Legit Reviews: "ATI has ten Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards on the market today, and if you think they are going to stop there you are sadly mistaken. Today AMD is announcing the Radeon HD 5830 graphics card, which is the 'big brother' of the $143 Radeon HD 5770 and the 'little brother' of the $299 Radeon HD 5850. Priced right in the middle at $239 the Radeon HD 5830 helps bridge the performance and the price gap between what many of our readers would consider the entry level gamer graphics cards and the mainstream gamers' card.
The Radeon HD 5830 is a derivative of the Radeon HD 5870 and is identical not only in size, but also general features. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 has 20 SIMD engines that each have 16 Thread Processors. A thread processor contains 5 stream cores, so this is how the Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 total stream processors. The Radeon HD 5830 has six of the 20 SIMD engines turned off, so it has a total of 14 functional SIMD engines. This means that the Radeon HD 5830 has 1120 stream processors. A light should have just gone off inside your head right about now and it should be telling you that the Radeon HD 5830 has been created from the silicon that didn't make the grade to become a Radeon HD 5870. Nothing is wrong with this practice, but since we've already reviewed 10 Radeon HD 5000 series cards in the past we'll skip the basic features and get right to what has changed and then move on to the benchmarks."
WTMG's Leo Faria: "I guess that what made me feel so disappointed about Shotgun Cop Man was the fact that I had just played a vastly superior game with the same gimmick, but no control issues whatsoever. In Sacre Bleu, I could perform small jumps before blasting myself with the recoil of my bunderbluss. Combat was fun there. It wasn’t here. Shotgun Cop Man ended up being a torturous patience test, with a control scheme that just didn’t fit in with the level design, really poor presentation, and a level of difficulty that never felt like I was being tested; I felt I was being made fun of. In short, if this game’s premise enticed you… go play Sacre Bleu instead."
Embark Studios sheds light on the ARC Raiders Tech Test, revealing just how inept players are at defeating the game’s toughest enemy.
"Wrapping houses is a common prank in which people throw rolls of toilet paper at a house at night. So far, there's never been a video game about this time-honored pastime. Imagine being able to safely wrap houses from the comfort of your own home! Well, Wrap House Simulator is not that game. Instead, it's about running a restaurant. Does the restaurant get wrapped in toilet paper? Probably not. On the plus side, it does have online co-op," says Co-Optimus.
