Error on the Intel 6 Series

Intel in a statement reported that the design error found in Intel 6 series chipset, it will not affect the Sandy Bridge chips. This chipset is used on motherboards, which is responsible for making the transition between the processor and PC components. In this particular case the error causing problems with the ports of SATA technology and chipsets that can degrade over time causing problems in devices such as storage units.

AMD HD6990, the 2-headed monster

Days ago, AMD showed the press his new video card, the Radeon HD 6990. This is a two-headed monster, literally because of his great power and its 2 cores. This card in the future replace the HD 5970 in the title of top model. He should have come to light late last year, but for some reason moved to March 2011.

A recent presentation held by the vice president of AMD, Matt Skinner, everything was dry, because no details were required in any presentation but as there is always speculation. That is why information on HD 6990 is still very small: some speculate about its characteristics based on the information provided above, others are trying to do something with the spy shots.

Nvidia GTX590

NVIDIA has informed the introduction of a new flagship graphics card, which is said to be named GeForce GTX 590. In aa supposedly be integrated card dual GPU GF110 with a combined total of 1,024 core CUDA and 3 GB of memory. According to rumors his name would be the GTX595, but for now have to wait a while until an official announcement.

This video card doubles the number of cores of the current CUDA GTX 580, which includes only a single GPU. The new model brings a significant leap in efficiency, with fewer tensions and a probable decrease in clock frequency. The configuration also said to be paired with a memory bus 2 x 384-bits.

Crysis Multiplayer Demo 2 for PC

Those owners of the Xbox 360 and have been enjoying a multiplayer demo of Crysis from Crytek 2 since Tuesday, but now is the players turn to the PC version, and that a demo will be available shortly. According to a tweet from Crytek, the PC platform will get a multiplayer demo for the game sometime in the future.

"At this point, Crytek and EA are pleased to confirm that we will get a pre-release of Crysis 2 PC multiplayer demo" The only thing left now for those interested in the demo is to be attentive to any news.

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Deadspace 2 free DLC for PC gamers

Unfortunately for those wanting to play Dead Space 2 through the PC version and wanted a complete experience, EA announced that there will be no downloadable content (DLC) Therefore it is best for those who do with a console like the PS3 and Xbox360.

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Hardware requirements to play on PC Homefront

Soon this game will be available, specifically the 8th of March in the U.S. and in Europe on March 11. For those who thought if your computer was powerful enough to play quietly, have revealed details of the hardware required, so you have time to see if any changes are needed on their computers. Minimum Requirements: Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 Processor: Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz RAM: 2GB Disk Space: 10GB Graphics: GeForce 7900GS or ATI Radeon 1900XT (Shader Graphics Card Model 3.0 with 256MB of memory) Recommended Equipment: Operating system: Windows Vista or Windows 7 Processor: Quad Core 2 GHz + RAM: 2GB Graphics: NVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon 4850 260 Disk space: 10GB

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Crysis 2, multiplayer demo for Xbox Live Gold users

There is good news for Xbox Live Gold subscribers is that they are about to get VIP treatment for the exclusive demo, multiplayer for Crysis 2. This is access to a map, Skyline and two game modes, Team Instant Action and Crash Site, all from 25 January. It was not immediately known if there will be a multiplayer demo for PC or PS3 versions.

A full version of Crysis 2 will include six multiplayer game modes and 12 maps of places all over New York recognizable. The game will be released for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 22 U.S. and 25 in Europe.

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Duke Nukem Forever for May

In Gameinformer! Virtually gave the release date of Duke Nukem Forever. Gearbox president Randy Pitchford confirmed the news and said: "Somehow the guys at Game Informer magazine discovered the date of Duke Nukem Forever before me. But I can not imagine a better video game news that Game Informer to reveal the moment of truth for the largest shift inconceivable, incorrigible and inspiring about the history of the games industry, the arrival of Duke Nukem Forever on May 3, 2011 "The date cited for the U.S.

Test Drive Unlimited 2, release date, images and trailer

Atari finally managed to strike gold with the game Test Drive Unlimited 2, this means that the game is ready in full and release date will be Feb. 8 in the United States and 11 February for the remaining countries . On the occasion of this event have published a series of images of the game and you can also see a trailer with 10 minutes of the game.

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Stalker 2, also on the consoles

STALKER Game 2 is in development for PC but now it announced that it will be at the console, sparking concern among fans as they fear it could damage the PC version. Its developer GSC has released a Facebook comment on such fears, saying: "since it is developed primarily for PC, you will not see any compromise in the PC version.

The key difference between PC and console versions is the beauty of the graphics (ie, PC will offer more visual effects). "I just have to wait a while to Stalker 2 see the light, only in 2012.

