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Pentium 4 3.8 GHz and Athlon 64FX 2.8 GHz

Mach L 3.8 is a system featuring an Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.8GHz more information is available here

nVentiv Mach II is a system featuring an AMD Athlon FX @ 2.8 GHz. Click here and here for more information. :)

Edit: Changed Mach L 3.8 being AMD info and added Mach II. [PKY]

Metal Gear Solid : The Twin Snakes (NGC) new screenshots & video

Konami has released new screenshots and video of MGS:TTS from TGS2003.
MGS::TTS is a remake of Metal Gear Solid for the PS1, using Metal Gear Solid 2 : Sons Of Liberty gameplay, and updated graphics.
You can download everything here

BioHazard 4 (NGC) new screenshots and video

CAPCOM has released screenshots and a video of BioHazard 4 from their presentation @ TGS 2003.
BioHazard is known as Resident Evil in Europe and the US.

You can find everything here

GoForce 2150

"Im Mittelpunkt stand Nvidias GoForce 2150: Beim neuen Handheld-Chip handele es sich, so Nvidia, um den ersten Media Prozessor, der in PDAs und Mobiltelefonen ab Oktober zum Einsatz kommen und Bilder bis zu 1,3-Megapixel (1.280 x 960 Bildpunkte) berechnen können soll. Zudem werde er im Vergleich mit den Mitbewerbern - etwa dem ARM9-Prozessor - einen um etwa den Faktor 24 niedrigeren Stromverbrauch beim Encodieren von Bildern besitzen."

According to the snippet above (from chip.de, here) nVidia's GoForce 2150 should be ready to be placed into handhelds and mobile phones in october... hmmmm... interesting. :)

Half Life 2 "delayed"

Just saw it on Warp2Search.net:

"Here's the bad news from Valve's Doug Lombardi:

The previously announced September 30th release date for Half-Life 2 is being pushed back. We are currently targeting a holiday release, but do not have a specific "in-store" date to share at this time. We will release that information as soon as we have confirmed a new date."

Lineage2 beta update

Directly from Lineage II Orphus comes the following uncomplete list of changes the recent update introduces:

"- New areas, skills, classes, quests, NPCs
- C Grade items now sold in stores
- Set items added which DO give bonuses
- NPC added in Gludio who will make items for you
- Pets implemented (Dog at lvl 5, Wolf at lvl 15, Dragon at lvl 35)
- Interface changed
- Various bugs fixed
- Music implemented
- Orc fighter/mage movement speed increased
- Buy option now available in personal stores. Must have a copy of the item you are trying to buy
- All classes can sell up to 4 simultaneous items in personal stores, dwarves can sell 5
- Duel wield weapons can be crafted by smiths in each town
- Magic-only soulshots now work for mages, increasing the spell attack power and casting speed
- Some C Grade items in the Giran store can be bought with C Grade crystals
- Areas such as execution grounds and dragon valley will now have increased spawn rate
- Forgotten temple added at west of desert
- New monster "Orphen" added. She is sister of Nerupa, located in the middle of the ocean of poisonous sac. Around her lair is a special barrier that if you cross, your movement speed is decreased
- New areas Faerie's Valley and "Hunter's Town" have lvl 40-50 monsters"

For more info on Lineage 2 make sure to check the following sites:

http://www.lineage2.com
http://www.lineage2.de
http://l2.orphus.com

In addition to the above info I found the following about taming in the Lineage 2 Orphus forums:

"...
[21:34] <+RuriRuri> 10) pets also have inventory, u get 12 "squares"
[21:34] <+RuriRuri> the max weight is about one quarter of human warrior's
[21:34] <+RuriRuri> 11) pets can be equipped with pet only armor / weapon
[21:34] <+RuriRuri> 12) when pets die, they drop all their items / inventory
[21:34] <+RuriRuri> as well as dropping more experience than normal players
[21:35] <+RuriRuri> 13) u need to constantly feed pets meat
[21:35] <+RuriRuri> these are purchased from stores apparently
[21:35] <+RuriRuri> 14) pets have same karma as their masters
..."

Here's more.

IGT's new PowerVR Based Gaming Machines

"IGT Launches New PowerVR Based Gaming Machines at Vegas Show

For more information visit www.igt.com"

Kudos to David for sending over the news. :)

Athlon64 & Ahtlon64 FX review @ AnandTech

You can go here to read AnandTech Athlon64 and Athlon64 FX (gamer oriented CPU) review.

NVIDIA PCI Express

nVIDIA's first PCI Express announcement: http://www.nvidia.com/object/pci_express.html

PCI Express Graphics Performance Optimization Presentation: http://www.nvidia.com/content/pci_express/PCI_Express_files/frame.html

Prescott Launch

Intel Prescott will be available on the 3rd of December:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11700

New nVidia Cards

First pictures from the upcoming NV38 and NV36:
http://www.hwupgrade.it/articoli/908/1.html

Homeworld 1 engine

Talking about Homeworld, this should not be left out... seems like relic is making the Homeworld 1 engine and tools available to everyone... here's the info, directly from HW Universe.

Homeworld 2 on 61"

Here are some pictures of what Homeworld 2 can look and feel like once shown in the right dimension. :)

Homeworld 2 demo

Almost missed this one... it is really nice! Get the Homeworld 2 demo here if you do not have it already! Enjoy! :)

Intel® Application Accelerator

Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver: 3.5.2 can be obtained here.

There is more info on the Intel Application Accelerator here.

AMD's Opteron 146 processor

The Tech Report have an article up of the AMD's Opteron 146 processor, "This new chip, based on AMD's "Hammer" or K8 core, runs at 2GHz...".

Here's the link.

Here's the first part of their conclusion:
"AMD is aiming the Opteron 146 primarily at animators, musicians, game developers, and designers. Based on what we've seen here, I expect those folks will appreciate the Opteron 146's combination of excellent performance and future-proof 64-bit computing capabilities. The Opteron 146 proves AMD's Hammer architecture can indeed run with Intel's Pentium 4 processors, even with strictly 32-bit code. In fact, the race is neck-and-neck between the 2GHz Opteron and the 3.2GHz Pentium 4. Most strikingly, the Opteron 146 is strong in areas where the Athlon XP couldn't keep up with the Pentium 4, from our synthetic memory tests to real-world applications like 3D rendering, speech recognition, and media encoding."

Head over for benchmarks and more. :)

DeltaChrome is back!

It seems DeltaChrome will be a true D3D9 GPU.
For more Information visit the TechReport.

Imagination technologies joins open core protocol

"IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES JOINS OPEN CORE PROTOCOL INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

London, 4th September 2003: Imagination Technologies, a leader in
system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), and Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP), the association providing a common
standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that
facilitate "plug and play" SoC design, today announce that Imagination
Technologies has joined the Open Core Protocol International Partnership."

"OCP-IP is a groundbreaking industry association dedicated to making a common
standard for IP core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate 'plug and play'
SoC design. Imagination Technologies supports the Open Core Protocol with
graphics, video and display IP cores from its PowerVR division. As a
provider of semiconductor IP for the SoC market, membership in OCP-IP allows
Imagination Technologies' customers to integrate IP into chip products while
maintaining short design cycles, lowering design costs and bringing products
to market faster.

For Imagination Technologies
David Harold/Julia Horne tel +44 (0)1923 260 511
PowerVR email: david.harold@powervr.com
"