| Pemalite said: You might have to finally retire that 4 year old 5850, JEMC. :P |
They seemed pretty scepticle about mantle and it's an Nvidia title so Mantle support seems pretty unlikely sadly.
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| Pemalite said: You might have to finally retire that 4 year old 5850, JEMC. :P |
Well, I had to replace upgrade part of my PC because the mobo... kind of broke (the SATA ports were unreliable and killed my 1 month old SSD :,-( ). And given that the P55 line of boards were already gone, I had an i5-750, I had to change both the mobo and CPU. And get a new SSD, ofc.
About the GPU, I thought about getting an HD 7870 shortly after they were launched, it offered me more than 50% more fps while using the same power and costing the same as my card (250 €), but I decided to wait for the new 20nm ones.
So yeah, by the end of this year or beginning of 2015 I'll get a new GPU 
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JEMC said:
Well, I had to replace upgrade part of my PC because the mobo... kind of broke (the SATA ports were unreliable and killed my 1 month old SSD :,-( ). And given that the P55 line of boards were already gone, I had an i5-750, I had to change both the mobo and CPU. And get a new SSD, ofc. About the GPU, I thought about getting an HD 7870 shortly after they were launched, it offered me more than 50% more fps while using the same power and costing the same as my card (250 €), but I decided to wait for the new 20nm ones. So yeah, by the end of this year or beginning of 2015 I'll get a new GPU |
Probably a wise choice.
Or wait for the Bitcoin/Litecoin crash and grab a few high-end cards on the cheap. :)
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Aion: Steel Cavalry is the next expansion for NC Soft’s MMO, and it’s dropping for free next week.
Fan-requested mode to roll out to tank MMO shortly, new winter map Windstorm also due.
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Alienware’s Steam Machine line came under fire from gamers this week, after it surfaced that the rigs could not be upgraded. Alienware has since responded to say that he units can be upgraded, but it won’t be as easy as what you’re currently used to.
Unknown Worlds has released the source code for Natural Selection but it’s not entirely ‘open’ source.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition will continue the series’ trend of enabling players to romance their allies, and lead writer David Gaider has penned a blog post explaining why romance is often a “pandora’s box,” capable of whipping up controversy, hard-feelings among gamers and on the other hand, a lot of enjoyment and appreciation.
Watch Dogs may be delayed into spring, but a new interview conducted before the date change confirms that Ubisoft Montreal was considering its DLC strategy at the time, and is keen to tell more stories from within the game’s universe. There’s also some clarity on who Aiden’s female friend is.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has a new trailer available showing the superhero title in development at Beenox.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 developer Mercury Steam has released a new trailer for its whip-happy sequel called ‘Dracula’s Desiny.’ It’s a character video, focusing on Gabriel, his new role as Dracula, and returning characters Zobek, Satan and more. Watch it here.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is now available for digital download on Steam courtesy of TransGaming Inc., which initially brought the game to the Mac App Store. The title is 75% on Steam as well starting tomorrow until Monday, January 27.
The Elder Scrolls Online’s voice cast as been announced by Bethesda, and it includes such notables as John Cleese, Malcolm McDowell and the lovely Kate Beckinsale.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor orcs are individuals: no two are the same, and no two players will have the same encounter with these foes, according to the game’s director of design Michael de Plater.
Publisher pulls back curtain on new role-playing game built at Paradox Development Studio. First teaser video right here.
Might & Magic 10: Legacy is now available on PC, and if you’re up for it, the Deluxe Edition is available for £24.99/$29.99 on both digital and retail channels. There’s always the Standard Edition as well for £19.99/$24.99, but it’s only available through digital channels.
The Debut 9 Bundle from Indie Royale is live and features six titles: Airship Dragoon, Little Trus Man, Sky Nations, Inescapable, Dark Gates, Chronicles of a Dark Lord: Episode 1 Tides of Fate and one yet to be revealed, bringing the total to seven. Currently, the minimum is $3.33 All games are available for Windows via Desura and in Greenlight looking for a place on Steam. In tangent, there are deals for Face Noir (70% off), The Ship (75% off) and Zafehouse: Diaries (75% off) running right now through the service. Hit up the link for more information.
