Today's News Blips give us another experience as a morally conflicted criminal scumbag who questions his perspective on life while bludgeoning his boss' rival's girlfriend with a tweezer. It's my Boy Scout days all over again….
News Blips:
Rockstar announces Grand Theft Auto 5. Well, it's not so much of a traditional announcement as it is a giant logo plastered over the developer's website. No further info yet — besides the now screamingly obvious answer to "Gee, I wonder what Rockstar's working on next?" — until the first trailer hits the streets on November 2. At least Reddit already found the hidden Triforce.
Batman: Arkham City sells 4.6 million Bruce Wayne clones in its first week. Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive said the figure is more than double the first-week sales of Batman: Arkham Asylum. First Bank of Gotham also released a statement condemning "that costumed individual" for alleged repeated behavior of "playing loud orchestral music over the bank's PA system, shattering the wall-length window panes, and asking for withdrawals in fictitious 'Batbills.'" Batman declined to comment as of press time.
The PC specs for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim aren't such a fearsome dragon after all. I've been preparing my computer for a graphics slugfest with a grueling regimen of Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, and 500 simultaneous games of Solitaire. But Bethesda Vice President of Public Relations and Marketing Pete Hines's twin tweets of the game's requirements show a remarkably flexible engine for running around frozen woods in thin cloth or greeting peasants with a burp of dragon-fire. Check it out:
Minimum PC requirements
- Dual-core CPU, 2.0 GHz or faster
- 2 GB RAM
- DirectX 9.0c video card with 512 MB RAM
- Windows XP/Vista/7 [32 or 64-bit]
- Internet access for Steam activation
Recommended PC requirements
- Quad-core CPU
- 4 GB RAM
- DirectX 9.0c video card with 1 GB RAM — GTX 260/Radeon 4890 or higher
- 6 GB HDD space
- Windows XP/Vista/7, Internet access, etc.
The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft isn't coming until spring 2012. Xbox Live Arcade Producer Stuart Platt said the delay won't have a definitive release date until next year. In the meantime, players can cope with the moddable, far more stable PC version of the game — but that already sounds too farfetched.
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