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Less than a week after the launch of the GTX 480, NVIDIA has announced that the next series of graphics cards based on the Fermi architecture is already in the works - the 500 Series. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 will be the first to launch and will feature 580 CUDA cores to go along with its "580" moniker and have a whopping 2560MB of 384-bit GDDR5 memory. The rest of the specifications …

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Direct2Drive’s published a set of minimum specs for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Got an Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 or better? You’re laughing.

These aren’t the official specs, obviously, but we’re assuming D2D didn’t just invent them. We’ll tap up Activision and see what happens.

Here’s the lot:

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TPCG.com sister site, NowGamer, has unearthed some interesting gossip courtesy of industry analyst Michael Pachter: Trade-ins for your Steam Games. At a price…

In a recent interview with TPCG’s multi-format gaming mother ship, NowGamer.com, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter mulled different ways the games industry could approach the impact of pre-owned sales. Interestingly, he named …

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When the simple act of creating an account for the massively multiplayer online game you just bought is a convoluted mess, you know you're in trouble. It's unfortunate that the first impression you have of Final Fantasy XIV is so indicative of the experience at large. It's hard to miss these gaffes--the bizarre and unfriendly method of getting an account set up, the troublesome patcher, having …

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We derez the opposition in the multiplayer modes of Tron: Legacy's tie-in game.

Few movies lend themselves to multiplayer modes as well as Tron. When it was time for Tron: Evolution's development team to devise a multiplayer concept, there was presumably a short meeting that began and ended with writing "light discs" and "light cycles" on the whiteboard. And, so we find the …

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When Gearbox's Duke Nukem Forever was unveiled at PAX, the shock spread fast and far. Duke Nukem was Twitter's top trending topic in North America within an hour; in two hours, it was the hottest topic worldwide and stayed there for 30 more. There was disbelief, too, among those who didn't play that demo for themselves in Seattle. It didn't seem possible that a game that had spent 13 years …

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WRC isn't the only global motorsport series that's returning to games after an extended hiatus, but on first looks it seems as that's where comparisons between Milestone's officially licensed off-road racer and F1 2010 end. Just as Codemasters' bought with it all the shine and beauty that's helped it earn a place at the head of the racing game table, so Milestone brings with it an often …

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