| JEMC said: There we go again... isn't 1080p and 2k basically the same thing? With 1080p being the vertical resolution and 2k being the horizontal one? |
1080p is a 2K resolution yes lol, 2K can mean anything from 2048 × 858 to 2560 × 1600.
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zarx said:
1080p is a 2K resolution yes lol, 2K can mean anything from 2048 × 858 to 2560 × 1600. |
Given that it's a PC game, I'd guess they could go for 2560x1600, but given that it's cinematics we're talking about, 2048x858 is closer to the 21:9 aspect used in movies... :-/
Bah! I don't care 
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More fuel into the fire of Steam's own VR helmet:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776513
Hi! I’m Feep, and yesterday, I went into Valve’s offices in Seattle because we’re like totally bros now. The primary reason for the visit was to try their fancy VR prototype, which will not be for sale anywhere ever for reasons I can only assume involve them already possessing approximately 3% of the national GDP.
I own an Oculus Rift dev kit, and I also did a writeup awhile back on VRCade, one of the first solutions to have positional tracking. I haven’t tried Crystal Cove or Sony’s solution (dear Sony: invite me to try this at GDC so I can write a hype thread for you too), but I hear Crystal Cove is only *slightly* behind Valve’s solution in terms of fidelity.
Technology
Valve’s solution is lightyears ahead of the original Oculus Dev Kit. Resolution, while not at “retina” level perfection, was no longer really a significant issue. The screen door effect was almost completely negligible, thanks to a shiny 1080p display. (Not actually shiny, shiny like in Firefly.)
Just as fantastic was their low-persistance display tech. The display ran at a blistering 95 Hz, and the pixels only flash for approximately 20% of that 10.52 ms refresh time. You don’t notice any flickering or lack of brightness, and the plus side is that ghosting and smearing were drastically reduced. Not *completely* eliminated, mind you.
Latency? Low. Approximately 25ms. Not noticeable.
Positional tracking is an absolute must for any VR set, as lack of said tracking is the biggest cause of motion sickness, the one thing that could kill VR in its tracks. Valve’s solution was, as expected, extremely accurate. It involved sticking QR Code-like papers on the walls (so anyone visiting your home, without prior knowledge, would instantly assume you were a crazy person) so that a camera mounted on the headset could get an optical read on its own position. There was a downside (literally), though…because there were no QR codes littering the floor, looking straight down caused the system to lose its positional tracking.
There was, unfortunately, still a tether attached to the set. This never seems to be talked about with VR, but still concerns me greatly, especially after messing with VRCade’s wireless backpack system. I didn’t feel as free to roam or jump or twist as I did at VRCade, and presumably the wireless transmission back and forth to a base computer would add at least a few milliseconds of latency, but that’s a trade I would gladly make.
Okay? Cool. Now to the fun part.
Go to Neogaf to see the fun part 
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I'll be honest here, all this talk about VR reminds me a bit of the talk about 3D. Everybody is working on it and everybody says it's amazing and the future, but God only knows how it will end. And when.
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It’s taken an extraordinarily long time for this, Ghosts’ very first map pack, to come around. T’was not so far Black Ops 2, which set new series records for DLC sales.
But if Infinity Ward have failed to match Treyarch’s speed, they’ve at least matched their capacity for synonyms for the word ‘attack’ - and for developing solid-sounding new multiplayer maps. Onslaught has five, and they’re available to download today.
Guild Wars 2 is totally set for launch in China. It’s got the optional pre-level 1 tutorial and hint system ArenaNet wanted for it, it’s got the same one-time-fee business model, and it’s got a local manager with a fantastic first name.
“Given the game's high quality and beautiful design, compared with free-to-play and time-based pay-to-play games, this business model has the highest chance to appeal to the broadest base of players in China,” said Atlantis Lai.
South Park: The Stick of Truth has been hit by the censorship stick in the UK, Europe, Australia, parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. But according the the European Video Standards body, the folk behind PEGI, this has nothing to do with them.
