Here Is The First Artwork From The New Hitman Game
Now I’ll be honest; I didn’t consider this artwork newsworthy. You see, this artwork is just that. An artwork and nothing more. Moreover, we’ve never shared those Hitman E3 rumors that circulated the Net these past days as we were pretty sure that the next Hitman would never appear on this year’s E3 event. But since our reader ‘Jon Jun’ felt the need to comment on this, we decided to share it us some of you may find it cool or interesting. Continue reading
New 3D Mark Benchmark Test Sports Tessellation, Particles & Advanced Post-processing DX11 Effects
Futuremark today announced 3DMark Sky Diver, a new DirectX 11 benchmark test for gaming laptops and mid-range PCs. 3DMark Sky Diver is described as the ideal test for benchmarking systems with mainstream DirectX 11 graphics cards, mobile GPUs, or integrated graphics. Continue reading
Battlecry Announced – 32-player Multiplayer Free-To-Play Action Combat Title
Bethesda Softworks today announced Battlecry, an all-new multiplayer action combat game featuring fast-paced and frenetic 32-player battles under development at BattleCry Studios. Continue reading
AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Drivers Officially Released, Drops Support For Windows 8
AMD has officially released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to its release notes, this is the first driver that does not support Windows 8 (from now on, all AMD Catalyst drivers will no longer support Windows 8). This means that PC gamers will have to upgrade to Windows 8.1 in order to take advantage of newer drivers for their graphics cards. Continue reading
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – New Details To Be Unveiled During CD Projekt RED’s Summer Conference
CD Projekt RED revealed today that more details about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be unveiled during the company’s Summer Conference. Leading the fight against DRM and DLC evildoing, the studio’s co-founder and conference host Marcin Iwi?ski will join forces with the GOG.com team to bring you some very exciting news about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the future of GOG.com. Continue reading
Watch_Dogs – This Is What Ubisoft Targeted For Next-Gen, Possible Extra PC Enhancements Uncovered
NeoGAF’s member ‘Vuze’ has shared three Watch_Dogs screenshots – captured by NeoGAF’s Vortex – from what seems to be a ‘hidden’ render configuration. According to Vuze, these settings were the ones that Ubisoft was aiming for the PS4 and Xbox One versions, before it being downgraded to its final build. Continue reading
During Maidan: how Ukraine's developers and gamers risked their lives in a revolution
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In the first part of this series developers and members of the eSports scene explained how the Ukrainian games industry’s growth was stunted by heavy taxes and a corrupt government. Now: the revolution, and how it changed the perspective of the country’s developers.
On the evening of 22 November, Cradle lead developer Ilya Tolmachev sat in his office, a small room in a converted Soviet Union munitions factory. That night his president, Viktor Yanukovych, had rejected a trade deal with the European Union that might have brought his country back from the brink of bankruptcy. Ilya was furious.
“I was in a bad mood thinking about the consequences. Then I spotted a post from Mustafa Nayem, an outspoken Ukrainian journalist and critic of the regime. His post said ‘Enough complaining. If there is at least 1,000 of us ready to go out on the street let’s do that’.”
“The number of people responding saying ‘I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready’ was increasing dramatically and fast.”
Ilya Tolmachev was joined at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the main square in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital city, by 2,000 protesters.
Over the next four months, a million Ukrainians would join the protests. Yanukovych’s government would fall, at the cost of over 100 lives.
Tangiers trailer puts the argh into avant-garde stealth
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The deafening ambient gale at the opening of this trailer is a good starting point for understanding Tangiers - a stealth game that builds on the ancient but rarely bettered mechanics and sound design of classic Thief.
Beyond that, though, there’s no hope of understanding a thing that’s going on in this fraught, fractured Tangierian dream.
ZeniMax's legal battle won't stop Bethesda from considering games for the Oculus Rift
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ZeniMax Media’s legal dispute with Oculus Rift developer, Oculus VR, won’t affect its subsidiary’s decision on whether or not to make VR games for the device, Bethesda told CVG.
