http://www.pcper.com/news/Editorial/NVIDIA-continues-tease-sends-us-crowbar But I do wonder what nVidia are trying to generate so my hype over? Is it something as mundane as their next graphics card or something actually revolutionary? I doubt we'll be seeing any great leaps forward until the next console generation catches up to current PCs, but what the hell do I know about the PC hardware industry?
That and it doesn't resemble the Half-Life crowbar at all, so if that's what they were going for they did a pretty poor job of it. Then again, they might have intended this for some free auxiliary internet hype, considering we'll jump on anything even vaguely Half-Life related. So... thanks on behalf of Nvidia!
At this point people probably think that a crowbar is a generic weapon to be used against Zombies, not even knowing its origin.
The twig thread was more indicative of an imminent Half-Life announcement. Lambda twigs don't just fall from trees.
You know what would be cool? If Valve had developed an API competitor for DirectX that was gonna be integrated into Nvidia's chips and drivers alongside the Linux push of Steam.. ..eh.. never mind, just a crazy thought that seemed stupider as I typed it.
Just in case people were still wondering. It turned out to be the unveiling of the GeForce 690 (a 680 with a fancy cooling system) and an online cloud tool that lets you connect to a central database and automatically tune your PC games with settings that best fit your specific hardware setup. EDIT - Just to correct myself. The 690 is actually a duel GPU version of the 680... with fancy cooling.. and some green lights.. oh and a $1000 price tag!