In the UK, the game in its entirety was deemed acceptable for an 18 rating. But Ubisoft decided to censor their own game, a Video Standards rep informed VG24/7, for marketing reasons.
Remember when we used to be able to give our wallets a rest between massive Steam sales? Yeah, that era is long behind us. Poor, battered wallets. Today, the pillager of our funds is Greenman Gaming, because it’s got a, frankly, absurd 2K deal going on until 16:00 UTC, March 3rd.
You can pick up the 2K Essentials Collection for a discount of over 70 percent, which also gives you 50 percent off other 2K titles and four free games. Lunacy.
State of Decay, Undead Labs’ zombie survival sim, is getting another slice of DLC in the form of Lifeline. Last time, it was a sandbox mode, but the developer is going back to the slightly more story and character-driven experience from the core game. There's a key difference, though: you’re in the army now.
This key difference informs a lot of things that could make this DLC standout from the original game. Instead of starting with nothing and growing into a burgeoning post-apocalyptic society, Lifeline is about losing everything and learning to improvise to survive.
Disney Infinity, Disney’s attempt to cash in on the Skylanders craze, has just been expanded on PC. Until now, PC users only had access to a free Toy Box mode and it functioned like the iPad app. To use the premium characters and their content, you had to utilise a web code that came with ones purchased for consoles.
Now, the Play Set mode can be accessed, and PC players can purchase and download content previously exclusive to consoles for a fraction of the price. You won’t have the physical toys but all the in-game stuff is available.
Steam Family Sharing is now live for all Steam users, Valve has announced. So now everyone can share their library with whomever they want. All users on the same account can earn their own achievements and save their game progress to the Steam cloud.
You can set up sharing now by authorising it on shared computers, but there are some caveats. Aren’t there always?
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Modder ‘SGtMarkIV’ has released a new video for the latest version of his mod, Brutal Doom, showcasing some new water and dust particles. SGtMarkIV is pushing Doom’s engine to its limits as these features are something we would never expect witnessing in Doom. Not only that, but the increased gore level, the new fatalities, the various graphics tweaks and the new blood decals make this mod a must-have for all Doom fans. Enjoy! Continue reading
Stainless Games has announced that the Early Access release of Carmageddon: Reincarnation will launch on Steam on March 27th. According to the company, this Early Access release is a milestone, as it marks the beginning of a new era in the Carmageddon story. Continue reading
Man, Skyrim’s modding community is really… innovative. Modders have introduced pretty much everything to Bethesda’s RPG; from naked women to new content, from anime female characters to memory and CPU tweaks that improve the gaming experience. Seriously, Skyrim is no longer the game you first met. And today, a really, really, REALLY, weird mod was brought to our attention. Continue reading
Rumor alert everyone. According to various reports, Gamestop got some ‘Batman’ posters for use in March. Not only that, but an image got leaked that may give us the first look on the logo of this new Batman game. Continue reading
Jagex has released two new videos for Transformers Universe, showcasing Autobot’s Meltdown and Decepticon’s Duststorm. Duststorm is described as a Decepticon with an arsenal optimized to keep even the most ironclad predator at bay while Meltdown is an Autobot who hates war but will never leave a fellow warrior behind. Continue reading
Electronic Arts and DICE have released the first screenshots for the Naval Strike DLC of Battlefield 4. This new DLC packs four maps, new weapons and gadgets, new vehicles and a new game mode (Carrier Assault). Battlefield 4′s Naval Strike DLC will be made available to premium members in late March. Enjoy! Continue reading
According to a leaked image, the PC version of Dark Souls 2 will be released on April 25th. That’s one month and 10 days after the console release that is planned for March 14th. Namco Bandai did not reveal the reasons behind this delay, though it has assured us in the past that Dark Souls 2 PC won’t be plagued by the issues of its predecessor. Continue reading
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@Skyrim mod. Well, at least they are fair. They are giving the same attention to male and female gamers. Usually they only go for breast physics.
