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Call of Duty: Black Ops and FIFA 11 fend off World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, which lands at number three.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops and FIFA 11 fend off World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, which lands at number three.
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A demo of the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2 will be released on the European PlayStation Network on 22nd December, EA has announced.
EA failed to mention the content of the demo. We’re checking now.
Mass Effect 2 PS3 will launch in Europe on 21st January a year after the release of the Xbox 360 version.
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Activision shooter still on top; decent debut for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Call of Duty: Black Ops retains its top slot in the UK chart for the week ending December 11.
PC expansion World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the highest new entry in the top 10, making its debut at number three.
Retro Studios’ Wii platformer Donkey Kong Country Returns moves up to number eight after only reaching 13th spot in its week of release.
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Solid state tech gets you racing faster.
Installing an SSD flash drive to your PlayStation 3 can radically cut down the loading times in Polyphony Digital’s PS3 magnum opus, Gran Turismo 5.
Testing by “Phil” on the Beyond3D forum reveals that in many cases pre-race loading is cut by more than 50 per cent, making the lengthy wait between events that much more tolerable. In all test cases within GT5, there is a considerable improvement.
The experiments were performed on two PS3s – the SSD (a state-of-the-art Corsair F120) was installed into a standard “fat” PlayStation 3, while the hard drive measurements were carried out on a stock PS3 Slim. The improvements in loading performance are somewhat significant, as Phil’s results reveal.
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Final instalment in Bioware’s sci-fi trilogy set for 2011 release.Bioware confirmed at Saturday’s Spike VGA awards that the hotly anticipated Mass Effect 3 will be out in 2011.
While the original Mass Effect was exclusive to the Xbox 360, with its sequel still awaiting release on PlayStation 3 – it will finally hit European shelves on January 21, 2011 – EA has confirmed that the final part of Bioware’s sci-fi trilogy will release simultaneously on 360, PS3 and PC, according to IGN.
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Bethesda confirms Oblivion’s followup for a November 2011 release; will run on a shiny new engine.As we reported earlier, Saturday’s Spike Video Game Awards saw a raft of new videogame announcements. Arguably the most exciting of all was Bethesda’s confirmation that a new Elder Scrolls is on the way.
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DF dissects Sony’s patent application.
The PS3 blogosphere is alive with reports that PlayStation 3 is set to be beefed up with the release of a new Cell co-processor, based on a recently unearthed patent application located by FreePatentsOnline. However, such reports appear to be a combination of wishful thinking and a fanciful interpretation of the paperwork released by SCE.
The patent itself is pretty much self-explanatory: Sony is looking to protect the means by which it plans to interface multiple “mini-Cell” processors for potential workstations, home PCs – and yes – games consoles. In the example application given in the patent documentation, the CPU itself consists of a single PPU main processor, just like the PS3, but only has four SPUs – one of which is dedicated to encrypting and decrypting the traffic across the bus to the other “mini-Cells”.
The notion of multiple Cells working together in a distributed computing network is nothing new. In fact, it was one of the core philosophies of PlayStation architect Ken Kutaragi, and he discussed it at length during the run-up to the PS3’s launch. He envisaged a world where multiple Cell-based devices could talk to each other and create a giant super-computer network. This “new” patent simply seems to be a technical explanation of how, potentially, Cell-based systems could communicate with one another.
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Has been in development for two years.
Insomniac Games has promised fans of Resistance multiplayer a much better experience from the third game in the series.
Resistance 3’s multiplayer was described as “new, improved” by Insomniac community manager James Stevenson, reported by the Examiner.
“It’s a more focused experience, progression-based, and takes place in maps located around the world,” he said. The game has been in development for two years, and is “playable start to finish on disc”.
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Golden Sun eclipsed.
Activision’s money-maker has beaten its other money-maker: Call of Duty: Black Ops remains top of the UK charts while World of Warcraft: Cataclysm spends a first week in third.
Had Blizzard not sold World of Warcraft’s third expansion direct from Battle.net, however, the result might have been different.
FIFA 11 is sandwiched between them in second.