Wii's successor: U Wii: Nintendo's new console

Nintendo at E3 2011, a new console presents was well known. The big questions were still remained: What does the new games home of Mario, Zelda and Co., what is the name of the Wii's successor, and which innovative ideas will surprise the Nintendo gamer community? At least on some of the questions, the Japanese company was in the E3 press conference a response.

"We are you" - these two words of the head of Nintendo America, Reggie Fils-Aime breaks during the E3 press conference called off the new Nintendo console, and answered it, at least one of the questions provided in advance of the games fair for all sorts of rumors. U Wii is the successor to the Wii and should satisfy, according to Nintendo, both the mass market and hardcore fans.

Different technical specifications for the GTX 560 OEM customers Ti

The OEM version of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti has different specifications than the retail model. The card is not based on the core GF114 but on a limited version of the GF110. Nvidia has disabled 5 of the 16 cluster architecture present full-GF110, leaving only 352 CUDA enabled Cores, and has used the MC bus of the GTX 570 with 320-bit address data.

The clock frequencies are set 732/1464/3800MHz (GPU / SPs / Mem). In summary, the GTX 560 OEM Ti is slightly less performance of the GTX 560 Ti "retail", while consuming more (vs 210W. 180W), but can handle a bandwidth GDDR5 VRAM and quantity of higher (1.25 or 2.5GB). The latter factor is counting on more of the promotional marketing OEM absolute performance.

Role-playing game for Xbox 360: Fable - The Journey: Kinect offshoot presented

"Fable - The Journey" - before the press conference that title already circulated through the network. Fans of the series hoping for a new offshoot series and the creator of role-playing saga Peter Molyneux it did not take to announce the title in person at the stage of the Microsoft press conference.

It was followed by a "Fable" type safe Render Trailer, full of atmosphere, located in the known world Albion - a good sign. In the subsequent game presentation was that the game focuses primarily Kinect. In "The Journey" and follow with your character a precalculated path. Mobs will do with the spells your hero - and you create with the movements of your hands and arms.

A 3D display "PlayStation" for the players

Sony has just introduced the CECH-ZED1 a screen "PlayStation". Scheduled for fall 2011 at $ 500, this 24-inch screen is dedicated to the Sony console. Sony limit the diagonal, but offers attractive benefits: it works in 1920 x 1080 with a PVA panel - as in many Sony televisions - and a 5000:1 contrast announced.

The camera angles are very wide (normal PVA) with 176 ° in each direction and the response time is 4 ms. For lighting, it is a system "Edge LED" that is used: LEDs placed on the sides of the screen light up the slab. Interestingly, the screen will be compatible with the 3D terrain and will be delivered with a pair of active glasses, which can offer the 3D 1920 x 1080 on each eye.

Back on the Computex: MSI

The news was rather rich computer these days, different manufacturers present at Computex advantage of this event to showcase their latest products, technologies and innovations. Now that the show closed its doors, we'll be back a little more detail on the different stands of manufacturers, starting with MSI (because it has to start somewhere).

As for graphics cards, MSI N580GTX exposing his Lightning Xtreme Edition, a GeForce GTX 580 overclocked and factory equipped with a fan that changes color depending on the temperature of the card. The same fan also works upside down for 30 seconds when starting the system to prevent dust from accumulating in the cooler.

GIGABYTE 900 series motherboards for AMD

The manufacturer GigaByte show its new 900 series motherboards with socket AM3 + and support for AMD's new FX processors up to eight cores. Key Features of the Series 900. Support AMD FX. The Gigabyte 900 series integrates the new socket AM3 + supports the upcoming AMD FX series processors, the first processors aimed at mainstream market with up to 8 native cores.

Multi-GPU support the latest technology. The 900 series chipsets from AMD, with up to 42 lanes PCI Express generation 2.0, are also the first modes include 4-way AMD CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI. This means that with the Gigabyte 900 series can run the latest games with higher frame rates and resolution possible, without sacrificing the ultimate in multi-display settings such as AMD and NVIDIA 3D VISION Eyefinity.

E3 2011, eyes on Battlefield 3

The presentation of EA's E3 was seen as the long-awaited flagship Battlefield 3. The American publisher showed the first video on the game's multiplayer mode (note that PC will support up to 64 players at once), along with a new trailer on the features of the Frostbite game engine 2.0 (DX11 rendering, animation system, ANT, destruction system Destruction 3.0, HD audio playback, etc..) and a spectacular live demo of the single player campaign featuring the tanks.