Gamertell

Besides gawking at the original BatCopter while at the Ohio State Fair (July 29 through August 9, 2008), I also ran through the Dell/Intel “Extreme Gaming Tour” booth. According to the schedule on the official Extreme Gaming Tour site, the booth has since traveled across country and will be at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, WA, this weekend (August 29-31, 2008).

The “booth” is actually a fancy RV with a tent extended from the side with a bunch of Intel-powered Dells set up (check out the far shot in the Photo Gallery). There were about a dozen gaming rigs set up under the tent to…

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In the wake of a shrinking market and continual ground being lost to consoles, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, ATI, Microsoft, Dell, Acer, Alienware Epic, Activision and other big names in PC gaming announced at this year’s GDC (February 20, 2008) the formation of the PC Gaming Alliance.

This new non-profit group, as it told Develop, is aiming to give PC game developers a “unified voice” similar to how Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft act with their respective consoles.  The group will be focusing on what it considers “industry leadership, platform leadership and…

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A PC gamer needs a deep pocket and to be an early adopter of change (of which there is plenty in computer technology). One of the newer technologies out there is the range of 45 nm Penryn processors from Intel that run cooler while providing increased speeds ideal for gaming use. Now Toshiba has introduced the latest and the meanest version of its flagship gaming notebook series. The Satellite X205-SLi has a cogent Penryn at its heart backed by NVIDIA’s SLI graphics, which will combine to give you the…

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If you are a processor-power hungry PC gamer or a games developer then Intel has just given you a reason to be happy. The chip manufacturer officially launched its new, powerful motherboard, codenamed Skull Trail, at the Game Developers Conference with one eye on affluent, geeky gamers and the other on game developers.

The motherboard, which supports two quad-core processors and as many graphic cards, has been formally christened “Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform.” It supports a wide array of GPUs from both the…

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Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Christopher Malchowsky and Curtis Priem, with the aim of breathing life into the visually-restricted games of that day with their graphic cards. It was not smooth sailing for the company from the word go, as it had to contend with the failure of several of its products and its competitors, who were ahead. It eventually triumphed upon both and now the victory has been recognized by Forbes, which has declared Nvidia the company of the year.

The GPU manufactured has made substantial gains in 2007, as the year saw the company’s market share rise to 62% from the 57%. According to estimations, Nvidia might finish the current fiscal year with $4 billion in earnings and $900 million in profits. The company is also aware of the fact that its competitors ATI and Intel are not going to relent and doesn’t plan to rest on its laurels. It is even mulling expanding its business, which could see it take its technology outside the realm of video games.

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• Dual Core Via nanos by 2010
• Intel to manufature small-size, high-capacity flash memory
• Microsoft creating an iPhone competitor?

Intel might hold sway over the global PC-processor market, but it seems to be currently out of favor with all three video-game console manufacturers, who have all placed their trust in IBM chips for their consoles. However, Intel is trying hard to establish a foothold in the console market. Business Week is reporting that the chip manufacturer is in constant talks with console makers about the prospective use of its powerful next-gen chips in their machines.

If Intel is to be believed, it’s chips have the capability of performing a mind boggling 1 trillion calculations per second. It might seem to be a vague statistic to some of you, but it is valid and truly stupendous. According to Intel, it is fast enough for pure motion-based controls and could even render physical controllers redundant. These hyper-fast chips might not be too far off and, in fact, they might become a reality with sophistication in silicon chip design over the next decade.

Intel’s CTO, Justin Rattner, told Business Week that future generation of Wii won’t have hand controllers. He even imagined a gamer playing a tennis video game by just waving his bare hands in a tennis-racquet-wielding motion in a room filled with cameras - even I can’t wait to get rid of controllers now.

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Intel has partnered up with the World Series of Video Games to bring the venerable competition to our northern neighbors. August 24th through the 26th will see the tournament held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. There will be over $70,000 in cash prizes available for those lucky few who manage to rise to the top of the field. Gamers will be competing on such titles as World of Warcraft, Quake 4, and Guitar Hero II.

Intel will also be offering…

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