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Lords of the Fallen – Update 1.3 Released, Offers Option To Disable Chromatic Aberration

November 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 6 Comments

CI Games and Deck13 have released a new update for Lords of the Fallen. This patch will update your game’s version to 1.3, is 363MB in size, and finally offers an option to completely disable that awful Chromatic Aberration filter. In addition, this patch introduces a warning message when the user enables very high resolution textures (for performance and stability reasons). As always, this update will be auto-downloaded from Steam and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading →

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AMD’s Public Mantle SDK Coming This Year, NVIDIA & Intel Free To Use It

November 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 10 Comments

During a presentation by AMD’s Richard Huddy at PDXLAN, the Red team revealed that the public SDK for its lower level API, Mantle, will go live this year. As WCCFTECH reported, both Nvidia and Intel are free to write and release drivers that will enable Mantle on their hardware on all Mantle-enabled games once this public SDK goes live. Continue reading →

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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes – PC Requirements Coming Soon, Framerate Locked At 60FPS

November 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 13 Comments

Earlier today, the official Steam page for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes got updated with some minimum PC requirements that surprised quite a few PC gamers. However, Konami and Valve reacted fast and took them down almost immediately. And as Robert Peeler – Online Community Manager for Kojima Productions – said, the official PC requirements will be coming soon. Continue reading →

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Satellite Reign – Spiritual Successor To Syndicate Wars – Gets Amazing Gameplay Trailer

November 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 3 Comments

5 Live Studios has released a gameplay trailer for its spiritual successor to Syndicate Wars, Satellite Reign. Satellite Reign will be available this December on Steam via its Early Access Program, and it’s everything Syndicate Wars fans have been asking for. As you can see for yourselves, the game looks simply phenomenal, and we can’t wait to get our hands on it. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Looking to build a $800 PC and need help getting a good configuration, any ideas/help? Thnx!

Where do you live? Also what gear do you already have, case, monitor, OS, HDDs etc. And what kind of stuff are you looking to do with it? Living room HTPC, just 1080p monitor?

@Mantle_ The sooner they launch it the better, but if I'm honest, I don't think neither Nvidia nor Intel will bother using it. They'll just wait for DX12.

@RTDaives_ Besides what zarx has said, it's also worth knowing if you will use Windows or another OS and, if you go with Windows, if you already have it or if we must include it in your budget.

Money does grow on trees: Carbine disable gardening to end Wildstar gold exploit

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Carbine have temporarily disabled gardening in Wildstar to block players from using a gold exploit. The studio are working on a hotfix to solve the issue entirely but until that’s deployed you won’t be able to tend to your garden.

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Creative Assembly gamejam and auction to raise money for Surrey Hospital

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Creative Assembly’s holding a GameJam this weekend to raise money for Millbridge Ward of The Royal Surrey County Hospital.Game Jam: Franco Jam commemorates Simon Franco, senior programmer on Alien Isolation, who died in June this year.

As well as the gamejam, Creative are auctioning a load of signed merchandise, too.

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Heroes of the Storm draft doesn’t have a ban phase. Blizzard say it “holds us to a higher level”

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You can’t ban heroes in Heroes of the Storm’s draft mode. Blizzard say this is to get players into the game faster, it “takes out part of the out-of-game experience”, and because it holds them “to a higher level” when designing and balancing their heroes.

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It took 20 minutes for Blizzard to decide to kill the Diablo 3 auction house

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It took one meeting for Blizzard to decide to kill off the auction house. Within in 20 minutes of the idea being floated the entire leadership agreed it had to go. That week they announced the end of the bane of Diablo 3’s existence and within the year it was gone.

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Never Alone looks gorgeous, and it launches next week

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Next week, November 18th, sees the launch of Never Alone, Upper One Games’ Arctic puzzle platformer. It’s a pretty, dreamlike game following a wee Iñupiat girl, Nuna, and her fox chum as they attempt to power through the hostile tundra in an effort to find the source of a mystical blizzard. 

The game’s been designed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, who are an Alaskan Native people. It’s based on an Iñupiat legend, and Alaskan Native storytellers and elders helped bring it to life. Take a gander at the launch trailer. 

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Far Cry 4's map editor won't allow you to make competitive multiplayer maps

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Ubisoft’s had a hard time making friends, lately. News that Far Cry 4’s map editor would not support competitive multiplayer inspired a 17-page thread of anger on the official forums. 

The lack of multiplayer map editing came to light on Twitch, when a streamer played a leaked copy of the game. Before this, Ubisoft had not mentioned its absence. 

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New Armikrog trailer crash lands, getting clay everywhere

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Armikrog, Doug TenNapel and Pencil Test Studios claymation adventure game, looks good enough to eat. Unfortunately, unlike non-toxic playdough, eating it would probably give you some serious digestive problems. 

Instead of stuffing it into your mouth, you can feed your hungry eyes with a trailer originally shared with Kickstarter backers.

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Assuming direct control: CCP is experimenting with manual controls for EVE Online

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The very first time I played EVE Online, in 2004, I was immediately bamboozled by the controls. Not because they were obtuse - though they were - but because I expected to be able to control my ship just like I could in Freespace or countless other space and flight sims, which EVE Valkyrie now employs. 

