[H]ardNews 6th Edition

FORSA FX5600:

PCExtreme has a look at a new player in the graphics card arena. We know almost nothing about this company outside what is provided in this review, so you are on your own. Let’s take a look at what PCE had to say:

This is a good budget card if you cannot spend a lot of money but you need something that has DirectX 9 support. The red LED in the cooling fan is a nice touch that will surely grab some attention if nothing else. Do not expect to run 1600X1200 and play Half-Life 2 all day or anything but if you like to play a few games here and there then this card is a great choice.

ECTS Movies:

Accelenation has 30 movies from ECTS posted today. Most of the video is stuff you have seen already because these are the same rolling demo footage released by Valve already. The good thing is that they are much smaller ( modem friendly ) than the larger high-quality Bink videos we have seen out of FileShack.

The following thirty movie clips, each approximately 3MB in size, cover the majority of the demonstration, and although they fail to convey the quality of the graphics, they certainly show the sort of action that can be expected. That action can be explained as a cross between the original game and the movie Starship Troopers.

Even More ECTS:

UKGamer had comments to add to their ECTS day One coverage posted here yesterday. It seems the event was lacking on many fronts.

It seems that organizers have seen the publicity and money of the PlayStation Experience and decided to concentrate more on that. Fair enough, but don't try and fool "the trade" into thinking ECTS is worth traveling any further than 20 miles to, because judging on this year's performance, I find it hard to justify my tube fair, let alone what some of my colleagues have paid in order to see this lacklustre event.