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Thursday, 7 November 2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts sell-in hits $1 billion

Activision also expects game to be most successful launch title for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 "by a wide margin."


Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Ghosts generated $1 billion in worldwide revenue on launch day.

Activision specifically noted in its announcement that it "sold more than $1 billion of Call of Duty: Ghosts into retail stores worldwide as of day one," meaning the figure is made up of units sold to retailers and not necessarily sales to consumers.

By comparison, Call of Duty: Black Ops II needed 15 days to reach $1 billion in sales, though that figure included units sold to consumers and not only to retailers.
Citing data from Microsoft, Activision also announced that Call of Duty: Ghosts has moved to the top spot on Xbox Live as the most-played game this week.

On the Xbox 360, average play sessions for Call of Duty: Ghosts have been longer than Black Ops II or Modern Warfare 3 over the same period, Activision said.

Looking ahead to the game's release at launch for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said Call of Duty: Ghosts will be more successful than all others.

"This is the must have launch title for the next generation of consoles, and we expect Call of Duty: Ghosts to be the most successful launch title for the Xbox One and PS4 by a wide margin."

Call of Duty: Ghosts is GameStop's most preordered next-generation game, Hirshberg said, citing data from the retailer.
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V generated $800 million on day-one and $1 billion in three days. Notably, however, those figures are based on units sold to consumers.

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GTA 5 stimulus packages starting delivery today

If you played, GTA 5 in October, you're getting some (in-game) money through direct deposit in the next 48 hours.


Rockstar announced today that stimulus package payments have started going out to all Grand Theft Auto Onlineplayers who logged into the game in October 2013.
You may recall that the online version of GTA hit an unexpected hiccup early in October that caused connection issues and loss of character progress for many players. The $500,000 recompense will be delivered to players' in-game accounts through direct deposit.
Rockstar added, "We expect that it will take up to two full days for the Stimulus Package to be fully delivered to the entire player base from October 2013, so please be patient if you do not see it appearing in your in-game bank account just yet."


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Red Harbinger Cross PC Desk

After a long design and development period, a full retail version of forum-member Peter Brands' (l3p) desk PC has finally been made available for pre-order in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.

The desk is based on Brands' Mod Of The Year winning desk PC, the aptly titled l3p desk. After winning the award Brands and six other compatriots set about creating a commercially viable desk PC case design, a process which was also logged on the forums. The result is a company called Red Harbinger, and its first product called simply the Cross. 

The design consists of a powder-coated metal desk into which is mounted space to fit two PCs, with two motherboard mounts (via a forthcoming Dual PC upgrade kit) along with loads of drive bays and space for other components, plus a plethora of ventilation grilles cut into the sides. This is all topped with scratch-resistant glass for easy viewing of your PC.

The cost? Well in the US the desk is on offer for $1,699, with those of us in Europe seeing a $390 flat rate shipping charge added on top bringing the total to $2,089 or around £1,350. Given some top-end PC cases retail for over £400 and a well made desk will be just as much, the price isn't unreasonable for what you're getting. 

We've seen a few instances of community-designed products making the leap from custom-made to mass-manufactured. And given the interest surrounding Brands' original desk design, it's no surprise that his L3p desk was snapped up with the promise of a retail version soon after. 

Take a look at the full specs below as well as the gallery and don't forget to let us know your thoughts in the forum. All we can say is WANT.

Specifications
  • Material: Steel and Aluminum, Powder Coated
  • PSUMount: 1 standard
  • Max PSU Mounts: 2*
  • Motherboard Compatibility: mITX, ITX, mATX, ATX, E-ATX†, XL-ATX†, SSI-EEB†, HPTX†
  • Standard Expansion Slots: 8, 10†
  • Maximum Expansion Slots: 8+8*, 10†+8*
  • 5.25” Drive Bays: 4 (2x2)
  • 3.5” Drive Locations: 8 (left side) + 12 (right side)
  • 2.5” Drive Locations: 6 (right side) + 12 (center, hidden)
  • Glass Type: Scratch Resistant, Tempered with Frosted Border, 10mm
  • Front Ports: USB 3.0 x 2, Audio, Mic, 22mm Power and Switch x 2
  • Max Front Ports: USB 3.0 x 4, Audio x 2, Mic x 2, 22mm Power and Switch x 4*
  • Cooling Fan Locations: 120mm x 3 (left), 120mm x 3 (right), 120mm x 8 (back)
  • Physical Dimensions (L x W x H): 59.1” x 28.6” x 30.1” (1502mm x 726mm x 765mm)
  • FEATURES:
  • Max GPU Length: 300mm standard (480mm with drive cage removed), 480mm†
  • Max CPU Cooler Height: 153mm
  • Covered Back PSU/Cooling Compartment
  • Optional Interior Leg-Mounted Shelving
  • Optional Interior Leg Mounted Headset Mount
  • Modular Tray System allows for conversion to Single/Dual/HPTX
  • Hollow Legs and Body Frame for optimal cable management and lighting.
  • Bottom Access Panels for cable management
  • Hidden Center Bridge compartment for 2.5” drives






