Mighty No. 9 Gets New Gameplay Footage

Check out this realtime tech demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYX9I3ONHc4

It really is an impressive demo. I remember when they showed the first snippets a few months ago. I have to wonder tho if we will ever see a high end game using this engine, let alone it coming to PC. Silicon Studio mostly do stuff for handhelds, mobile etc. They do seem to get a decent amount of licensing for their post proccessing tech which has been used in some major games.

Left 4 Dead 2 finally released uncensored in Australia

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Left 4 Dead 2 has become a gently-rotting poster child for Australian game censorship in the past five years. Oz’s famously conservative ratings board rendered one of the best PC first-person shooters almost completely bloodless, and spirited away the bodies of the dead often before they had time to hit the Georgian dirt.

Valve appealed the board’s refusal to classify Left 4 Dead 2’s original version in 2009 - but only now, half a decade on, has it been approved for distribution in the region.

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Absorb this Mighty No. 9 footage like the energy of a rocket-drone

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Mighty No. 9’s dramatically overfunded Kickstarter campaign has given way to fan unease. Early footage didn’t match up to the offbeat anime concept art the game was sold on, and developers Comcept returned to crowdfunding before we’d seen anything substantial of the Mega Men successor.

But this is more like it. A convincing two-minute trailer, followed by a demo of Mighty No. 9’s hectic Online Race mode from the mega man himself: Keiji Inafune.

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Mojang release 10 months' work in Minecraft 1.8: The Bountiful Update

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What have you done in the last 300 days? Probably lots of different little things. The Minecraft dev team at Mojang have done one, big thing: put together the Bountiful Update.

Minecraft 1.8 was published to the Minecraft launcher today. It’s taken longer than any other update in the game’s history, and incorporates a full-scale rebuild of its infrastructure. That’s the equivalent of umpteen creative mode cathedrals.

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From Software call Dark Souls II's message system a success: "The majority are helpful"

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I’m all for cutting the threads of unnecessary authentication servers, but if you play Dark Souls II offline you really are missing half the game. Its daylight horrorscapes are scarred with text missives from would-be friends on the internet. Most of them relay invaluable warnings about the game’s tricks and traps. Some of them are tricks and traps.

First incorporated in Demon’s Souls on the consoles, From reckon the system is now more effective than ever.

“The majority are helpful messages or messages reflecting on the game,” said game director Yui Tanimura. “The overall trend is for users to be helpful to one another and to share their thoughts and reflections. Only a handful of messages are left to make other players slip-up.”

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Payday 2 DLC finds Overkill "tipping our hats" to Battlefield and DICE

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Much has been made of the shared thematic ground in Battlefield Hardline and Payday 2, but evidently Overkill aren’t worried about associating too closely with the DICE series.

Their Gage Assault Pack is a collection of weapons, mods, masks and materials for Payday, and comes swathed in a familiar orange and grey-blue aesthetic.

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Tanks for the memories: Obsidian offers up a first look at Armored Warfare's cooperative PvE

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Armored Warfare is a dramatic departure for Obsidian. The developer most known for its elaborate, story-driven RPGs, so a multiplayer tank game doesn’t seem like a natural fit. But executive producer Rich Taylor thinks it makes sense. 

“When the opportunity to develop Armored Warfare came up, we really jumped as this chance to apply what we know about progression systems and complex mechanics and bring it to a new genre that we enjoy playing every bit as much as we enjoy working on it.”

Taylor was at PAX on the weekend to show off the first look at Armored Warfare’s pre-alpha PvE content, where armored vehicles cooperate, blasting enemies to smithereens while attempting to complete primary and secondary objectives.

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Stronghold Crusader 2 introduces the Sultana, the series' first female opponent

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A sultana isn’t just a dried grape, it’s also Stronghold Crusader 2’s new AI opponent. She’s based on a historical figure, but Firefly’s put their own spin on her, transforming her into a world-weary freedom fighter and leader of assassins. 

Firefly’s latest dev diary takes a look at the Sultana, and the tactics you’ll need to master if you hope to defeat her. 

