An admin on the Crysis Online forums took the time to post the minimum and recommended requirements needed to play the upcoming highly anticipated shooter from the makers of Far Cry.

Minimum Requirements

CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 256k+
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP

Recommended Requirements

CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
RAM: 1.5Gb
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX10 with Windows Vista

The patches first:

• The Kings of the Dark Age v2.00 on ZUXXEZ
  
• Salvo! v1.5 on Shrapnel Games

• The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms on 3D Downloads, 3D Gamers, FileFront and Worthplaying
  
• GTR 2 on 3D Downloads, 3D Gamers, Computer Games, eXtremePlayers, Filecloud, Gamer’s Hell and Worthplaying

Headbangers UNITE! Hailed by Revolver magazine as “the mother of all shred fests” GIGANTOUR is back this year, and it is being sponsored by none other than Gears of War. This year’s festival will be headlined by Megaeth, along with Lamb of God, Opeth, Arch Enemy, Overkill and Sanctity, with more artists to be announced soon.

Director of Xbox Marketing, Craig Davison, is very excited about the partnership: “We’re totally jazzed about the partnership between Gigantour 2006 and our forthcoming Xbox 360 blockbuster, Gears of War! Partnering a music extravaganza like GIGANTOUR with the launch of a mega-hit game like Gears of War captures the excitement around two awesome happenings for fans of music and video games!”

GIGANTOUR is scheduled to run from September 7 through October 8 (tour schedule after the jump). Gears of War is, according to a Xbox.com slipup, (hopefully) scheduled for release on October 2.

In related news, the official fan site kit for the game has gone live. Additionally, a post by Mark Rein on Epic’s Gears of War forum states that a BIG announcement is coming next week.
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Sequel to the most popular PSP title ever – Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – has gotten the official cover shot, as well as the official retail price and a shipping date. Set for release on October 17 in North America and October 20 in Europe, Vice City Stories will retail as a premium title for $50. The game, even though the pack shot shows “Rating Pending”, will most definitely be rated Mature.

The Games Convention at Leipzig, Germany is shaping up to be quite a treat this year. To be held from August 23 to 27, the convention will see Kojima Productions present five games from the Japanese studio: four Metal Gear titles and Lunar Knights for DS.

Located in Hall 5, Booth F02, Konami will be showcasing Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PS3 via a video trailer. It is not known whether it will be the E3 trailer, or a completely new one. Visitors to the convention will also be able to check out Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, a three-disc re-release of the PS2 classic, as well as Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel and Portable Ops, their two new PSP titles.

The Konami stand will also be host to Lunar Knights, a new franchise from Kojima Productions. It will be the first time that the game will be available in playable form in Europe. The game has players use two characters with different abilities to fight hordes of vampires with special weapons; it will feature a digital climate, where the top screen will simulate real weather.

Further details of Konami’s exhibition-program will be available shortly.

LucasArts’ presentation at Comic-Con included a peek at a next-gen Star Wars game whose video has since gone online for StarWars.com’s Hyperspace members. For normal folks like us, there’s always YouTube: the drool-inducing clip has gone live on the video-sharing site, showing off pre-visualization (pre-rendered) footage of Jedis using Force powers to take out wary Stormtroopers.