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GeForce GTX 580 released today offers improved performance for PC games.Graphics chip maker Nvidia has today announced the release of its latest high-end graphics chip. The GeForce GTX 580 GPU is the latest iteration of Nvidia’s Fermi architecture, following the launch of the GTX 480 in March.
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Treyarch’s Cold War-era shooter proving as popular as projected, claims studio’s community manager; PS3 and PC figures not announced.
Last night at midnight, Call of Duty: Black Ops hit shelves across the globe. Countless gamers took to the night to pick up a copy of the game projected to sell over 18 million units. And according to a claim made by Treyarch, as of 1 a.m. Pacific Time, over 1 million gamers were logged onto the title…just on Xbox Live.
According to a 1 a.m. Tweet from Treyarch’s community manager Josh Olin, Black Ops went platinum in just its first few hours of availability.
“Am I getting solid intel? Is [sic] there really almost 1,000,000 players on Xbox LIVE right now?? #CODBlackOps #Launch,” he wrote on the social networking site.
Olin did not provide statistics regarding the PlayStation 3 or PC versions of the game.
Black Ops’ single-player campaign follows a group of US commandos undertaking various high-risk covert operations in various Cold War theaters, including Vietnam, Cuba, and Russia. The game features a star-studded voice-acting cast and a soundtrack composed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Sean Murray. It will also see the return of the much-loved zombie mode from Call of Duty: World at War. For more on Call of Duty: Black Ops, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage of the title.
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Ellie, Oli and the Toms rake over Kinect, Call of Duty and NFS.
This is it. This is the apex of 2010. Everything else is downhill after this, and everything before this has been leading up to this moment and exists purely to serve it. We’re not talking about the Eurogamer.net Podcast #44, obviously – we’re talking about this week. The launch of Kinect. The launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Well, that’s what you’re supposed to think anyway. Whether or not you do (we’re quite partial to the week Ellie got married or the one where podcast host Tom Champion ended up in an ice bath at a music festival), this week’s podcast is mostly about these two titanic events – along with discussion of another great game reviewed on the site today, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Stream the Eurogamer.net Podcast:
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Coventry University-based organisation to represent the UK in European research group.The Serious Games Institute, which supports the research and development of videogames in the UK, has announced that it has joined the Gaming And Learning Alliance (GaLA) network.
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Virtual world-building platform looks to OTOY’s streaming technology to provide easier access.TechCrunch is reporting that Hawaii-based developer Avatar Reality will bring its Blue Mars platform to cloud-based servers operated by US-based company OTOY next year.
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“Every game has bugs; it’s a reality of gaming.”
Activision has urged Call of Duty: Black Ops owners to report exploits, server reliability issues and bugs directly to creator Treyarch.
“These are things that the Treyarch development team needs to hear about in order for them to fix them,” Activision’s social media guru Dan Amrich wrote on his blog.
“Every game has bugs; it’s a reality of gaming. And the bigger the game, the more likely you will find bugs that would never even come to light in less popular titles. So the best way to help get rid of those bugs is to share what you’ve learned with the team that has the power and insight to fix them.”
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Is SSX: Deadly Descent about to drop?
Speculation is rampant that a new game in the SSX series is in the works after internet sleuths spotted EA- registered domains relating to the arcade snowboarding franchise.
EA registered five new SSX-related domain names (all spotted by superannuation), which suggest a game called SSX: Deadly Descent exists somewhere deep within the confines of the mega publisher.
One domain registered is for something called SSX First Descent could that be a handheld and/or Wii version?
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Rockstar ready to unveil its game.
Rockstar’s new open world detective game LA Noire will be shown this week.
“The first trailer”, as it’s billed, will arrive at noon on Thursday, 11th November. That’s noon Eastern Time, which means five hours later here: 5pm UK time.
LA Noire was delayed recently to “the first half of calendar 2011”. The game was announced years ago in 2005.
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Activision and Treyarch’s FPS hits the ground amid an aggressive price war.The latest entry in the Call Of Duty franchise launched across Europe and the US today. Major retailers and supermarkets have introduced special offers to promote the release.
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Release windows revealed.
The next Operation Flashpoint game, Red River, will be released at some point between 1st April and the end of June 2011, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.
“I don’t think it does any good to publish in a congested period when everyone’s putting out their shooters,” Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens told Eurogamer.
“A number of leading companies have their fiscal year ends around that time, and so they’ll be firing heavyweights in terms of their product releases to give as much boost to their fiscal year end as they possibly can.
