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Those cards may not need a replacement, but if the new cards perform as well as them (again, at least on 3DMark), then what are they if not replacements?
And yes, Titan Z is for insane people. You can get two 295X2 and still get a lot of extra cash for the price of one of them.
Please excuse my bad English.
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| JEMC said: Those cards may not need a replacement, but if the new cards perform as well as them (again, at least on 3DMark), then what are they if not replacements? And yes, Titan Z is for insane people. You can get two 295X2 and still get a lot of extra cash for the price of one of them. |
Well what's the alternative? Just not release any new GPUs until the die shrinks are ready some time next year? They have been iterating the same architecture on the same manufacturing proccess for well over 2 years at this point. And they have managed to push themselves into a corner by upping the anti with bigger more expensive dies. With the Titan being binned chips intended for server farms, and the 780/780 Ti also being based on the same die. To create a true successor to the 780 Ti/Titan class GPU that offers a significant enough performance leap without a die shrink they would need to make even bigger dies. Which is just not feisable I don't think. So the marketing pitch is $650USD worth of performance at ~$500. The people that already have that level of performance weren't going to be buying new cards either way, they might as well tap into the market that wanted that performance but weren't willing to spring for the insane price tag.
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Just to bring the discussion of the 980/970 to a halt until we get more, and real, numbers.
The results at videozardz are not from actual cards or anything like that but the supposed results according to their predictions of those cards.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gtx-980-videocardz.com-nvidia,27621.html
So I think that until we can get real numbers, debating what cards will this replace or not is pretty much pointess, don't you think?
Please excuse my bad English.
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| JEMC said: Just to bring the discussion of the 980/970 to a halt until we get more, and real, numbers. The results at videozardz are not from actual cards or anything like that but the supposed results according to their predictions of those cards. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gtx-980-videocardz.com-nvidia,27621.html So I think that until we can get real numbers, debating what cards will this replace or not is pretty much pointess, don't you think? |
Probably lol.
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Before last year’s WCS, our Rob called on StarCraft II devs Blizzard to move beyond the “bloodless intellectual exercise” they’d created and foster some big pro personalities.
Changes made ahead of this year’s competitive season have already made the 2014 WCS more enjoyable to watch - and now Blizzard’s video squad are working to bring out some of the sport’s large characters. By, er, causing beef. Yup.
Less than a month ago, Valve dissolved the boundaries of the Team Fortress 2 Workshop. Formerly the preserve of intangible weapons and menswear for the discerning in-game avatar, the Workshop now hosts designs for physical merchandise - the best of which have already been cherry-picked for production by Valve’s partners in their new venture, WeLoveFine.
We’re used to the beta as pre-order incentive - the forkfull of bolognaise stolen from the pan while it’s still cooking. So it was a surprise to us, and one suspects to Visceral Games, when the Battlefield Hardline beta turned out to be entirely necessary. A bit raw.
Hardline was delayed til 2015, and Visceral set to work incorporating ideas gleaned from their not-entirely-positive feedback. They’ve now penciled in another, hopefully triumphal beta closer to the game’s release.
Who is your favourite Doom designer? I’m personally fond of the twisted spatial sense of a Tom Hall level, but John Romero has always enjoyed a considerably larger fan club. Even after Daikatana, and a decade spent alternating between handheld, social and bad games.
If you're a badge-wearing fan of his, you'll probably remember that John Romero is making a shooter. Given that he hasn’t made one of those in a while, perhaps you’d like to hear his opinion on their direction?
“There are unbelievable amounts of new stuff to do in that genre,” said Romero. “We’ve barely scratched the surface.”
The Sims Studio are working on an update for The Sims 4 that will revoke its current ban on homosexual references in the game’s Gallery. At the moment, sims with names incorporating “forbidden” phrases are met with an error message when attempting to upload them to the online sharing hub.
Everybody has a birthday, but only despots and PC games distribution websites get to take all week about it. GOG began their six-year shindig yesterday, but have every intention of making it last through the weekend. They’ll incentivise your participation with extra-cheap games.
With Final Stand, Battlefield 4’s upcoming piece of DLC, DICE is presenting their vision of the wars of tomorrow while also looking back to Battlefield 2142.
“With Final Stand, we knew from the start that we wanted to evolve the Battlefield experience and offer weapons and vehicles that behave differently than anything else on the battlefield,” write DICE’s Kristoffer Bergqvist and David Sirland. “Taking place on the arctic landscape of Russia, where the scientists of today are experimenting with technology that will define the battlefields of tomorrow.”
Creative Assembly continues to work on Total War: Rome II, but the studio is already developing the next title in the historical strategy series. And we’ll be finding out what that is very, very soon.
At EGX in London, on September 25th, the studio will unveil the latest Total War project to the masses. On stage, CA will offer up insight into the ongoing production of the game and will also show the game in action.
The developer says that we should prepare for a “surprise”. Let the speculation commence!
The Lego games are great. Fun, inclusive and accessible to kids and adults in equal measure. They are what family games should be. Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham should continue that tradition, but has unfortunately been infected with something dire - like the yellow impurity in the old Green Lantern rings.
