Gaming

Call of Duty 4 - HD Trailer

Tariq — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:41:19 GMT

A Call of Duty 4 trailer seems to have surfaced at E3. The good news, its not WWII anymore (thank god). From what I gather the time frame the game is set in is today in an alternate reality where there is a war in Ukraine. There is no indiciation whether the oppositions is terrorist regime, or an evil empire. In fact the premise to the story is a bit emptying, all that is shown is a post chenobyll era with a terrorist style opposition in Ukraine.

Check it out: http://gametrailers.com/player/21256.html

Technorati tags: Call of Duty 4, FPS, Game

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

MMORPG -Lord of the Rings Online Uses .NET

Tariq — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:47:00 GMT

Lord of the Rings Online, a MMORPG from Turbine apparently uses .NET. The system requirements explicitly say so. I am not sure what parts of the game are .NET and which are native code, but I assume that the launcher is written in .NET and I did spy some resource assemblies being downloaded in the update process. The version of .NET required is 1.1 with Service Pack 1. Which means on a Vista box framework 1.1 gets installed in the LOTRO setup.

Hmm need to explore more.

Anyway's here is 2 incriminating screens.

By the way, the public beta for the game is open.

Technorati tags: MMORPG, Lord of the Rings, Online, LOTR, LOTRO, .NET, Gaming

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

ATI Debuts 1st External Graphics Card

Tariq — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:53:00 GMT

At CES ATI has lifted the covers off of their first external graphics card. This gives new hope to laptop users who want to be l33t on some of them games J

I remember plans along these lines being announced sometime last year.

Heres the link: http://pcexposure.com/2007/01/06/asus-unveils-xg-station-the-worlds-first-external-graphics-card-for-laptops/

Diig it

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Games to come in 2007

Tariq — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:55:00 GMT

Theres this massive post on the Gamepsot Forums about all the games to come in 2007 (screenshots included).

Note: I counted atleast 5 games on the UT3 engine. looks like epic has beaten the boys at valve hands down.. pity.

Link: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php...

p.s. Live Writer has been mangling links that I post, so I hope these links go through. If not here it is in plain text.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24525221

tags: 2007, Gamespot, games

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Using the WII-Mote to play HL2 on a PC

Tariq — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:46:00 GMT

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asY_I8y6C0M

Its pretty cool.

tags: HL2, wii, wii controller, wiimote

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

NFS Carbon - Single Player is Dissapointing

Tariq — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:36:00 GMT

EA might have put in a lot of work in to NFS Carbon, but it really doesn't show. The single player campaign was very short. The story was really shallow. and overall the game wasnt very immersive.

Another thing that is odd is that EA put in quite a few sweet muscle cars into the game, but took out the drag races. Whats the use of muscle cars if there are no drag races?

On the positive there is much larger online experience in the game, but if not for that the game aint so great.

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Managed Direct X Game - Panzer Command

Tariq — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:03:00 GMT

Koios Works have a game called Panzer Command that uses Managed Direct X.

This is cool, its the first production game I know of that is written in .NET.

tags: .NET, Game, Panzer Command, Managed Direct X

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

In Gaming News Today

Tariq — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:28:00 GMT

A brief glimpse at the Next Need For Speed - Carbon (comming out on all platforms)

and

An AOE3 Sequel - Warchiefs

Nice thing to look forward to this holidays.

Technorati : AOE3, Carbon, NFS, RTS, Warchiefs

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Rainbow 6 Lockdown - not so Rainbow 6ish

Tariq — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:41:00 GMT

I just got my hands on Rainbow 6 Lockdown and spent a couple of hours with it.

My opinion so far, its not so emmersive as the earlier games.This game falls short of all what Rainbow 6, Rogue Spear, Convert Ops built up.

I was a big fan of the mission planning apect of the game. But this lockdown its more like SWAT. I dont want just another SWAT game, there was a reason why R6 rocked, and thats missing from this one.

Lets hope LasVegas will deliver, but I wouldnt bet on it.

By the way, theres going to be Rainbow 6 movie that is supposed to come out in 2007

Technorati : Game, Lockdown, Rainbow 6

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Rehab for Gamers?

Tariq — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:24:00 GMT

I first heard about this on Tim Absath's blog (yeah hes the super duper cartoonist behind Ctrl+Alt+Del). He does give a pretty accurate run down on video game addiction if you might call it that.

Then again it was on Lockergnome, no sorry Real TechNews.

Technorati : Gaming