Agarest: Generations of War Zero is heading to to PC via Steam soon, according to a lovely mail sent out by Ghostlight.
The Evil Within looks to be a scary affair, and to help bring some of the monsters in the game to life, last March Studio ADI put together key characters and effects for the horror title.
Hearts of Iron 4 has been announced by Paradox Interactive. The latest installment in the World War 2 strategy series has an announcement trailer and a set of artwork available for you to peruse. Not much is known about the game at present other than it will be releases on Linux, Mac and PC early next year.
As promised during BlizzCon 2013, World of Warcraft character models and animations for many of the game’s existing playable races are being fully revamped. The new models will go live alongside Warlords of Draenor. Chris Robinson, senior art director for WoW, has posted a developer blog over on Battle.net detailing the modeling process, the increase in polygon count to over 5,000 in some cases, and the retouching of nearly every animation for all of the characters. Read up on more of this through the link. Closed beta testing for Warlords of Draenor is looming, and the expansion is slated for release in the fall.
The Humble Weekly sale is upon us, and starting today you can pay-what-you-want for Paranautical Activity, Dungeons of Dredmor Complete and Hack, Slash, Loot. Pay $6 or more to unlock The Binding of Isaac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC, Teleglitch: Die More Edition – Guns and Tunes and Sword of the Stars: The Pit – Gold Edition. The bundle also includes five soundtracks. Go buy the thing through the link and support the charities Child’s Play Charity or Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Guild Wars 2 PvP Community Tournament events have been scheduled by ArenaNet.
Ubisoft has secured CAD $510,000 from the Quebec government as part of a CAD $28 million investment in job creation in Quebec City, the publisher announced today. GameInformer reports Ubisoft intends to create 100 new jobs over the next three years. The new roles are part of a plan to employ 500 staff within Quebec, announced in September 2013. The Quebec City studio currently employs more than 300 staff, and has contributed to the Assassin’s Creed, Might & Magic and Prince of Persia series, particularly in motion capture.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor produced a new gameplay trailer today, but it hasn’t gone down well with one former Assassin’s Creed developer, who claims it contains evidence of assets from Ubisoft’s series.
This was always around the corner. With its technical detail and painstaking scientific accuracy, Kerbal Space Program was always going to be noticed by the education sector. We’ve already reported about how one professor used Kerbal as part of his high school class, but Kerbal is about to meet a wider range of students, thanks to KerbalEdu.
Another day, another snapshot glides gracefully down from the Mojang cloud above and implants itself inside your Minecraft. 14w04a contains a multitude of goodies, but the best is clearly “bushes can now catch fire”. Now you can create mazes of green, only to set them alight and create a labyrinth of scorching heat. It’s the perfect little torture in your world of insane challenges. If you're that way inclined, of course.
Paradox Interactive’s CEO Fred Wester has pledged his support to open platforms like Steam and the SteamOS. “We can’t have a platform holder who tells us what to do and what not to do,” he told the audience at this year’s Paradox Convention. “We need full freedom on how we connect to our gamers.”
