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Cryptic Announces the Star Trek Online System Requirements

As its launch date approaches, more and more details regarding Star Trek Online begin to surface. The latest details its developers have released are the system requirements so that Star Trek fans will have plenty of time to upgrade their system if necessary. The minimum requirements for the game are pretty decent, t...

12 November 2009
02:42 GMT

These Are the Minimum System Requirements for Modern Warfare 2

With the release date quickly nearing Activision, as the publisher, and Infinity Ward, as the developer, have released the minimum system requirements for those players who are interested in picking up Modern Warfare 2 on the good-old PC. The follow-up to the 2007 best-seller is also coming to the PlayStation 3 from ...

23 October 2009
04:30 GMT

Resident Evil 5 for PC Gets Release Date and System Requirements

Capcom's Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular and best-selling series of titles for the Japanese company. With the arrival of the first game many years ago, fans were enticed by the survival horror genre that the franchise had created and loyally bought anything related to it. Even though it didn&...

28 July 2009
02:42 GMT

Champions Online System Requirements Revealed

Champions Online is poised to be released in less than two months and the developers at Cryptic have announced what players need, both in terms of software and hardware, in order to run the MMO. The game itself might be centered on superheroes and their exploits in a fictional world but the real world demands on comp...

9 July 2009
13:11 GMT

Prototype Gets PC System Requirements

Activision is one of the biggest firms in the gaming industry today. It has made a huge amount of money thanks to franchises like Guitar Hero or Call of Duty, for which it creates new iterations on a yearly or even more often basis.But the company is also focused on new projects and properties, with the most interest...

4 June 2009
02:21 GMT

Windows 7 System Requirements

With the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows 7, Microsoft has also made public the system requirements for the operating system. The good news? Users who have already moved to a Windows Vista-tailored machine will not need to upgrade their hardware yet again just to accommodate Windows 7. In fact, the s...

4 May 2009
03:29 GMT

F.E.A.R. 2 System Requirements Revealed

F.E.A.R. 2 is one of the most eagerly expected first person shooters of 2009. The game is set to arrive for the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC and the release dates are February 10 for North America and February 13 for Europe. And now potential players can check if their systems are g...

15 January 2009
03:44 GMT

Windows 7 Beta vs. Windows Vista - System Requirements

I did a radio interview a while back for an IT-related show, and one of the questions was generated by user inquiries related to the system requirements for Windows 7. Windows Vista was easily qualified as a resource hog in comparison to its precursor, Windows XP, but judging from the five-year gap separating the two...

12 January 2009
16:01 GMT

System Requirements Unveiled for The Sims 3 from Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts has announced today the hardware that players would need to have in order to play The Sims 3, the next “humanity simulation” under development at the Electronic Arts Redwood Shore studio. A quick glance at the system requirements shows that the new game in the multi million selling series ...

6 January 2009
17:41 GMT

Saints Row 2 PC Gets System Requirements

The open-world sandbox game genre is a pretty big one, with quite a lot of titles promising to deliver the most realistic world to the players. However, as the Grand Theft Auto franchise has set the benchmark in regard to the most realistic sandbox experience, other developers can only try to bring something new. Th...

30 December 2008
02:27 GMT

Fallout 3 System Requirements Revealed

With Fallout 3 going gold and preparing for launch, Bethesda has decided to release the system requirements, both minimum and recommended, for the PC version of the post apocalyptic role playing game. After a quick glance, it doesn't seem like the game will require a lot of computing power to run.At a minimum, y...

10 October 2008
04:28 GMT

Mac Requirements Disclosed for WoW: Wrath of the Lich King

Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed the system requirements for the Mac version of its upcoming expansion pack for WoW, Wrath of the Lich King. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion for the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) available today.Following The ...

9 October 2008
04:47 GMT

GTA IV for the PC System Requirements Revealed

PC gamers have been waiting to see GTA IV arrive on their systems ever since the game was released for the Xbox 360 and for the PlayStation 3 way back at the beginning of the year. But PC gaming can be a messy affair, with complex setups and worries related to whether a game will or will not run on a particular compu...

15 September 2008
11:51 GMT

System Specifications Released for Mirror's Edge

As you can see from the amount of coverage I've devoted to the title, I am pretty excited about the release of Mirror's Edge, the free running game that DICE is developing for Electronic Arts.    This particular piece of information had slipped under my radar last week, but it seems that...

3 September 2008
06:14 GMT

Find out if Your PC Can Run Spore

Spore is one of the most anticipated games of the year and fans will also get the chance to check out the Creature Creator starting next week. However, you might still be wondering whether your computer can run the game and upgrade it if necessary. Therefore, Electronic Arts has released a list with the system requir...

11 June 2008
13:06 GMT

Windows 7 on a Diet, to Match the Hardware Requirements of the Vista Hog

Under the leadership of Steven "Don't Call Me Transparent" Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Microsoft will no longer repeat the five year gap between Windows XP and Windows Vista, or the mistakes done with the latest Windows client. The first sign that the Windows 7 ap...

30 May 2008
10:30 GMT

Starcraft II System Specs Rumor Denied by Blizzard

Starcraft II is set to be one of the biggest games of 2008. With the original game still getting regular multiplayer play from a whole lot of people, and with South Korea close to declaring Starcraft a national sport, everyone is keeping an eye out for news regarding the sequel, which Blizzard has in development and ...

28 May 2008
10:25 GMT

Mass Effect System Specs Revealed

As the launch date of May 26 is approaching fast, Electronic Arts has recently revealed the system specifications for the PC version of its Xbox 360 hit Mass Effect. It seems that Bioware really put a lot of effort into making the port as PC friendly as possible, trying to make the game run on a variety of platforms,...

17 April 2008
04:35 GMT

Assassin's Creed Release Delay Comes with New Screens, Lower System Requirements

Definitely not a competitor to Grand Theft Auto IV, Assassin's Creed for PC (dubbed "Director's Cut Edition") will be released a bit later. Initially set for a March, 28 release, we now got word that the game will hit the stores starting the 8th of April this year, closer to the GTA explosion.If this news s...

13 March 2008
13:06 GMT

Microsoft Claims Windows Vista Can Run with Zero Graphics Memory!

Whoever told you that Windows Vista is a resource hog lied! Nothing could be further from the truth! Nothing! Vista is just your average and friendly operating system, requiring just modest hardware resources if you are to believe Microsoft. Vista is in fact optimized to run on nothing at all. If you have an ancient ...

16 January 2008
11:30 GMT

NFS ProStreet System Requirements Out

Finally, the system requirements for the PC version of NFS ProStreet are here, but according to thoughtful blokes over at Nfsplanet who managed to snag them, the "specifications are not confirmed by EA yet." However, it never hurts to see whether you "kind-of" fit the profile or not. After all, they don't roll o...

23 October 2007
06:37 GMT

Crysis Recommended Specs Revealed

Just last month, German developer Crytek rolled out the minimum specs for Crysis, their upcoming first-person-shooter said to look better than any other game of the genre out there. While the game's publisher Electronic Arts, stated a little while ago that the game should even run on two-to-three-year-old PCs, t...

10 October 2007
03:51 GMT

Office 2007 Is a Resource Hog, Just Like Windows Vista

The Microsoft Office 2007 System is a resource hog just as big as Windows Vista. No wonder that Microsoft is marketing its top cash cows side-by-side. If you thought that the Windows Vista system requirements are a tad excessive then just take a look at the Office 2007.According to the Redmond Company's official...

16 April 2007
09:27 GMT


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