So everyone of you call of duty fans out there, you must have already know that Modern Warfare 2 is coming out this fall. This time its going to Package not only game but some cool night vision along with it as well. Click below link for the video:

Modern Warfare 2 Packaging Video

There have been a number of changes this time as compared to call of duty 4 and 5, now there will be new places, some new combat styles and some snowy maps with skiing vehicles (i guess they call it, ATV's but that's for Land vehicles, ok whatever they call it, you got the idea). There are plenty of features in this game to get excited about.

Update: alterIWnet re-routes MW2 multiplayer to their servers from IWNET, allowing pirates to play Modern Warfare 2 without the fears of getting banned from STEAM or IWNET.

Gaming is been definitely improving in Pakistan as DSL internet became mainstream or more affordable. Today there are more Pakistani Gamers that play in international game servers as compared to the local ISP's gaming servers. In coming future we will be seeing more gamers getting online.

Gaming has been the biggest change in Pakistan since the introduction of Internet. Both have somewhat same growth rate which is highly progressive. With the evolution of internet our attitude toward games have also changed significantly, we prefer games with online functionality, current quality of internet connection is an issue as well. We found out that the quality of broadband service provided by PTCL was far much poorer as compared to LinkDotNet and other providers. Latencies/Pings/lag was found to be much higher in PTCL clients connecting to international servers. Customer support by PTCL has always been terrible, 1218 people hang your phone call by saying that we are transferring your call to our senior but they never do, they say that we will farward your complain which they always farward to their trash bins, and still internet connection speed has not been doubled for most of the users out there as promised by PTCL on 23rd March. Its no surprise PTCL is big fish in the Pakistan ISP world, i wish PTCL stakeholders go to internet and search about the quality of service they are providing to their customers.

Online gaming will always be some how dependent on PTCL, as its every ISP backbone, its only them that can change fate of internet experience and online gaming.

Rockstar's most popular GTA series got a new addition a year back (i guess), GTA4. I finally got a chance of running GTA4 on my PC and it given pretty hard time to the PC even more than the Most popular nvidia inclined Crysis. It was quite amazing that the game graphics itself were not really that revolutionary at all as compared to other games in the market but the overall performance that it was able to squeeze of the PC was disturbing.

 Back in PS2 days, one of my favourite games were Bully again by Rockstar, it worked quite well on PS2 given the harware resources available to PS2. The very same Bully got released on PC, with little change in name Bully: Scholarship Edition, except the name, nothing was quite changed in the game. Those of you who played Bully on PC can easily smell that GTA 4 is having same problems, bad hardware resources management. Both Bully and GTA 4 and unable to utilize CPU/RAM/GPU properly. Even if you meet minimum/recommended specifications set by rockstar for either of the games, there are no guarantees on some level of performance that you will get out of your harware that you call, beefy.

So, here it is as it was expected, Nvidia GTX 295, Nvidia not only shown some of the new graphics cards, GTX 295, 285 at CES (Consumer-Electronics-Show) in Vegas but also released 3d Vision Glasses.

3D Vision Glasses are not something like a tiny 2.1"x2 LCD's put inside the Glasses but it just some material that is hooked with a control module that creates 3D effect. People who tested this product said that its good for a game like Left 4 Dead (Closed Environments)  but not really works well with games with open environments like Crysis, Fallout 3.

Back to the graphics cards that we care about most. GTX 295 (If you don't have a clue) is Dual GPU graphics card, most probably its 2 x GTX260's. Its equivalent to ATI's 4870x2 in most of the game test, however at higher resoulutions it underperforms 4870x2 due to bigger frame buffer 4870x2 (GTX295= 896x2 MB, 4870x2= 2GB). Price wise its 599$ card which ~= 48,000 Rs (Just prey that the dollar value comes down :P), nvidia may price this as well as GTX 285 (Single GPU solution, little better than GTX 280) aggressively in the comming days as the competion is still pretty tough. Nvidia even after good home work, still not able to beat 4870x2 fair and square in each and every game. Comming days are definately gonna be interesting as the prices of these card will drop down in Q1 2009.