Great news for all RPG fans as the Kickstarter campaign for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has already met its initial £300K goal. Obviously this is great news as Warhorse was unable to sign a deal with a publisher due to the nature of this RPG. What was it you publishers claimed? That the game would not attract gamers because it did not feature dragons? Guess again. Continue reading
Well, we gotta admit that Capcom has indeed included some HD textures for the PC Ultimate HD Edition of Resident Evil 4 that is planned for release next month. Capcom has released some comparison screenshots between the vanilla and the Ultimate HD Edition of Resident Evil 4, while Steam’s member ‘MarkfromTheRoom’ has made a comparison between the Wii version (running on Dolphin) and the PC Ultimate HD Edition of Resident Evil 4. Continue reading
During Valve’s Steam Dev Days, Nvidia talked about OpenGL and how developers can take this open-source API in order to overcome the CPU limitations of the past and get performance similar to Mantle. Now before jumping around like little kids, know that this solution has not been adopted by anyone and we may never see this getting used to any triple-A games, as most games nowadays are using DirectX rather OpenGL. Continue reading
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Slides from Nixxes' presentation on Theif's PC port and Mantle
Petition for Sega PC ports
Snow has been given a thorough overhaul since its Steam Early Access Debut; hit the break to find out what’s new since we last checked in with the CryEngine-powered sports sim.
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is throwing its doors open for the last time during its closed beta. As such, this is just about your last opportunity to get your foot in the door as a founder by purchasing a Mage Legit Fan pack, currently on sale and valued at $90. You can get on board Ubisoft’s free-to-play dungeon builder – and dungeon crawler directly via The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot’s website, or by buying in on Steam.
Not on Steam is a site for games that – you guessed it – aren’t on Steam, but the group’s recent sale saw titles that were on Steam Greenlight at the time gain a significant vote boost on Valve’s service, as well as decent sales.
Dark Souls 2′s Japanese homepage has been translated in full by one dedicated fan, and it gives some further insight into the game’s features.
Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment has stressed that its shooter will not have a microtransaction model, and that a potential season pass is still in the air.
Battlefield 4 developer DICE has pledged to continue patching the shooter, but wants your feedback on how best to proceed.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Helmed by former Mafia 2 developers, the project wouldn’t have been made if funding campaign had failed. The first of three episodes will now launch in December 2015.
Titanfall designer Justin Hendry has suggested that backlash surrounding the shooter’s 6v6 player cap comes from assumptions surrounding other shooters that perhaps allow for greater player-counts.
Endnight Games has announced its horror game The Forest is set for an early alpha release on Steam in a few months. In order to help facilitate your interest in it, a new set of screenshots have been sent over. A couple are downright creepy while others depict new enemy types and recently added gameplay elements such as spreadable fire. The Forest is a single-player action-adventures simulation title set for release on PC and Oculus Rift.
“CS:GO has been hitting milestones recently,” say Valve. The latest iteration of the competitive shooting standard now regularly doubles the player numbers of its parent game on Steam. Early this month it reached 100,000 concurrent players, placing it comfortably within reach of the top most-played games on the service. And during the same period, Global Offensive’s playerbase passed beyond two million unique accounts. Lots.
Remember that whole fiasco between progaming teams Ninjas in Pyjamas and Lemondogs as they attempted to trade an LCS spot between them, only to have Riot quash it with a rules change?
Today, Riot added a new twist as they fined Ninjas in Pyjamas’ former mid laner, Soren Bjerg, $2000 for his role in the affair. They found that he was guilty of poaching members of the Lemondogs team, which is odd because it’s usually teams and not players who do the poaching. So how did Bjergsen find himself in the middle of all this? Hint: eSports aren’t always wildly professional.
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Thief has received a new batch of screens and art, following another wave of pre-release previews.
From pacifist play-through to Iron Man mode, Stace Harman goes hands-on with Eidos Montreal’s upcoming stealth title and examines the myriad ways to customise your Thief experience.
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BT Infinity customers in the UK are experiencing issues connecting to Ubisoft’s Uplay service. You can look over the numerous complaints posted through a Ubisoft forum thread here. Ubisoft has told Eurogamer it is aware of the issue and looking into it, while BT Infinity could not be reached for comment.
Ultra Street Fighter 4 will include a feature which will allow users to upload their matches directly to YouTube, Capcom has announced. Players will be able to select any match from their battle log of online matches, and choose either a low or high quality upload. Ultra Street Fighter 4′s digital upgrade will be available in early June for $14.99 (€14.99) on PS3 and Xbox 360. The digital upgrade for PC will follow in August, at $14.99 (€14.99), as well as the PS3 and Xbox 360 full digital bundle and retail versions, which include all previously-released costumes for $39.99 (€39.99).