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Wednesday, 6 November 2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Battlebox: 4K Gaming PC


Nvidia's outrageously high-end 'Battlebox' PCs focus on compromise-free 4K gaming


Don’t call it a Steam Machine! While Valve’s itty-bitty, living room-focused computers have been hogging the spotlight over the past week, Nvidia’s going big with its new ‘Battlebox’ initiative.
The graphics gurus have joined forces with a bevy of top-notch boutique builders to unleash a line of hulking, fire-breathing gaming PCs designed to play the latest and greatest shooters at whopping 4K resolutions without batting an eye.
Each entry in the Battlebox line rocks at least a pair of Nvidia’s high-end GeForce Titan or GTX 780 video cards running in SLI, paired with overclocked Intel Core i5 or i7 processors, and abundant amounts of RAM. (Hey, it takes powerful hardware to push all the pixels processed at 4K resolutions.)

Nvidia claims that the heavy-duty Battleboxes manage to pump out an impressive 45 to 60 frames per second at 4K resolution with super-high detail settings and all of Nvidia’s proprietary bells and whistles—such as PhysX and TXAA anti-aliasing—enabled. That’s mighty impressive, and a clear dig at AMD’s audacious, console- and PC-spanning Mantle technology.
Nvidia specifically calls the graphics capabilities of Battleboxes “console-destroying,” though we’ve long known that top-end PC rigs would crush next-gen consoles—and they’d better, given the price of a Battlebox.
Simply put, glorious, compromise-free 4K gaming doesn’t come cheap. The rigs offered by the boutique partners Nvidia highlighted—Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Maingear, and Origin—start at over $2,000, and the most ridiculously top-of-the-line machines—like a fully pimped-out Digital Storm Aventum II—can set you back more than $10,000.
And no, that doesn’t include the cost of a 4K monitor itself. While the boutique builders will offer the 31.5-inch, 4K Asus PQ321Q display alongside Battleboxes, the monitor will cost you another $3,500. Alternatively, you could downsample the 4K video to work with your current 1080p, 1900-by-1200, or 2560-by-1440 monitor; it won’t be quite the same as native 4K, but it’ll still provide a big graphics boost, as evidenced by the screenshot below.
No matter how you pump out the visuals, there’s no question that Nvidia’s Battleboxes pack a nearly overwhelming amount of firepower. Sure, they’ll cost you an arm, a leg, and your firstborn child, but this is just about as future-proof as a PC can be—and it’s utterly wonderful to see companies basking in the raw, unadulterated potential of PC gaming.
If you’re not one of the PC-playing one percent, PCWorld has a guide to building a killer gaming PC for under $1,000. It won’t go toe-to-toe with a Battlebox, but it’ll rock your socks on a 1080p display.

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No co-op in Battlefield 4


CO-op is cut from BF4 because the developer wants to focus on singleplayer and multiplayer.

So far we’ve only seen the singleplayer portion of Battlefield 4 — all 17 minutes of it. DICE and EA are opting to start with the singleplayer unveiling, just as they did with BF3. While the player assumes the role of a soldier in a squad in Battlefield 4, there won’t be a any co-op feature, DICE confirmed.
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Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Best Budget Gaming PC Build


Core Component Details

At the end of last year, our budget AMD build featured the AMD FX-4170 Zambezi based Quad Core CPU, which to this day is still a decent processor for a mid-range gaming PC. However, one year later for slightly less amount of money, we can now go with the more powerful AMD FX-6300 Black Edition, which will serve our needs even better, especially as games become more and more multi-threaded down the line.
The AMD FX-6300 Black Edition is a 6-core processor based off of AMD’s Vishera architecture, which is a better performing, more efficient architecture than the Zambezi architecture that preceded it. The newer FX-6300 CPU is capable of a base clocks of 3.5GHz and a turbo clock of up to 4.1GHz as well as the having the capability of overclocking even higher depending on cooling and luck.

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Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Nvidia cuts high-end graphics card prices to fight AMD

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Nvidia cuts high-end graphics card prices to fight AMD


In a textbook example of why competition is good, Nvidia has dropped the price on two of its high-end graphics cards, presumably to keep up with rival AMD.
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 780 (shown above) is getting the largest price cut, from $649 to $499. That makes it $50 cheaper than AMD’s comparable R9 290X.
The less-expensive Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 is also getting a price cut, from $399 to $329. AMD still hangs onto a cost advantage here, with the comparable Radeon R9 280X retailing for $299.
To sweeten the deal, Nvidia is giving away a few free games with its high-end cards when purchased from select retailers, along with $50 to $100 off the purchase of an Nvidia Shield handheld.
PC Perspective reports that the price drops on Nvidia’s cards should go live by Tuesday on Amazon and Newegg.

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