http://www.ggmania.com/RSS/RSS.php GGMania RSS - Daily Gaming/Technology News en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:19:53 CET Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:19:53 CET Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:19:53 CET http://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 a... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28641 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:25:33 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28640 Bioware 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: -andandVarious changes have been made to code and resources to support the Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening expansion pack. Most of these changes do not affect ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28640 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:46:35 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28639 Sega'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, ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28639 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:21:07 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28638 Ubisoft 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. ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28638 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:17:05 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28637 Square 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.... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28637 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:12:34 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28636 Tom 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: ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28636 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:06:48 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28635 Gas 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. ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28635 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:28:13 CET http://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 with ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28634 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:11 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28633 DICE 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 se... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28633 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:11 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28632 The 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 fail... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28632 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:14:04 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28631 Head'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 amoun... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28631 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:09:38 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28630 It'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 series... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28630 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:11:58 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28629 The Battlefield Blog offersandandsome 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 Comp... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28629 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:41:11 CET http://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.andandIntel's list price is $294, $10 more than the Core i... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28628 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:14:07 CET http://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 direction... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28627 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:49:10 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28626 Wargaming.net today released a playable demo of Order of War: Challenge, allowing you to try out their soon-to-be-availableandandstand-alone add-on for its World War II real-time strategy game Order of War. *andand12 Unique Multiplayer Maps - Each map features different types of cross-country terrain and urban ar... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28626 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:16:46 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28625 NHN Corporation announced today that it has signed a publishing deal on a major new title in development at Polygon Games, known currently under the codename Project E:st. A fantasy MMORPG with an Asian theme, Project E:st will use Crytek's award-winning CryENGINE 2, and Crytek will be showcasing a trailer of the game ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28625 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:37:39 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28624 2K Games today announced that Solutions Tester Pack, the first downloadable content expansion for their first person shooter sequel BioShock 2, will be made available to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners next Thursday, March 11 at 400 Microsoft Points / $4.99. Expanding the game's multiplayer, the 'Sinclair Solutio... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28624 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:25:14 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28623 Valve officially announced plans to release Portal 2, the sequel to Valve's unique puzzle-action game that was first released in 2007 as part of The Orange Box game collection. Few other details on the puzzle-shooter sequel were revealed, though Game Informer notes that it is ;a stand-alone, full-price retail rel... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28623 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:58:20 CET http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28622 2K Games has released a new trailer for Mafia II. Once due in fall 2009, Mafia II's PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 release is now slated for some time between August 1 and October 31, 2010. ... http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=28622