People hyping up UC and R&C's visuals and I;m here still gawping at the Trine series, Escape from Tarkov and Star Citizen.



I easily imagine the last two getting shrugged off on this site unless it;s on their branded platform, SC has been shrugged off on here because it's an "incomplete game" despite all the other games that still haven't been released as also being incomplete and not being sold yet. All this talk irks me in a way because I know it's being specifically set up on purpose to deny any game in the future on PC that might actually blow the visual socks off some people, like whatever is shown on PC is automatically going to get shot down because only a few people can supposedly afford a 980 or build a decent rig and we're all 3rd world poor as fuck.

I beg to differ, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris + Thief + Final Fantasy XIII + Life is Strange Episode 1 was totally worth the €6.49 I paid for the christmas surprise box.

This time I hope for Final Fantasy XIII-2 or Lightning Returns or Final Fantasy IX or Hitman GO. If one of them is included, its already worth the €6.49 for the easter surprise box, even if the other 4 games are "crap" or I already have them. Final Fantasy III, IV, V or VI would also be okay for me... I have them on other platforms, but eventually I want a complete Final Fantasy collection on Steam anyways.

Worst case scenario: I pay €6.49 for 5 games I already have, but I can give away these Steam keys to friends or trade them. And I can't find 5 "crappy" Square Enix games on Steam that neither me nor one of my friends would enjoy, so the odds aren't that bad.

Yesterday we had news/rumors about Nvidia's next cards, today it's time for AMD/RTG

AMD RADEON R9 FURY X2 CODENAMED RADEON PRO DUO?

http://videocardz.com/58470/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x2-codenamed-radeon-pro-duo

Our friends from Hardware Battle have just confirmed that Radeon R9 Fury X2 is in fact.. Radeon Pro Duo.

You probably heard about Radeon R9 Fury X2 or Fiji Gemini, but it appears the official name is *allegedly* slightly different.

RADEON PRO DUO would essentially be a Radeon card with FirePro capabilities. It is unclear what exactly would be shared between the series, but Radeon Pro Duo is clearly a different product. It is said to become the fastest gaming card on the market and offer best VR experience to date. This is probably where FirePro features are necessary, as this card would is not only designed for gamers, but also game developers (that’s why we saw so many teasers of FNW Tiki systems allegedly powered by dual-Fiji graphics).

RADEON PRO DUO would look almost exactly like Fury X2 with Cooler Master water cooling solution. It is however slightly longer card, and it requires three power connectors (most likely 8-pin).

RADEON PRO DUO will be unveiled on March 14th, but the card will be available in 1 to 2 months after announcement.

To make this story even more interesting I have actually found a trace of Radeon Pro Duo on AMD website, but the link is not working. This can’t be a coincidence, also it would explain missing ‘R9’ prefix. In other words, this information is very plausible. Stay tuned for more.

>>I guess the Radeon Pro Duo, being half professional, will be rather expensive. I'm guessing it will be more like $1,500 (or more) than $1,000.

AMD PROMISES ‘A SNEAK PEAK OF POLARIS’ DURING CAPSAICIN LIVE EVENT ON MARCH 14TH

http://videocardz.com/58479/amd-promises-a-sneak-peak-of-polaris-during-capsaicin-live-event-on-march-14th

In press release we read:

Event Will Feature Industry Luminaries Including Crytek, HTC, Oculus, and Previews of New Silicon and Software Advancements

Obviously the focus is always on hardware, so ‘previews of new silicons’ is what everyone is waiting for. Today however AMD has told us more in a new tweet, where they promised ‘a sneak peak of Polaris’. This could simply mean that we are finally going to see Polaris GPU or at least a presentation.. well sneak peak could mean a lot, but one would expect the actual GPU to be shown, especially since some press members already saw it.

The event will also focus on Virtual Reality, hence Crytek, HTC and Oculus will also take part in Capsaicin. Of course here everyone expects dual-Fiji aka Radeon Pro Duo to be shown for the first time in final form.

The announcement of Radeon Pro Duo and ‘sneak peak of Polaris’ is probably more enough to make this event interesting. I don’t expect anything specific about Radeon 400 series though, but rather some buzz words like Polaris GCN 4.0 is X times efficient than GCN 3.0.

