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Now that DNF is no more, what software/hardware/etc is the inheritor to DNF's vaporware championship belt?
May 15, 2009 5:50pm PDT
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Now that DNF is no more, what software/hardware/etc is the inheritor to DNF's vaporware championship belt...
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Alan Wake or Gran Turismo for the PSP, I think.
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BlackCat9
Please Alan Wake... noooo :(
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sKetchflow
Gah thanks for reminding me that I was pining for GT for the PSP :(
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LilCrypto
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Alan Wake pales in comparison to DNF -- it was announced in 2005.
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Kentor
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That is still 5 years in development with very very very few updates (although obviously much more than D...
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sKetchflow
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their initial announcement showed more gameplay/in-engine stuff than DNF ever did
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derelict515
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Not if you count the 2 prior trailers for DNF.
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spazzium
DNF was never showcased as a tech demo, which I remember being the case of Alan Wake for Intel back when ...
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dedgecko
Nah, I disagree on Alan Wake. Remedy has proven itself with Max Payne. It was in development for a long t...
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Helios150
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It's got a long way to go, but I vote for Alan Wake.
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zipper76
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Yup. We still don't even know what type of game it will be.
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gimpx32
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That will change very soon.
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notd665
oh alex, you tease
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braaains
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3rd person tetris.
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j0nchan
I have it on good authority that it's 5th person Tetris... it's gonna blow your mind.
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delataur
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Serious Sam 3
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Dave-A
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SS2 sure was terrible. they forgot what made the first one great and went for LOL ZANY instead.
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retarded talking dinosaur
I thought it worked well. We finished it in co-op last week. Wouldn't mind a blend of both styles, though...
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Marrbe
I enjoyed SS2 co-op for awhile. But once you go through the whole game in Co-Op a couple of times it gets...
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thrallie200
It seriously felt like Serious Sam 0.5. Everything was worse, even the controls.
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GreatGooglyMoogly
New Serious Sam game announced. http://www.croteam.com/
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ShekkyBoy
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Wouldn't it be StarCraft II. They said it was in development since they finished Frozen Throne which woul...
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K1Bond007
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No. Blizzard has always said that they wanted to revisit the SC universe, but didn't officially acknowled...
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zipper76
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171172.html?sid=6171172&action=convert
The panel answered questions on n
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K1Bond007
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Posted May 19, 2007 Lots of games and game engines are in development for years and years. What made D...
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zipper76
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It is semantics and mostly retroactive vaporware. Wired agreed with me though. They placed it like #3 on ...
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K1Bond007
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Wow - that's some BS there (not you, the Wired Article - http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news...
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zipper76
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Well its been 6 years now since Blizzard, a company that used to be known for real-time strategy, release...
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smax
It's Blizzard what do you expect
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Yanks
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when you're releasing a sequel to an enormously popular game noted for its near perfect balance, you're g...
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derelict515
Everyone wants Blizzard-quality (or Valve-quality) games and noone wants to wait the amount of time it ta...
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deveus1
Shut up and sign up > http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58508
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[7]kami
I think they were reaching to fill up the list.
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deveus1
They're doing opt-in signups for beta right now. I think that's pretty far from vaporware.
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slax0r
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http://www.serioussamforever.com/
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boring gegtik
I have forgotten about Duke already! Bring it on Sam Stone!
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SigENeaT
Duke, Freeman, Quake... Guy
hah
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DinK
Looks like Elite IV is next up to lead the Vaporware charts.
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roushimsx
I asked something like this a couple of years ago, of the responses i think Dragon Age and Huxley are the...
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boredguy
my idea for a transformers tribes1 mod :[
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Chandler55
Nothing, how can any other company do nothing for so long without running out of money?
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quazar
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I wouldn't call DNF vaporware, because it actually existed... The Phantom game system on the other hand, ...
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davidc02
You seem to have a narrower definition of vaporware. By your definition, Starcraft Ghost and Warcraft Adv...
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shyguy74
The phantom game system existed in the same way that DNF did, though. They had a few phantom demo units ...
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batkiwi
My vote will go out on a limb and say the new KOTOR MMO. My sources said so!
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icon_of_syn
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Rage is getting there. It wasn't announced til a few years ago but Doom 3 has been done a while and we kn...
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socksta
Rage is nothing like vaporware.
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pimpium
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They were working on some game called Darkness or something, and scrapped it for RAGE.
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Cihte
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Whatever happened to "Trinity?"
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ADSliv
Trinity was just the codename for the quake 3 engine tech. It was named after the Trinity River to parody...
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jet-poop
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They worked on another game for at least a year after Doom 3 so work on Rage probably started in late 200...
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freshyk
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Plus a lot of that was developing ID Tech 5 too.
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pancake humper
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people seem to forget that part. They criticize id for taking so long to produce a game, but forget to re...
