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Written by Irfan
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Grand Theft Auto IV sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4 million at the tills — nearly double the box-office takings of a blockbuster film.
The higher-than-expected UK sales figure, compiled by Chart-Track, eclipsed the record of 501,000 held by the previous instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series, San Andreas, in October 2004.
It also comes hard on the heels of the success of Wii Fit, on the Nintendo console, which sold 240,000 in its first two days — more than the 200,000 that retailers had been predicting. Wii Fit is the sixth-best seller ever, generating £16.8 million at the tills.
Last weekend the highest-grossing film was Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which generated £2.1 million at the box office. Casino Royale and Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man’s Chest each generated just over £13 million on their opening weekends.
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Written by Irfan
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It seems that there are some serious bugs in GTA 4 and its affecting PS3 owners the most.
People mailed the INQ to report that their copies of GTA 4 on PS3 cannot be installed to the hard-drive on their consoles, even after a factory reset and reformat of the device. Other users have reported crashes after successfully installing the game.
Similar tales have popped up on the official Playstation forums, Digital Spy, GTA Forums, AVS Forums, and many more.
To begin with, users believed that only 60GB-launch consoles were suffering from the problems but, since these first systems reported errors, non-launch 60GB and 20GB console users have also reported problems. PS3 Forums has started a poll showing that it isn't restricted to one type of SKU here.
Someone on the Playstation forums contacted Sony support and received this answer: "The Rockstar tech guy said that they are looking at the image that was sent out for the PS3 disc and they'll post onto the official Rockstar forums when a fix comes up, which he said would hopefully be soon."
Another reported that the Canadian support offices were being plagued by callers: "A friendly English bloke claims he was getting hammered with issues, and he is leaving work in 25 minutes."
There is currently no official response from Rockstar.
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Written by Irfan
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Nvidia has tacitly confirmed speculation about the specifications of its upcoming GeForce 9600 GSO graphics card by launching the thing.
As expected, the GSO connects to 384MB of graphics memory over a 192-bit bus. The Ram runs at 800MHz, the GPU itself at 550MHz, though the chip's 96 unified shaders are clocked at 1375MHz.
That, said, Nvidia yields a texture fill rate of 26.4bn polygons per second. The memory bandwidth is 38.4GB/s.
Those numbers put the GSO at the bottom of the GeForce 9 list, though it offers all the key features of its stablemates: support for SLI, HD disc decoding, PCI Express 2.0 and DirectX 10.
The GSO comes in ahead of the ATI Radeon HD 3830, AMD's bid to undercut the GeForce 9600 GT.
News Source : channelregister.co.uk |
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Written by Irfan
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Windows XP could yet be reprieved from end-of-life, if enough customers demand it, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today.
Speaking at a news conference in Belgium Ballmer said: "XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter but right now we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments", reports Reuters.
But at the same time he insisted that consumers were switching to Vista in numbers, which is perhaps to be expected, as the majority of new computers available at retail now come loaded with the operating system.
As for the business world, Ballmer noted: "We still have customers who are buying PCs with XP". He explained that many IT departments were still supporting dusty old kit that cannot handle memory-chugging Vista.
Earlier this month Microsoft confirmed it would continue to sell Windows XP Home edition licenses beyond the operating system’s scheduled 30 June kill-date for bargain basement PCs only.
Meanwhile, Microsoft finally got the long-awaited XP SP3 out of the door on Monday.
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