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"Modern Transport Tycoon" Train Fever launches this week, with 150 years worth of trains

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While Train Fever sounds like a sickness that makes you think you’re a locomotive, it’s actually a crowd-funded transport sim inspired by Transport Tycoon. That’s probably a relief, if you were worried about being struck by a new and bewildering illness. 

Instead of getting you cooped up in bed, making train noises, Train Fever gives you a transport empire to manage, either in the Industrial Age or the modern day. It’s due to launch on Steam on Friday. 

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The Sims 4 launch day patch stops the Grim Reaper from finding love

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The Sims 4 launched in North America today, though in Europe we’ll need to wait until Thursday, because reasons. The most exciting thing about any launch day is, of course, the launch day patch.

In the case of The Sims 4, the problems that the patch solves seem more amusing, like trying to date the Grim Reaper, than disastrous, but there might be many more to deal with now that players have gotten their mitts on it. 

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Dino Crisis: The Stomping Land removed from Steam

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When The Stomping Land was Kickstarted a year ago, its prehistoric survival pitch garnered enough goodwill to fund nearly six times its target. But that goodwill has since dissipated in Early Access. Initial plans for weekly updates gave way to radio silence, and eventually the news that the game was moving to a new engine.

Despite that recent reassurance, The Stomping Land has now been removed from sale.

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The four-month Borderlands DLC drought is over: the Pre-Sequel has a season pass

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel has the whiff of expanded DLC about it. But like some sort of self-replicating moon, this standalone adventure in the Borderlands 2 engine will spawn yet more zany-shooter adventures.

The Pre-Sequel season pass is good for four pieces of post-launch DLC at a discount, 2K have announced.

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The man responsible for Starbucks' "fruit juice revolution" now does marketing for EA

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EA’s first move in their drive to put Players First was capitalisation. Satisfied they’d conveyed the appropriate sense of import and urgency, their next was to hire on Chris Bruzzo as chief marketing officer.

Bruzzo is credited as the man who planted Starbucks' hooks in social media - but when asked to list his greatest achievements, recalls “leading the cold-pressed vegetable and fruit juice revolution”. For which he will one day be tried at the Hague, obviously.

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Battlefield: Hardline – Into the Jungle Trailer

Electronic Arts has released a new trailer for Visceral’s upcoming Battlefield game, Battlefield: Hardline. Battlefield: Hardline brings the BF series to an all new cops and criminal fantasy inspired by some of the most popular TV crime dramas. The game is currently planned for a 2015 release. Enjoy and kudos to our reader Sikandar Ali for informing us! Continue reading →

 

 

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Assassin’s Creed: Unity – New Screenshots Released

September 3, 2014 John Papadopoulos 5 Comments

A new set of screenshots from Assassin’s Creed: Unity hit the Internet yesterday. Naturally, these shots have been downsampled from a really high-resolution (like pretty much all screenshots for most games). Assassin’s Creed: Unity is planned for a November 11th release on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Enjoy, and kudos to our reader ‘Sikandar Ali’ for informing us and TerminalGamer for sharing them. Continue reading →

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Far Cry 4 – New Screenshots Revealed

September 3, 2014 John Papadopoulos 21 Comments

Alongside the new screenshots for Assassin’s Creed: Unity, a new batch of screenshots for Far Cry 4 have been revealed. Far Cry 4 is currently planned for a November 21st release on both old-gen and current-gen systems. We’ve contacted Ubisoft for a tech interview we declined for the moment as the team did not have enough time on its hands (we may have one prior to the game’s release if the team finds some time, who knows). Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

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Titanic: Honor and Glory – Coming To PC, Xbox One & PS4, Gets New Amazing In-Game Footage

September 3, 2014 John Papadopoulos 7 Comments

We’ve been following this Titanic project for a couple of years. And while this game started as a Cryengine 3 project, the team behind it decided to ditch Crytek’s engine in favor of Unreal Engine 4, and revealed today that it will be coming to PC, Xbox One and PS4. And while there is no ETA as of yet, YouTube’s ‘GhostGamer’ has shared a new video showing some new in-game footage from it. Enjoy! Continue reading →

@Tamron: Very impressive demo. But I wonder which kind of machine run that.

