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| EA wants 'open gaming platform' |
Sunday, 21.10.2007 |
 Uniform standards are always a wish of developers, not only in the gaming branche. Gerhard Florin, Senior Executive at Electronic Arts recently came up with this idea: "We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible."
No wonder, EA currently produces games for more than 14 different gaming systems, including consoles, portable devices and PCs. A standardization would help reducing the costs. In long-term he predicts that the set-top boxes will be more and more important in the future, as they include technology to deal with High Definition TV streams and access to the internet. In about 15 years they can be powerful enough to contain a standard gaming engine and the consumer can download the games from the web. To maintain individuality, there can be a Microsoft-, Sony- and Nintendo-Channel.
"You don't need an Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii - the consumer won't even realise the platform it is being played on.", he added.
Are Set-top boxes really the future? If we look at the current fight between HD-DVD and BluRay, Browser wars (IE vs. FF) or OS fights (Windows vs. Linux vs MacOS), I think it's quite unlikely that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo will ever cooperate and create a single open gaming platform...
 Interview @ BBC News (Source)
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| NFS PS: Xbox360 Demo coming this weekend |
Saturday, 20.10.2007 |
 There are demos of Need for Speed ProStreet planned for three platforms: Xbox360, PC and Playstation 3. According to latest news from EA, the Xbox360-Demo is finished and will be released on the Xbox Live Marketplace within the next days, maybe already this weekend.
The PC-Demo will come a little bit later and is planned for the last week of October or the first week of November. The Playstation 3-Demo should be released somewhere close to the game's launch date.
Need for Speed ProStreet hits stores on November 13th in the USA and Canada. In Europe the game is being released on November 22nd.
We'll let you know when the demo is available.
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| NFS PS: System requirements? |
Thursday, 18.10.2007 |
Our colleagues from NFSGame.net could get some information about the system requirements of the PC-version of Need for Speed ProStreet. Actually these specifications are not confirmed by EA yet, but at least your can take these to find out if the game will run fluently on your PC:
OS: Windows XP/Vista
CPU: 2.8 GHz or higher (Windows Vista requires 3.0 GHz)
RAM: 512 MB RAM or higher (Windows Vista requires 1 GB RAM)
HDD: 8.1 GB free disk space or more
Graphics: 128 MB or higher (Pixel Shader 2.0, AGP and PCIe only)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
DVD-Drive: 8x
Multiplayer: Internet Connection 512 Kbps, 2-8 Players
Input: Keyboard, Mouse
Optional: USB Steering Wheel / Dual Analogue Gamepad
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Finally the Xbox360 demo of Need for Speed ProStreet has arrived. Users of Xbox Live can download the demo at the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Some weeks ago EBGames released a Need for Speed ProStreet - Trailer (
