The big betas are coming down the pipe, Half-life2 is minutes from release, and City of Hereos announces a super duper upgrade no.3!
Half-life2 and Hardware Stats
If you have the free Stream client, you can pre download Half-life2 now. The game won't run until they release it and you buy a key. This should be very soon.
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=getsteamnow
Check this out...valve does a hardware stats survey when they release a new game and her are the results from the latest one. I am surprised that AMD is 47% of the market! Check on CPU, ram, HD and see how your system measures up to the average.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
Here is the exact same survey, but done 3-4 years ago
http://valve.speakeasy.net/
World Of Warcraft Open Beta
WoW open beta is very soon. posted by official WoW on 10/7
"We are happy to announce that we will soon be accepting applicants for the World of Warcraft® Open Beta Test for North America. The open phase of beta will give people a chance to enter Azeroth and play World of Warcraft before the game is released. More details will become available in the days ahead, so stay tuned."
Rumor has it that Mojo Mary Poppins is coming out of retirement for this one. I know Sidney, Cytra, and Smooches are all hell bent on playing WoW the minute it hits the market. :)
Guild Wars Open Beta Oct 29-31!
It's going to be hella fun and I think it will be the sleeper hit of the MMORPG sector this beta season. You can get the client right now! The client is not huge; they stream like a ninja.
http://www.guildwars.com/preview/wpe-clientdownload.html
Google Launches Beta Desktop Search
This rocks. It searches your computer so good, that if you have stuff you don't want people to find, you better not load it. LOL Check this out.
http://desktop.google.com/
Broadband Over Your Electric Circuit
Geek have been waiting for this for years. It's now a step closer. This will revolutionize internet...internet over house wiring will give access to everyone and the speeds will be fat because house wires are thick as a mofo.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118168,00.asp
City Of Heroes Announces Upgrade 3!
I've never seen a game company release so many content patches so quickly. It is awesome. Whimsy found this story on So There
http://www.gaminggroove.com/article.php?id=21
Here are some of the new things:
Player Vs Player Arena
Level 50s can create the alien Kheldians
Balancing of Players
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