Lego Batman 3 will launch with day one DLC and a season pass. Wonderful.
Double Fine’s Zelda-like deconstruction, Hack ‘n’ Slash snuck up on us today. The Early Access game upgraded to 1.0, a day ahead of its release date, and you can grab the finished adventure on Steam right now.
A release date surprise that’s good, what a world we live in.
Minecraft is a phenomenon. Your gran probably runs her own Minecraft server. It’s common knowledge that everyone who works at Mojang is actually made of gold - which means they can’t swim, but it’s a small price to pay. This means one thing: big companies want more than just a piece of it. Big companies like Microsoft.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is in talks, serious talks, with Mojang over the acquisition of the Swedish company.
Blizzard’s been running its Heroes of the Storm technical alpha for a while now, and both Tim and Nick took it for a spin a while back, enjoying it quite a bit. The reckoned it was "a triumph". Now a new version is in the works, planned for the next patch.
A 64-bit version of the technical alpha will be available to all players with appropriate systems as soon as maintenance finishes on patch day.
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Daedalic Entertainment has expanded its creative team with the addition of award-winning author Martin Gantefohr. According to the company, Gantefohr will be working with Daedalic to craft a wholly new game, to be unveiled at a later date. Continue reading
NCSOFT and ArenaNet today released their “September 2014 Feature Pack,” the second standalone Guild Wars 2 feature update. As the press release reads, this latest update introduces improvements to key features, a ‘new user’ experience, balance updates and much more. Continue reading
Pinkerton Road Studio today announced that the highly-anticipated Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition, a modern remake of one of Sierra ‘s greatest adventure games of all-time, is expected to be available for purchase on PC and Mac on October 15th. Continue reading
SEGA and Creative Assembly announced today that Alien: Isolation has gone gold. This basically means that the game’s development has been completed, and it will be ready for its international release (set for October 7th). In addition, SEGA has released a new trailer that can be viewed below. Enjoy! Continue reading
As promised, Electronic Arts has released the PC demo for FIFA 15. This demo includes FIFA 15 Ultimate Team and lets players choose between Chelsea, Liverpool, Dortmund, Barcelona, Manchester City, Napoli, PSG and Boca Juniors. Continue reading
Piranha Games today revealed a galactic flight-based MMORPG set in a persistent, distant sector of the galaxy where industry, science and combat shape humanity’s interstellar progression, called Transverse. Continue reading
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Elite Dangerous has lots of ways for would be space pilots to make a living. There are those that peaceably trade goods across the galaxy or, at the other end of the spectrum, hire themselves out as a mercenary and lend their guns to the highest bidder.
Frontier have turned exploration into the middle route.
Explorers will search the distant ends of the galaxy, scanning planets for minerals and artefacts, taking in the glory of the universe. Bringing those secrets back to civilisation. But, if anyone gets in their way they’ll blow two holes through their life support system.
While Dungeons & Dragons Online is the epitome of fantasy the latest update throws in a little scifi. Sort of. The Mirror of Glamering lets you clone the look of of an armour set and turn it into a cosmetic item, allowing you to stay fashionable while fighting dragons.
Besides its look, armour’s received a complete overhaul “aimed at improving the ability of melee-focused characters to face some of DDO's toughest challenges, and bring increased balance between melee, ranged, and spell-casting characters.”
To that end a new “Melee Power, Ranged Power, Magical Resist Rating” attribute have been added to gear and Turbine have made adjustments to Physical Resist Rating”
Both the Alien: Isolation preview events I’ve attended started the same way, someone telling me: “Don’t run from the alien. You won’t escape.” The AI xenomorph will hear you and give chase, cutting you down before you can get away.
Rather than tell those of you eagerly anticipating October's release of Alien: Isolation, Creative Assembly have made video showing what happens when you run.
I can’t help but marvel at DCS: MiG-21 and the Digital Combat Simulator series: there are few games that so readily embrace depth and complexity over making something immediately playable. For someone who grew up on the Ace Combat series, spending ten minutes getting my plane ready to take off seems alien to me but for wing nuts the prospect of fuel checks and brake line tests is what gets them up in the morning.
I imagine, too, that when you master getting such a complicated vehicle into the air, managing to bag a bogey is significantly more satisfying, too.
The DCS: MiG-21 launch trailer is enough to make me consider starting to learn.
Until now, indie studio Wyrmbyte have run Dragons and Titans much like the other MOBAs you know on Steam. Players aren’t charged for the privilege of fighting in its lanes - instead, they’re gently nudged with offers of new weapons, mounts and avatars at affordable prices.
But Wyrmbyte are about to move in the opposite direction to the games industry at large - they’re going to shift from microtransactions to a flat $20 fee.
“Is this the greatest idea ever or the worst idea ever?,” laughs Wyrmbyte president, Scott Brown. “It’s a little bit scary. But it’s what all of us as players wanted, and so I can’t believe that we feel that differently than other people.”
