| AMD Speeds Up Gamers With New Utility | |
| Posted: 22.09.2008 03:05 by dtungsten |  Comments: 4 |
 AMD just released a brand new tool for gamers, the AMD Fusion for Gaming utility. The utility is designed to allow users to easily create profiles to give priority to gaming processes while throttling back other running processes on their systems in order to get maximum performance from their CPUs whilst playing. The print ad also states that by using fusion to boost the performance of your AMD system, it can also improve performance for media applications and even business applications. | |
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| Mass Effect on the Silver Screen? | |
| Posted: 22.09.2008 02:50 by dtungsten | Comments: 2 |
 According to a report on The Cut Scene, the movie rights for Mass Effect have been purchased by producer Avi Arad. Arad is best known for his work on such Marvel movies as Iron Man, and the X-Men and Spiderman franchises. He is currently running his own production company and is reported to be at work on a movie adaptation of Lost Planet. Mass Effect was developed by Bioware and published by Electronic Arts, who own the property. Neither EA nor Arad has commented on the sale of the movie rights for Mass Effect. | |
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| Spore to Add Extra Screen Names to Online Accounts | |
| Posted: 22.09.2008 02:43 by dtungsten | Comments: 3 |
 Almost lost in the uproar over the DRM complaints surrounding Electronic Arts Spore, are complaints concerning the online accounts for Spore. Contrary to what is stated in the manual Spore only allows one online account to be created per install – so on a multiple use system you can only have one Spore screen name regardless of how many users share the system. | |
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| Zombie Siege: Call of Duty 4 Survival | |
| Posted: 19.09.2008 12:23 by Kres | Comments: 26 |
 Strategy Informer has a Call of Duty 4 game server running with Before the Dawn mod installed on it. Those of you that have played this mod will know what it is about, and for those of you that haven't, well lucky you, you will get to experience it for the first time. | |
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| Peter Moore: CD Distribution won't exist in Five to Ten Years | |
| Posted: 19.09.2008 03:26 by Jamie | Comments: 7 |
 The Guardian Interview with Peter Moore has been published with Part 4 talking about Moore's projections for the videogame business. Talking about the change from consumers heading to retail shops to buy games, Moore believes that this business model will not exist in five to ten years, because consumers will purchase games online due to bigger hard drives and faster broadband connections. | |
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| Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning launches today | |
| Posted: 18.09.2008 13:54 by Jamie | Comments: 8 |
 Electronic Arts today launched the highly anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. With the game's servers now officially live, all players are invited to enter WAR's grim fantasy world, swear allegiance to the armies of Order or Destruction, and experience the glory of Realm vs. Realm combat. | |
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| New Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Screenshots | |
| Posted: 18.09.2008 12:40 by Jamie | Comments: 0 |
 The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria image gallery has been updated with 8 new screenshots. | |
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| Prince of Persia set for release on 2nd of December, says Ubisoft | |
| Posted: 18.09.2008 11:46 by Jamie | Comments: 7 |
 Ubisoft announced today that Prince of Persia will be released on 2nd December for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Set in a land rooted in ancient Persian mythology, the Prince finds himself caught in an epic battle between the primal forces of light and darkness: the God of Light, Ormazd versus his brother Ahriman, the destructive God of Darkness. The Prince arrives just in time to witness the destruction of the legendary Tree of Life - an act which threatens to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness. Manifested in the form of the Corruption, a dark substance that physically contaminates the land and the skies, the Prince must partner with Elika, a deadly companion, to heal the world from the evil Corruption. | |
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| Former Deus Ex Designer Working on New Immersive Shooter | |
| Posted: 18.09.2008 11:30 by dtungsten | Comments: 2 |
 During a keynote speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference covered by Gamasutra, Harvey Smith, former Game Designer for Ion Storm and now with Arkane Austin, said that his studio was working on a new and immersive first person shooter title. Smith is known for his work on Deus Ex: Invisible War and for working on such titles as Thief: Deadly Shadows. | |
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| Mythic CEO Proclaims Electronic Arts Knows About Launching MMOs | |
| Posted: 18.09.2008 11:17 by dtungsten | Comments: 5 |
 Earlier this week Paul Barnett, Creative Director for Warhammer Online by Mythic Entertainment, said that Electronic Arts knew nothing about launching an MMO in the European market during an interview with Eurogamer. | |
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