GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news en Copyright 2006, Radoslav Krehlik, Box Network Ltd. All rights reserved. hx_at_ggmania.com hx_at_ggmania.com (Radoslav Krehlik) http://www.ggmania.com/ 2010-03-10T01:19:53+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28641 Battlestar Galactica Web-game Revealed - The game itself is being developed by BigPoint which operates a lot of free-to-play browser based games. The company is opening up a US office in San Fransisco this year. Battlestar Galactica Online is expect to launch sometime in the fall of 2010 on the Syfy.com web site for ahx 2010-03-09T12:25:33+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28640Bioware has released the Dragon Age Origins patch 1.03 (direct FTP link / Steam) which is the third patch update to the game. The patch includes few updates: - Various changes have been made to code and resources to support the Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening expansion pack. Most of these changes do not affect hx 2010-03-09T02:46:35+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28639Sega\'s European Blog has news about the first $DLC multiplayer maps for Aliens vs. Predator: The first downloadable content for Aliens vs Predator will shortly be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. Featuring 4 new maps for different multiplayer modes, previously only available in the Special Editions,hx 2010-03-09T02:21:07+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28638Ubisoft has released a new gameplay video for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, showcasing the next installment in the Prince of Persia series. The game is slated for release on May 14th, 2010 on PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, Wii and DS. hx 2010-03-09T02:17:05+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28637Square Enix has now released a playable (standalone) demo of Just Cause 2, allowing you to try out the sequel developed by Avalanche Studios and set to be available on March 23rd, 2010, in North America and March 26th, 2010, in Europe. The 1GB download is mirrored on AtomicGamer, CGO.ro and GH.hx 2010-03-09T02:12:34+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28636Tom Petersen Director of Technical Mkt at NVIDIA describes how the performance of GeForce GTX 480 compares to existing solution. Tom also offers a quick peak at how 3DVision Surround is pushing PC gaming forward: hx 2010-03-09T02:06:48+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28635Gas Powered Games and Chris Taylor bring us Video Blog #4 for \'Kings and Castles. This time he invades the cubical of the lead artist of their upcoming fantasy RTS title where he shows off an early character model from the game. hx 2010-03-08T22:28:13+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28634 The chaps over at TechSpot ran some benchmarks on a range of graphics cards putting Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to the test. Here\'s a bit: Although Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a very demanding game, it is not nearly as horrible on hardware as Crysis. For example, at 2560x1600 using maximum visual quality settings withhx 2010-03-08T22:23:11+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28633DICE posted another update on the Battlefield Blog explaining the current status of the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 servers across all platforms: After optimizations and restarts yesterday, we had been stable across all platforms. Unfortunately, we encountered another outage at approximately 9:30 AM PST today. - X360 was sehx 2010-03-08T22:19:11+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28632The Ubisoft Forums have various posts from customers (thanks BluesNews) who were unable to play games protected by Ubisoft\'s online DRM yesterday because the DRM servers were offline: Posted Sun March 07 2010 03:16 So i finished the game yesterday, had no problems with the DRM at all, tried to get in today again, and it faihx 2010-03-08T22:14:04+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28631Head\'s Up! Display have posted their impressions after playing the first level of God of War III. Here\'s a taster: ages as the sea god’s vicious crab-horse monster goes to town on the mother of creation. As you begin your aerial acrobatics, it’s hard to keep focused, as everything around you looks amazing. The amohx 2010-03-08T22:09:38+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28630It\'s official, Valve is bringing Steam to Mac. To coincide with the Mac launch Valve is introducing \'Steam Play\' which will allow anyone to purchase and play their games on Windows or Mac, free of charge. Steam and Valve\'s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life sehx 2010-03-07T17:11:58+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28629The Battlefield Blog offers some information about what they are doing to solve the disconnect problems: After last nights EA server outage on PS3 and PC, EA have found the issue and put a fix in place and brought the servers back online. This means that both PS3 and PC players can return back to playing Bad Comphx 2010-03-06T18:41:11+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28628 Intel launches Core i7-930, Atom N470 CPUs - Intel\'s finally concocted a replacement for the Core i7-920, the last remaining Bloomfield CPU from Intel\'s November 2008 launch. The Core i7-930 runs at 2.8GHz, with 8MB of L3 cache and 4.8 GT/sec QPI interface. Intel\'s list price is $294, $10 more than the Corhx 2010-03-06T13:14:07+01:00http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28627 Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light First Look - GameSpot has a preview with a few new screenshots for the latest Lara Croft adventure. Abandoning her roots as a 3D action adventure Tomb Raider series, the recently announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is going to take the heroine in an entirely new directionhx