Alan Wake–The Next Psychological Thriller Game For PC

Hot on the heels of Max Payne comes another psychological thriller—Alan Wake is set to be released in North America on April 3 and it promises a punch. It’s the boxed version for PC that’s about to be released and comes with two downloadable episodes, The Signal and The Writer—true to a boxed version style game. It’s the TIME Magazine game of the year and is BAFTA nominated! Everyone should have a go at this!

Vice President of Legacy Interactive, Steve Wall, says,

“We are thrilled to be bringing such an iconic title to North American retail…I have been a longtime fan of Remedy’s work. Max Payne was a true masterpiece and Alan Wake follows in its footsteps as a brilliant feat of storytelling and innovative gameplay.”

The story is along these lines—the bestselling author Alan Wake wants to get away from ‘writer’s block and goes off to a small town called Bright Falls. However, his wife goes missing and all of a sudden he finds himself living the story of a thriller he cannot even recall having written! There is a stalking Dark Presence in Bright Falls and in his search for his wife he finds himself pushed to the edge of reason and rationality.

Full of action-packed sequences and true TV series style suspense building, the game promises its players deeper and gradually intense levels with multiplying complexity in plots and situations. Though he must put to use a variety of weapons, it’s only the Fight With Light combat technique that can help!

The game comes with a set of customizable options like the “hide HUD” and lots of customizable graphics settings. With a high end graphics card like the AMD Radeon HD 7970 the game promises a thriller gaming experience like no other!

Diamond AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review

Tweak Town has tested and done a cool review on the Diamond AMD Radeon HD 7970. They have done the whole run through—right from the package and its contents, to how the card looks and its specifications, test system setup, and detailed benchmarking with games. For the real test freaks there are detailed tests like the High Quality Anti-Aliasing (AA) and Antistrophic Filtering (AF) stats, and also temperature, sound, and power consumption tests!

What is their final take on this awesome video graphics card? They love it, “…another great reference card …thanks so much to AMD who have been able to offer such a good base when it comes to performance and other areas like power draw. We’ve got little to complain about when it comes to the HD 7970 and this Diamond offering is no different.” In addition, they claim that the latest driver from AMD helps make the Diamond Radeon HD 7970 run better.

You can view the complete review here

The All New AMD Radeon HD 7770 & 7750

For those who thought the AMD HD 7970 was too expensive, AMD has come out with a couple of versions that won’t cost the earth to gamers. These are the HD 7770 and HD 7750. Both come with the same 28nm GCN architecture, codenamed “Southern Islands,” though the codename both Radeon cards go by—“Cape Verde”—these islands aren’t exactly in the Southern hemisphere, but in the northern hemisphere! (some interesting geographical info for you!)

With a price point of $160 for HD 7770 GHz edition and $110 for 7750 these cards are going to compete not just with the 7970 heavily, but the older generation cards too, like the 6850, 6770, the 5770, and other such.

The HD 7770 GHz edition provides one HDMI, DVI-D, and two Display Port connectors, but one particular feature that stands out is that this card can simultaneously be connected to up to six video monitors! The 7750 has just one mini Display Port instead of the two that the 7770 has. The HD 7770 is clocked at 1 GHz while the 7750 at 800 MHz and both have a GDDR5 memory.