Today we take a look at how some of today's cutting edge gaming GPUs handle the latest Grand Theft Auto, and bench the lot for you with easy to reproduce, solid results. We have some quality hardware on trial today, powered by none other than AMD's X2 monster dual core cpu. Without further ado, let's see how GTA: San Andreas handles these GPU homies come to take it down. The Contenders: GeForce 5200, GeForce 6200, GeForce 6800, Radeon 9800, Radeon X700LE, Radeon x800xl and the Radeon x850xt pe!

High Dynamic Range rendering, or HDR, is the latest must-have graphics feature. Valve's Doug Lombardi talks to us about HDR and Half Life 2: Lost Coast. There's plenty of exclusive eye-candy too!

Bit-Tech

I've slapped up some benchmarks from Battlefield 2 demo, using our test system to go through a demo we made from our server. The Athlon64 3800+ and the Sapphire Radeon X800XL 512MB were used for testing. Expect more graphics benchmarks tomorrow.

AMDZone

It?s starting to look like the sex in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was in fact real. A group of modders have released a hack that will unlock the sex in the PC version of the game.

2K Games has released the first trailer of Serious Sam II. Now, this is what I call a gun...

TeamXbox

GTA - San Andreas has hit the PC, and what a hit it is. We took our time to find out whether all the console fanboys' ravings were founded, and we discovered that for once, their joypad-addled minds were on the right track - this game rocks.

GameConnect

The Battlefield 2 demo is out and you're not sure if you should download all 560MB of it for just one map! Then again, Wake Island was just one map too and it was worth it. Jakub played the demo... a lot... and more... and then some... and has come back with his impressions of the game, good and bad, and comments on the vehicles, and units, and of course his favorite subject: snipers!

I've put together all the tweaks and tips I could find to help you run the Battlefield 2 Multiplayer Demo as smoothly as possible into my brief Battlefield 2 Tweak Guide. This guide has 2 pages of the known tweaks for BF2, and should help overcome many of the difficulties people have been experiencing with this game - check it out. The complete BF2 Tweak Guide will be here shortly after the full version of Battlefield 2 is released in late June.

Tweak Guides

The wait is finally over for all us Battlefield 2 fans.

In Battlefield 2, players will choose to fight for one of three military superpowers: the United States, China, or the newly formed Middle East Coalition. Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of any of the game's 30+ vehicles to engage in major conflicts with over 100 players in some of the largest online battles on the PC.

After receiving several requests to create a multiplayer map suitable for benchmarking purposes, I set aside a full week to do exactly that and am pleased to announce that the results are finally ready for human consumption. After running some tests we've found that this map (and the benchmarking demo we've created to be used with it) will push most systems about twice as hard as the default single player demo, and thus offers a better example of what to expect from next generation DOOM 3 engine games such as Quake 4 and Prey.

The FPS/RTS hybrid, Savage, from S2Games, isn?t checking the CD Keys now, which can mean you can now play the game for free. The full version of the game can be downloaded directly from S2Games (257MB).

3D GPU

Digging around in the digital dirt today, we found these gems shining through the topsoil, seemingly pack shots in the works at Microsoft Game Studios.

SPOnG

Our second belated article of specific E3 coverage (other than Jakub's rant) has us swinging by Activision and taking a look at Call of Duty 2, Quake 4, X-Men Legends 2, Ultimate Spider-Man and a quick look at Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

FiringSquad

Rockstar has released GTA: San Andreas for the PC and The XBOX platforms. We already managed to grab a few screenshots of the PC edition.

NGOHQ

Although final dates for the Battlefield 2 demo have not been locked down we understand we will be allowed to make it available in little over a week.

Blizzard Entertainment announced it has permanently closed 53,928 WarCraft III Battle.net accounts. There are few companies as in tune with their fan base as Blizzard, but that doesn't mean the developer has a tolerance for users who abuse that relationship.

1UP

We bring you a bunch of new screenshots of Quake 4, the game that marks the return to id Software's trademark single-player gameplay experience set in the QUAKE II universe.

TeamXbox

Updates to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

PlanetBattlefield has just learned from an anonymous and reliable source that EA/DICE's upcoming hot-seller game Battlefield 2 has just gone GOLD! You heard it here first and let the party begin!! For those of you who still have to pre-order Battlefield 2 make sure to check out the deals for pre-ordering. Also, check out the 130 new screenshots that has been released recently from Japan.

Midway has released a single-player demo for Area 51, offering the first opportunity to determine whether "the truth is out there" in this sci-fi first-person shooter that has a lead character voiced by David Duchovny. This humongous download contains an extensive cinematic introduction and a portion of the full where the player has lost his team and continues to explore alone.