In case you didn’t know, AMD has already set up a stream for this live event on Ustream, so make sure to bookmark it.

A sneak peak of Polaris. HTC. Oculus. Crytek. AMD. Tune into our GDC webcast on 3/14 at 4PM! https://t.co/p6fWKL8WD4https://t.co/DCAi1KQjEl

— AMD Radeon (@amdradeon) March 11, 2016

>>I hope it's not the same chip that AMD/RTG demoes at their December event. It would be nice to see something with a bit more power.

Ladies and gentlemen, the 6 months old baby that can beat Street Fighter V Birdie story mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTdQ7Xx4Q34

For those of you that know about the stuff or want to read a bit about it, Anandtech has an article about lithography, detailing the state of what will be the tech used in the future: EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) lithography.

EUV Lithography Makes Good Progress, Still Not Ready for Prime Time

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10097/euv-lithography-makes-good-progress-still-not-ready-for-prime-time

Quoting the first comment on the article "Didn't understand a word. Fascinating none the less."

On something more intelligible, we have new info/rumor from WCCFTech about AMD's Zen

AMD Zen 8 Core 95W Summit Ridge CPUs Launching In October – Already Going Through Validation

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-cpu-8-core-summit-ridge-launching-october/#ixzz42s8vLWsR

For reference, Intel's top of the line CPU, the i7-5960X is also an 8-core/16-threads processor that runs at 3.0GHz, Turbo Boosts to 3.50GHz and has a TPD of 140W, but it is made on Intel's 22nm process compared to Zen's 14nm.

I doubt Zen will beat the Intel processor, but if it manages to come close, it will be a huge improvement.

Oh, this is the Game Developer's Conference week. Expect lots and lots of info about VR, DX12 & Vulkan, and Intel, AMD and Nvidia plans.

Check here the schedule of all GDC conferences: http://schedule.gdconf.com/list

This are Nvidia's conferences: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-gdc-2016

This are AMD's conferences: http://developer.amd.com/community/events/amd-at-gdc-2016/
AMD has released a press release where they say that Polaris 10 has been demoed (?) at Valve's VR event. Here it is.

Today is 3.14.16, thanks to you anglo-saxons and your weird way of posting dates .

It's Pi/π day!

Coincidentally or not (of course it's not!) Western Digital has some news for the owners of Raspberry Pi owners: it's announcing the launch of an HDD designed to work with Raspberry Pi devices called WD PiDrive.

http://www.wdc.com/en/company/pressroom/releases/?release=22d07183-95f4-44de-a170-5c79659e9ddb

And can you guess what capacity will have the drive? Yep, it's 314GB.

The suggested retail price is $45.81, but they are running a limited-time discount of... 31.4 percent, bringing the cost of the HDD down to... yes, $31.42

The news! DSOGaming works again for me, yay!

FROZEN SYNAPSE 2 – FIRST DETAILS + PRE-ALPHA SINGLE-PLAYER GAMEPLAY TRAILER

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/frozen-synapse-2-first-details-pre-alpha-single-player-gameplay-trailer/

Mode 7 Games has revealed the first details for Frozen Synapse 2, and has released its first trailer, showing pre-alpha gameplay footage. According to the team, the single player mode is set in a procedurally generated city and Frozen Synapse 2 will add a significant number of new unit classes as well as more detailed individual perks.

>>This is the gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ZnHgvSpK8

CROTEAM RELEASES SERIOUS ENGINE 1.10 FOR FREE TO EVERYONE

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/croteam-releases-serious-engine-1-10-for-free-to-everyone/

Croteam surprised us today as it released the source code of the Serious Engine v1.10 for free to everyone. This engine was used to create both Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter.

MISCREATED – OFFICIAL GDC 2016 TRAILER

http://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/miscreated-official-gdc-2016-trailer/

Entrada Interactive has released the GDC 2016 trailer for Miscreated. Miscreated is a post-apocalyptic, survival-based multiplayer online game that is powered by CRYENGINE. Miscreated is alsot taking advantage of CRYENGINE’s SVOTI (Sparse Voxel Octree Total Illumination) technique.

