News: City of Villans and F.E.A.R optimized for dual core

<a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/08/24/city_villains_fear_dual_c ore/">Bit-Tech News</a> is reporting that Intel revealed 2 new game titles that will make use of dual core processors:
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Intel has revealed to us today that top new gaming titles, City of Villains from NCSoft, and F.E.A.R. from Vivendi are optimised for dual core processors.

Support will come, apparently, in the full retail release of both these titles. Intel demonstrated the two games on separate systems, one in the showcase area here and one in the digital entertainment keynote speech.
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If this turns out to be true, this will be pretty impressive. I don't think any games currently released take full advantage of dual core processors, so it will be interesting to see how much of a difference a dual core processor truely makes.

Wow, I was just talking to my friend today about dual core processors and he was saying how it wasnt worth it seeing as how nothing supports it yet.

Two games I just can't wait for.

hey if it can run FEAR at decent-high graphical settings i'll be impressed..

hey if it can run FEAR at decent-high graphical settings i'll be impressed..

i have the amd duel core and it runs the fear demo awesomely. 1280 x 1024 not even one half second of slowdown anywhere. Granted i also have one 7800 gtx.

This 'news flash' (read ADVERTISEMENT) paid for and brought to you by the Intel marketing department...the only co. out there with a corner on dual core technology.....;).

Intel is so full of $hiT !!

My take on this is that unless Intel has something unique to bring to these games (instruction set utilization or performance that beats AMD's X2's), this is just a pure monopolistic marketing ploy. It will be interesting to see the benchmark comparisons with the X2 when F.E.A.R. comes out.

VUG must have been thinking....sell more games in the future by emphasizing it supports dual core or sell the 'news' release to Intel (mentioned 4 times in the ad), take the money now and meanwhile still sell more games to those with dual core machines. I can see why VUG would choose this route from a financial perspective, but once again....Intel would like the world to equate superior gaming performance with their processors.

BTW, if this is just another fanboy rant....provide a good counter-argument showing why intel should be taking credit for this 'news release' and not VUG. Did VUG pre-release this important dual core news and I just couldn't find it?

It's good to see that dual core is being supported, even barely. I must say that CoV will still be a piece of shit, juding by how they've run CoH into the ground.