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 Wish... ? Wise Words     Thursday March 2, 2000          Todays Headlines SteveG or Send News  NVidia NV11 / NV15 / NV20 [07:27 pm]77 Comments - Steve Gibson Some more details on the next-gen NVidia NV11 and NV15 ch
ipset video cards are popping up everywhere. You should have a look at the stuff at TheRegister as well as 3DHarware.net's CeBit report. (Thanks monkbent and j.p.)Here are the NV15's key features. It will have a 135M
Hz 3D core, 333MHz memory clock (obviously DDR), transfom and lighting set-up and rendering, a 256-bit rendering engine, a 540 million pixels per second fill rate, and support up to 128MBMost of the numbers being rep
orted around the web are all just about in that area. Nothing is official from NVidia just yet but the last time specs were leaked early on the GeForce they came out to be fairly accurate. (Just dont believe NVidia a
bout those best case fill rate claims, heh) The big question being when is it coming out? Not for a while, looks like 3dfx will be back on top with the Voodoo4 for at least a little while.update Jack - Or not. 3dfx m
ade their Q4 earnings report (losing $34 million), and mentioned that they expect a similar loss for fiscal Q1. Reading between the lines, they expect that they won't be selling many V4/5's during fiscal Q1 (ending A
pril for 3dfx).New 3DRealms Website [05:50 pm]64 Comments - Steve Gibson The new 3DRealms website is online sporting a spiffy new look. Of course I headed straight over to the Duke4Ever section of the page and spotte
d this new screenshot. Well, it's not actually new it was on GameSlice but now it's no longer exclusive. After that you can check out Charlie Wieder's profile which as expected has some quality stuff (Charlie makes m
e proud to have shared an apartment with him for about a year). Oh and if that Duke4 screenshot got you excited, here are the rest of the images in 1024x768.On that note, I sent off the interview questions to George 
Broussard you guys came up with yesterday. Quite a few of them so I imagine it's gonna take him a while.Are Games Art? [03:52 pm]220 Comments - Steve Gibson All of you aspiring and current game designers out there sh
ould find this Newsweek article interesting. The gist of it is that game design is apparently not art according to this guy. The best part is when he makes a comparison to movies, I love that stuff. Of course, I can 
cover my ass with paint and fart on a white sheet of paper calling it art. If you uh.. get the picture, and you probably dont want to. Thanks poke.More Views Vampire Images & Footage [03:51 pm] 1 Comments A couple of
 places to get some Vampire action for ya. The guys at TheGraveyard have word of a movie with footage from Nihilistic's game that you can check out. Also, GameSpot UK has a new preview of the game which features some
 snazzy new screenshots. (Thanks JayZee) Metal Fatigue Demo [03:51 pm] 6 Comments Incite has posted a playable demo of Metal Fatigue. Havent really covered this game here but playable demos of new games are always in
teresting to have a look at. Rogue Spear Pack Q&A [03:51 pm] 3 Comments Stomped has word of this Q&A with Steve Cotton who is working on the upcoming add-on pack for Rogue Spear (with several other developers). 2 New
 Anachronox Shots [12:10 pm] 2 Comments Word on Blues is that a couple of new screenshots from Anachronox have shown up on this foreign page. More Tech More Tech: 5GB MP3 Player [01:15 pm] 32 Comments Remember that D
iamond RIO mess? "ooh ooh I have 32MB!" Beh. Lame. Check this out from Remote Solutions. Slashdot reports that instead of the paying approximately $250 for each hour of music with players such as the RIO, this equate
s to $10 an hour. Good deal eh? AMD To Release 3 Athlons [12:12 pm]52 Comments - Maarten Goldstein How long could it take, really? ZDNet UK is reporting (thanks Johnny Rotten) that AMD is set to release a 900MHz, 950
MHz and 1GHz Athlon simultaneously, and apparently very soon ("even later this month") just like Intel.According to sources, AMD will toss out the usual procedure of releasing one clock speed at a time in a move desi
