Category: Video games

  • Radeon HD4870, better than a HD4850

    Radeon HD4870, better than a HD4850

    You loved seeing the arrival of AMD’s Radeon HD4870? Here comes her stronger sister in graphics cards: Radeon HD4870. The first one was available for a measly 150€, what makes it a nice little entry point for the powerful 3D graphics cards (understand: “for video games“). The Radeon HD4870 has been spotted in France at…

  • Cryostasis, another FPS from cold Russia

    Russia is fast becoming the new national home of FPS game development. We had S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – The shadow of Chernobyl (and we are awaiting its prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear skies), but an old project that was known to some but nearly never discussed before just surfaced in the flow of video game information news: Cryostasis:…

  • Open the bottle for Wine 1.0

    After years of preparation and beta-phase, finally, Wine has been able to reach launch as Wine 1.0. Why is it significant? Because this is the software package designed to be able to run many Windows applications from a GNU/Linux distribution. If you want to switch to Linux, you may not be willing to abandon some…

  • Fast Crysis

    We have been used to receiving one update of Crysis, the PC FPS video game of the year, for a long time. But it seems that there is now an upcoming change: No update, just a new extension named Warhead or Crysis Warhead. Crytek was a little imprecise on this, but there is one major…

  • Duke Nukem Forever – reborn

    “When hell freezes over“. This expression has been replaced by “When Duke Nukem Forever is ready for launch” in some circles of PC gamers, of FPS gamers. This video game has been 12 years in the making. Announced about once per year for more than a decade, but never really seen, nobody really expected it…

  • Only a few days before the GTX200

    Only a few days before the GTX200

    The newest graphics cards from nVidia are upon us. In less than a week, they should be officially launched, but nearly everybody seems to know what there is to know about this new generation of cards targetting both avid video gamers and lovers of cinema-on-the-PC. Let’s do a small summary. First, there will be a…