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Cihte
I'm not criticizing it, I'm just saying its up there slightly behind Alan Wake time wise. Rage is going t...
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socksta
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Sin Episodes 2 >:( you fucking pirate dipshits!
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abrasion
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I really enjoyed Ep 1. What a shame.
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ADSliv
It was an incredibly solid game. All three of the weapons (:() had a great feel to them in the game.
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freshyk
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Please... let it go... Even if I could get the IP to continue it from Mumbo Jumbo, I don't have the re...
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RomSteady
>:( I can be sad if I want to, I wanted to see Elixis's cans!
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abrasion
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I'll make live action video cut scenes for it...I can't code or make levels though :(
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socksta
Bianca Beauchamp in the house!
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abrasion
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I'll code :(
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moshman
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No, you'll create the soundtrack and you'll like it.
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socksta
ok, I don't mind doing that either :) been working on some stuff today actually, but with all the update...
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moshman
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Some people in this thread don't know what the fuck vaporware is!
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SockMonkeh
they never do, just like all the 'top 10 vaporware' lists, it's stupid
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derelict515
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Starcraft: Ghost :(
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slax0r
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It's not vaporware whan development has officially been halted.
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master_disaster_17
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Not halted, just delayed indefinitely.
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slax0r
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pretty sure it was cancelled
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dantastic
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It wasn't cancelled, just suspended.
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rudds
Which you're free to interpret as an implicit cancellation, of course. Blizzard never used the word "canc...
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rudds
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True Fantasy on the xbox
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RuffasBluetain
It wasn't vaporware for that long though, it was outright canceled a year or two after it was announced.
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Vincent Grayson
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Ultima Worlds Online
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Link.
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That game would have been so horrible!
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SockMonkeh
Probably not, but okay. That was back when OSI existed and rocked hard.
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Link.
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Of things in development, Alan Wake comes to mind first. However for some reason, the PS3 seems to be thi...
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baron calamity
FF13 is scheduled to be released this Winter in Japan, though. And I'm used to Final Fantasy games takin...
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slax0r
Home did get released in the end, we just wish it didn't and that the time & money wasted on creating a h...
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nudel
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Alan Wake or Heavy Rain
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Perturbation
Heavy Rain is for E3
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zverozyab
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You don't know wtf.
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vx2o
okay I change my vote to Gray Matter
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Perturbation
Alan Wake
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matthaeus
definitely heavy rain...
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deathofrats
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what kind of world do we live in where Diakatana gets to go gold and DNF doesnt >:(
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ninjase
Wow. Sad indeed.
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Cygnus X-1
That put things depressingly in perspective :(.
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quadeh
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As much as I want(ed) DNF, there was (is?) always a chance that it could be worse than daikatana.
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valael
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"A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever." -Shigeru Miyamoto
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slax0r
But there's also been plenty of bad games that were delayed at some point.
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Mecha Tofu Pirate
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The laptop external adapter to plug in PCI Express cards and get more 3D Graphics power.
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VGET
I watched a video about the new Direct2D API in Win7 and they mentioned how it handles the GPU in a lapto...
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nudel
dungeon keeper 3
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yautja
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L.A. Noire? Is that still in production? I've seen no in-game work for it at all and i was excited years ...
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Snuffles-
Delayed until this fiscal year. I don't trust them.
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michaelleung
That amazing video card made by Bitboys
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stuka
Next Elite game by David Braben. /topic
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watcherxp
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Project Offset
What the fuck is going on with this game. The trailer was amazing. http://www.youtub...
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razlebol
Yeah, was wondering the same, still in development apparently.
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lightly inclined
intel bought them.
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GloriousCow
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God yes, I remember seeing a preview about how advantaged the animation/models were in this game. Is it s...
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Big Luke
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/27/gdc09-project-offset-reemerges-with-new-media/
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GloriousCow
Yea, that looks impressive but so did the CryEngine before Crysis was released. I'm hoping for the best t...
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Big Luke
I expect Project Offset to be talked about more around the time Larrabee comes out.
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freshyk
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Intel bought the company, probably for the engine. I don't think that game exists anymore.
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stuka
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What the fuck would Intel do with a game engine?
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Big Luke
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Intel is making a video card, they want a game engine to show it off.
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GloriousCow
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Wait, is this true? Will we have an Nvidia, ATI and Intel video card battle in the future?
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Big Luke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)
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GloriousCow
Yep :) Price drops, here you come! :)
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melt_core
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What does God need with a starship?
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drazz
Evidently He really likes "We Built This City."
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RomSteady
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Rumor is that they will totally Larrabee it and release the engine for free for people to use in their ga...
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stuka
PS4 was also rumored to use a intel graphic chip instead of ati or nvidia.
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razlebol
The Phantom
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