John Carmack delivers his keynote at QuakeCon 2012.
The Total Recall remake is out today, so you can all go see it. Or better yet, just pick up the 1990 film and watch that instead. Or maybe forget films altogether and just read the short story.
Check out the premiere trailer showcasing the snow-capped Alborz Mountain as well as the open terrain found in the Bandar Desert, the largest map in Battlefield history.
Coming this September, Battlefield 3: Armored Kill is the next digital expansion pack in the Battlefield 3 series and introduces a host of exclusive in-game content, new vehicles, assignments and more.
Taking vehicular mayhem to the next level as only Battlefield can, Battlefield 3: Armored Kill features 5 new drivable vehicles including mobile artillery, tanks, ATV’s complete with over 20 vehicle specific unlocks. Players will also have the ability to spawn in the all-new gunship and rain death from above.
Battlefield 3: Armored Kill also introduces a brand new mode to the Battlefield franchise, Tank Superiority, where heavy vehicles clash in order to control key areas of the map.
What is up with the recent trend of revisiting 90s science fiction action movies? First we get a new Total Recall movie which has no reason to exist, and now we get a new Judge Dredd movie. However unlike the Total Recall remake, I can get behind Dredd. The original Total Recall was great, and I doubt the new one can do it justice. However the original Judge Dredd film was only decent (actually bad in some spots), and I know they could do a much better job with it. I am hoping this one turns out good.
Other good news for Judge Dredd fans is that they are finally releasing the original film on Blu-Ray. The DVD release was a horrible transfer, so hopefully this one will look pretty good. I know I will be picking it up.
I wonder what will be next? Perhaps a new Demolition Man…
I was digging around my closet looking for old junk to throw out and I came across some old PC hardware. This Voodoo3 3,000 was my very first graphics card. It brings back a lot of great memories of late 90s PC Gaming. It was an age of great innovation, with a lot more competition in the graphics card industry.
I remember buying Aliens vs Predator and being shocked that I had to then buy something called a “graphics accelerator” to get it working. Once I got this card installed, I knew I would be a PC gamer for life. AvP looked and ran amazing, and Starsiege: Tribes stopped looking grainy and gained colored lighting. This is the card that I first experienced Half-Life, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament and System Shock 2 on. It was a great card for what it was. Looking back, its only downfall was that it didn’t support 32-bit color. I didn’t mind it at the time though, since I had no idea what I was missing out on.
3dfx managed to stick around until October 2002 when it filed for bankruptcy. Much of its intellectual assets and many employees were acquired by Nvidia. A majority of the 3dfx engineering and design team working on “Rampage” (the successor to the Voodoo4 line) that remained with the transition worked on what became the GeForce FX series.