One of this year’s most anticipated game releases is drawing near. A Crytek community manager recently confirmed that Crysis has gone gold. The release date of Crysis is set for November 16, 2007.
“We are extremely proud of what we have been able to accomplish with Crysis,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek. “We wanted to push the boundaries both visually and with open-ended, non-linear gameplay and we believe the end result delivers that vision.”
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October 29, 2007 at 8:11 pm | Shooters | No Comments
Crytek has now launched a demo for the highly anticipated first-person shooter, Crysis, available to the public. The demo is for the single player mode.
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October 27, 2007 at 2:30 pm | Shooters | 1 Comment
Epic Games has released a beta demo for Unreal Tournament 3. The game has been in the making for 3 years and many people have anxiously awaited its arrival. Wait no longer! Read on to get the download links for the beta demo.
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October 13, 2007 at 8:41 pm | Shooters | No Comments
Crytek is currently beta testing Crysis, if you’re lucky you have tried it out through the public beta. If you didn’t get a chance to participate in the beta, you can at least check out some comparison pictures from the different available graphics settings on both DX9 and DX10 capabilities.
Low, DX9
Medium, DX9
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October 12, 2007 at 10:20 pm | Shooters | No Comments
Infinity Ward has now released the Call Of Duty 4 demo to download at several locations. The newest COD in the lineup takes place in modern day around the World. Players progress through the game as both a U.S. Marine and British S.A.S soldier.
COD 4 features 70 new authentic weapons and gear from assault rifles, laser sights, claymore mines, .50 caliber sniper rifles, and M-249 SAW machine guns.
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October 11, 2007 at 10:13 pm | Shooters | No Comments
In an apparent tip, DigitalBattle has received some information about a possible Battlefield 3 in the works. The PDF document they received includes some investor information and several features expected in the game. BF3 will take place in modern day combat in the Middle Eastern region, and will include “Baghdad Burning”, a Karkand type map.
According to DigitalBattle, BF3 will include: Read more…
October 10, 2007 at 6:48 pm | Shooters | No Comments
Microsoft and Bungie are setting an unprecedented step in the video gaming industry. The release of Halo 3 in the past week is astonishing with sales surpassing $300 million worldwide. The massive sales have also resulted in double the weekly average of sales of the Xbox 360.
“Halo is truly a cultural phenomenon, and the launch of Halo 3 is an important milestone for Xbox 360 and for video games as entertainment and as an art form,” said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Halo 3 embodies our vision for the future of entertainment, where some of the world’s greatest creative minds will deliver a new generation of interactive storytelling.”
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October 4, 2007 at 8:07 pm | Business & Law, Shooters | No Comments
In the Bungie Weekly Update: 9/28/07 release, Bungie confirms that Halo 3 does not run at 720p. The suspicions of many gamers is true, Halo 3 does in fact run at 620p. A key point to Bungie’s response is the indiscernible difference between the native 1152×640 image and the scaled 1280×720.
Excerpt from Bungie’s response:
“Naturally it’s more complicated than that. In fact, you could argue we gave you 1280 pixels of vertical resolution, since Halo 3 uses not one, but two frame buffers – both of which render at 1152×640 pixels. The reason we chose this slightly unorthodox resolution and this very complex use of two buffers is simple enough to see – lighting. Read more…
September 29, 2007 at 10:24 pm | Hardware, Shooters | No Comments
Halo 3’s release in the past few days is astounding, with sales of more than $170 million nationwide. As with BioShock’s release, many problems are surfacing on the web with Halo 3, including disc-read errors, scratched DVDs, and now claims that the game does not run in High Definition, as was advertised by Bungie.
The folks at Beyond 3D Forums have done some analyzing, and have come to the conclusion through pixel counting, that Halo 3 in fact runs natively at 640p, not 720p required for High Definition.
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September 28, 2007 at 9:22 pm | Hardware, Shooters | No Comments
The launch of Halo 3 on Tuesday, September 26, was not so pleasant for some gamers. Claims of damage to limited edition copies of Halo 3 have surfaced around the web due to the packaging causing scratches.
Microsoft has quickly assured gamers that damaged discs are covered under their Xbox Disc Replacement Program.
Replacement details follow:
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September 26, 2007 at 1:03 pm | Hardware, Shooters, Xbox | No Comments
