Duke Nukem Forever Curse Lives On

Here we go again. The Duke Nukem Forever team has fallen victim to the curse of Duke Nukem Forever. Take-Two would like to let you know that Duke has been delayed until June 14th. While they do poke fun at the issue with this video, it still doesn't make any of us Duke fans any happier. We've seen this all before guys...



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Hi-Rez Studios excites older gamers with Tribes: Ascend announcement

Most older PC gamers worth their salt will have some fond memories of Tribes multiplayer sessions back in the day. Hi-Rez Studios has now released their first teaser for their upcoming entry in the series:


Here's what Hi-Rez's Todd Harris had to say about it: “Before Halo, before Modern Warfare, and before Battlefield, there was Tribes. Tribes fans appreciate the game’s essence–athletic FPS combat combined with teamwork and strategy. As we began development of Tribes Universe, we focused first on capturing that essence–refining and modernizing iconic elements like jetpacks, skiing, and vehicles. We’ve had tremendous fun play-testing and realized the potential of a multiplayer focused title ahead of Tribes Universe. The community has been waiting for a multi-player shooter that is the modern successor to T2. Tribes: Ascend is that game.”

It's actually kind of funny when you compare the console giant Halo series to Tribes.
One of Halo 1's big features was vehicle multiplayer combat, oh wait, Tribes had that years previous. Halo: Reach "brought to the table" jet-pack mayhem, what, Tribes had already mastered that too? Aw Shazbot!

No release date has been announced yet, other than simply "2011".

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Steam Guard now available to all users

A few weeks ago during GDC 2011, Steam heart-throb Gabe Newell announced an upcoming Steam security feature called Steam Guard, an additional level of account security to protect your virtual game safe. To use the service, you just need to update to the newest Steam client and be sure that your primary email address is verified. Then, any time you log in from a new computer, Steam will email you a code that you'll need to enter to register that computer on your account. If you get an email from a computer that you didn't lot in from, then you'll know someone else is trying to access your account. Easy peasy.

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Logitech finally retires their Z-5500 speakers, replaces with Z906

Logitech released their Z-5500 speaker system way back in 2004. They've been riding the wave of having arguable the best set of computer speakers available ever since then without ever refreshing the model throughout all those years. Well that impressive run has finally come to an end. Logitech has now announced their new speaker system, the Z906. Like the Z-5500, the Z906 will be THX-certified and have a surround-sound DAC capable of decoding Dolby Digital & DTS streams over either digital optical or coaxial cables. Unfortunately it doesn't add features such as HDMI pass-through with the ability to decode the Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio tracks from sources like Blu-ray players.

The amp will fire out a total of 500 watts RMS, 67w to each satellite and 165w to the ported subwoofer. Also similar to the Z-5500, the Z906 will have an infrared remote and control pod to handle volume control, levels, inputs, etc. Interestingly this new pod doesn't have an LCD screen like previous Logitech speaker systems have had.

The Z906 ships later this month for $399.99.

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Crytek Showcases CryEngine 3's Next-Gen Capabilities

Not to be outdone by Epic's Unreal Engine 3 demo this year at GDC 2011, Crytek showed off some gorgeous footage of what CryEngine3 can do. Their video is geared a little more towards developers than the UE3 one was, but that doesn't make the effects they show off any less impressive. Enjoy more amazing graphics that current-gen consoles could only dream of being able to give you.


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Epic shows off new Unreal Engine 3 upgrades in GDC tech demo

Last week at GDC 2011, Epic brought some heat with their new tech demo of the improvements that they've made to the very popular Unreal Engine 3. Oddly they didn't introduce it as UE4, as the visual effects in this trailer are leaps and bounds better than what we're used to seeing from the engine. Although maybe that's because most of the UE3 games are targeted for consoles, and the PC versions are held back from looking this good because of porting. Either way check it out, previously there was just a leaked camcorder quality video of the footage, but now IGN has posted the direct HD video for our enjoyment:


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Google pushes out Chrome 10

It was barely a month ago that Google released Chrome version 9 with various improvements and performance upgrades, but they're back again to unleash version 10 fresh out of beta today. What gifts have they given in this iteration? Well, more speed of course, including a 66 percent improvement in JavaScript performance on the V8 benchmark suite. There's also a new settings interface that is loaded in it's own tab in the browser instead of in a window like you're used to.



You can also now synchronize your saved web passwords with installs of Chrome across different computers. Google has also extended it's sandboxing tech to the integrated
Flash player in Chrome to better guard against malicious websites.



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