
Gears of War 2
By
carlos in gaming news on Saturday 19 July @ 09:26
The brand new five-player co-op mode called Horde. You and up to four other players, in any multiplayer map, get to fight against waves of CPU-controlled enemies. Microsoft described it as Gears of War meets Geometry Wars. The various beasts in the single-player campaign spawn into the map, coming at you and your team from all angles and forcing you to work together to defeat them, with each wave being tougher to beat. Like co-op in the first game's campaign, players can revive each other an unlimited number of times, but if you all die in a single round it's over. It sounds simple but it's more ingenious than you think. It's all about working together and staying close to each other, but you're each individually scored on the number of enemies you kill, giving the hot-headed players a competitive element to enjoy. It's bloody tough though. In earlier waves you'll only have small groups of Locust Drones and Wretches to deal with. But a few waves later you'll start to feel the strain. Imagine taking on two Boomers, a pack of explosive Lambent Wretches, three or four Torque Bow-wielding Theron guards and the odd Drone or two packing a flame thrower or sniper rifle. It's mental without including the new enemies (more about that later).
MS Announces 60GB Xbox 360, Price Cut on 20GB
By
carlos in gaming news on Saturday 19 July @ 09:10
Microsoft officially
announced today a new Pro model that for the same price will include a 60GB
hard drive. The company also dropped the price of its 20GB Xbox 360 console to
just $299 while supplies last. This could indicate that once sold out, the only
SKUs will be the $279 HDD-less Arcade system, the $349 60GB Premium system, and
the $449 120GB Elite.
Available in retail stores in the U.S. and Canada starting in early August, the upgraded Xbox 360 will include a 60GB hard drive for storing the growing wealth of digital entertainment available for the console,
Intel X58 Chipset to Support SLI and CrossFire
By
carlos in hardware on Saturday 19 July @ 09:03
Nvidia
has announced that Intel's X58 Express chipset will also support SLI
multi-GPU configurations. Code-named Tylersburg, the X58 chipset should
complement next-gen Nehalem desktop processors in the high-end enthusiast space.
Like in the Skulltrail platform, SLI support will come at a price: Intel will be
forced to use Nvidia PCI Express bridge hardware, in this case the same nForce
200 SLI chip Nvidia pairs with its nForce 780a and nForce 780i platforms. It
looks like Intel's use of Nvidia chips may be more of a business move than a
technical one, since Intel chipsets could be capable of SLI support without any
extra hardware.
LEAGUE: EDTF2L Season 2
By
carlos in TeamFortess 2 on Saturday 12 July @ 17:06
RageCritters has entered the EDTF2L Season 2 league
Here is the deal,
Enemydown Team Fortress 2 Leage (EDTF2L)
League is 40 teams split into 5 divisions comprising of 8 teams
Top two in each division get promoted to the division above for next season and the bottom two in each division get demoted for next season.
ED Team Fortress 2 League Rules,
CLUK21 CSS SourceTV IPs up!
By
carlos in LAN News on Saturday 12 July @ 16:51
Here is a list of the SourceTV IP's for the CLUK21 CSS Tournament showing all of the games currently being played.