Raven Software is giving away autographed Singularity poster's on Twitter this week. Must have a US mailing address to win. Contest ends at 5pm CST each
each day. All you have to do to enter is RT the Tweet below.
AMD's ATI graphics division is doing things a little earlier than normal this month with the release of their regular monthly update to its Catalyst drivers for their Radeon graphics chips. The 10.6 version of the drivers are now available to download via the AMD Game web site.
The release notes for the 10.6 drivers reveals that the new version has a number of PC games that get performance boosts if you have a CrossfireX PC set-up. Among the games that get some performance... [Read More]
Yesterday it popped on my Twitter that Manveer Heir, lead designer of an "unknown project" is leaving Raven Software. After a full 5 years of progressing and working on several titles like Wolfenstein, X-Men legends 2 and a few others.
You can track his 5 years in the Gaming industry on his blog, by reading this you'll notice that he took the decision around may. Read the full story here: ... [Read More]
Raven Software used to be one of Activision's biggest and most visible internal game developers. However the Madison, Wisconsin-based company has had a rocky history in the past couple of years. In 2009 it released two titles for Activision (X-Men Origins Wolverine and Wolfenstein) that got mediocre reviews and sales. The developer also suffered some layoffs that year that cut down their dev teams from three to two groups. Their upcoming game, the first person shooter Singularity, is due for... [Read More]
Assuming GameFocus' anonymous "trusted source" is to be believed, Microsoft may be expanding the Xbox 360's streaming video services in North America by 2011.
Similar to the Sky TV Player available to Xbox 360 owners in Europe, the functionality would allow Xbox 360 owners in the United States and Canada to watch live television through the console. Furthermore, the source claims that the service would... [Read More]
If there's one thing that Commander Shepard, Nathan Drake, Agent 47, Marcus Fenix, and ... uhh ... Mega Man all have in common, it's not just that they're all video game characters -- they're also all white dudes. And Raven Software's Manveer Heir takes umbrage with that fact (and, more importantly, the fact that being caucasian is a rather pervasive theme across game characters), telling Develop in a recent interview that "There are a large number of hispanic and black children playing... [Read More]
Beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific time Thursday February 4th, we will be performing software maintenance on some Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last three hours at most, putting the end of the window at 9:00 pm Pacific time.
Some Steam services will be offline during this time. Affected services will include the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not... [Read More]
When Dell and its Alienware unit announced the Alienware M11x gaming laptop at CES last month we were genually thrilled. The promise of a small-ish laptop (11 inch display and 4.5 pounds) that could run even high end PC games well would seem to be the Holy Grail. Now comes word that the product is available for sale at Dell's online store.
The starting price for the product is $799. That gets you a PC with a Intel Pentium SU4100 at 1.3GHz and a 2MB Cache, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M... [Read More]
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