Heroes of Newerth devs turn the MOBA single player with Strife's episodic campaign

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S2 Games' Strife is an attempt to rebuild the MOBA according to lessons learned running Heroes of Newerth. It’s distinguished from its peers by rampaging apes, player-controlled pets, and four years of genre experience. Plus, now it’s in open beta, a modest single-player campaign.

Prophecy of Darkstone: Child of the Dawn is the first in a series of episodes that will spotlight individual heroes from Strife’s roster.

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Dreamfall Chapters trailer flicks excitingly through the pages of Book One: Reborn

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Dreamfall Chapters strikes me as an adventure game for those who normally consider themselves disciples of a different genre: the RPG. Ragnar Tørnquist’s sequel to Dreamfall and The Longest Journey before it incorporates dialogue wheels, direct third-person control and environmental hubs waiting to be squeezed for every last NPC soundbite.

GOG are going to start selling its season pass soon - and have uploaded a new trailer to keep our tails wagging and tongues lolling.

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Google anti-hacking expert builds Hearthstone deck-prediction tool - but won't release it

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Google’s lead anti-abuse researcher has hacked Hearthstone. Elie Bursztein and wife Celine have built a tool capable of divining the cards in an opponent’s deck - but were persuaded by Blizzard staff not to publish their work.

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Oculus and Samsung announce the Gear VR headset for smartphones

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That rumoured Oculus and Samsung-developed Gear VR headset has become a real, tangible device you’ll be able to plonk on your noggin in the Autumn.

Strap an empty Gear VR to your face and you’ll simply look a bit like Watchmen’s Owlman. But slide a Galaxy Note 4 into the side and you’ll be subject to a virtual reality experience not entirely unfamiliar to Oculus Rift dev kit owners.

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City of Heroes spiritual successors might be able to drop the "spiritual" part

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City of Heroes might not have been sustainable for NCSoft, but its popularity and legacy was great enough to spawn several spiritual successors like City of Titans, Heroes and Villains and Valiance Online, all of which are in development. 

On Monday, Nate Downes, President of Missing Worlds Media, the team behind City of Titans, announced that he, along with other members of the company and the City of Heroes community, had been in negotiations with NCSoft in the hopes of acquiring the CoH property. 

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The Elder Scrolls Online developer hit with layoffs now that the game "runs smoothly"

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The Elder Scrolls Online developer, ZeniMax Online, was hit with layoffs this morning. While unfortunate for those affected, Bethesda’s Pete Hines assures that these changes are down to the game no longer needing as large a workforce and isn’t down to problems at the company. 

“As is the norm for games of this type, we had ramped up a large workforce to develop a game of vast scale, and ramped up our customer service to handle the expected questions and community needs of The Elder Scrolls Online at launch," Hines said. "Now that we are nearly 6 months post launch, we have a thriving online community in a game that runs smoothly.”

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Sci-fi RTS Ancient Space is warming up its warp drive for a September 23rd launch

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CreativeForge Games and Paradox’s Ancient Space, a sci-fi RTS that - with its 3D movement - is immediately evocative of Homeworld was only announced a fortnight ago, but it launches this month. 

Come September 23rd, fleet commanders will be able to duke it out in space against sci-fi threats. It all takes place in the Black Zone, where space is given texture and terrain with gargantuan floating chunks of rock and massive clouds of gas.

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Get up to speed on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's multiplayer

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Sledgehammer seems to have brushed away a lot of the cobwebs in Call of Duty’s multiplayer, chucking in a slew of new features in its sci-fi spectacle. Activision has put together a seven minute video detailing exactly what shiny new things you can expect, from the flashy exoskeletons to the customisation system. 

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Sega claims that Gearbox is just as responsible for the marketing of Aliens: Colonial Marines as the publisher

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The legal drama surrounding Aliens: Colonial Marines and the class action lawsuit against publisher Sega and developer Gearbox continues, with both parties attempting to place the blame on the other. Court documents filed this week by Sega allege that Gearbox was just as responsible for the marketing, and thus should be included in the suit. 

The suit claims that the game was falsely advertised, particularly at E3 2011, where Pitchford and co showed off a demo to press that wasn’t representative of the actual game. 

