Do you have the extra cash to power your gaming PC with a high-end video card? Do you want your PC to run Crysis as if it was running Super Mario brother from the past?

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Image from ATI Graphics.

Aside from a growing list of must-have games, the other thing I’d like to have this coming holiday season is a beefy new PC that can run bleeding-edge FPSes Crysis and Crysis Warhead at maximum resolution and detail without any hitches. Fat chance of that happening, though.

The next best thing is to watch how GameTrailers liked Crysis Warhead. If you can’t run either of those Crysis games, then it’s sheer torture to watch the pretty, pretty video. Still, there’s a sick sense of pleasure to be derived out of just witnessing the whole clip unfold, even if your PC is too old and you’re too cheap to upgrade it.

Watch the video after the jump.

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Crysis Warhead is not a direct sequel to the original Crysis, the visceral 2007 FPS that made PCs worldwide tremble. Crysis Warhead is more of a parallel story about Michael “Psycho” Sykes, one of the characters in the original.

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Remember how sweet Crysis looks? Who’d forget? It’s still probably punishing your PC when you try blowing up 3,000 barrels and looking at it for more than two seconds. Well, the game engine that brought Crysis to life has done it again. Remember the Sony Bravia ad that showed all those cute bouncing balls? The video below does almost the same thing.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is an FPS/RPG hybrid that took six years in the making. It’s not quite as good Half-Life 2, which also took around the same time to develop, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is obviously not as bad as Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

Actually, I find Shadow of Chernobyl quite entertaining, so I’m pleased to hear that its second installment is coming soon. According to GSC Game World, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will ship on August 19, 2008.

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So there are rumors of Crysis coming to the current-gen consoles. So what? You don’t have to wait for that to happen because at this point, you can already run Crysis in your PS3. You just need Ubuntu 7.04 in a disk, a Windows XP/Vista PC, a PS3, and an average IQ.

Don’t believe me? You of little faith. Watch this:

I don’t know what Yahtzee has been up to, but he certainly is a bit late in getting a Crysis review out, considering that the game has been out since November last year. Then again, the guy is based in Australia, so I can’t speak for the timeliness of new titles’ arrivals.

After all, Australia is relatively close to the Philippines (i.e. other side of the world), and our general area isn’t exactly a stone’s throw away from North America, the place where most of the action is concentrated—at least when FPSes are concerned.

So what did our favorite curmudgeon say about Crysis? Well, he didn’t hate it as much as the others, so I take it as a good thing. Yahtzee was so enamored with the visuals that he pretty much ignored level design, which he originally viewed as unintuitive and confusing.

Bottom line: Yahtzee recommends Crysis even if it’s “not perfect.” Only Columbo is perfect.

See the video after the jump.

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The title says it all. Alienware, an über-hardware maker, presented a prototype giant curved widescreen monitor at the Consumer Electronics Show. How large is this new-fangled doohickey? Around 24 inches. Have a look at the video and weep.

I sincerely hope the monitor would have HDMI. Good luck in running Crysis at 2880 x 900 though.

You’ve probably received word that EA dismissed rumors of Crysis being ported over to the Xbox 360. It’s not really breaking news since EA has denied this before. Add to the fact that Crytek actually boasted of next-generation consoles (i.e. Xbox 360 and the PS3) not being powerful enough to run its shooter and you get a closed chapter.

Is it really closed? Hogwash, I say.

This is not wishful thinking, mind you. Frankly, I don’t care if Crysis does land on consoles because I’ve always believed that shooters should only be played on the PC.

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Whether Crysis is really selling well or not, is up for discussion. What’s undeniable is the recent buzz that Crytek’s resource hog game is mentioned in—a console port. Sure, Crytek may huff all they want that the “current-gen” consoles can’t handle Crysis, but you can’t deny that porting them over to the Xbox 360 and the PS3 would bring in better sales.

What you’re seeing is a screenshot of an Austrian retail Web site revealing that an Xbox 360 version is coming on November 20, 2008.

Strangely, there’s no listing for a PS3 version in said Web site. Then again, if there’s anyone we should listen to, it should be Crytek. To date, the company hasn’t commented on this news, but if you look closely at their Web site’s job section, you’ll observe that they’re looking for a PS3 programmer.

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