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EA has announced the release of FIFA online 2 a free online game in the leagues of  Tiger Woods PGA tournament Online which went open beta just now.the game is going to be made available to the public for free and it will be based on micro transaction’s .fifa online 2 is going to have a closed beta later this month and will comprise of 20,000 players.registration for the participation in the beta has started so if you want to beta test the game click here.the beta will go on till June after which the game will be released to a  world wide audience .only the English version of the game will see a world wide launch and after a while other language versions will also be rolled out gradually .EA has partnered with Korean distributor Neowiz  to create this game

The Game will have 30 licensed leagues, 500 clubs, and more than 15,000 players.it will also have several different modes like the FIFA 10 world cup mode,and some tournament modes. players can upgrade their teams kits ,skills,apparels with the money earned from winning matches.you can also purchase the money with real world money. i ’am glad this is not another browser based game like battlefield heroes I got really bored of the game  after a while ,EA  has also announced an NFS game which is also going to be online exclusive and free but no news on that yet.i wonder when will ea release a FIFA game for PC which has graphics in the leagues of the Xbox 360 and Ps3versions.

Many people said that it was going to be a timed exclusive and now the famed GTAIV expansion  Episodes from Liberty City which consists of  The Ballad of  Gay Tony  ,The Lost and Damned  is coming to PC and the PS3 . this news may not be surprise at least for the pc gamers because lost and demand achievements showed up in the GFW live client soon after an update last year so it was expected  but the real surprise is for the PS3 because Microsoft is said to have paid 50 million Dollars to Rock star for the expansions to  remain exclusive to  Xbox360.i have been waiting for this news for quite a while now,as me being primarily a pc gamer and a avid GTA fan ,and with assassins ceed2 and other console games coming to pc platform its going to be one hell of a year for us.Both the  expansions have garnered great reviews from critics around the web so this is a great news for both PC and Ps3  gamers.

The Episodes will be released on disc for the ps3 with a price tag of  39$  and  individual episodes come at a price of 19$ each on the PSN

For the PC version there will be a 32 player multi player matches  and an improvement on the old video editor found in GTA 4 there will also be updated OST for the radio stations in liberty city.no pricing or release date announced yet

The Expansions will be available for download on Play Station Network ,Games for Windows live  and will require an original  copy of GTAIV to play.   

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Apparently there is a bug in the driver which prevents user to  over clock using software's like Riva Tuner V2.24C, EVGA Precision V1.9.0 ,so nvidia  has released 196.34 beta drivers . these are the drivers which have been corrected and allows user to over clock normally.the bug from the 196.21 drivers restricted the users from manipulating  shader ,core and memory clocks now with the releases of 196.34 drivers that  problem has been solved .apart from adding multi GPU and SLI support to some games the driver has nothing new to offer.

here are the links to download the drivers

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_196.34_beta.html – windows 7 32bit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_196.34_beta.html – windows 7 64bit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_196.34_beta.html - windows xp 32bit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_196.34_beta.html -windows xp 64bit

The much awaited sequel for the 2007 game of the year is finally going to land on pc on march 16th and it has a few surprises up its sleeves for the PC gamers and none of them are sweet .for starters the PC version is going to be prized at 60$, i believe it is the second PC game after modern warfare 2 to charge the same price as its console brethren,but at that price assassins creed 2 will contain two yet to be released DLC’s like Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities.

I think the developers are trying to establish a common  ground between pc and the consoles well here is a reality check for them “there isn't one “.in the pc gaming the concept of paid DLC’s is almost blasphemous because the  platform is so flexible such that users can create custom content for their favorite games and release it on the internet for free,so charging money for that is simply unreasonable.frustrations aside , there will also be a black edition for the game which will be exclusive for digital outlets and to add more oil to the fire ,for a extra five dollars you will be able to get additional content with it.

Assassins Creed 2 will have Uplay, the new service from Ubisoft which is among the lines of GFW live and Steam.this is the first game to have this service incorporated in it for the pc ,and it requires you to be online all the time for you to play the game .apparently the aforementioned DLC’s were supposed to be included in the original game but due to time constraints it was skipped.

The only silver lining is that the system requirements aren't that steep:P.

Minimum Configuration:
SUPPORTED OS: Windows XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista (32-64 bits)/Windows 7 (32-64 bits)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ
RAM: 1.5 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista - Windows 7
Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0-compliant sound card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive
Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller
* This product does not support Windows 98/ME/2000/NT

Recommended Configuration:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
Sound: 5.1 sound card
Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, joystick optional (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)

Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
ATI RADEON X1950, HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7/8/9/100/200 series

This  is from the Norton site itself ,just download the antivirus by clicking here and you have to set up an Norton account for activating the product.i have been using this antivirus for a well over a month and it is simply awesome ,it is light on the system and performs scan when the system resources are idle, the only problem that i have faced so far is the number of  false positives. especially while browsing ,the Norton tool bar which automatically installs itself  on the browser shows the most trusted sites like for example deviant art as harmful site. apart from that this is one swell antivirus that allows you to browse the net without any nagging doubts about your computer getting infected.

Features of Norton Internet Security 2010:

• Norton Ongoing Protection
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The PS3 which remained Un hack able for 3 years has now been hacked by geo hot ,so far he hasn't released any details about this but  claims that it has indeed been hacked,he doesn't show any kind of proof so you just have to take his word for now .he also  claims that it took him only 5weeks to crack the console  and says that  he will release the details about the hack later, the only think that can substantiate his claim is that he had found more efficient ways to  jailbreak an I phone and has a fair deal of knowledge about the hardware behind ps3 , so who knows the day we play homebrew games on the console  may not be that far.this looks promising cause just take a look at his profile page on blogger :P.

to follow him on twitter  http://twitter.com/geohot

and his blog is at  http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/hello-hypervisor-im-geohot.html

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