the past two decades or so, you've confused the crap out of me. I've loved you, I've hated you, I've nothinged you. Now, just as you're starting to move pretty solidly back into gamers' collective good graces, you get fast and furious with some pretty serious mixed messages. You've ...
PAX and the coming week
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by Antilles C. Scrimshaw
in News
Well, next Friday is the beginning of PAX. As such, I doubt you'll hear from us until we get there. I've got a week's worth of homework to cram into 3 days, and Squid and Mack likewise have to take care of a great deal before Squid and I head out there on Thursday. But ...
Bad Company 2 continues its not-so-covert war against Modern Warfare 2 with map pack announcement
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by Mack McPaddywagon
in News
DICE have taken every opportunity to capitalize on the mistakes made by Activision and Infinity Ward with regard to Modern Warfare 2. From their timely announcement that Bad Company 2 would be using dedicated servers right down to the language on the game's info page (emphasis mine): All of [Bad Company 2's] features combine to deliver ...
2D Beauty
0694 days
Lately I've been talking a lot about innovation, where it comes from, and how it moves the gaming industry forward. It seems, to me at least, that much of what I consider innovation these days comes from the simplest designs. Perhaps it's because, once you strip away all the things we associate with gaming but ...
MW2 Map Pack: It’s just like the REAL Stimulus Package!
6694 days
This goes along with my article from last week. In that article, I discussed Modern Warfare 2's apparent failure to keep the player base occupied and coming back for more as time goes on. Well, Infinity Ward was concerned that such a thing was either going to happen or happening already, because they will soon ...
Where Are My Classic Space Flight Sims?
6699 days
by Mack McPaddywagon
in Sim
Pewpewpew! In the most recent issue of PC Gamer, there was a short preview of an upcoming space flight sim called Naumachia. The gist of the developers' introduction to their game was that they felt space flight sims have become a little too heavy on the RPG elements (like EVE Online), and as a result the ...
Modern Warfare 2: How many players?
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Tom's Hardware has a post in which one Ryan Bowling (Edit: His name is Robert. Tom's reported his name incorrectly) at IW claims that MW2 has 25 million unique users. Yes folks, 25 million. The subtitle for this little gem of a mini-article is "Modern Warfare 2 is the major game for online gamers." First off, don't ...
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