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The developers over at Respawn have a tough working day. For hours on end each day they’re listening to the cranking and grinding of mechs being tested in the workshop, there are munitions experiments on the firing range, and, frankly, it’s a loud and confusing place to work. Anybody in similar situation would find forming a coherent thought difficult.
Which could explain the current confusion over whether the game will have a DLC season pass or not.
You might have been happy with a hopeless prison. Happy to pummel your inmates into submission by cracking their will in solitary confinement. Happy to suppress their freedom of thought with armed guards. And happy to deprive them of dignity with your sniffer dogs. I’m not judging you. Much. But with the latest update to Prison Architect you can now run your prison in a whole new way, rehabilitating and reforming your prisoners instead.
It’s not often that games are announced by hand puppets. Sure, we all remember when Valve hired Sooty and Sweep to endorse Richocet 2, but such events stand out for their rarity. So it was quite the surprise to see Microsoft announced they’re developing Age of Mythology: Extended Edition by having a llama hand puppet slamming a keyboard.
Piranha are working to solve some of the problems prevalent to Mechwarrior Online. They’re starting with matchmaking. They want you to be able to drop into a game and find your place among other pilots in a well-balanced lance of mechs, instead of the current, seemingly random grouping that can see you and three other light mechs against heavies and assaults.
By Adam Smith on March 1st, 2014 at 9:00 am.
Cosmo-Nautica is Elite by way of The Sims. No, scratch that. Apart from having toilet and food needs, the crew of my vessel have more in common with Redshirt’s sci-fi caricatures than Maxis’ consumer-dolls. I’ve had a brief dabble with an early build of the Stuttgart-built indie game, and it’s exactly what the ‘Elite meets life sim’ beermat description suggests. The player’s ship is a rustbucket the size of a large townhouse and various rooms can be bolted onto its empty compartments. Living quarters, vending machines, cargo bays, weapons, engines…toilets. At present, there’s not much to do beyond trading basic commodities, but ground missions and enhanced combat are due before release. Take a look.
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I’ve been quietly addicted to Dungeon of the Endless since it was released through Early Access just before Christmas. Its mix of roguelike and tower defense mechanics is absorbing and more than one day has turned to night and back to day again before I stop playing. The latest release has added a new resource: science.
It’s going to change everything.
Team Sharkeye are keeping the details of Oscar close to their chest but what they are saying is intriguing. It will be a game that explores a young girl’s escapist fantasies in what appears to be a painterly platformer.
Appearances are designed to deceive.
Development of DayZ is ramping up: Bohemia have drafted a whole new set of developers onto the team, according to lead Dean Hall that’s “effectively doubling the whole project. Besides the new team members, work has begun on the cooking system.
You could say things are *hotting up*. (Don’t worry, I’ve already stapled my hand to the desk as punishment.)
It’s been four months since free-to-play Diablo-like Path of Exile was released and we’re due the first of the game’s mini expansions, Sacrifice of the Vaal. It brings new bosses, areas, PvP modes, skill gems, and items.
As updates go it’s pretty stonking big. Grinding Gear have released a trailer for easy digestion of all the gory details.
Two of the most important names is FPS history - 3D Realms and Apogee Software, Ltd. - have transferred to a new owner capable of making use of them. Rise of the Triad remake developers Interceptor Entertainment announced that they have acquired the one-time Duke Nukem company over the weekend.
In real-world work, team building exercises mean everybody losing a perfectly good day to go-karting or zorbing. In League of Legends, it’s going to mean less time wasted, not more: the new Team Builder is a queue system designed to telegraph players’ favourite roles and champions to each other before they hit the lanes.
Duke Nukem’s become more synonymous with high profile cock-ups and lawsuits than quality gaming of late. There was the long wait for Duke Nukem Forever, which turned out to be terrible, 3D Realms suing Gearbox over royalties and Gearbox suing 3D Realms and Interceptor for attempting to release a new Duke Nukem game despite not controlling the IP. And now Interceptor, the studio behind the Rise of the Triad remake and the aforementioned Duke Nukem game which is unlikely to see the light of day, has acquired 3D Realms.
