Can You Run Call of Duty: Black Ops 2?

Are you planning on checking out the PC version of Treyarch’s inevitable best-seller? If so, hopefully you’re not still running Windows XP, because it’s not supported in Black Ops 2.

According to Treyarch, “Since we upgraded the engine to use DirectX11, Windows XP is no longer supported. It requires Windows Vista or later.”

In terms of specifics about the engine upgrade, “The DX11 API is leaner than DX9 and requires less CPU time to do the same amount of work. It is important to point out that this benefits the entire range of supported GPUs, not just DX11 hardware. We have also added more “quality vs performance” options than ever before so you can customize your experience to either run faster or to satisfy your taste in eye candy.”

Also posted were the minimum hardware requirements for Black Ops 2:

• OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7
• CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz
• Memory: 2GB for 32-bit OS or 4GB for 64-bit OS
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB

Source : ign[dot]com

AMC Picks Up Area 51 Drama

With Mad Men and Breaking Bad reaching their final days, AMC has now picked up the Area 51 drama series based on the best-seller by Annie Jacobsen. The Walking Dead's Gale Anne Hurd will executive produce, confirmed The Hollywood Reporter.

The show centers on the top secret Area 51 installation in southwest Nevada, which has been the target of alien and supernatural conspiracy theories for decades now. Jacobsen interviewed 19 men close to the project as the basis for her book.

We heard back in November that this project was in development, but only now has it found a home on the popular cable network, which also just announced the cancellation of its Seattle-based crime drama The Killing. Area 51 joins AMC's other development properties including Robert Kirkman's Thief of Thieves, The Real All Americans, a potential Goodfellas series, among others.

Todd E. Kessler (The Good Wife) penned the script for the upcoming Area 51 pilot.

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Source : ign[dot]com