Magicka: Wizard Wars will include a Duel Mode, Paradox North has announced. In Duel Mode, four players will step into an arena two randomly chosen players will begin the battle while the others watch. When a wizard falls, a spectator will take its place, with all four players cycling until one scored six murders and thus emerging the victor. Duel Mode will be added to Magicka: Wizard Wars in the very near future, and you can see it in action below. The game is currently in the early access phase on Steam.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 screenshots depicting supervillain Kraven the Hunter’s in-game likeness have been released by Activision.
Road Not Taken, the rogue-like puzzle game in development at Spry Fox, has a couple of new concept art images available to drool over. You can also read the developer post on the EU PS Blog in which the game’s lead artist reveals the design process. The game pits players, who are wizards with levitation powers, against one-room puzzles which are so dangerous, its possible to die over and over again. Road Not Taken is due on Mac, PC, PS4 and Vita in early 2014.
WindForge, which was recently greenlighted on Steam, is now in beta Snowed In Studios has announced. Pre-orders are also now available and the game will release on Steam March 7. The pre-release version of the game Kickstarter backers received last month is now available to those who pre-order. WindForge mixes 2D shooting action and RPG elements, and takes place in a world relying on whale oil for fuel. In the game, players build airships and look for an alternative fuel source as whales are becoming extinct. A video is below. Thanks, Blue.
Alien: Isolation came from the idea that “no one had made an Alien game” The Creative Assembly wanted to play; thus, the team decided to ‘rectify the situation’.
Battlefield 4 Premium players can earn double XP starting tomorrow for all formats, DICE has announced. The Double XP Weekend begins January 25 at 2.00am PST/5.00am EST/10.00am UTC.
Firefall developer Red 5 Studios’ parent company, The9 and two shareholders have entered into share purchase agreement to Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development Co., Ltd. of approximately $23 million. This means more funding for the MMO which was originally planned for a 2011 release. “This additional round of funding will offer us the means to execute on our plan for successfully launching Firefall in 2014.” said James Macauley, acting CEO. “This is the year Firefall takes flight. The entire Red 5 tribe is focused on creating top quality content that will take Firefall to the next level and we are excited for this next stage of development.” Former CEO Mark Kern stepped down as CEO back in December. Thanks, BWW.
It’s Jet Set Radio Future! No, it’s Mirror’s Edge! No, both wrong. It’s actually Hover: Revolt of Gamer, a parkour game about saving videogames from corrupt governments. Apparently any game with free running automatically comes coupled with the dystopian politics storyline. But don’t let that distract you from the dizzying array of colour. Let it seep into your eyeballs and addle your mind. That’s it. Now watch the trailer.
Episodes of Dexter’s Lab and films like Freaky Friday make it seem quite incredible to swap bodies with someone, despite there always being one of those ‘morals’ at the conclusion of the story. If only we had the technology here and now to swap bodies with people, we could disprove these films and demonstrate the true power of mind swaps. And I guess everyone could discover what it’s like to have the opposite wobbly bits too, whilst we’re at it. All in the name of science, like.
Turns out that technology has been here all the long though, right in front of our faces. Or on our faces, since it’s Oculus Rift. A group of scientists have been using it to swap peoples bodies and genders, and explore the effects.
Purchase a copy of Car Mechanic Simulator 2014, out on Steam today, and you know you’re getting the market leader.
“This is the very first game simulating a car repair workshop,” write publishers PlayWay. “There‘s no competition for our product, and in the nearest future there won’t be any.”
Once the laughs subside into curious throat noises, though, you’ll find this is a game build with the zeal and application we’ve come to expect from specialist sim developers. In development at Polish outfit Red Dot Games since 2011, Car Mechanic Sim features a 75 mission-strong career mode about refitting sedans, limos and SUVs.