Bethesda’s parent company claims that John Carmack took ZeniMax’s property and used it to assist in the development of the Oculus Rift, which the id co-founder has denied.
Rome could be built in a day: The Sims 4 build mode revealed
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Occasionally I’m reminded that the goal of The Sims is not the eternal torment of little virtual people, and that sometimes you’ve got to build houses. The Sims 4 boasts a shiny new build mode that looks significantly more convenient and flexible that previous incarnations.
Take a gander at the creation tool in action below.
You can now pick up the CryEngine when you're shopping for games on Steam
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Crytek’s CryEngine is now available on a subscription basis exclusively on Steam, offering subscribers full access to the engine and development suite for £6.99/$9.90 per month, or at a 17 percent discount for six months.
It’s the first complete engine to be offered on Steam, costing half of the Unreal Engine subscription. And Crytek won’t be demanding any royalties.
Renewed: Guild Wars 2's second season begins on July 1st
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With season one of Guild Wars 2’s living world concluded, the heroes of Tyria have no doubt been an aimless lot, getting fat and lazy without an end of the world crisis needing their attention. Even now they’re relaxing while enjoying the Festival of the Four Winds and reliving Guild Wars' greatest moments. But the serenity is not going to last.
Once the festival ends, “the fight begins,” says ArenaNet.
Battlefield Free: EA knocks Battlefield 3's price down to zero
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With Battlefield 4’s slew of technical problems and introduction of microtransactions, Battlefield 3 looks pretty great in comparison. Of course, it’s pretty great regardless. And If you’ve never dipped your toes into the series, it might be an excellent place to start, especially considering that it is currently free on Origin until June 3rd.
Top dog: Watch Dogs breaks Ubisoft record for first day sales
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A lot of people bought Watch Dogs yesterday. It’s no surprise given the long wait and heavy marketing. It didn’t just sell well, though, it outsold all other Ubisoft games at launch.
“I once said that the buzz around Watch Dogs was driven by the incredible passion of our early fans,” said creative director Jonathan Morin. “Today we broke the record for the biggest first day sales in Ubisoft history.
1001 Spikes will kill you 1001 times when it launches next month
There’s nothing quite like that feeling of utter failure and anguish that only a hard-as-nails platformer can elicit. The latest in this star-studded canon comes in the form of 1001 Spikes, which is actually a revamp of a game dating back to 2011. This new edition offers a bunch of new levels and playable characters, but most importantly it offers a stunning array of new ways to die. And die you will: over and over again.
Arma 3 mod contest offers one-week journey to real-world conflict zone
Videogame war is fun. Real war is hell. It's a distinction that Arma 3 studio Bohemia Interactive seems anxious to make with the addition of a new and unique prize to its "Make Arma, Not War" content creation contest: the company will send a lucky winner to a conflict zone on a humanitarian mission providing aid to people displaced or harmed by the ravages of war.
First Look: Investigating The Horror Of Draugen
By Adam Smith on May 28th, 2014 at 9:00 pm.
Ragnar Tørnquist describes Draugen as the game at the heart of Red Thread Studios. That’s something of a surprise, considering that a script and concept for Dreamfall Chapters have existed in his mind (and on various hard drives) for more than a decade now. The Nordic horror/mystery will be his new team’s second release and, as he explained to me during a recent visit to Oslo, it’s the game they were founded to create.
Shhhhh! Payday 2 Stealth Heist Sneaks In Tomorrow
By Alice O'Connor on May 28th, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
You can be stealthy in Payday 2, sure, but if your sneaky sneaking falls you can always fall back on the old pop-pop and blam-blam your way to riches. Not with the latest mission you can’t, you Loud Larries, Noisy Nellies, and Clodhopping Charlies. No, shhh, you can’t throw that grenade no matter how funny it’d be. No, save all your fighting for when we get to the park. If you don’t stop screaming, we’re turning this heist right around and going home. The new Shadow Raid heist, you see, will be Payday’s first proper stealth mission when it arrives tomorrow in a free update.
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