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According to the official Arena.net blog, Mike O'Brien states that they have definite plans to release GW2 in the year of 2012.

Also they have just closed an open beta session, and will be starting a second closed beta in February that invites press members (I hope that means me!) after that they have plans to vastly expand the beta invites in the months of March & April to include public access.

I for one am very excited with the news and can't wait to get my hands (and monitors) on Guild Wars 2.

Note that this is ONLY for 7900 cards according to Catalystcreator on Twitter, while the CAPS can be used by everyone:

Feature highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver:

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Preview support for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications
AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Gaming CPUs For The Money, so if your in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012

The WSGF will be joining a growing community of websites that will be blacking themselves out in protest of the pending SOPA legislation. Beginning 8am MST on January 18th, the WSGF will be unavailable. The community generated content of the WSGF is a prime target of SOPA, and thus could be a target for censoring. We hope this 24 hour period will show what it will be like if the community-oriented sites on the Internet were under constant threat of government and industry censorship - they would cease to thrive and provide their invaluable services.

Here is my evaluation of Dirt 3 for multi-monitor support.

Surround feature videos talk about any flaws the game has in multi monitor mode, the level of support provided, any hacks needed to manually force support, and also talks about the benefits and joy of playing in surround.

Here is day three of the gaming-related news from CES 2012. Check out the prior days here: Mon (Jan 9th), Tues (Jan 10th), Wed (Jan 11th). Like Wednesday, Thursday was a pretty light day. Details on a couple of things that might interest you in the full article.

We've been able to leverage our partnerships with Ergotech and AMD to give away three monitor stands away at the 2012 AMD FX GamExperience. We will be giving away two Heavy Duty Triple Stands, on behalf of Ergotech. Additionally, we will be giving away a WSGF Edition Triple Stand.

I will be in the AMD booth displaying a couple of WSGF Edition Stands, in both 1+3 and 5x1 configurations. I'll be answering questions with Shane Partfitt (Eyefinity Product Manager) and we'll be presenting in the breakout room from 2:00 - 2:20.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for your chance to win a stand.

Here is day two of the gaming-related news from CES 2012. Check out the prior days here: Mon (Jan 9th), Tues (Jan 10th). Wednesday was a pretty light day for gaming news. Details in the full article.

Here is day two of the gaming-related news from CES 2012. Check out the prior days here: Mon (Jan 9th)

Last year was a pretty good year for gamers. We got a look at the Razer Switchblade Prototype, Vizio announced its 3D 21:9 Cinemawide HDTVs, AMD launched the APU with the well received HP dm1z, and there were more new panels and notebooks than you could shake a stick at. Two years ago at CES 2010, Dell launched their first 27" panel - the U2711.

Since then the Switchblade has morphed into the Razer Blade (and the same technology showed up in their SW:TOR keyboard), the Vizio Cinemawide missed its anticipated fall 2011 launch, APUs continue to turn up everwhere, and HP has released its own 27" - the ZR2740w (it's actually an LED backed IPS monitor, and undercuts Dell's price by almost $300).

So, what will CES 2012 bring gamers? I'm hoping for an 27" LED IPS panel from Dell to heat up the price wars at the top end, and I really want the 21:9 Cinemawide to launch. It would also be nice to see some of the magic from the Razer products filter down into more affordable gear. And, there's always more panels than you can shake a stick at. So, here I'm collecting the announcements that I think will appear to the folks here at the WSGF.