Posted by: cLutch - 03-03-2010 02:47 AM
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intox Gaming is proud to bring you the... 'Promote intox Gaming' contest!
All you have to do it take a photograph of something you made promoting this wonderful community of ours. The only requirement is that it says "intox Gaming" or "www.intoxGaming.com" (the latter is preferred) and is easily visible by people. Ofcourse, don't damage any property or do anything against the law. We will not be held responsible for what you do! You have the opportunity to be as creative as you want, so let's get some good submissions!
Rules:
• Private Message me your picture; do not post it in this thread.
• You are not required to be in the picture or have your name displayed. (This will eliminate people being swayed.)
• You are only allowed one submission.
Info:
• The deadline to Private Message me will be Friday, March 12th.
• Once the deadline hits, I will look through the pictures (removing all of the completely retarded ones) and create a poll where everyone can vote for their favorite.
• The poll will be closed (and winner decided) on Monday, March 15th.
Prize:
A must-have bundle for every FPS enthusiast, the Novint Falcon Pistol Grip Bundle takes gaming to the next level with our 3D Touch technology that lets you feel realistic weapon recoil and force feedback for truly immersive game play.
The bundle includes: award winning Falcon controller, Pistol Grip, standard grip, along with Valve’s Orange box and another very popular Falcon title, Penumbra: Overture.
We will also turn the winning picture into our banner for a week.
Here are two examples given to us when we were inviting new members:
There's been major events going down at Activision today. Workers were left feeling uneasy this morning when the 2 studio heads of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella went to meet with Activision and hadn't been seen since.
It later arose that Jason West had been sacked by Activision which was confirmed by his LinkedIn (a website for business networking) profile, which listed his job at Infinity Ward as 'past'. Sources seemed to imply that there had been some pressure for change coming from Activision and Infinity Ward had been resisting. It later arose in an Activision security report that there had been an 'internal human resources inquiry into breaches of contract and insubordination by two senior employees'.
To top it all off, this afternoon West's fellow studio head Vince Zampella also changed his LinkedIn profile, listing his employment status with Infinity Ward as TBD (to be decided).
tl;dr: Looks like Activision tried to make Infinity Ward change something and the 2 studio heads refused and got laid off. I'll be keeping an eye on events as they unfold.
Not that this really comes as a shock to anyone but the GTX 470 and 480 are set to be expensive and indeed rare at first.
Although the planned launch for the new cards is March 26, second-tier manufacturers won't be producing and shipping the new cards until May. However, XFX and PNY are 2 of the first-tier companies that will be shipping the cards from launch and are already accepting pre-orders for the new tech.
Prices are predicted to be set at $679.99 for the 480 and $499.99 for the 470.
Anyone hoping for a price drop in ATI DX11 cards to compensate for the release of Nvidia's new cards are most likely to be disappointed. Since Nvidia's products will be higher in price already, its predicted that there won't be a price war between the two manufacturers until after May.