gned to humiliate its gargantuan rival Intel in an ongoing PR war. If AMD pulls the move off, and the source warns that "this is the goal, but these things can change in a minute", it will also make AMD's 850MHz Athl
on -- currently the fastest processor available in full production volumes -- only the fourth-fastest on the chip maker's roster. Its 850MHz chip was introduced on 11 February. 1GHz This Month [07:15 am]76 Comments -
 Steve Gibson Hot damn, it just keeps getting better. You may remember that article about 1GHz in 60 day? Well according to HP the 1GHZ Intel CPUs will be avaialable for purchase (Thanks Conan Ford) in limited quanti
ties (heh) this month! The guys at AMD and Intel just keep going at each others throats!Hewlett-Packard will start shipping consumer PCs containing Intel's Pentium III running at 1 GHz (1,000 megahertz) later this mo
nth, sources at HP said. <snip> Likewise, IBM is expected to make an announcement regarding 1-GHz systems next week, sources said.Also, you should check out this interview with the CEO of AMD. The dude talks about co
mpeting with Intel of course and also basically confirms in not so many words that AMD will be helping Microsoft with the X-Box "the Xbox is a very impressive, competitive offering to PlayStation 2." While we are hav
ing the CPU bonanza today check out the announcement from IBM with word of yet another CPU technology breakthrough. If you recall they were showing off some 4.5GHz action not very long ago and were talking about some
 90GHz stuff as well.EverStarTrek This Spring [07:06 am]22 Comments - Steve Gibson Remember all that hoopla about the massive multiplayer online-only Star Trek game being published by Activision? Well it looks like t
he game is much closer to release than everyone thought. Check this out from DailyRadar:...the game puts players in the role of Q, the meddling character first introduced in the Star Trek: Next Generation universe.  
nip> Conquest On-Line will be a strategy game using collectable characters, ships and weapons from the Star Trek universe. Although the online pricing plan has not been finalized yet, the retail version will includ
e all of the game pieces and registration for the official hosting site. The game, scheduled for release this spring <snip>Views X-Com Alliance Screenshots [09:50 am] 4 Comments Gamespot UK has nine screenshots of th
e Unreal engine X-Com Alliance game. Day In The Life of K. Hoekstra [07:24 am] 1 Comments NGNetworks has a quick overview of a 'day in the life of' Kenn Hoekstra of Raven Software, the Project Administrator around th
ose parts. TRIBES2 Images [07:22 am] 1 Comments PC.IGN has a couple of quick snapshots from TRIBES2 which are worth looking at. They are some of that juicy high-res concept style stuff that makes great wallpaper. Eve
r Smell A BFG? [07:21 am] 10 Comments An article on Gamecenter takes a look at the possibility of smell-o-vision for games. Yeah, vision / sound / force feedback just isnt enough for these guys. Tech CeBit Hardware S
how [07:29 am] 1 Comments 3DHardware.net has a great report on CeBit which features among other things some good info about the Nvidia NV11/NV15 cards. Also, Beyond3D has posted a bit of a report on their experiences
 at the recent CeBit hardware show. AnandTech IDF Report [07:19 am] 2 Comments Anandtech has put together their report from the Intel Developers Conference. It's in depth and interesting as always with Anandtech stuf
f so be sure and check it out. Gaming SHUD For Quake3 [07:23 am] 1 Comments A new version of SHUD, one of the coolest damn HUDs you can get for Quake3 is out. It offers real-time statistics of your performance in Qua
ke3 as you play in your HUD. Good stuff for refining your aim/skills. SoF Progress [07:20 am] 4 Comments A .plan update from John Scott over at Raven Software details some of the latest happenings in the baking of So
F. They are just wrapping things up it looks like. Cant wait to play the full version of Soldier of Fortune. New Game From Relic [07:07 am] 1 Comments Word on Gamecenter is that Microsoft has teamed up with the creat
ors of Homeworld to create a new game. Relic Entertainment isnt giving out any details just yet but the game sounds like it's gonna be another unique approach much like Homeworld was. (Homeworld is a true-3d space RT