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Leak of Possible AMD Radeon HD 8000-Series

MaximumPC has posted two articles about possible releases in the expected Radeon HD 8000-series lineup. Click the source link for the full article, but the basic details are as such:

  • Radeon HD 8870 will have MSRP of $279 and challenge the NVIDIA GTX 680.
  • Radeon HD 8850 will have MSRP of $199 and challenge the NVIDIA GTX 670.
  • Radeon HD 8970 expected be 20% more powerful than the Radeon HD 7970 w/ 2,304 Stream Processors and 3GB of VRAM.



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Guild Wars 2 Released for Mac with Retina Display Support

On September 18th, NCSoft released a beta Mac client for Guild Wars 2. It offers support for the new 2880x1800 Retina Display found on the new MacBook Pro. Below are two screenshots taken at the full Retina resolution.

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Click the article for information on minimum specs.

Borderlands 2 Multi-Monitor Support - Show Your Support

I thought it would be a good idea to pull together and show interested in multi-monitor support for this title. The first game was very popular but fell flat on its face when it came to support and the developer never really stepped in to help.
This time around they have shown some interest with things like "FOV" slider and "PC Specific UI" but nobody has stepped up to say "we are going to support this".

Time to get your voice heard, and let them see the number of people that want this by going to the gearbox forums and posting your piece on this forum thread:
WSGF Borderlands 2 Multi-Monitor Support Gearbox Forums

Every voice counts, thanks everybody!

-ViciousXUSMC

UPDATE:- Black Mesa - now with download mirrors

It would appear that the Black Mesa project is releasing the first chapter of the Half-Life 1 revamp on September 14th.
The revamp is a community project to port the original Half-Life 1 game using Valves own development tools onto the Source Engine for an improved gameplay experience.

Although the project is not yet 100% complete, Carlos Montero and his army of developers have decided to release the first chapter which follows the orignal storyline upto Lamda Core which is expected to take players upto 10 hours to complete.

They will then rele

LG Announces 29" 21:9 LCD Display

At IFA 2012, LG up and announced, and then displayed a 29" LCD PC display with 21:9 aspect ratio. The display carries a resolution of 2560x1080, along with HDMI, DL-DVI, and DisplayPort connections. It also includes a USB 3.0 hub and 7W speakers.