If you’re planning on picking up the PC version you may want to take a look at the specifications down below to see if your ‘rig’ is up to the ‘challenge’.

Pete Hines tweeted the recommended and minimum requirements and followed up the message with; “The Min specs get you playing. The recommended specs let you play on High, not on Ultra. You’ll want beefier rig for that.”

Minimum Hardware Requirements:

• OS: Win XP/7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
• CPU: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
• RAM: 2GB
• GPU: DX9c video card w/ 512MB RAM
• 6GB free HDD Space
• DirectX compatible sound card
• Internet Access for Steam activation

Recommended Hardware Requirements:

• OS: Win XP/7
• CPU: Quad-Core Intel/AMD CPU
• RAM: 4GB
• GPU: DX9 vid card w/ 1 GB RAM (GTX 260/Radeon 4890 or higher)
• 6GB free HDD Space
• DirectX compatible sound card
• Internet Access for Steam activation

Unfortunately this week has been somewhat dry up until today, which is when most of the following news happened.

Minecraft News

Minecraft made the gaming news today with two important pieces of information. Firstly that it had sold it’s three millionth copy and that Bethesda, creators of the Elder Scrolls series, are suing Notch for the use of the word scrolls. They say:

Everyone will confuse it with Skyrim.

Let’s hope this is resolved quickly.

Minecraft will have a convention,check out the main article here.

Tropico 4 News

In other news the Tropico 4 system requirements were announced

Minimum Required:

• Operating System: Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Vista / 7 (32 or 64-bit)
• Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• HDD: 5 GB free hard disk space
• Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 (Geforce 6600 or higher, Radeon X1600-Series), 256 MB, DirectX 9.0c

Recommended:

• Operating System: Windows Vista / 7 (32 or 64-bit)
• Processor: 2 GHz Quad Core CPU
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• HDD: 5 GB free hard disk space
• Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 (Geforce 8800 or higher, Radeon HD4000-Series or higher), 512 MB, DirectX 9.0c

Battlefield News

Battlefield 3 Information

If you played the Bf3 Alpha you should check your emails. EA is offering a special offer that bundles Battlefield 3 and your choice of Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2 or Medal of Honor, all PC download.It expires on August 7th.

Some people are confused with the Beta early access so here’s what’s up

• If you pre-order Battlefield 3 on Origin (PC digital download) you will get 48 hour early access to the open beta. Even if you pre-ordered before this bonus was announced you are still eligible for early access to the beta.
• If you bought Medal of Honor: Limited Edition / Tier 1 Edition you will get the same 48 hour early access.

From Planet Battlefield.

• The SPECACT kit images were released today. You can get them if you pre-order from these retailers
• It was announced that the price of the Back to Karkand expansion pack will be $14.99 for gamers who do not buy the limited edition.

Not much more happened in PC gaming this week but if you need tips on what PC to buy check out this youtube video.

The game will be available on store shelves from March 13, with a price tag of $60. Though the price is a little higher than the traditional PC selling price, the reasoning is explained in the addition of the game’s two announced DLC packs: the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities, which console players have to purchase separately.

If you would like to make sure your system can handle it, take a look at the required specifications for it below:

Minimum:

SUPPORTED OS: Windows® XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64
bits)/Windows 7® (32-64 bits)
Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ
RAM: 1.5 GB Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® – Windows 7®
Video Card: 256 MB DirectX® 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0
or higher (see supported list)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive
Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller
* This product does not support Windows® 98/ME/2000/NT

Recommended:

Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
Sound: 5.1 sound card
Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, joystick optional (Xbox 360® Controller
for Windows recommended)

Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
ATI® RADEON® X1950, HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series
NVIDIA GeForce® 7/8/9/100/200 series

Minimum System Requirements:

• Hard Drive Space: 16GB free hard drive space

• Operating System: XP / Windows Vista

• Processor: AMD 64 3200+ or Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz or better

• RAM: 512MB RAM (XP) / 1GB RAM (Vista)

• Video Card: Shader 3.0 or better 256MB Nvidia GeForce 6600GT / ATI Radeon 1600XT or better

Infinity Ward also announced Modern Warfare 2 is to be intergrated with Steamworks, meaning the best auto-update and anti-cheat technology – as well as 50 steam achievements to keep you coming back for more action.