But Mike Nielsen, new owner of 3D Realms and part owner of Interceptor, told Eurogamer that Interceptor hadn’t announced a new Duke Nukem game, which makes this Facebook page and website all the more confusing. “We have not officially announced anything, other than we're doing a game,” he said. 3D Realms even admitted wrongdoing, named the game, and apologised. Is your head hurting? Mine is.
The existence of digital tabletop games is one of the best things to come out of this confusing universe. Sometimes I like to think they are just created for me. Most of my local chums don’t care for tabletop gaming at all, even if they care about video games. So it’s rare that I can sit down and play anything, whether it’s chess or Dungeons & Dragons.
Berserk’s Tabletop Simulator's premade games cater to fans of the more traditional tabletop games, like backgammon and checkers, but that’s the only traditional thing about this multiplayer, customisable sandbox. There are no rules. This might seem a bit bonkers when games are all about rules, but Berserk hopes that without restrictions, players will create their own rules and make their own games.
In Loadout, death is always just over you shoulder, waiting to make you explode into glorious gibs with a tesla rocket or an explosive shotgun blast. Developer Edge of Reality says that the F2P multiplayer shooter boasted over 2 million registered accounts after only 14 days.
That’s probably led to more than a few deaths and the creation of a lot colourful guns throughout the 9 million hours that players have collectively clocked into it.
Heroes of the Storm is preparing to move into technical alpha, Blizzard revealed today. The MOBA filled with champions from Blizzard’s robust library will be available to a limited number of invitees, only from the US. Bugger.
“We’ve been hard at work on Heroes of the Storm since you last got your hands on the game at BlizzCon 2013 and we’re gearing up to invite a very limited number of players to join us in an initial phase of infrastructure and technology testing that we’re calling the Technical Alpha,” Blizzard said.
With Reaper of Souls dropping on March 25th, you’ll probably want to prepare. Beyond cancelling any engagements and thinking up excuses to avoid responsibilities from that Tuesday onwards, I mean. To lend a helping hand, Blizzard’s instituted a temporary 50 percent XP bonus in Diablo 3, the lovely devils.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, the final Castlevania title developed by MercurySteam, was welcomed with mixed critical reception. Despite its good looks and powerful protagonist, it failed to live up to its predecessor, shoe-horning in unpleasant stealth sections and dull, modern environments. I enjoyed it despite this, as I said in our inaugural Port Inspection, but it’s taken a bit of a lashing from reviewers.
Studio boss Enric Alvarez has spoken out against reviewers and scores, showing an awkward lack of humility. The game isn’t uneven, he claims, it’s just that the reviewers who had serious problems with the game are “blind”, “stupid” and unprofessional.
“We can rebuild him... we have the technology.”
That’s the fictional conceit behind Titanfall’s leaked Generations mode. Years of jumping off roofs and punting yourself 30 feet into the air from exploding robots have taken their toll on your legs. But you can be regenerated - at a small permanent cost to your experience and any memories of a time before space wars.
Mechanically speaking, that means losing all of your character levels, unlocked perks and challenge progress - but we haven’t known what the trade-off is until now.
YouTube’s member ‘Tom Shannon’ has released a new video from his upcoming QuadCopter game, showcasing some amazing reflection and lighting effects that were possible thanks to Epic’s next-gen engine, Unreal Engine 4. It looks stunning and keep in mind that this is created by a single person. Enjoy! Continue reading
Torn Banner is partnering with Epic Games, Steam, Nvidia, and Logitech to bring gamers: Fortification: a mapping contest for the Team Objective mode in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Continue reading
Incandescent Imaging has released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming Sci-Fi Horror title, Caffeine. Caffeine is described as a sci-fi horror adventure game that takes inspiration from FEAR, Condemned and Doom 3. The game is in early development and a demo is being created to give gamers a taste of both the immersive story and setting. We’ve also included below a video featuring gamepaly footage from a pre-alpha build. Those interested can vote for Caffeine on Steam Greenlight. Enjoy! Continue reading
Team17 has revealed that it will be at EGX Rezzed, this month (28th-30th March) for the global unveiling of its forthcoming PC release Flockers. Continue reading
Nowhere Studios today announced that its 1950’s influenced cinematic puzzle platformer “Monochroma” will launch on Windows PC, Mac and Linux on digital download distribution service Steam in April 2014. Continue reading
Crytek has released a new version of its free CRYENGINE SDK. According to the changelog, this new version comes with numerous updates to CryDesigner, further AI updates/fixes, new MBT (05) with additional features and info, as well as Flash Source Assets. Continue reading
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By Adam Smith on March 3rd, 2014 at 3:00 pm.
