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A website carrying the leaked document allegedly pertaining to the specs and features of the next Xbox has been ordered to remove it by Microsoft.

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Blizzard’s confirmed StarCraft II’s system specs to Big Download. Can you run it?

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Rebellion’s confirmed system requirements for the PC edition of Aliens Vs Predator. Doesn’t look too mental, which is nice.

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Unflustered by the fact Bad Company 2′s beta’s been pushed into 2010, DICE just released system specs for both the shooter sequel and Battlefield 1943.

And here they are:

Minimum Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2 & BF1943

• Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
• Main memory: 2GB
• Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
• Graphics memory: 256MB
• OS: Windows XP
• Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2), 10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)

Recommended Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2 & BF1943

• Processor: Quadcore
• Main memory: 2GB
• Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
• Graphics memory: 512MB
• OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2), 10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)

Bad Company 2 hits North America on March 2 and Europe on March 5. Not quite sure when 1943′s out on PC, to be honest.

BioWare just confirmed system specs for ME2, as well as detailing what sounds to be a very basic DRM check on the disc version.

The good stuff:

Digital Rights Management (DRM) – The boxed/retail PC version of Mass Effect 2 will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication. This is the same method as Dragon Age: Origins. Digital versions will use the retailers protection system.

PC MINIMUM System Requirements

• OS = Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
• Processor = 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU
• Memory = 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Hard Drive = 15 GB
• DVD ROM = 1x Speed
• Sound Card = DirectX 9.0c compatible
• Direct X = DirectX 9.0c August 2008 (included)
• Input = Keyboard / Mouse
• Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD3200, and HD4350 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. Intel and S3 video cards are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

PC RECOMMENDED System Requirements

• Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
• 2.6+ GHz Cure 2 Duo Intel or equivalent AMD CPU
• 2 GB RAM
• ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better recommended
• 100% DirectX compatible sound card and drivers
• DirectX August 2008
• NOTES: For the best results, make sure you have the latest drivers for your video and audio cards. Laptop or mobile versions of the above supported video cards have not had extensive testing and may have driver or other performance issues. As such, they are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2. Intel and S3 video cards are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

It’s out early next year.

Need for Speed: Shift will probably run on your PC, from the look of the system specs EA put out overnight.

• Required – Internet Connection
• OS – Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / Windows 7
• Processor – Intel Core™2 Duo 1.6 GHz or faster
• Memory – XP: 1 GB RAM; Vista/Windows 7: 1.5 GB RAM
• Hard Drive – 6 GB
• DVD Drive – 8 SPEED
• Video Card – 256 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 3.0*
• Sound Card – DirectX 9.0c compatible
• DirectX – DirectX 9.0c compatible
• Online Multiplayer – 512 Kbps or faster; 2-12 Players
• Input – Keyboard, Mouse
• Optional – USB Steering Wheel / Dual Analogue Gamepad
• Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB or greater; NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

The racer’s out on September 15 in the US and September 17 in Europe. Thanks, CinemaBlend.

Raven’s Wolfenstein update just got system requirements, courtesy of an id poster on the game’s boards.

And here they are. We’re still waiting for a solid date, but you should be playing this next month at the latest.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP or Windows Vista(R) (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c (included & required for Windows XP & Vista)

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3400+ processor
RAM: 1GB RAM
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA(R) Geforce(R) 6800 GT or ATI Radeon(TM) X800
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
HDD Space: 8GB (Plus an additional 800MB for Windows swap file)
Media: 100% Microsoft Windows compatible DVD-ROM drive
Internet: Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer

The PC specs for Batman: Arkham Asylum have been released via the Eidos forums. It’s not for slouches, from the look of it.

Minimum:

• CPU: Intel single core 3 Ghz or AMD equivalent
• Memory: XP = 1 GB, Vista = 2GB
• GPU: Shader Model 3 NVidia 6600 or ATI 1300 or higher

Recommended:

• CPU: Pentium D 3Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Dual core)
• Memory: XP = 2GB, Vista = 3GB
• GPU: NVidia 7900 GT or higher

Enhanced for multi-core

Online features:

• Friends
• Achievements

Still no date. The game’s being strongly tipped, so keep a good eye out. Thanks, Blue.

This is amazingly handy. Valve’s posted system specs of the PCs it uses in the office, so if you’re looking to upgrade Valve-style, now you know how.

It’s all about quad-cores and bastard-hard GPUs, obviously. And 12Gb of RAM.

Worry about your bank balance through the link.

