I have 1 piece of news, and 1 rumor/leak.

The New(s):

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/470303/civilization-beyond-earth-dated-for-october/

Civilization Beyond Earth dated for October 24! And it comes with a new video too

Woo Hoo!

And now, the rumor/leak:

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/38849/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-teased-8gb-of-ram-and-375w-tdp/index.html

2 variants of 4 and 8GB, and a TPD of 375W, it uses 1x8 pin power connector and 2x6 pin ones.

375W !!!

*faints*

I didn't know which gif to use so, pic the one you prefer

It's just a prototype, I'm pretty sure the finished product will have a better performance-per-watt ratio than the keplers

The problem with that card is that it will still be a 28nm product. It will be the GTX 9xx series that will go 20nm.

I'm guessing around 8TFLOPS from that TDP?

So, SLI two of those for 16TFLOPS and we already have 9th gen. ;)

Interview: Jason Kingsley on what comes after Sniper Elite 3

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Sniper Elite 3 has just launched. It's a World War Two game in which you can shoot a man from a ledge a mile away and watch in slow motion as a hot bullet bores a tunnel through one of two unsuspecting testicles, before exploding out of an arse like a horrifying party popper made of flesh and guts. It's more than a little bit gross in its extreme anatomical detail, and more entertaining than you're probably willing to admit.

A short while ago, before Sniper Elite 3 had launched, I met up with Jason Kingsley, Rebellion's CEO and creative director. We had a lovely long chat all about where they draw the line between gore and obscenity (after exploding balls, but before exploding penis), whether we could expect a return of their Nazi Zombie Army spin-off (we can), and what the future holds for the studio (potentially an open world survival horror game).

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Dota 2 tournament ESL One Frankfurt had over 12,500 spectators in the arena each day

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ESL One Frankfurt 2014, the recent Dota 2 tournament, was the largest eSports competition in Germany and one of the largest worldwide. More than 12,500 spectators crammed into the Commerzbank-Arena to watch the matches each day, while ESL says millions more watched the streams.

We really do need more of this sort of thing in the UK, something Jules championed in regards to League of Legends live events earlier today. As someone who only goes to see the occasional rugby match, I don’t often find myself getting the chance to enjoy passionate crowds roaring and cheering as teams and players clash.

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Airtight Games closes its doors shortly after the launch of Murdered: Soul Suspect

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Airtight Games sprung up in 2004, made up primarily from ex-FASA folk who designed the excellent Crimson Skies and various MechWarrior and MechCommander games. After a decade the studio is no more.

Its best received game was Quantum Conundrum, but I’ll fondly remember them as the team that made Murdered: Soul Suspect - which only came out last month. It was a confused, inconsistent mess, but one that I’ve had a great deal of fun playing and certainly didn't lack interesting ideas.

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IeSF opens male-only Hearthstone tournament to all genders, changes policy for good

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The wider news world tends to discourage public u-turns by punishing politicians for ‘flip-flopping’. But a turnaround at the right junction can be a win for all: the replacement of a gross negative with an unmitigated positive.

So it is here: the South Korean eSports organisation which previously prevented women from competing in Hearthstone has revised its rules. Its designated male-only tournaments will henceforth be open to all - and they’re keeping their female-only events in an effort to “improve representation”.

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Know your audience: Call of Duty: Ghosts is getting cannabis-themed gear

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Let’s be, ah, blunt: Call of Duty is packaged and sold to an audience of young men free from responsibility, and isn’t afraid to be explicit about it.

Clearly, somebody at Infinity Ward has noticed a certain amount of demographic crossover with another product. They’ve capitalised on it with the new Blunt Force character pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

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Kingsley talks Rebellion's future in open worlds: "We've almost got too much IP"

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Rebellion are a more interesting lot than they appear. You’ve probably noticed that they continue to make Sniper Elite games at regular intervals - but maybe not that they also own and publish all the 2000AD comics, and once bravely attempted to make a Judge Dredd FPS.

They have, in the words of their CEO, “almost got too much IP”. So what does their future hold? Let’s take a gruesome X-Ray of Jason Kingsley’s brain.

“What about a Nazi Zombie Army that's completely open world?”, he asks PCGamesN, apropos of nothing.

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Battlefield Hardline feedback sees movement speed upped 10%: "It feels much faster now!"

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Visceral Games wanted feedback from their Battlefield Hardline beta, and they got it alright: a screeching, sonic wall of complaints that, if recorded, would sound like Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music.

In response, they’ve created the first of many Community’s Most Wanted lists - a flood of fixes headed for the game beginning with a 10% increase in movement speed and ending with weak spots for heavy vehicles.

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There's another Assassin's Creed game brewing in Quebec

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Assassin’s Creed Unity comes from Ubisoft’s most darling studio in Montreal, where men and women have been animating hoods for absolutely yonks. But there’s a second Assassin’s Creed game in development at Ubisoft Quebec - one of the publisher’s many support studios, who’ve now graduated to the creative directorial spotlight.

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End of the Line: Killing Floor gets three new maps in free Summer update

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A face like Ellen Page’s wandered into The Last of Us, and now something like her voice seems to have turned up in Tripwire’s latest Killing Floor trailer. Not-Ellen-Page is here to talk about End of the Line - a “hefty” Summer update for the unkillable Steam favourite cannily timed to arrive before America’s Fourth of July Weekend.

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Moreowind: Skywind public alpha "coming soon"

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Update: The video is back. 

I can’t watch a Skywind trailer without being smacked in the face by a wave of nostalgia. The third Elder Scrolls adventure, Morrowind, is the best of the lot and a well deserved entry in my 15 best RPGs on PC list. The Skywind team is recreating the venerable RPG in its younger sibling, Skyrim, and the results are pretty striking thus far. 