We live in topsy-turvy times. In the recent past, it was illegal to call something a ‘game’ unless it included at least one dungeon and seven dragons. Then Skyrim contained infinite dragons and the entire gaming market almost crashed because of reptilian boss creature oversaturation. Thankfully, the industry was saved when audiences realised that they didn’t need dragons in their games and might, in fact, prefer chickens. Let’s face it, you never see a Dixie Dragon or a KFD.
Kickstarter success Unrest does contain Naga, which are a bit like dragons, but it’s also a tale of ordinary people, set in an Indian city undergoing a revolution. It’ll be playable at Rezzed and it sounds fascinating.
By Adam Smith on March 3rd, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
Toby’s Island is currently seeking $20,000 CAD on Kickstarter and has managed to raise a tenth of that total in a couple of days. It’s easy to see why early pledges have been forthcoming because the pitch suggests that this is a game that includes fishing and farming. Toby is a boy who collects monsters so that those monsters can fight other monsters. That sounds a little bit like a game by Uncle Nintendo. But there’s more. Toby also grows food and assists in the construction and expansion of a small settlement. That sounds like another one of Uncle Nintendo’s favourite riffs those there console series that I incorrectly assumed was Nintendo owned. The two-person development team hope to build on the concepts that have inspired them, with random events, minigames and a ‘multi evolution path’.
By Adam Smith on March 3rd, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
My excuse for not spotting the latest video of Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars is a worthy one. I’ve been too busy playing Out There on my Android CleverPhone. Like the Infinite Space series, it’s a mysterious RPG that drops the player in space, surrounded by the unknown. You should try it and I shall try to find out if it’s still coming to PC, as was originally planned. Enough of that for now though because the new video for Sea Of Stars contains plenty of information to drool over, including diplomacy, alien life and homeworld shipyards. The beta release is planned for the end of March.
By Christopher Livingston on March 3rd, 2014 at 9:00 pm.
Each Monday, Chris Livingston visits an early access game and reports back with stories about whatever he finds inside. This week, island survival in Under the Ocean.
Where tropical trees once stood, only stumps remain. Beaches are covered with the corpses of crabs, caves littered with the shattered remnants of boulders. An accidental fire burns, warming no one, near a crate stuffed with forgotten items. This island was once beautiful, serene, a paradise. Then I arrived, bringing the apocalypse with me. The apocalypse called crafting. And it all began because I wanted to eat a chicken.
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By Nathan Grayson on March 4th, 2014 at 10:00 am.
Beneath a mess of half-baked systems and massively detrimental online requirements, SimCity actually had some pretty cool ideas. Simulation of individual people and entities? Community options for those who want them? Curved roads? All interesting stuff on paper. Unfortunately, the reality of Maxis’ latest city builder failed (rather miserably) to live up to those promises, and Maxis has been struggling to build something workable from the pieces ever since. Enter Citybound. Its goal? To construct a city sim from the ground-up with a focus on single-player, out-of-the-not-a-box moddability, and simulating a truly sizable geographical region – not an itsy bitsy ant hill town. Also curved roads. Always curved roads.
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I'll keep an eye on that Cosmo-Nautica game, it may be fun.
Also, am I the only one tired of UE4 demos? Launch a f*cking game already!
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