I sacrificed a lot of animals - and by animals I do mean adorable babies - in an effort to bribe the powers that be into providing us with more fantasy 4X games. It all worked out, of course. This year saw the excellent Warlock II and Age of Wonders III swallow up countless hours of my life. And now we’ve got Endless Legend on the horizon.
Rob took a look at Endless Legend at GDC a while back and ended up being rather impressed with how Amplitude combined the pace and presentation of Endless Space with new, imaginative ideas. It’s been doing a stint in Early Access, but is on its way out the door. You’ll be able to get your hands on it on September 18th.
With a name like Unity, it’s not surprise that Ubisoft is pushing the co-op aspect of the latest Assassin’s Creed. The Brotherhood mode has already been shown off, so now it’s time to delve into the Heist mode.
Creative director Alex Amancio and an assassin chum slink through underground catacombs in order to steal some lovely Templar treasure in a new developer walkthrough. And it’s not at all clear why the entire mission can’t be completed solo.
Riot has introduced a new featured game mode for League of Legends: Ascension. And it’s all about getting unlimited power - which is lovely.
Ascension sees two teams of five pitted against each other, both attempting to defeat the Ancient Ascendant Xerath and steal his big ol’ buff. That power makes a champion vastly more powerful, though not so much that the opposing team can’t take him down with a coordinated assault.
If you want to take FIFA 15 and the new Ignite Engine for a spin, then you’re in luck, because you can now download the demo and kick all of those balls into those nets and get points for doing so.
But what happens when you kick a ball into a net? Well, you celebrate. And apparently previous FIFA games did not offer the breadth of celebration options that FIFA 15 does. You can learn how to pull of these super moves in a new video tutorial from EA.
MOBAs tend to be pretty light when it comes to the narrative - perhaps appropriately. Sure, League of Legends has oodles of lore behind the scenes, Infinite Crisis draws on decades of comics and Smite has thousands of years of mythology to play with, but this rarely comes to the forefront of the games themselves.
In the case of Smite, that might all be about to change.
Starbound is great. I have described it, in groups of serious adults, as “dead brilliant,” like I was an excited child. Do people even say “dead brilliant” anymore? Well I do. But very rarely. That’s why it’s in our list of the 15 best sandbox games on PC. But developer Chucklefish isn’t resting on its laurels, no.
Four members of the studio are now at working making a co-operative, somewhat competitive pirate action adventure game: Wayward Tide. Swashbuckling adventures are dead brilliant.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has wormed its way into the list of upcoming games that I really can’t wait to get my hands on - something I really didn’t expect when it was first announced. Our Jules took it for a spin a wee while ago, and he’s of a similar opinion. Go and devour his Shadow of Mordor preview.
As well as looking like an entertaining action romp with some intriguing systems, the game also boasts two of the most prolific voice actors in the industry: Troy Baker and Nolan North. They make an adorable couple, and you can take a look at them chatting about their respective characters in this here video.
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Green Lava Studios has released a new trailer for Fenix Rage that focuses on the game’s bosses. Fenix Rage is described as an inspired and frenetically-paced 2D action platformer that will test players’ ability to run, jump, and dash their way through a maze of dangerous obstacles, across hundreds of lightning-paced levels, all in an effort to track down a shadowy villain. Enjoy! Continue reading
Firefly Studios announced today that Stronghold Crusader 2 has gone gold and to celebrate, the team has released new gameplay footage of the series’ most notorious AI opponent, the Wolf. Continue reading
2K Games has released a new set of screenshots for its upcoming basketball game, NBA 2K15. NBA 2K15 is currently planned for an October 7th release and its PC version will be identical to the current-gen one (PS4/Xbox One). Enjoy the screenshots after the jump! Continue reading
Capcom last week confirmed Resident Evil Revelations 2 is in development for PC, Xbox One, X360, PS4 and PS3. And today, the Japanese company has revealed additional details about it, as well as its first screenshots. Continue reading
SEGA and Creative Assembly have revealed the PC system requirements for Alien: Isolation. As we can see, these specs are quite… normal and what most would have expected from a modern game. Alien: Isolation requires at least a Core2Duo CPU, and supports both 32bit and 64bit operation systems. Continue reading
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Atari announced last month that it is "rebooting" Alone in the Dark and Haunted House. Both games are very old—Haunted House came out in 1982, while Alone in the Dark is from '92—and so obviously a good bit of work is going to be required to make them relevant to modern gamers. Even so, it sounds like other games in Atari's extensive catalog will be given similar overhauls in the future.
Mechwarrior Online scored a very respectable score of 83 in our October 2013 review, but it obviously hasn't been entirely sunshine and lollipops since then. Fans have complained loud and long about missing features, delays and a glacial pace of development that has left major aspects of the game in an incomplete state. But Piranha Games President Russ Bullock recently announced that publisher Infinite Games is no longer involved with the project, which he said has already increased the pace of the game's development.
The long-teased September Feature Pack is now live in Guild Wars 2. What does it contain? Features! It's packed full of them. More specifically, it contains a selection of updates designed to overhaul everything from trading to achievements, and from levelling to class balance. But already, some of these changes are drawing derision from the game's community.
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