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Big Download Interview: Alone In The Dark It's taken a long time but today is finally the day for the reimagining of the Alone in the Dark franchise to finally head to store shelves for the PC and other platforms. Developer Eden Studios and publisher Atari/Infogrames have a lot riding on the success of this huge survival horror title. Indeed the publisher is hoping to sell between two to three million copies of the game this year. |
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Spore Galactic Edition evolves into online retail A special edition of Spore has appeared at online retailers for pre-ordering. It's called the "Galactic Edition," and it comes with a making-of DVD, a DVD by National Geographic called "The Human Toolkit," a hardback book of concept art, a fold-out poster, and a "premium 100-page Galactic Handbook." We're not sure what the handbook will entail, but the rest sounds pretty cool. |
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Should BioShock have failed? It was one of the most anticipated games of 2007 and the final release of 2K Games' first person shooter BioShock was one of the most critically acclaimed games of the year. But should the game have failed? That was the premise of the chat made by 2K Boston lead programmer Chris Kline at this week's Paris GDC event. Gamasutra has a report on the speech where Kline admitted, " . . . it did fail a lot, over the course of time. A series of big mistakes and corrections and slipped ship dates, but all of these helped make it a good game." |
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Guide to TF2 Pyro Achievements, Part 2 Glorious fire! You just love to burn things! We can't blame you, though. Nobody knows who you are, where you come from, or what your real gender even is, pyro, but we know that you sure love to set things on fire. Don't worry, though. We want to help you. We love your work. That's why we have crafted for you this very guide to ease your attempts to fulfill the strange objectives given to you. You have read the first part, so here is the second. Soon you'll be back on the road, setting fire to all the wildlife as you pass by. |
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Age of Conan benchmarks bode ill for single-core processors Age of Conan is a beast of a game, and it requires a beast of a system. In the open beta test, players faced serious performance problems. There was much gnashing of teeth. Now that the game has hit retail, have things improved? More importantly, can your system run the game? |
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Team Fortress 2 patch released Valve has released a new patch for Team Fortress 2. Downloaded automatically upon a restart of Steam, the patch provides a few tweaks and fixes, most notably a reduction in the requirements necessary to unlock the Medic's weapons. The adjusted requirements are in line with those of the Pyro's, which provided his three unlockable weapons after 10, 15, and 22 achievements, respectively. |
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Left 4 Dead: Zombie attack set for November 4 Time to revamp your zombie apocalypse plan. After numerous delays the highly anticipated shooter, Left 4 Dead, will release on November 4. From publisher Valve and newly acquired developer Turtle Rock, the announced date confirms earlier statements made by Valve Software's Doug Lombardi who promised the title within the month. |
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New Nvidia drivers for rest of the GeForce family released Last week Nvidia launched their new high powered GeForce GTX 200 series of GPUs and also released new graphics drivers to go along with them. But what about the rest of the GeForce family? That problem has been solved with new drivers for the 6, 7, 8, and 9 series of GeForce cards. |
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