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November will be great month in gaming

WCG 007 Hellgate, Gears of War, Crysis all arrive in November
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 12:32

IT WAS A LONG dry spell without but PC gaming is just about to go bonkers. This winter promises to be the best since 2004, when we saw the release of Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half Life 2.

After John Woo's Stranglehold came onto the market (the game looks just awesome in 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 with full details and 8xAA), the key month for PC gaming industry will be November.

alt='gearsofwaronpc'
Gears of War under Games For Windows banner - PC version brings updated DX10 graphics, new levels, map editor and more...

Hellgate: London will be launched on October 31st/November 2nd (depending on a market), Gears of War will see the light of day as PC version on November 7th/9th, while Crysis is going to hit the market on November 16th/19th. at least, according to information we have managed to get here in Qwest Field Stadium/Convention Center.

alt='crysislaunch'Crysis is being demoed as Alpha, but everything should be tuned in time for the launch...

In order to accommodate the launch of Hellgate: London, Nvidia pushed forward the release of GeForce 8800GT, now being released at the same time as 780i chipset (NDA should expire on October 31st). AMD is still looking likely to launch complete K10 attack in third week of November to have a simultaneous launch with Crysis - and then all players will go into overdrive to exchange as much old computers as possible.

This industry works in cycles, and it is more than obvious that we have reached a beginning of new cycle. Main players in this cycle will be multi-core processors, and mainstream single-chip graphics cards being used in creation of high-end cards. µ

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UT3 ?!

Hey, what about unreal tournament 3 ?

Kicks the innards out of those games.

posted by : Meh, 07 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Ut3?

Hey, isn't UT3/2007 supposed to be out in November? I think that's noteworthy as well.

posted by : Greg Zapp, 07 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Alpha code?

One month 9 days to go and the code is in alpha? Thats bloody scary. How long has it been in production?

maybe 'consumers' should be renamed 'beta testers'

posted by : The Mighty Spang, 07 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Don't Forget!

UT3 is also coming out this November. (Hopefully)

posted by : Monkeh, 07 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Why bother comment?

People won't bother posting a comment if you never publish most of them.

posted by : PeteRoy, 07 October 2007 Complain about this comment
RE: Alpha code?

It's EA.
Expect a patch or two just days after release.

posted by : Duke, 08 October 2007 Complain about this comment
you forgot some

Yep UT3, also ETQW (already out) and Orange Box coming out this tuesday

posted by : mhmmm, 08 October 2007 Complain about this comment
CoD4?

And you're forgetting Call of Duty 4. It's not a PC exclusive, but let's be real, the PC version is always the best one for the CoD series.

posted by : Teirdome, 09 October 2007 Complain about this comment
How come you missed UT3

Yup, UT3 will beat the pants off every game out there.

posted by : Siddharth, 10 October 2007 Complain about this comment
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