Alienware makes game

By Robert Purchese Published 29 November, 2007

Do well and win things.

Performance PC builder Alienware and best friend Intel have decided to make a flash game called Hyperblast.

It is a bit like WipEout with less graphics and lets you zip around a futuristic track in a spaceship, collecting power-ups and passing through speed boost power-ups as you go.

Free to play, mind you, and the real reason it's there is to get you in a prize draw to win a cracking laptop worth around GBP 2000 that will play Crysis while cooking dinner and streaming video.

Something to pull you away from the daily grind of a Thursday, and with customisable leagues you can get your whole office in on the action.

Pop over to the Hyperblast website to race.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • General Coxykiller #1 4 years ago

    First comment.

    Wipe Out me thinks! Oh well never a new idea!

  • TriggerHippie #2 4 years ago

    Great, it'll cost £500 a copy.

  • Davey #3 4 years ago

    Completed, and entered draw. I WANT that laptop

  • Kismet. #4 4 years ago

    1rst Rank at the end of the three races, but I doubt that will help me win the laptop. ^^

  • Lurks #5 4 years ago

    Eurogamer league. [link url=http:/ /www.hyperblastgame.com/game/en/nnnT92S4
    ]http://ww w.hyperblastgame.com/game/en/nn...[/link]

    You'll never beat my score mortals!

  • Slamhound #6 4 years ago

    Hmm, and here I thought they were going to develop a fully-fledged game.

    I could imagine the system requirements: "One of our £2,000 PCs".

  • Kismet. #7 4 years ago

    @Lurks:

    *evil grin*

  • Lurks #8 4 years ago

    Lies! I shall avenge!

  • Puffpastryhangman #9 4 years ago

    I'm relieved and surprised to say this runs properly on the m9700 I bought from these dicks a year ago (although i think its dropping frames), because my system struggles to play anything else whch came out in the last year.

    Unless you've actually seen this laptop running I wouldn't get too excited, Alienware are great at selling their products but in my experience their products are crap, as well as my m9700 utterly failing to play new games its spent the majority of the year I've owned it broken down (she's booked in for her 4th trip home to be fixed up soon) and so I've had countless hours (days?) of my life corrupted by dealing with their support monkeys.

    I'll be playing my own game with Alienware's support staff instead of this..... "Get them to respond to your issues with the games performance of the alienware product you purchased." I've had like 20 goes so far but its rock solid! Other Alienware victims should join in, I'll offer my own prize (probably a selection box, or my m9700) to anyone who can get them to talk about the games performance of one of their systems after you've actually got it and can see for yourself.....

  • DFawkes #10 4 years ago

    "WipEout with less graphics"

    Less graphics? So you're vehicles invisible? There are no textures on the tracks? The only way it could have "less" graphics is if they did like King Kong and lost the HUD. It's more likely they mean less technically competent and visually appealing graphics, which is always a good ting as it means I might actualy be able to run it :)