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Can a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. be misunderstood?According to Oleg Yavorsky, GSC GameWorld's PR director, that's exactly the case. Yavorsky said in a recent interview with Eurogamer that while they try to appeal to a broad audience, their games (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) appeal to Europeans more than players in North America and Asia. Yavorksy noted that aside from basic cultural mindset differences, little things like the colors used to create the game world makes a difference. It would seem Americans tend to like flashy, bright games whereas European developers make dark ones.
TF2 Pyro update this week, free play this weekendAs previously reported, Team Fortress 2's Pyro class will receive its fiery updates this Thursday, 6/19. Upgrades include achievements and the Axtinguisher, a weapon that inflicts extra damage to opponents doused in flames, but only inflicts half its normal damage otherwise.
Shipping this week: Supreme Political CreatorsThis week in new releases we grab a handful of PC-exclusives. The long-awaited release of the Spore Creator Creator comes to an end on June 18, strategy fans get their fix with Supreme Ruler 2020 set to his on June 17 (June 20 in Europe) and this week also marks the scheduled release of the free-to-play MMO, Requiem: Bloodymare on June 19.
Nvidia launches new Geforce GTX 200 GPU familyThe newest launch of the top end performance graphics chips is the introduction today of the new Geforce GTX 200 series from Nvidia. The high end is represented by the Geforce GTX 280 which is set to launch tomorrow with graphics cards by a number of different companies. Cards with this version of the chip are expected to set you back $649.
Rumor: Play console games on the PC?If you want to play console games on a PC you could turn a console into a PC (such as in the above picture from Regal Hardware) Now, a once secret online marketing survey from a company called Intellisponse has been uncovered by the forum folks over at NeoGAF. Among the products supposedly revealed in this survey is something called "Trioxide". What is it? Well according to the leak it's a product that will allow PCs to play PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii game disks.
The Big Round-up: Tuesday, June 17 originally appeared on Big Download Blog on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EST.
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