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The BAVGA’s – The Game Winners Are….

by Jay Garrett on March 11, 2009

game-logo-crop-2926The BAVGA’s – that’s British Academy Video Games – have now been handed out and no doubt a bunch of heartfelt and teary acceptance speaches have been made and much booze supped.

Voting is, as you’d expect, a secretive process that follows the fact that the judges have actually played the nominated titles and then have to weigh up all the factors.

These decisions, apparently, are not made over a swift half by 3 all empowered faceless pen-pushers.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare swept across with Best Gameplay and the People’s Choice awards as well as the more surprising Story and Character awards.

The most contentious point across the interweblogosphere seems to be the Best Game award which went to Super Mario Galaxy.

You have to keep in mind that it shared nominations with COD4, Fable II, Fallout 3, Rock Band as well as the expected Best Game winner: Grand Theft Auto IV which actually came away empty handed.

It warms my heart to see Left4Dead and Spore coming away with some hardware.

Here’s those BAFTA’s in Full:

  • Best Game: – Super Mario Galaxy
  • Gameplay: – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  • Casual: – Boom Blox
  • Sports: – Race Driver: Grid
  • Story and Character: – Call of Duty 4
  • Strategy: – Civilisation Revolution
  • Best use of Audio: – Dead Space
  • New Talent: – Boro Toro
  • Multiplayer: – Left 4 Dead
  • Best Technical Achievement: – Spore
  • Original Score: – Dead Space
  • Handheld: – Professor Layton and the Curious Village
  • People’s Choice: – Call of Duty 4
  • Artistic Achievement: – LittleBigPlanet
  • Best Action and Adventure: – Fable II

 Do you agree?

Let me know :)

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Nvidia Ion – Play Call of Duty on Your Netbook

by Jay Garrett on December 19, 2008

nvidia_netbook_ionIf you opt for a netbook you do so with the knowledge that it will crumble when faced with Crysis, Left4Dead and the likes.

Well, Nvidia plans to introduce “chip technology” that could allow low-cost netbooks run those lovely high-def games and media.

The Ion platform, announced on Thursday, effectively combines Nvidia’s GeForce 9400 graphics processing unit (GPU) with Intel’s Atom chipset. According to Nvidia, this combination will provide “up to ten times the graphics performance” of other graphics chipsets currently used with Atom in small, low-cost PCs.

The GeForce 9400 has 16 processing cores and is more than suited for graphics-intensive apps such as Adobe’s Photoshop CS4.

It’s already chugging under the hood of Apple’s latest MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

“Until now, a high-definition, affordable PC was an oxymoron,” said Drew Henry, general manager of Nvidia’s media communications processor business unit, in Thursday’s statement. “The Ion platform pairs the GeForce 9400 with a truly great Intel Atom CPU and lets consumers surf the Internet, play top games, edit photos and watch videos — all in high definition.”

Nvidia said that the new Ion platform will be designed to support the full Windows Vista user interface, however, and the upcoming Windows 7.  That news may be exciting to some of you I guess……….

In addition, it will be capable of running “full-spec 1,080 [pixels]” high-definition video and games as graphically intensive as Call of Duty 4.

According to Nvidia, “the GeForce 9400 GPU does all of this in about half of the space of today’s Atom CPU-based solutions, with minimal effect on battery life”.

The Ion platform will also let netbook users experience full Blu-ray playback on the smallest PCs and laptops, according to Alice Chang, chief executive of optical-drive maker CyberLink, who was quoted in Nvidia’s statement.

A spokesperson for Nvidia told ZDNet UK yesterday that the company expects manufacturers to offer netbooks using Ion sometime towards the end of the first half of 2009.

Portable gaming a-go-go! FTW! :)

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Left 4 Dead Demo is Live – Game out 18th November

November 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Left 4 Dead – it’s almost here! If you’re not familiar with the title let me tell you a little about it. The ’4′ in the name underlines that this is a 4 player First Person Shooter (FPS) (and not an homage to Prince’s whacky way of writing) and the ‘Dead’ bit is a nod [...]