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Third time's a charm: The Evil Within now due out on October 14th

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We don’t really know when The Evil Within is coming out. I mean, I can tell you that the campy horror game is due out on October 14th, but since we’ve already told you that it would arrive on August 29th, and then October 21st, I’m not really sure if you’d believe me. 

Maybe this is all a joke at your expensive, and we’re just sitting around, sipping wine out of ornate chalices, laughing at you. I guess you’ll have to take that chance. 

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New DLCs Announced For Payday 2 & Watch_Dogs

Overkill Software and Ubisoft announced today new downloadable content packs for Payday 2 and Watch_Dogs. Watch_Dogs will receive the Bad Blood DLC on September 23rd for season pass holders and September 30th for all other players, while Payday 2 will get the Gage Assault Pack on September 4th. Continue reading →

 

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The Dark Phantom Revealed – Third-person Shooter Inspired by Sin City and Constantine

September 4, 2014 John Papadopoulos 17 Comments

PardisGame Studio has revealed a new third-person shooter that is inspired by Sin City and Constantine, and will be called The Dark Phantom. The Dark Phantom will narrate a neo-noir story enhanced by a marvelous dark and comic style art set in a criminal infested city. Continue reading →

 

 

Galak-Z gameplay video — PAX Prime 2014 demo with Jake Kazdal

 

Tyler Wilde at 09:06 on 04 September 2014

Last weekend, I sat down with 17-BIT CEO/Creative Director/Art Director Jake Kazdal at PAX Prime to see Galak-Z, a top-down space combat game with procedurally-generated levels, Newtonian physics (think Asteroids), and anime-inspired animation.

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Riot know League of Legends' Tristana "needs nerfing" - but change is unlikely before Worlds

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League of Legends lore has it that Tristana always has a “kind word for everyone” - though in the lanes she’s equally generous with the buster shots to the face. In fact, the yordle commando is currently proving marginally more effective than her peers, and Riot know it. But they’re not planning to get busy with the nerfs until after this year’s Championship Series concludes at Worlds.

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Valve get the builders in to rework Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Cobblestone

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Did you know? Counter-Strike: Global Offensive celebrated its second birthday a couple of weeks back. Its community workshop is more active than ever, and 409,000 watched the ESL-One Cologne grand finals last month.

Valve are determined to fix the unbroken, however. Cobblestone is a CS:GO map scarcely six months old, but it’s had some major work done.

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Styx may break your bones: Cyanide's Dishonorable stealth game trailered

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Ubisoft think they’re good at branding, but they called their Great War game Valiant Hearts and not Sassoon’s Creed.

There, that’s my Assassin’s Creed joke. Cyanide Studios have entitled their new Styx: Master of Shadows trailer ‘Assassin’s Green’, which is a second-rate pun if you ask me. But it does go some way to communicating Styx’s goblin-based stealth and verticality. Take a look.

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Total War: Rome II's free Imperator Augustus campaign to keep things civil on September 16

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You might think crumbly old Emperor Augustus could be expected to turn up in the month of his own name. Imperator Septemberus, more like. If there were a Jeremarch, you can be sure I’d make a public appearance or two. But we shouldn’t grumble: a new civil war campaign for Total War: Rome II is due in a little over a week, and it’ll come as a free update on Steam.

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Ranger school: Wasteland 2's General Vargas offers survival tips

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Radioactive wastelands do not encourage inhabitants to be pleasant, calm individuals. Rogue robots, mutants and gun-toting bandits don’t help, either. So in Wasteland 2, which drops on September 19th, is rife with violent encounters. 

To get you up to speed before launch, the head honcho of the rangers, General Vargas, has a few tips on how to survive. 

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Runescape players exchange in-game bonds for a flight to the UK and tickets for RuneFest

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Last year, Jagex introduced a new subscription option for gold-rich Runscape players. Like EVE Online’s PLEX system, Runescape players could purchase bonds from Jagex using in-game currency. £3/$5 would net a player a 14-day subscription to the game. But those bonds could also be sold on to other players. 

In some cases, bonds have been traded for real-world benefits. Two players for the US have even been able to fund a trip to London for the RuneFest fan convention on October 11th, including flights, hotels, convention tickets and spending money for the actual event.

