Wolfenstein 3D, the software who may be considered the pioneer of the first person shotter games, has tons of features that you might have not discovered yet. Joystiq presents an unique video trailer of Wolfenstein entitled “”featurette”, which shows only the notable features of this game, regarding the characters motion options, weapons construction and functionality, video rendering techniques and more.
A new version of linuX-gamers live 0.95 was just announced at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin. This Linux distribution is a live system working on CD, DVD or USB drives, powered by Arch Linux. The live media contains a collection of various games, automatically running directly from a CD, DVD or an USB drive, without the need to install Linux on your machine. Therefore, the user does not need to know nothing about installing Linux, just how to play addicting 3D games. You can also successfully play these games from within Windows.
In an announcement made at E3 Expo 2009 edition, Microsoft informs that Xbox Live will integrate Twitter and Facebook social networking services starting from this fall. A recent press release from Microsoft revealed the impressive number of Xbox Live active members (over 20 million), which denotes the existence of a highly active community of console games players. As a consequence, the addition of social networking features to console gaming seems to be welcomed.
Rob Alvarez, Product Marketing Manager at PlayStation.com has just announced the launching of a new space in PlayStation Home entitled BUZZ! HQ. Here players can chat and meet up with other trivia fans in a new lobby area or take part in a massive 64-player BUZZ!.
As the official mark of worldwide users of Xbox 360 consoles has passed 30million and in the same time the Xbox Live community gathered more than 20 million active members, now Xbox 360 funs can also have premium live television directly on their games console. Sky’s online TV service, will be delivered to Xbox LIVE in the autumn of 2009, permitting users to access various channels and programs to view live or on-demand, due to Xbox 360 and Sky ground-breaking partnership.
Id Software, Inc., the developer of the the well known games Wolfenstein, DOOM, QUAKE and Enemy Territory, has just made available for public the new web browser based game QUAKE LIVE, as open beta. The game can be played free of charge directly in a web browser, on computers having Windows XP or Vista operating systems and Internet Explorer 7, FireFox 2.0 or higher installed, only with the help of an ActiveX plugin which ensures the automatic update of the game files on client side, without the need of supplementary downloads and installation of patches or updates.
The nVIDIA ForceWare software ensures for nVIDIA hardware an optimal level of compatibility and stability in case of resources intensive games or multimedia applications by providing the best 3D and video performance on Windows operating system. Recently, a new version of NVIDIA ForceWare WHQL drivers (182.06) for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows Vista were released. This WHQL driver is compatible with GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 and 200-series desktop GPUs.
A $500 millions movie, Ghostbusters will represent the start point for a new game release from Atari in 2009: “Ghostbusters: The Video Game”. In collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc. and Terminal Reality, Atari will make the game available to the public at the 25th Anniversary of the Ghostbusters original theatrical release. (more…)
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