>>Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJJwdv1yA_o

STAR CITIZEN – FREE FLY EVENT LAUNCHED – LETS YOU ENJOY THE GAME FOR FREE UNTIL MARCH 20TH

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/star-citizen-free-fly-event-launched-lets-you-enjoy-the-game-for-free-until-march-20th/

Cloud Imperium has launched a new Free Fly event for Star Citizen. This event will give everyone the chance to fly every currently flyable ship in the game. This event will last until March 20th, so here is your chance to take a look for yourselves at one of the most anticipated PC games.

>>But wait, there's more!

STAR CITIZEN’S CROWDFUNDING HAS REACHED $110 MILLION

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/star-citizens-crowdfunding-has-reached-110-million/

Star Citizen is undoubtedly the most successful crowd-funding game to date. Cloud Imperium has been constantly breaking records and today, the team has raised more than $110 million. Star Citizen has a lot of potential and promises a lot of things, so it will be interesting to see whether Cloud Imperium will be able to deliver what it has promised.

>>Is anybody still surprised by these records?

STARDOCK IS WORKING ON A MULTI-GPU SOFTWARE SOLUTION THAT WILL LET YOU MIX NVIDIA & AMD GPUS

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/stardock-is-working-on-a-multi-gpu-software-solution-that-will-let-you-mix-nvidia-amd-gpus/

One of the coolest things of DirectX 12 is its ability to support multiple GPUs from different vendors. This is a feature that is currently supported only in Ashes of the Singularity, and from the looks of it, it may come and to other DX12 games in the future.

ODDWORLD: SOULSTORM ANNOUNCED

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/oddworld-soulstorm-announced/

Oddworld Inhabitants today announced the sequel to Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, Oddworld: Soulstorm. Oddworld: Soulstorm picks up from Abe’s genesis and directly follows on from the overthrow of RuptureFarms and the liberation of his blighted workmates.

>>GribbleGrunger has a thread about this story: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214679

MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES CROSS-NETWORK PLAY SUPPORT BETWEEN XBOX ONE & PC

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/microsoft-announces-cross-network-play-between-xbox-one-pc/

Microsoft has announced native support cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10. As Chris Charla, Director of ID@Xbox, announced today, Microsoft is enabling developers to support cross-network play on games that use Xbox Live. Naturally, developers will have to include this option in their games, however it’s good knowing that such a feature is now officially supported.

>>And, to the surprise of no one, it's for Win10 only. There are already two threads about is, one focused on Rocket Leage, and another more general.

PARAGON – EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM BEGINS ON MARCH 18TH

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/paragon-early-access-program-begins-on-march-18th/

Epic Games announced today that Paragon will enter its early access program on March 18th. In order to celebrate this announcement, Epic Games has also released a new trailer for Paragon that can be viewed below.

>>Here's the new trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4TbV0CGWJM

TOM CLANCY’S THE DIVISION & ROCKET LEAGUE ARE THIS WEEK’S BEST SELLING PC GAMES

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/tom-clancys-the-division-rocket-league-are-this-weeks-best-selling-pc-games/

The latest PC UK retail, Steam Digital and Green Man Gaming charts have been revealed and as we can see, Tom Clancy’s The Division and Rocket League are this week’s best selling games in UK, on Steam and on GMG.

>>Wow, The Sims 4 out of the top stop two times in a row. It's almost unbelievable.

THE OVERLOAD KICKSTARTER GETS FUNDED JUST TWO HOURS BEFORE IT ENDS

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-overload-kickstarter-gets-funded-just-two-hours-before-it-ends/

A few days ago, we brought your attention to the newly-released demo for Overload, the 6DOF shooter being developed by the guys who made Descent. But with the good news—free game—came bad: The $300,000 Kickstarter campaign was just a few days from ending and had achieved not much more than half its goal. I didn't say so in the post, but there was no doubt in my mind that it was all over but the shouting. And I was wrong.

>>That was close...

