Valve has just announced that DOTA 2 will be publicly playable at this year’s GamesCom and that there will be an international tournament for it. The International will feature the 16 best Dota teams in the world competing in the Dota 2 Championships through a group stage, double elimination playoff format over the course of Cologne’s five-day trade show (August 17th – 21st) and it will be broadcast in four languages (Chinese, German, Russian, and English) free of charge. Hell yeah! Continue reading Valve announces “The International Tournament” for DOTA 2 – Coming Out Later This Year→
QCFDesign has just announced that the Open Beta of Dekstop Dungeons is now available to everyone that pre-ordered the game and comes with a fully functional Kingdom manager, an actual quest progression system and a nice heap o’ content to get you started. Moreover, the company promises to add more content over the next few weeks. Continue reading Desktop Dungeons Beta is open to everyone that pre-ordered it→
Wolfire Games informed us that The Humble Indie Bundle 3 is now approaching 1,000,000 dollars in sales and in order to celebrate the occasion, a new game has been added to the bundle: Steel Storm: Burning Retribution. The company wanted also to thanks everyone for their support and reminded us that there is only one week left for The Humble Indie Bundle 3. Enjoy the following announcement trailer! Continue reading The Humble Indie Bundle 3 adds Steel Storm: Burning Retribution→
Well, it was to be expected. How could Relic Games attract more crowd? By simply providing what the others denied them. Diablo fans are still on the edge after today’s news but if you can forget it for a moment and focus on another game, you may actually find a great replacement. Yeap, you read it right. A replacement. Nothing is forever after all. Continue reading Torchlight 2 will still support mods, LAN play, and will be a one time purchase→
HanbitSoft has just informed us that Hellgate Global is quite a success and that it has been received with thunderous popularity since it released in Open Beta on June 30th, especially in Germany and United States. Only a month after its release, the servers have already been saturated, and every day there are hundreds of players from all over the world waiting in line for a chance to play. Continue reading Hellgate Global is a success in Germany and United States→
A user at 3DCenter found a way to enable FXAA in pretty much every DX9 PC game and guess what, it bloody works. As you may have guessed, we have some comparison shots from various games that showcase this new AA type in full effect so make sure to check them out after the jump. The only downside of this new AA technique is that the image get’s blurrier but according to the modder, there is room for further improvements to avoid this blurriness. So for now you’ll have to choose between “crisp and jaggies” graphics or “smooth and a bit blurry” ones. Continue reading Get FXAA in DX9 PC games NOW + Comparison Shots→
I’m sure there are a lot of San Andreas fans out there so if you are one of them, get ready to relive it in HD with the Ultra HD Mod. What we have here is basically a GTA: San Andreas mod that adds special effects processed by the API and offers better graphics. And although this is not as impressive as the iCEnhancer or some other ENB series mods for GTA4, it can sometimes come pretty close to GTA4’s vanilla version. Continue reading GTA San Andreas receives a graphical overhaul with the final version of UltraHD Mod→
Another week PC gamers, another Top10 UK Charts and as you may have already guessed, The Sims 3 is still at the top of the UK PC charts. The Witcher 2 and Portal 2 re-enter the charts, while Civilization V and Fable 3 lost some places and didn’t manage to make it to the Top 10. Apart from these changes, the charts are almost the same as last week’s. As always, these charts don’t represent the overall PC sales and you can view them after the jump. Continue reading Top 10 UK PC Charts – Nothing can top The Sims 3, Witcher 2 and Portal 2 re-enter→
BossBaddie released a new trailer for their indie shoot em up, Really Big Sky. Really Big Sky will receive a massive patch in the following days and this trailer showcases its features like a Retro Mode, new boss, new enemies and new events. Really Big Sky is already available for purchase at the company’s official website. Enjoy the trailer after the jump. Continue reading Really Big Sky looks quite unique with the upcoming Patch 2.1→
Oh boy, EVO2K11 was great. Mortal Kombat fans witnessed for the first time Mortal Kombat 9 in Evo and both Marvel vs Capcom 3 and SSF4AE events were mind-blowing and full of surprises. And although master Daigo has finally been defeated, the best moment of EVO2K11 was by far the bracket reset during Marvel vs Capcom 3’s Grand Finals. Viscant was dominating when suddenly PR ROG made a beautiful comeback against Dark Phoenix and the whole hall went nuts. You really need to see this, so jump to 0:30. Continue reading EVO2K11’s best moment: The bracket reset in Marvel vs Capcom 3→
