VP of Epic, Mark Rein has been speaking to Eurogamer about the value of the PC as a cutting edge platform, saying that PCs are so far ahead that they are now setting the benchmark for the next console generation.

“Don’t forget every game that’s ultimately built is built on a PC. PCs are always going to be the tools through which all games get made,” he said. “With the PC you can simulate the future – you can put enough hardware in a PC to show you what a future console will look like.”

Epic did just that earlier this year when they unveiled the breathtaking Samaritan demo at GDC. It ran off a PC running on three top of the range Nvidia GTX 580 cards. The CG quality video was rendered in real time by an advanced version of the Unreal engine, a point that Epic demonstrated by fiddling with wireframe models and in-engine physics halfway through the demo.

“It was kind of our love letter to hardware manufacturers,” Rein told Eurogamer. “The next-gen, we expect, will look like that. If you fast forward a year or two years that should be a fairly common gamer’s spec.

“We hope the console manufactures look at that and go, jeez, if we aim for that in our next consoles we’ll be competitive with what you’ll be able to do on a PC in a year, year and half from now. A reasonably priced PC – obviously you can do it on an expensive PC already.”

everyone said the demo
wasnt realt time big dummies

who you callin a big dummy, you big dummy

EA has made it all too clear that it wants to slit the throat of the Call of Duty franchise, as it readies its impressive looking Battlefield 3 to go head to head with Modern Warfare 3 later this year. But today the publisher resorted to some dirty tactics, or so it seemed at first.

Gaming news sites and Twitter feeds lit up over the past 24 hours when it was discovered that the URL www.modernwarfare3.com was automatically redirecting to www.battlefield.com/battlefield3, EA's official site for its upcoming shooter.

It was assumed by most that the forwarding URL had been set up by EA itself, as part of a cheap campaign to lure away unsuspecting Call of Duty fans, but website Net Media Now did some digging and discovered that the www.modernwarfare3.com site had previously been set up as some kind of "fishy beta sign up scheme" with no apparent ties to EA. Thanks to Google cache, an earlier version of the site was found complete with a video attacking one of the official Modern Warfare 3 trailers, and this caustic fine print:



"Modern Warfare is crap. On November 8, 2011, the most over-hyped first-person action series of all-time returns with the copy and paste sequel to the lackluster Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Check out the E3 2011 gameplay demo featuring the Black Tuesday level for a look at the epic fail of the campaign. Pre-Order Call of Duty MW3 Today for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC to secure exclusive bonuses only available online for Modern Warfare 3 fanboys who don't know that Battlefield 3 is the better game."


Hardly the sort of messaging that EA would employ despite the apparent fierceness of the competition between the two publishers, and given the potential legal ramifications at stake it's likely just the work of a troublemaking fan.

Ultimately the most baffling part of the whole affair is this: games publishers typically register every possible domain name variation for each of their big game releases, so why on earth does Activision not own the www.modernwarfare3.com domain already?


jajaja
yea fuck you cod

It mystifies me that people still flock to the CoD franchise after world at war....

n how black cocks
best selling game ever
nobody ive ever talked to said
cock>mw

cod has always sucked

like yur nude skype skillz

http://www.guru3d.com/article/crysis-2-dx11-vga-and-cpu-performance-benchmarks/
check out dem numbers

fix'd

cod does so well because 10 year olds dont know what a good game looks like and think it is best game ever......but it does so well because its a game you can sit down with your friends and play and just have fun playing and fragging......but your not gonna find that same group of friends play css simply because cod players and css players are totally different in that cod players usally have only played cod therefor think its good cause they haven't experienced a good fps but css players are usually hardcore fps player and know what a good game is.

bf3 will combine both of those types of player and that is why it might just be a cod killer but who knows we havent seen either of them yet but my money is on bf3