Friday, November 03, 2006

Latest Video Game Hits


P.C

World in Conflict
Medal of Honor: Airborne
BioShock
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
TrackMania United
Overlord
DIRT
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Halo 2
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Resident Evil 4
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

PS2

Madden NFL 08
Obscure II
Rugby 08
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
NCAA Football 08
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
GrimGrimoire
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Odin Sphere

PS3

Skate
DIRT
Warhawk
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Madden NFL 08
NCAA Football 08
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Super Stardust HD
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
The Darkness
The Bigs
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Super Stardust HD

PSP

Dead Head Fred
Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Madden NFL 08
Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road

XBOX

Madden NFL 08
NCAA Football 08
Call of Duty 3
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Need for Speed Carbon

XBOX 360

Skate
Medal of Honor: Airborne
John Woo Presents Stranglehold
MotoGP 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
BioShock
Blue Dragon
Madden NFL 08
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
NCAA Football 08
Bomberman Live
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
Call of Juarez

GAMECUBE

Madden NFL 08
Disney's Meet The Robinsons

Grand Theft Auto Liberty City stories Details


GTA Liberty City Stories released in US on 24th October 2005. In Europe it will be released on First quarter of 2006. At present it is available on PSP(play station portable) and Playstation2 only.

The Liberty city in GTA Liberty city stories is same as Liberty city of GTA 3. Compared to GTA 3 Some changes are made to the Liberty city layout. Rockstar games uses the same 3D engine of GTA 3 for this latest game also. Many of the same characters and gangs of GTA 3 are also found in GTA Liberty city stories. The islands in this game are also same as the islands in the PS2 GTA 3 version. But Story Line is different.You can save the game only at three safe houses.

As in GTA 3 there are crime families in Liberty city. These families fight with each other. Each of them wants to establish as the ruling crime party. Leone's family is one of the leading crime party in the city.Our hero Toni is a Leone crime family member. He works for DON Salvatore. Captain Vincenzo Cilli gives missions to Toni. Some missions are for earning cash and some missions came as part of story. Most of the Missions are simple in GTA Liberty City stories. In most of the missions we have to steel a car and driving it back to a location or blowing up tanks of gang members. In all the missions we have to destroy things,we have to collect things. Most of the missions satisfy you. There are some bad missions too.

There are different radio stations in this game. There are 10 radio stations in this game. The Hip-Hop and world music stations are excellent. Each station features six or seven tunes. You have races on each island. About 24 racing tracks are there. About 70 different vehicles are used in this game. Vans,Firetrucks,Scooters,Ambulances,Bigrigs and many more used in this game. You will find all weapons in this game also like the other GTA series games.

Overall the game is with excellent graphics, excellent Audio effects,hidden bonuses,radio stations with excellent tunes and multiplayer support for up to six players. We can give 85% to 90% grading to this game. The game is ranked 2 out of 674 rated PSP games. GTA Liberty city stories is one of the best PSP games.You can get the game for 40 dollars. Every PSP owner must own this game.


Radeon X1950 Pro Details :



Recently ATI brings new midrange graphics card Radeon X1950 Pro. This is the first graphics card to make use of new native Cross Fire Technology. Cards are available at a price of US $ 199 or EUR 199. ATI's Windows Vista Drivers are available for Radeon X1950 Pro.

The Radeon X1950 Pro delivers the same image quality as ATI's Radeon X1950 XTX. Radeon X1950 XTX has core speed of 650 MHZ,Memory speed of 1.55 GHZ,48 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex shader processors where as Radeon X1950 Pro has core speed of 575 MHZ,Memory speed of 1.38 GHZ,36 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex shader processors. The Radeon X1950 Pro displays 10 -bit color.

Radeon X1950 Pro specifications:

Processor details

Core speed 575 MHZ
Memory Speed 1.38 GHZ
Pixel shader processors 36
Vertex shader processors 8
256 bit 8 channel GDDR3 memory interface
Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
Plug and play Cross Fire technology

Shader Details

Support Direct X 9.0
Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support
OpenGL 2.0 support
Full speed 32 bit floating point processing
High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support
High performance dynamic branching and flow control

Avivo Video and Display Engine

New advanced video capabilities, including high fidelity gamma, color correction and scaling
Max monitors supported 2
Max Resolution (external) 2560 x 1600
Advanced DVI capabilities, including 10-bit, 16-bit HDR output
YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding

NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS cards hit the market soon


Nvidia's Geforce 8800 series cards uses G 80 chip. G 80 is the eighth generation GPU of the Geforce family. These cards will support DirectX 10. DirectX 10 is the new version of direct x 9.0 implemented in Windows Vista by Microsoft. Windows Vista is the only O.S to support DX 10. Windows XP users can not install it. Geforce 8800 series cards supports Shader Model 4.0.

8800 GTX has 128 pixel pipelines clocked at 1350 MHZ and 8800 GTS has 96 pipelines clocked at 1200 MHZ. Where as ATI's X1950XTX has 48 pixel pipelines and Geforce 7900 GTX has 32 pixel pipelines. 8800 GTX requires 450 W power supply where as 8800 GTS requires 400 W power supply.

8800 GTX core clock will be clocked at 575 MHZ where as 8800 GTS core clock will be clocked at 500 MHZ.

8800 GTX cards have 768 MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 MHZ where as 8800 GTS cards have 640 MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 MHZ.

8800 GTX cards have 384 bit memory interface and memory bandwidth of 86Gb/Second where as 8800 GTS cards have 320 bit memory interface and memory bandwidth of 64 GB/Second.