News Roundup: Super Street Fighter City Life

by: Randy - posted: 6/26/2008 1:11:00 AM

Demos

• AtomicGamer mirrored the demo for the combat racing game, Death Track: Resurrection.

Articles

• Defunct Games is celebrating 20 years (and rating all 15 games) of the Ninja Gaiden series. 
• "Proper competition" is now coming from AMD in the mid-range scheme of things with the ASUS EAH4850 512MB card.
• TheTechLounge had a tough time getting out a review for the Shuttle KPC K45 Barebones System since they "had entirely too grand a time playing with this little Linux wonder."
• Champions Online has been putting out a consistent schedule of developer interviews, and today it's Acting Quality Assurance Lead Tester Alan Salmassian.
• Rage3D is back with the performance numbers for their ATi HD 4850 Single Card DX10 tests.
• Legit Reviews is getting to the bottom of whether or not NVIDIA PhysX drivers are cheating on 3DMark Vantage.
• ActionTrip reviews LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and gives the blocky adventure hero an 8.1 out of 10.
• Digit-Life decided that "some people make seriously like this little curiosity [the AMD Phenom X3 8750]."
• For the first retail graphics card using GDDR5 memory, check out Legit Reviews review of the HIS Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire Video Card.
• I guess the sense of humor only brought it near to greatness:  AtomicGamer reviews Battlefield: Bad Company with a B+.
• Rage3D plunges into the ATi RV770 for an architecture overview; plus they discuss ATi's new Cinema 2.0 venture.
• For a simple-to-set-up home NAS, Tweaknews reviewed the Thecus N3200 RAID 5 Three Bay NAS Network Attached System.
• Techgage has got a CPU Cooler Roundup -- 22 Models Tackle Our QX6850.

Videos

• Red Faction: Guerrilla Developer Diary Video (QT)
• International Athletics PSP Trailer
• Blood Bowl Teaser Video (AVI HD, WMV, QT)
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Vaan & Penelo, Heritor, Black Rider, Summon Ultima (QT)

Screenshots

• Gears of War 2 (360)
• Fallout 3 (PC)
• Dark Horizon (PC)
• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
• City Life: Edition 2008 (PC)
• Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches (PC)
• Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009
• Blood Bowl
• Fallen Empire: Legions (PC)
• Major Minor's Majestic March (Wii)
• Roogoo (PC)
• NBA LIVE 09 (Multi)
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (360)
• Celetania (PC) [S.E.C.C.T.S. ships]
• Sword of the New World: Granado Espada (PC) [Nocturnal Sonata screen & art]
• Wakfu (PC)
• Elite Forces: Unit 77 (DS)

Thanks to Techgage, TheTechLounge, Cryptic Studios, Rage3D, Legit Reviews, ActionTrip, AtomicGamer, Digit-Life, and Tweaknews for today's news roundup.