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Xbox 360 | Crackdown 2 Update - Hang Gliding, Mission Objectives, and Zombie Hit-and-Runs |
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 The sequel to 2007's stellar sandbox action game is out for release this year, and we've got an updated look. Crackdown was one of the unsung heroes of the Xbox 360's early years, garnering more attention for the included invite to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta than for the game itself. That was a bit of a tragedy, because the game was a whole lot of fun, showing what you can do when you combine an open-world action formula with a maddeningly addictive progression system that has you seeking out agility orbs up and down buildings to become an ever-more-powerful force of destruction. The sequel, developed by Ruffian Games, is due out for release this year, and we just had a look at it earlier today at Microsoft's X10 preview event.
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Evercool Press Release: Launches of New Fan Bearing Technique-TSL (Thin, Silent and Long-life) |
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One of the famous and professional cooler and fan manufacturers in Taiwan. EVERCOOL has devoted to computer cooling products for more than 17 years. In recent years, besides keeping pushing its own brand “EVERCOOL”, EVERCOOL also emphasizes the improvement for fan technique. Currently, EVERCOOL launches new fan bearing technique- TSL Thin, Silent and Long-life）. Its features are high-reliability, low cost and silent, especially the great cooling performance on slim DC fan.Slim DC fan is a new trend on the market. TSL means that the fan bearing uses only one ball; therefore, it’s very suitable for use on slim DC fans. The examples of slim DC fan applications are like mini projector, NAS storage, mobile device, blue-ray recorder and so on.
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iBUYPOWER Partners with Asetek to Develop the First and Only Liquid Cooling Solution for the Level 10 Tower |
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El Monte, CA – February 11, 2010 – iBUYPOWER, a leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce the first and only liquid cooling solution for the Thermaltake Level 10 enclosure. Working together, iBUYPOWER and Asetek engineers have developed a system that allows the mounting of an Asetek Liquid cooling system in the Level 10 Chassis from Thermaltake. The Levels 10 unique asymmetrical design features individual compartments for various system components, putting space at a premium and conflicts with standard mounting of liquid cooling systems. The adapted liquid cooling system in iBUYPOWER systems fits a 120mm Asetek LCLC system to the chassis.
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Xbox 360 | Splinter Cell: Conviction Updated Impressions - The First Twenty Minutes |
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 Twenty minutes into Sam Fisher's latest adventure and we've already smashed a man's face through a piano. Want to know more? On the run from the government that trained him and searching for the men who killed his daughter, it's not easy being Sam Fisher. Fortunately, playing as Sam Fisher is not nearly as hard, as we found out during our hands-on time with Splinter Cell: Conviction at Microsoft's X10 event. The first 20 minutes of the game not only offer a slick tutorial of Sam's potent abilities, but they let you flex those muscles in all sorts of creatively deadly ways. Human shields, clever misdirection, and brutal interrogation techniques are all in a day's work for Fisher, and we discovered how Conviction makes these things simple to learn and satisfying to execute.
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Xbox 360 | Alan Wake Impressions - Flashlights, Spotlights, and Christmas Lights |
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 A famous author's imagination unfolds before his very eyes in this tense psychological thriller. What's the light without the darkness? What good is action if tension isn't built first? These are questions developer Remedy's psychological action game seeks to answer, and based on the latest demo we saw at Microsoft's X10 event today, it may do just that. We saw two separate sections of the game in this demo. The first, which occurs early on, is about building anxiety by showing the lighter side of Alan's adventure. Here, Alan meets the people of Bright Falls, a small town where everyone knows everyone else. The second portion of the demo focused squarely on the action and took place mostly under the cover of darkness and featured Alan's main enemies--zombie-like atrocities called the Taken. Alan Wake has been a long time coming, but we're happy that the end is near: Remedy announced a final release date today: May 18 in North America and May 21 in Europe.
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Xbox 360 | Left 4 Dead 2 - New DLC Impressions |
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 It's time to meet up with the original Left 4 Dead survivors and find a few new weapons along the way. Microsoft is currently holding its X10 preview event right around the corner from GameSpot's San Francisco office, and while most of the games on hand are of the Microsoft-published variety, a number of other Xbox 360 and PC titles are on hand as well. One of the other companies demoing its wares is Valve, who brought its new downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2. The DLC comes with a new campaign called The Passing, and we had the chance to play through one of the chapters from this campaign.
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Xbox 360 | Dead Rising 2 Hands-On |
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 We create our own weapons in this zombie-slaying sequel. Nothing bleeds quite like a de-armed zombie. Capcom showed off the latest build of its zombie-murder simulator at Microsoft's X10 event today, and Dead Rising 2 is shaping up to be a hilariously gruesome depiction of one man's fight against a horde of stumbling brain eaters. The battle for survival has moved from the quiet suburban mall from the first game into the bright and glamorous Fortune City (the ironically named casino town based on Las Vegas), but the core slicing-and-dicing gameplay has made the transition intact. The streets overflowed with hordes of zombies, hundreds of weapons, and the copious bodily fluids that spilled forth when one was unceremoniously stabbed. We got a chance to test out some of the extreme violence first hand, and it seems to offer a lovely vacation for those who just cannot stand the thought of ambling zombies.
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Xbox 360 | Fable III First Look |
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 We meet with Peter Molyneux and get our first look at Fable III. Earlier today, while attending Microsoft's X10 event in San Francisco, we had an opportunity to meet with Peter Molyneux and spend between 20 and 30 minutes checking out Fable III. As we watched the game being played, Molyneux pointed out a number of key new features. While there are clearly still a lot of things that aren't being talked about yet, we came away from the presentation feeling like Molyneux's claims that this is going to represent a huge step forward over Fable II are well founded.
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Xbox 360 | Halo: Reach First Look |
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 Bungie gives a brief glimpse at a multiplayer map appearing in the Reach beta. At today's X10 event, Bungie community manager Brian Jarrard and creative director Marcus Lehto took some time to give a little more information on the company's next entry into the popular Halo series--Halo: Reach. This prequel takes place on a planet called Reach, which not only happens to be humanity's last line of defense between Earth and invading Covenant forces, but is also home to the Spartan program--the same program that produced Master Chief. But since we know what eventually happens to Reach (explored in the Halo novel, The Fall of Reach), Bungie wants to give everything a generally darker and grittier tone while executing a story that revolves around honor and sacrifice.
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Xbox 360 | Final Fantasy XIII Hands-On |
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 We were lucky enough to spend some time with the English version of Square Enix's latest role-playing epic. If you're currently living in Japan, chances are you're already grinding your way though Final Fantasy XIII from Square Enix. Unfortunately, the rest of us have been left waiting for the English-language version, which is due for release on March 9. To ease our collective pain, Square Enix invited us to go hands-on with the final build of the English version on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at a special event in London.
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