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Wavi Xtion, the motion controller Asus

Thanks to an open source driver of PC users were able to use the remote visual control of Xbox 360 "Kinect" for quite some time also in the team and is expected to be somewhat stable with the launch of Windows 8. Now for those who do not want to experience walking possibilities, have no choice and it is Xtion WAVI device, and will be announced on Thursday at CES 2011th The creator of this device is Asus, who has decided to forward to Microsoft to try to win the PC market seems a simple and direct copy Kinect device currently used with the Xbox 360.

SYSTEM AND WINDOWS PC (PC): CityVille "dominates" Facebook

The detailed analysis of Inside Social Games makes us aware that CityVille has officially become the Facebook application with the highest number of monthly users, who are now 84.2 million on the weekend just gone. The margin over the other "bigwig" in Zynga, or Farmville, is not very high, since the latter can rely on 83.76 million monthly users, who are much more devoted to their hobby of than they are players CityVille rising star.

STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC (PC): The dialogue of The Old Republic

The official blog of the developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic, BioWare or veterans, addressed the sensitive issue of the dialogues of this MMORPG, for the first time in the genre, will be fully lined and "shot" as if they were cut-scenes in real time. Paul Marino, Lead Cinematic Designer former head of the archive Mass Effect 2, explains in detail his daily work and the challenge that has decided to collect, or to make "emotional" those interesting phases in the MMORPG, it is usual to reduced to a few clicks on a range of options presented in textual form.

RUSE (PC): Sounds of "crash" for the DLC RUSE

At first it was just a delay, announced by the developers on the eve of Christmas, the DLC for free RUSE known as "The Manhattan Project" and directed to the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms; problems for Sony and other defendants to Valve, that is to managers of the underlying PSN and Steam digital delivery platforms.

After downloading the package, it seems that users of the PC version of the game were greeted by a dramatic crash that prevented them from starting the strategic, as you can read on the forums of Steam. At the time of writing the problem might already be solved with a new patch, but in case some of you - users of Windows 7, we assume - still can not launch the game, the advice is to run it in compatibility mode with Windows Vista SP2 by right clicking directly on the executable.

Assassin's Creed (PC) Ubisoft less restrictive DRM?

As is well known (and widely discussed, even harshly, on the forums), some of the latest PC games published by Ubisoft contained an anti-piracy particularly "hard", which forced players to stay connected to the Internet for all the playing time , although in the single-player mode. Apparently the latest patch distributed Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction would, at least in part, down the guard on that front, asking players to connect to the network only during the start of the game and allowing then disconnection.

STALKER: Call of Pripyat (PC): STALKER updates the SDK

As announced on the official website of the series, the SDK version 0.7 for STALKER was made available online by the developer GSC Game World, a mo 'for a Christmas present for all the fans who have requested it. It is indeed the awaited update of the devices for the "modders" that integrates all the latest X-Ray Engine 1.6, which is the latest evolution of the proprietary graphics engine that was used to create Call of STALKER Pripyat, for the first time, in addition, the SDK can be used to create both single-player and multiplayer levels.

SYSTEM AND WINDOWS PC (PC): Point Computer presents PI Books

As you can see by visiting the home page just opened, the historian point Computer portal has been enriched by a channel called PI book is devoted to a selection of texts on the subject generally ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and then, specifically dedicated to topics such as programming for the Web, Web Design, networking and more.

Embracing the philosophy of historic Point Computer - the first Italian online newspaper to offer all their content with Creative Commons license and thus encourage the sharing of knowledge and the free flow of ideas - all texts are available, accessible and downloadable for free by anyone with a Internet connection and a PDF viewer.

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Osmosis (PC): Indie iPhone Holiday Sale is a success

The official blog of the developers Semi Secret announced the transformation of Canabalt game in "open source" to celebrate the $ 25,000 collected in favor of the organization through the Child's Play initiative Indie iPhone Holiday Sale, which will last until January 2. For just six dollars is therefore still possible to get hold of six great games platform for IOS, including precisely Canabalt, Solipskier, Drop7 and osmosis, it already happened on a PC.

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000 series, released 28nm line

Following details of AMD's 28nm GPU, ultra high-end, the Wimbledon, Donanimhaber. com have released details about the complete line of AMD's 28nm GPUs Mobility Radeon HD 7000. As noted, the GPU Wimbledon will be the higher range, and will be followed by Heathrow, then Chelsea and finally the Thames, all scheduled for Q4 2011 production.

The GPU Heathrow has two versions, either interface 128 or 192-bits. In the higher range of Heathrow, the GPU will have between 1.5 GB and 3 GB of GDDR5 memory, an intake of between 35 and 45W and should be 1.3 times faster than the performance of your GPU Chelsea. The Chelsea offers a memory interface 128-bit GDDR5 memory 1GB or 2 GB of GDDR3 memory, consumption of 20 to 30W and should be 1.3 times faster than the GPU Whistler (a 40nm GPU which should appear early 2011).