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

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What Do You Think of Microsoft's New Logo?

In preparation for its Windows 8 launch, which is being lauded as one of Microsoft's most important launches of all time, the Redmond-based company has been revamping many of its logos.

Just a few months ago they updated their Windows logo with a clean, crisp san-serif font called Segoe UI, and today they showed off their new Microsoft logo, which follows suit.

The logo contains a slightly bolder version of the same font, but forgoes the bold letters and italics of its predecessors.

There's been plenty of arguments already over the new logo - chiefly whether it's excessively square, beautifully simple, or just plain boring.

Microsoft has uploaded a video showcasing the launch of the new logo.

With Microsoft's new emphasis on rectangularity, like the tiles in the Xbox dashboard, is it certain that the next Xbox will ditch the 360's circular logo in favor of a square one?

You can read more about the logo transformation on Microsoft's blog, but more importantly - what do you think of it? Let us know in the comments.

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