Forget the credit crunch, 2009 already rules...
Put aside your partisan fanboy differences this month and celebrate the fact that 2009 IS going to be a golden year for technological innovation in gaming...
January is close to over. We can soon stop worrying ourselves sick over money, faddish diets or brain-numbing tax returns and get back to what makes our souls sing. Namely, playing, talking about and getting hyped up about what new videogames and gaming tech are on the way in 2009.
Leaving aside the rather exciting fact that EA's sublime Skate 2 has just come out and that Microsoft and Rockstar have Halo Wars and Grand Theft Auto on DS due within a matter of weeks, let's cast our eyes back over January to cherry-pick the highlights of the month's gaming news on TechRadar.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."
Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.
I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.
However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.
I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.
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