Team Fortress 2, the competitive, multiplayer first-person shooter from Valve Software, has been updated - or ‘patched’. Users of Valve’s storefront and games house, Steam, will find that new files will seep unsolicited into their version of the game - changing it in scores of small and surprising ways.
Surprising, that is, unless you have the patch notes. Which we do.
TitanFall is planned for a mid-March release but gamers may get their hands on it earlier than anticipated. According to Origin, the beta phase for TitanFall will be launched soon. Spotted by our friends at MP1st, a message on Origin – that has been removed – claims that the beta will be coming soon. Continue reading
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| BasilZero said: Another Agarest game coming to steam :O? |
I guess the first did well for them
You should help send the message to Sega
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Firefall developer Red 5 Studios’ parent company, The9 and two shareholders have entered into share purchase agreement to Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development Co., Ltd. of approximately $23 million. This means more funding for the MMO which was originally planned for a 2011 release. “This additional round of funding will offer us the means to execute on our plan for successfully launching Firefall in 2014.” said James Macauley, acting CEO. “This is the year Firefall takes flight. The entire Red 5 tribe is focused on creating top quality content that will take Firefall to the next level and we are excited for this next stage of development.” Former CEO Mark Kern stepped down as CEO back in December. Thanks, BWW.
Sony Online Entertainment has announced that starting in April, it will offer its MMO PC players a single subscription model which provides access to certain titles for $14.99 per month.
Sony Online Entertainment has announced it will sunset Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, Vanguard, and Wizardry Online.
Steam users can now manually cancel pre-ordered titles and have price of the game refunded into their Steam Wallets.
Jazzpunk, the IGF finalist from Necrophone Games, has a new video available mixing live-action with shots of gameplay at the end. It’s bizarre and you can watch it below. The game will be released by Adult Swim games on Steam February 7.
Jonathan Blow has confirmed The Witness will support virtual reality devices.
Evolve, like Left 4 Dead before it, will feature a team of four players battling it out against enemies, and for good reason: Turtle Rock found through trial and error that when you add more players, they become harder to keep track of.
Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley’s extensive Reddit AMAA yielded many answers and many teases, one of which pertained to the unannounced MMO the firm has had in the works for quite some time.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios has said the game will be moddable. Speaking with RPS, project director Daniel Vávra said the team is also considering releasing a toolset. “We are quite open to modding,” he said. “Since it’s on CryEngine, it should be easy to mod, too. We [also] hope that we will be able to release our tools and assets for CryEngine SDK. No guarantees now, but it would be a shame not to do it.” The game was put on Kickstarter earlier this week, and in no time at all, met its funding goal. The open-world, medieval RPG sandbox will be released episodically on PC and next-gen systems. The game has been in the works since a month after Warhorse announced its formation in July 2011.
While SOE is still being evasive over when the EverQuest Next Landmark Alpha test will start – is it this month? next month? Stardate [-28] 09855.00? – it has seen fit to release the system specs so you’ll know ahead of time if your rig can handle it or not. For VR aficionados, there are plans in place to support Oculus Rift as well.
Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble has announced on Facebook he’s leaving the Second Life company after joining the firm in 2011. Humble said in the post he was “starting up a company to make Art, Entertainment and unusual things,” and that more would be revealed in a few weeks. Before joining Linden Lab, Humble was EVP of the EA Play label and worked on The Sims 2 and 3, and before that he worked at SOE on EverQuest. Thanks, GI.biz.
Omg HD Zombies! is coming to Steam for PC, courtesy of Ghostlight. Expect it to land on the store sometime in mid-February. Currently available on PlayStation 3, PSP and Vita, Laughing Jackal’s title comes with 100 levels, 100 upgrades and as the name suggests, HD graphics. The developer is behind the PC port of Agarest: Generations of War Zero which is also expected on Steam next month.
