Ughhh Pay to Win games are the worst. I like how League of Legends does it, just pay for skins or new characters and thats it.

Epic are half owned by Tencent, frankly I don't see a new Unreal Tournament being made in todays market that wasn't F2P TBH. I don't really care for competitive shooters tho so whatever they make won't be for me.

That's a bummer!

Seriously, I can understand that evry nod transition gets harder and harder, but TSMC has been horrible wrong in the last jumps. When they went from 55 to 40 there were troubles, the jump to 32 was so wrong that they simply skipped it altogether and went to 28, which also had is troubles and delays, and now going to 20nm it's the same story yet again!

The least they could have learned is to foresee this kind of unexpected problems and don't announce/sell it until it's f*cking ready!

At this rate they might as well skip 20nm and go straight to FinFET 16/14nm.

Supergiant on life after Transistor: "there's nothing beyond that date”

Later this month Supergiant, the makers of Bastion, are releasing their next game, Transistor. An action RPG following Red, a singer in a futuristic city, forced to run from the authorities after picking up a powerful talking sword, Transistor sounds weird and excellent but it could also be the game that changes the way Supergiant make games.

The studio’s life is banked on Transistor’s success. That’s why, as far as plans go, "there's nothing beyond that date. We have no plans for what comes next."

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Freaking Meatbags has you augment puny humans to fight the robot menace

The galaxy is collapsing and your job, as an intergalactic mining robot, is to harvest all the resources from the planets before that happens. Not only that, you also have to protect the weak blood and organ-filled humans that populate these worlds. Protect them from what? Wild, undomesticated robots.

Of course, if you need a hand in that task, you can always give the humans a couple of modifications.

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Mother Russia Bleeds is a brutal brawler set in an alternate 80s Moscow

Do you like smashing bottles of vodka over bouncers? Hitting young dancers with a baseball bat? Injecting yourself with powerful, mood-altering drugs? Mother Russia Bleeds is the game for you. You might still enjoy it if you answered no to the questions above and, frankly, I hope you said no to all the questions above. I mean, it’s your life but the first two aren’t very nice and the third is quite illegal.

Set in an alternate 1980s Moscow, Mother Russia Bleeds is a brawler that harks back to the Double Dragon and Streets of Rage.

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Another Japan only PSP game lands on Steam in english for the first time

Gunhound EX out now on Playism!

Just as promised, side scrolling mech action shooter Gunhound EX is now available on Playism, and at a reduced cost: 33% off for a limited time!

Don’t forget that when you purchase Gunhound EX from Playism, you will also get a free Steam key for the game once it releases on Steam! You certainly can’t beat a deal like that.

Not a big SHMUP guy myself tho

They really have no one else to turn to.

Intel would probably cost a fortune... Plus Intel has restricted it's fabs to themselves and a *tiny* select few of ARM companies (I.E Altera, who get 64bit ARM chips.)

Global Foundries is still stuck in 32nm land last I checked.

Then there is Samsung...
However shifting from one foundry to another isn't exactly "easy" as you have different power characteristics and other logistical issues to contend with, even at the same node, shifting to a new node usually takes time, thus making a shift to another company simply unfeasible this when left this late in the game.

On the flip side, 28nm is very mature with high yields, so it should be interesting to see how AMD and nVidia handle being stuck on the same node for 3 years and how they go about increasing transister counts.

It's pretty ironic though how TSMC said they were better at fabrication than Intel when Intel is moving to 14nm and TSMC struggles with it's 20nm.

Question, what'cha gonna' do about that ole' Radeon 5850? doing the upgrade on this next lot of rebadged cards?

I'm not sugesting that they should move to another manufacturer, I'm just saying that TSMC should be more serious and professional and have the things done when they claim they will be.

As for my 5850, I'm really considering getting a new card now as things will go for the worst once the summer ends (real life problems and all that). And I'm currently leaning towards an R9 290, obviously with an aftermarket cooler.

A Radeon R9 290 would be a dramatic upgrade.
You would probably be looking at a 3x performance increase in games and should last you many years. :)

I would personally go for the ASUS Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II OC or MSI Twin Frozr, mostly due to the back plate which prevents the GPU's PCB from "warping" over time.

Anyone else here hype for ArcheAge or Black Desert???