Ship Simulator Extremes

Ship Simulator Extremes is the name of the latest installment in the Ship Simulator series. Additions to the game include new locations (including Antarctica and Bora Bora) as well as new ships (including official licensed Greenpeace vessels) and new dynamic weather and water systems. Following a campaign by members of their growing fanbase, Vstep agreed to include the ports of Dover and Calais (in one environment).

Grand Prize Winner & Twitter Winner

Congrats to forum member Bewst, who won the Radeon HD 5770 IceQ 5 Turbo from HIS Digital. Additionally, Istador won the boxed copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat for helping us spread the word about the contest on Twitter.

Third Contest Winner & Twitter Contest

Congrats to forum member perry.matthew, who won a copy of DiRT2 in our contest. At the end of the week, we will draw the winner for the Radeon HD5770 IceQ 5 Turbo from HIS on October 1st. If you'd be so kind as to give me some feedback on the contest, I would appreciate it.

IHF Handball Challenge 12

Demo/preview of a gamepad-friendly, online-oriented handball game. Handball Challenge is scheduled for multi-platform release in 2011 and will feature minigames, micropayments and small balls to throw into tiny goal cages.

Darksiders

Take the role of War, the First Horseman of the Apocalypse, in this third-person action game.

Palit NVIDIA GTX460 in Surround: 1GB vs. 2GB

Declaration of Interest: I have purchased these cards myself from a reputable UK computer e-tailer; none of this hardware or software has been donated or loaned for the purposes of this review. There are therefore no conflicts of interest which could arise which would bias this review in any manner.

Author: Paradigm Shifter (WSGF Admin & WSGF Member #5 with the top post count (11.6k+))


Introduction

Right, let’s cut to the chase.

Surround resolution testing.

NVIDIA Surround is the NVIDIA equivalent to ATIs Eyefinity technology, which in turn was their version of Matroxes TripleHead2Go unit. With the release of the GF104, affordable, capable NVIDIA Surround is within the grasp of those who, for whatever reason, do not wish to purchase used GTX200 series hardware or a GTX470/480.

Millenium Soldier: Expendable

Millennium Soldier: Expendable is a 1999 shoot 'em up with a top-down perspective, basically a 3D version of Contra. You need to get to the end of the levels and exterminate wave of aliens before you run out of time or lives.

Arcania: Gothic 4

Arcania: Gothic 4 is the fourth installment of the Gothic series, and the first one developed by a company other than Piranha Bytes; the game was developed by Spellbound.
War covers over the Southern Islands like a blood-drenched shroud and finally, and reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr in the Southern Seas. The protagonist returns from an adventure to find his home town pillaged and looted. The aggressors’ ships - with an Eagle displayed on their billowing sails - escape over the horizon.

Blacklight: Tango Down

The Blacklight: Tango Down DR needs to be completed at some point