PlanetSide 1 will go free-to-play in April, Sony Online Entertainment announced yesterday. According to a notice in the All Access FAQ, PlanetSide will not see further game development. SOE boss John Smedley confirmed the game would be going F2P back in may 2013. PlanetSide was released in 2003.
YouTube has rejected Terry Cavanagh’s copyright appeal over a video of VVVVVV he posted on the service.
Earlier in the week Paolo Pedercini, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and game developer, criticised Introversion for their game Prison Architect. He claims that the game, in its current state, is too simplistic a representation of the US prison system and the social structures that it resides in. While critical of the game, he does say that Prison Architect “could easily become a powerful tool to see incarceration through multiple lenses, possibly even prefiguring alternatives to the existing dysfunctional system.”
Introversion have responded to a number of Pedercini’s complaints revealing that their game is going to become a much darker simulation in the future.
Airplanes may have won in the contest for most practical air transport but, dammit, airships are just more majestic. What better way to build on their majesty than fuelling them with oil from nature’s most majestic creation, the whale? That’s a question Snowed In Studios asks in Windforge.
The game takes place in a world running off the fat fish’s black fuel and it’s running out. You’re tasked with finding an alternative source.
The humble turret gets a short shrift. Many claim that it’s dogs that are man’s best friend but that’s patently ridiculous. Dogs don’t turn your enemies into a heap of bloody mulch if they trespass on your land. Sure, they might give the intruder a nip or two but the canine’s inability to operate a 50cal machine gun is obvious.
The poor oft overlooked turret’s been added to the Exterminatus mod, fleshing out the Warhammer 40k for Half-Life 2 by providing the emperor’s chosen with man’s true companion.
NeoGAF’s members have launched a petition in order to show SEGA that there is PC crowd for more ‘niche’ games. As suggested, this petition is targeting games that are a perceived lower risk and the initial suggestions are: Vanquish, Bayonetta and Virtua Fighter 5. Continue reading
You know what? The latest screenshots of THIEF looked quite good but still, they were not that different from what we’ve been playing lately. The same can be said about Call of Duty: Ghosts; a next-gen title that looks worse than a number of current-gen games. And while we are still waiting for the next batch of next-gen titles, we can all take a look at what Skyrim modded looks today on our platform. So, today we bring you new images from ENBSeries users aal, Avroveks, OhKay, Oyama, saltr, unreal, wanako, WoodsOfYpres and ZeroKing. Enjoy! Continue reading
You've probably seen the news that came out of CES a few weeks ago: 4K ultra-high-definition monitors for under $1000! Dell announced the P2815Q, a 28-inch 3840x2160 panel for just $700, and you can already buy it. Lenovo and Asus both announced their own sub-$1000 4K panels at the show--the Lenovo ThinkVision 2840m and Asus PB287Q, both shipping in spring or summer for $800 and both offering that 28-inch 4K experience. But are any of them good enough to buy?
Nope. Not yet.
All the sub-$1000 4K monitors announced so far--at least the ones we have any panel information on--use twisted-nematic (TN) displays rather than in-plane-switching (IPS) panels. A TN panel can have quicker refresh rates, but everything else about it is inferior to IPS: the viewing angles are bad, the colors are more washed out, and it inherently can't reproduce as wide an array of colors as an IPS panel, so it's not accurate enough to use for photo or video editing. (More on the difference in this previous column.)
TN panels are still popular with twitch gamers because they can have much quicker pixel refresh times than IPS monitors, which can be important in fast multiplayer shooters. And indeed, Dell advertises a 5ms refresh rate, which on the surface seems fast enough for gamers. But that leads us the next problem with Dell's 28-inch 4K monitor, and possibly the other two as well.
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^Oh, yeah.
We need more Sanic games, but in 2D like the good old ones. And with less "friends" and the like, just with Tales 
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@How bad the sub-$1000 4K monitors are. I was expecting the qualitry of the panels to be bad, it was obvious that they were going to use TN panels, but still no HDMI 2.0 or just 30Hz? Lame.
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