CCP has observed that this is a common experience among new players, who are surprised to find that EVE’s control scheme is more tactical and automated. This has led to the designers donning their lab coats and starting up an experiment: keyboard flight controls. An opt-in beta version will hit the MMO in the Rhea mini expansion, next month. 

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Battlefield 4's war concludes with Final Stand on November 18th

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Battlefield: Final Stand, the last piece of Battlefield 4 DLC, which finally concludes the really rather long war, has a release date: November 18th. Expect future tech, four new maps and lots of lovely snow. 

Non-premium members will have to wait a couple more weeks, however, and will get their mitts on the expansion on December 2nd.

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Escape Dead Island – New Screenshots & Launch Trailer Released

Blizzard phase out the entire continent of Draenor to combat server issues

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The latest expansion to World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor, has had some major teething issues when It comes to server stability. Players have experienced long queues, disconnects and being stuck in their Garrisons shortly after launch; even my review in progress has been temporarily halted.

As Blizzard finished up a round of realm maintenances this morning, they’ve announced a big change in an effort to reduce the amount of these issues occurring. Using their phasing technology, they’ve applied it to the entire continent of Draenor.

“This will allow us to run multiple copies of Draenor simultaneously, spreading out server population” said Blizzard community manager Bashiok.

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The Foreseer's Contract Dota 2 update sets the stage for a new hero: the Oracle

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A new update is on the horizon for Dota 2, and while it doesn’t promise anything concrete yet, it’s left some pretty damning evidence of a new hero coming to the game. The Oracle is a brand new hero to Dota 2; being not from the original hero roster used back in the original Warcraft III mod.

Also hinted was the new Phantom Assassin Arcana, that was voted for by the community at this year’s Dota 2 International.

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You can now eat people in DayZ, but you might go slightly mad

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Would you eat another human being if you were in a zombie apocalypse? Zombie simulator, DayZ, now poses that question to its players. But the community was worried that this new feature might further promote the “kill on sight” mentality of DayZ.

The developers though are already working on that, by putting in some rather alarming consequences.

While eating cooked human flesh doesn’t have any adverse side effects (yet), eating it raw can give you a brain disease called “Kuru” (yep it's a real disease). Symptoms include uncontrollable laughing, crying, shaking and eventually, death.

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Northern Shadow Ditches Unity Over Unreal Engine 4, First UE4 Screenshots Released

H2 Interactive has announced that ‘BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend’, developed by Arc System Works, will be released internationally for PC through global distribution platform Steam on December 11th, 2014.

The release supports both local and online multiplayer, as well as Korean, English, Japanese,and Chinese languages.

Focus Home announces Cities XXL; features multi-core support

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A new version of the popular Cities XL game, aptly named Cities XXL, has been announced by developers Focus Home. Details are slim, but they’ve revealed that the game will make use of multi-core CPUs to offer a “smooth FPS no matter the size and complexity”.

More information is promised over the coming weeks.

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Rumour: leaked screenshots of Telltale's Game of Thrones game spill onto the internet

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Eight screenshots apparently from Telltale’s upcoming adventure game, Game of Thrones, has been leaked online. There’s been no official confirmation from Telltale or otherwise to confirm the screenshots are the real deal, but they do look convincingly like Telltale’s unique art style.

Telltale's Game of Thrones game is due out by the end of this year with its first episode.

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Team Fortress 2 Workshop hammered into better shape

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The Team Fortress 2 Workshop has been the engine room of the game's item-centric rebirth - so it’s only fitting that Valve should lavish the same attention on it as they do one of the best first-person shooters on PC. The community hub’s homepage and queue system have both been upgraded, with the goal of forefronting the most interesting and relevant items.

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Hands on with Dungeons 2

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Dungeons 2 is the Tesco Corned Flakes of dungeon management games. In many ways it's fairly indistinguishable from the dungeon keeping of Dungeon Keeper, insofar as you're a keeper of a dungeon, and the dungeon that you keep is populated by minions who dig out rooms, mine for gold, research traps and fend off adventurers.

In fact, much of Dungeons 2's idea-pilfering came about because fans of Dungeons 1 demanded a more Dungeon Keeper-like experience, one that was less about looking after heroes and more about carefully managing an evil underground lair. And to developer Realmforge's credit, they've not stopped at merely emulating the Bullfrog classic, but have gone much further, adding their own RTS overworld twist.

(To close off the cereal metaphor, it’s a bit like they’ve thrown in fresh banana slices.)

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Elite: Dangerous offline mode isn't going to happen; would be "unacceptably limited"

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Part of the pitch for the new Elite was its central server - the home of a shared, evolving galaxy, adapting to changing economies and player-triggered events. But pledgers were also promised the option of a disconnected single player experience - a voluntary compromise that would mean the game never needed to touch base with that server.

A month before the launch of Elite: Dangerous, however, Frontier have made clear that the latter will not be an option after all.

“A fully offline experience would be unacceptably limited and static compared to the dynamic, ever unfolding experience we are delivering,” said Frontier boss David Braben.

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