CREEPY FIRST-PERSON ADVENTURE THE GUEST NOW HAS A FREE DEMO ON STEAM

http://www.pcgamer.com/creepy-first-person-adventure-the-guest-now-has-a-free-demo-on-steam/

The Guest is a “first-person exploration game” in which you're locked inside a gloomy hotel room and have to figure out who's responsible for putting you there, and why they've done it. It's set in the 1980s and promises to be a moody, mysterious experience, with “events where we will control our character in a critical mental state, breaking the games rhythm and looking for new experiences.”

>>You can take a look at the launch trailer before trying the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDGwa9pa2o

ZOMBIE HERDER MOVING HAZARD ENTERS EARLY ACCESS

http://www.pcgamer.com/zombie-herder-moving-hazard-enters-early-access/

After spending some time with the competitive FPS/zombie herder Moving Hazard at PAX South in January, Tom declared that “it's a pretty fun game, though still in a rough state as it prepares to go into Early Access.” A couple of months later, that magic moment is upon us.

>>Here's the launch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeiD8Reqfs0

WARCRAFT 3 IS GETTING A BELATED PATCH NEXT WEEK TOO

http://www.pcgamer.com/warcraft-3-is-getting-a-belated-patch-next-week-too/

A couple of days ago, Diablo 2 was patched for the first time in five years, an update that makes the statesman-like (i.e., old) ARPG play nice with newer operating systems. At the time, Blizzard teased that there was more to come from its old games, leading many to believe that remasters of the early Diablos, Warcrafts, and StarCraft might be on the way. Now we have more fuel for the speculation machine, as a new patch is on the way for Warcraft III.

>>By "next week" they mean this week.

WWE 2K16 IS OUT ON STEAM NOW, SO HERE'S A NEW TRAILER

http://www.pcgamer.com/wwe-2k16-is-out-on-steam-now-so-heres-a-new-trailer/

Another year, another WWE – except nowadays 2K's wrestling sim actually releases for PC, albeit months after the console versions. The trailer above celebrates the official launch of WWE 2K16, which is available on Steam right now.

>>Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tQMffP8gc

STEAMVR DESKTOP THEATER MODE WILL BE DETAILED AT GDC THIS WEEK

http://www.pcgamer.com/steamvr-desktop-theater-mode-will-be-detailed-at-gdc-this-week/

Valve has announced it's developing a Desktop Theater mode for SteamVR, which will make the whole Steam library compatible with virtual reality. Announced at the weekend, SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode will do what the name implies: allow users to play non-VR compatible games in a virtual theater.

>>Imagine if it works fine. The number of available games will skyrocket.

DANGANRONPA 2 HITS PC IN APRIL

http://www.pcgamer.com/danganronpa-2-hits-pc-in-april/

Boy howdy, the folks at Spike Chunsoft don't hang around. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc only appeared on PC last month (despite having been on PS Vita since 2010), and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is already winging its way towards us. It's pegged to appear on Steam April 18, priced $30—an encouraging sign that the first sold well enough to tempt a Japanese developer further into the verdant fields of PC gaming.

>>Watch here the announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9OUTJgKb4

JJ ABRAMS WORKING ON BOTH PORTAL AND HALF-LIFE MOVIES

http://www.pcgamer.com/jj-abrams-working-on-both-portal-and-half-life-movies/

When IGN pressed for a status update on the rumoured Half-Life and Portal movies, JJ Abrams responded, "Not yet, but they're in development, and we've got writers, and we're working on both those stories. But nothing that would be an exciting update." Au contraire, Mr Abrams; confirmation of their existence is more exciting than you think.

ROBOT WARS MEETS FALLOUT IN AUTOMATRON DLC, OUT MARCH 22

http://www.pcgamer.com/robot-wars-meets-fallout-in-automatron-dlc-out-march-22/

Automatron, Fallout 4's first DLC, looks like it's blending the flexibility and personal flair of Fallout's building and customisation systems with one of Fallout 3's most memorable moments—the clash of superheroes for control of Canterbury Commons. Battle commences on March 22 for £8.

>>This is the official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TT46jgD17U

Minecraft is all you can think about?

PC gamers will be able to beat console players on Forza 6, or slaughter them on Gears of War thanks to the superior Keyboard &  mouse support.