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Polish developer Flying Wild Hog confirms a September 13 release date and system requirements for its upcoming dark sci-fi FPS for PCs, Hard Reset.

Youve got to hand it to Flying Wild Hog, the Polish developer behind Hard Reset. No one had ever heard of the upcoming first-person shooter for PC platforms until mid-July 2011, when a trailer and the first details emerged on what was described as a dark sci-fi FPS in the vein of works like Blade Runner.

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Tech report reports that AMD released a graphic novel titled The Legend of FX last week in a rather strange effort to build some hype for the brands revival later this year. The Legend of FX takes some jabs at Intel while touting AMDs superior graphics and improved performance, but its the recently posted cinematic trailer promoting the novel itself that brings a juicy tidbit: hidden at 0:15 is the date September 19 which some have taken as a hint for when FX will see the light of day.

WCCFTech claims to have confirmed a September launch date with Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers and says four processors will make the initial FX lineup the FX-8150, FX-8100, FX-6100 and FX-4100.

The range-topping FX-8150 packs eight cores clocked at 3.6 GHz (or up to 4.2GHz in Turbo mode) and has a TDP of 125W, while the FX-8100 drops frequencies to 2.8-3.7GHz and the power rating to 95W.

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Apple on Friday released a “gold master” build of Lion to developers, providing a clue that it will ship the new operating system shortly.

“Gold master” (GM) is a label some developers use — Microsoft calls it “release to manufacturing,” or RTM — for software that has been completed and presumably is ready to send to duplicators and distributors.

In Apple’s case, however, Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, will not need to be burned onto DVDs, packaged in boxes and shipped to retail stores because it will be available only as a download from the Mac App Store.

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The masters at Gaijin Games have started to get the word out about the next Bit.Trip game, Bit.Trip fate, revealing a fall release window on the game’s website. An email blast from the developer came with the above image attached, with the message stating that “the discerning BIT.TRIPPER will be able to figure it all out.”

In addition to promising more Fate news in the near future, the announcement came with word to expect “info on some other exciting Gaijin Games endeavors.” What else do you think the company has up its sleeve?

Meet your BIT.TRIP FATE! [Gaijin Games]