The new trailer shows off the latest developer update with original content and new assets. It’s not a public build, but a public alpha is on the docket. The team says “coming soon”. Take a stroll through Balmora, Solstheim, West Gash and some lovely caves below. 

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DayZ grows and becomes more deadly in the latest update

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The world of DayZ is a big, violent place, and with the latest update, it’s gotten a whole lot larger and potentially more dangerous. 

Update 0.46.124490 throws flashbangs and hand grenades into the mix, lets survivors loot MP5s and expands the map to include new areas to Novodmitrovsk and a new location, Dobroe village. Lots of lovely places for you to die or be mugged in. 

Take a gander below for the full changelog. 

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Case closed: The Wolf Among Us concludes next week with Cry Wolf

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We’ll be bidding farewell to the neon-drenched, dirty streets of Fabletown next week, when The Wolf Among us concludes. The fifth and final episode, Cry Wolf, is due out on July 8th. 

The Wolf Among Us episode 4 only came out at the end of May, so this has been a pretty quick turnaround. Sort of makes up for the agonising four month wait after the first episode. Maybe.  

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Divinity: Original Sin is Larian Studios' fastest selling game, so they're going to sleep, then party

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Larian’s isometric fantasy RPG, Divinity: Original Sin, launched only a few days ago. It is currently at the top of the Steam charts, the studio’s fastest selling game, and it’s already getting close to becoming profitable. 

"It's definitely the fastest-selling game we've ever published,” Larian head honcho Swen Vincke told Eurogamer. “The last figures I saw we were at 160,000. For us that's pretty good. We're definitely going to break even and hopefully we'll make sufficient profit for our next game."

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Rob Pardo bids a bittersweet farewell to Blizzard after 17 years

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“Every ending is a beginning and today marks a new beginning for me,” Blizzard’s chief creative officer Rob Pardo wrote as he began his farewell letter. Today, one of the industry’s most influential developers leaves the company he’s been with since 1997. 

“After 17 years at Blizzard, with long and careful contemplation, I have made a difficult and bittersweet but ultimately exciting decision to pursue the next chapter in my life and career,” Pardo continued as he said goodbye to Blizzard’s community. 

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Far Cry 4 trailer reveals elephants to be murderous monsters

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If Far Cry 4’s soundtrack is anything like the one in the latest trailer, I’m pretty much sold. Yeah, murderous elephants and junkyard helicopters are cool, but they need catchy tunes. 

Ubisoft’s showing off some new shenanigans from the explosive, open world romp, in between a bombardment of praise and hyperbole from E3. It looks like good times. 

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Transformers Universe open beta begins tomorrow; prizes and other goodies to be flung at players

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Tomorrow will see Jagex’s Autobot vs. Decepticon MOBA, Transformers Universe, move into open beta. To celebrate the new phase of the game, Jagex is putting on a bunch of activities, two competitions and a double XP weekend. 

If you’re not sure you want to dip in, take a gander at Steve’s Transformers Universe preview. 

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Super Time Force Ultra Is Coming To Steam Later This Summer

also there is a sale on the Humble Store

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/drmfreedom

Alpha predator: Evolve testing sign-up now open for Americans

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Will Evolve be a successful new species, or a dead end? A surefire way to find out would be to sign up to test Turtle Rock’s first-person monster hunter first-hand. We English aren’t eligible - the official site’s tweed-detectors were going off before I’d even offered my email address. But if you’re across the Atlantic, you can sign up and await further instruction.

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Bring out the punch: Fist of Awesome arrives on Steam today

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Fist of Awesome is a game about punching bears that Scottish designer Nicoll Hunt designed in his spare room in lieu of a proper Valentine’s present for his girlfriend. Two and a half years later, it’s sped through Valve accelerated Steam Greenlight program in exactly a week and now has its own Steam store page and everything.

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My Life as a Grey Goo — Petroglyph's fascinating RTS faction designs

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When Petroglyph unveiled their newest RTS, Grey Goo, the one thing they weren’t showing, or even describing, was the damned Goo from the title. They weren’t even willing to give a hint of what was coming.

That made it easy to underestimate Grey Goo. Without a full understanding of the factions, Grey Goo doesn’t look nearly as interesting and potentially revolutionary as it actually is.

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Valve to split ginormous Dota 2 International prize pool more evenly this year

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In all the goodwill surrounding The International’s community-funded prize pool, the only grumbling point was its distribution. A few Dota 2 pros would become millionaires one evening in Seattle, it seemed, but the rest would be no better off for all those Compendiums sold.

Valve have redressed the balance: the 10-million-dollar-plus prize pool will be split more evenly between The International’s winners than in previous years.

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The Witcher Adventure Game closed beta sees first deployment of GOG Galaxy

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Which Witcher is this? This is the one which calls itself an Adventure Game, but is in fact a Fantasy Flight board game magi-technologically turned into a PC game by CD Projekt RED.

It’s going into closed beta on the back of GOG’s fledgling Galaxy platform - the desktop client they hope will rub up alongside Steam in the taskbar.

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semi help required:
regarding battlefield 3, I'm using fx bulldozer quad core with a vtx r7 265

the game runs at 60fps most of the time but sometimes judders down to 40fps on some maps. even with textures and terrain/shadowing/aa on low it looks next gen, what a great looking game

what specs would you need to get 60fps with settings turned up? it seems like a spec greedy game

If you are gaming at 1080p, I *think* that an R9 280X would be enough, but I'd wawit for a second (and better) opinion.

Of course, if you want those 60 fps to be the minimum with everything maxed out, then you'll need something with more power.