EA’s put out the minimum specs for Sims 3 for XP and Vista, desktop and laptop. Nothing like thoroughness.

Looks as though it’s not going to bother you, to be honest. If it does, you might want to think about upgrading.

Get them from Gaming Today.

And they’re not so heavy, which is nice. Here you are:

PC System Requirements

OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)

Processor:

• Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
• Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2

Memory:

• Minimum: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users)
• Recommended: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)

Video:

• Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM
  Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better

• Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM
  Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better

Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability

There’s more on the Blizzard forums, including Mac specs.

The official Games for Windows site‘s posted recommended specs for the PC version of GTA IV, and looking at them, you may well have a computer able to handle it.

• OS: Windows XP SP2
• Processor: Dual core processor (Intel Pentium D or better)
• RAM: 2GB
• Hard Drive: 18GB free hard disk space
• Video Card: 512MB Direct3D 10 compatible video card or Direct3D 9 card compatible with Shader
• Drive: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive

The new version’s out later this year.

GamerCyte‘s posted minimum PC specs for Mirror’s Edge, and there’s nothing in there to make your brain bleed. Quite restrained, in fact.

• OS: Windows XP or Vista
• CPU: Pentium 4 at 2.4 GHz / Athlon 64 2800+
• RAM: 1GB
• GFX card: GeForce 6 Series with 256MB VRAM or higher, or ATI X1650 (or HD2400)

Game’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 before the end of the year.

The US EA Store’s published Crysis: Warhead’s system specs as part of the game’s pre-order campaign. It really does look fine. After the link.

Release dates for both the US and Europe were announced this afternoon, in case you missed them.

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Mythic’s released minimum system specs for Warhammer Online, to be found after the break.

As you can see, there’s nothing especially mental going on there, news that will no doubt be welcome to the untold legions of fantasy fans waiting for the MMO to ship.

Have a look. Thanks, IGN.

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Strategy Informer‘s running what looks to be a solid set of system specs for upcoming RTS Red Alert 3, saying the detail’s come from EA. Here’s what you’re going to need:

• OS – Windows XP / Vista (32-Bit)
• Processor – XP: 2.0 GHz (Intel Pentium 4; AMD Athlon 2000+; Multiple Cores) / Vista: 2.2 GHz (Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 2200+/Multiple Cores)
• Memory – XP/Vista: 1 GB
• Hard Drive – Media: 6.0 GB / EA Link: 12.0 GB
• DVD Drive – 8 SPEED
• Video Card – NVIDIA GeForce 6800, ATI Radeon X1800 or higher end DirectX 9.0c compatible gfx card
• Sound Card – DirectX 9.0c compatible (Creative Sound Blaster Audigy cards require a Intel P4 2.6 GHz or similar under Vista, Yamaha Xwave-512 not supported)
• Online Multiplayer – 512 Kbps or faster; 2-8 Players
• Input – Keyboard, Mouse
• Optional – VoIP Headset

Games out this autumn for PC and 360. There’s some detail on an upcoming beta through the link.

According to this Shacknew piece, the minimum hardware specs to run Spore are:

FOR WINDOWS XP

• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 512 MB RAM
• A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• At least 6 GB of hard drive space

FOR WINDOWS VISTA

• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 768 MB RAM
• A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• At least 6 GB of hard drive space

There’s more gumph through there about supported video cards and the like, should you care. Spore’s Creature Creator ships this month, with the full game hitting in September.

Blizzard’s offered a profoundly dull and completely predictable “if it’s not from us it isn’t true” quote to last night’s supposed StarCraft II system spec release.

“Blizzard has not released final, official system requirements for StarCraft II,” a company rep told IGN. “The numbers you’re seeing are a result of independent speculation from a Spanish game magazine.”

So there we are.

A reader of this Starcraft fansite’s posted what looks to be a set of system specs for Starcraft II. Apparently they came from a Spanish mag who recently visited Blizzard. And here they are:

Minumum Requirements
GFX: GeForce 7/8 Series or Radeon 1000/2000 with 256 MB RAM
CPU: Pentium 4
RAM: 1 GB
Internet: ADSL 1 Mbit

Recommended Requirements
GFX: GeForce 8000 or Radeon 2000 series with 512 MB RAM
CPU: Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2.
RAM: 2 GB
Internet: ADSL 3 Mbit

Optimal Requirements
GFX: Geforce 9000er or Radeon 3000er Series
CPU: Core 2 Duo 3 GHz or Athlon X2
RAM: 2GB with DualChannel mode

No idea if these are real or not. Blizzard will verify soon enough, no doubt.