Given that the price of a single ticket to RuneFest is £100, and that’s probably the cheapest part of the trip, that’s mighty impressive. 

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The Unreal Engine Marketplace is open for business

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The Unreal Engine Marketplace opened its doors yesterday, allowing UE4 developers to trade community-created content. 

And the number of UE4 developers looks like its set to expand - with schools now being able to get free access to the engine. Schools will be able to receive the engine updates without forking over the $19 per month subscription fee.

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Unreal Engine 4 – New Video Shows Impressive Global Illumination Effects, Looks Almost Real

YouTube’s member ‘koooolalala’ has shared a new video, showing a scene that he has been working on in Unreal Engine 4. This scene uses a WIP Global Illumination system, and looks almost real. What’s really surprising here is that this scene was running with 60fps on an i7 3770 with a GTX670. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

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The Sims 4 – Anti-Piracy Countermeasures Spotted, Game Gets Pixelated In Pirated Copies

September 4, 2014 John Papadopoulos 22 Comments

Well, The Sims 4 may not be what its fans have been waiting for (and some features that were included in The Sims 3 may not be present in this new part of the series), but this does not give gamers the right to pirate it, right? Still, we all know that some will join the dark side in order to give Maxis and EA the middle finger, however – and if you are one of them – you are in for a big surprise. Continue reading →

 

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Jagged Alliance: Flashback To Be Officially Released On October 21st, New Update Hits Early Access

September 4, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Full Control announced today the official launch date for Jagged Alliance: Flashback as October 21st. In addition, Full Control has released the new Tactical Overload update for the game in Early Access, which enhances the game’s tactical combat. Continue reading

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Worlds of Magic Hits Steam Early Access On September 11th, Gets New Gameplay Video

September 4, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Wastelands Interactive announced today that Worlds of Magic will be launched on Steam Early Access on September 11th. Worlds of Magic is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in a rich, fantasy world. Successfully funded on Kickstarter almost a year ago, the game is currently in advanced beta and will first be available via Steam Early Access on the 11th of September 2014 for 39,99 USD. Continue reading →

 

 

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Ryse: Son of Rome Coming To PC On October 10th, PC Requirements Revealed, New PC Trailer

September 4, 2014 John Papadopoulos 37 Comments

Bloody hell, we’re late to the party. Well, no time to apologize for today’s lack of news, so let’s get straight to the point. Crytek has announced that Ryse: Son of Rome will be coming to the PC on October 10th. In addition, the company has revealed the game’s PC system specs that can be viewed below (do note that recommended is for 4K gaming). And if that wasn’t enough, a new trailer from the PC build has just been released. We’ve contacted Crytek and hopefully we’ll have a tech interview for Ryse in the next couple weeks, so stay tuned for more. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

 

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Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Releases November 13th, Gets New Screenshots

September 4, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

bitComposer Games announced that the first book of the action role-playing game Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms will be released on 13th November 2014 for PC. In addition, all early access players can enjoy new features today thanks to a major content update. Continue reading →

 

 

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Unreal Engine 4 – Available For Free To Schools & Their Students

September 5, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Epic Games announced that starting today schools and universities have unlimited access to Unreal Engine 4 for free. Educational organizations can obtain Unreal Engine 4 access for faculty and students through unrealengine.com/education. Continue reading →

 

 

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New Brutal Doom Video Shows Incredible Ceiling Blood Effects

September 5, 2014 John Papadopoulos 3 Comments

Brutal Doom is undoubtedly one of the best mods for Doom (at least in our opinion, and especially when the new Doom from id Software will be as gory as this mod). A couple of days ago, SGtMarkIV released a new video showing some new ceiling blood effects. It looks blood-ishly amazing, so go ahead and take a look! Continue reading →

 

 

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Project CARS – Coming On November 18th In US And On November 21st In Europe

September 5, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

Slightly Mad Studios has announced that Project CARS will be released on November 18th in US and on November 21st in Europe. This obviously means that the game is nearing its final stage, meaning that all latest videos should – somehow – reflect the end product. Therefore, below you can find a new video from the PC version running at Ultra settings (courtesy of ADRIANF1esp). Enjoy! Continue reading →