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Emergent. Immersive. Free-form. For developers, they’re increasingly popular buzzwords. They’re all to do with games that aren’t happy with just being games, but rather offer their best impression of an actual world; a place you visit. ‘Emergent’ describes games that have so many pieces modelled that they can interact to create the unexpected every time [...]
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Need a new graphics card? If you want to play the latest games but aren’t sure what type of card is required, you’ll need one that features Shader Model 3.0 and has at least 256MB of video memory – though 512MB of memory is the amount required to really show them off to their best. [...]
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