For years the football manager series has dominated the sports management genre with its classy mix of on-pitch realism and detailed tactical features. The Championship Manager franchise has often been considered a poor man’s football manager, but this year, that’s all changed thanks to CM2010’s array of fresh new ideas that have revitalized the series and made it a genuine alternative to it’s flashier rival.
Wolfenstein 3D, bank in 1992, set the benchmark for the first-person shooter. It also introduced a generation of gamers to the pleasures of gunning down Nazi guards, Nazi dogs, and , last but not least, Nazi robotic Hitlers.
Wolfenstein is the latest resurrection of the series, with plenty of occult powers, energy weapons and a few survival horror elements thrown in. You as US military agent BJ Blackowiz, sent to investigate a secret Nazi weapons which taps into power of a sinister alternative dimension through a barrier called the Veil . Soon, you learn to use Veil powers yourself to find secret doors, slow time, cast a shield and boost your attacks.
Those with fancy video cards be proud!
Got your shiny DirectX 11-enabled Radeon HD 5800 series and you’re itching to stretch its legs? Well then, the newly released demo of Dirt 2 is your best option. While Dirt 2 was released for consoles a few months ago, the wait continues for this still-unreleased PC version. The delay to the PC version was for the sake of graphical enhancements, and if you have a DX11 card, you’ll be able to enjoy some of the new features.
Check out this video from Codemasters that runs through all the little enhancements afforded by this new generation of software and hardware:
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Grab the 1.3GB demo right here.
We’ll be including Dirt 2 as part of our regular testing suite once the full version releases, but if you want to know how the demo benches, check out tests from TweakTown and Bit-tech.
Pearl Jam emerged from the furtive Seattle Grunge rock sense in the early Nineties, although fans seemed to be divided between Eddie Vedder’s outfit and neighboring pioneers Nirvana. However the band’s debut album , for many deemed their opus, was given the reissue treatment in March with a superlative package with remastered tracks, and replicas of collectable rarities.
A free turn-based tactical strategy game for high-fantasy fans! with a compelling single player campaign and support for online, local, and hot seat multiplayer, you, you will be battling for Wesnoth pretty much all the time. Website: http://www.wesnoth.org
It’s taken a while – nearly a decade, in fact – but Games Workshop’s tiny figures finally have an MMO home. And this, a more competitive take on World of Warcraft, is a fine start. It’s a deep, complicated and occasionally beautiful game that both World of Warcraft fans, and the Games Workshop faithful, will fall head over heels in love with.
A midrange 6200-based card that delivers
When Nvidia inveiled its G200GPU, we were immediately drawn to the shiny, speedy GeForce GTX 280. Why wouldn’t we be? With the high core and memory clocks and 240 stream processors to churn through the toughest shaders, it was sexy and fast. We were less excited about 260, which sported 192 stream processors and slower clocks speeds but cost about $100 less than the 280( at the time). Since then ,ATI has released its R700-based Radeon 4870, which outperforms the original 260 but cost the same amount.
