Those are the DirectX SDK files. They're Microsoft files, not Crytek files.
There are third-party apps that use the Steam API to show your friends and stuff, but no official app yet. You can't do things like message your friends, just see if they're online/offline and look through their games lists.
Their previous venture to consoles went terribly. Stormrise was just all bad.
Holiday means November/December.
I'm positive that there will be a new Counter-Strike game, or at least a sort of spin-off of Counter-Strike (same type of gameplay but in a different setting).
Turtle Rock has been working on a new project ever since they finished the first Left 4 Dead back in 2008. I think they'll either announce it early 2012, after Portal 2 and DotA 2 release. Perhaps alongside a Half-Life 3 with Source Engine 2...?!
There's also WeGame but it's not as feature-rich as those other programs.
People can tell the difference, but most displays only do 60 Hz so anything above 60 FPS is wasted.
Technniicalllyyy, the PC games market is the largest in the world. It doesn't get as many AAA games, but it has the largest number of players. A shit ton of people play those free MMOs and RPGs and shooters such as Maplestory and Soldier Front. Wizet, the developers of Maplestory, have made hundreds of millions of dollars and have 100 million subscribers from Maplestory alone, and this is as of 2009.
Crysis 2 looks great, but honestly I think Battlefield 3 looks better. Maybe Crysis 2 has more detailed environments, but BF3's lighting is just wow.
Plus BF3 will be good. Loved the first Crysis, but Crysis 2 multiplayer feels like Call of Duty with nanosuits.
Multi-core processors don't work like that. You don't just add up the frequencies.
Same type of GPU as the NGP -- a PowerVR SGX534MP. Apple didn't specify the clock speed or number of cores, though.
You mean COD 1 engine.
Call of Duty's engine is id Tech 3 and Call of Duty 2's engine is based off of id Tech 3, but Infinity Ward decided to call it the IW Engine. They've been building off of that engine ever since. It may be an entirely different beast now, but technically it's still based off of the super old id Tech 3 engine.
Yup. DICE keeps pushing the boundaries of technology because they know that it will help them make a better game. And by technology, they don't just mean graphics, but audio, animations, and technical things such as destruction and physics.
The Call of Duty series keeps on using the same engine because it lets them put out a new release every year.
In this game you throw birds at rocks.
I think the lighting is better than Crysis 2's.
You can find an ATI Radeon HD 5870 for as low as $200 nowadays. I have the 5870 and it runs everything on max. Plays the Crysis 2 demo on max settings without any problem (haven't checked, but it feels like 60 FPS).
But by the time BF3 releases, the NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti should be like $150, maybe as low as $100 with rebates and stuff, so you should get that as NVIDIA drivers are better, imo.
They upgraded the lighting a ton in Portal 2 compared to the previous Source engine game, Left 4 Dead 2.
Yes, let's use video editing software on still images.
Best looking rocks in a video game.
It's a traditional Japanese thing. I think it's the day where parents don't have work so they can go to the launch events too.