Frontier Developments announced today that it has released Elite: Dangerous Beta 3. As the company noted, this third stage of Elite: Dangerous’ Beta test has rolled out to players, unlocking even more of the real Milky Way for exploration and introducing long-awaited features including multiple ship ownership and mining. Continue reading Elite: Dangerous – Beta 3 Now Available
Monthly Archives: October 2014
The Evil Within – New Update Adds 60FPS Cap Option & Letterbox Setting
Bethesda and Tango Gameworks have released a new update for the PC version of The Evil Within. According to its changelog, this update adds a 60FPS cap option for those able to push such framerates, adds a Letterbox setting via which players can disable the letterbox “black bars” in the game settings, and fixes gameplay issues when running at >30 FPS. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded from Steam and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading The Evil Within – New Update Adds 60FPS Cap Option & Letterbox Setting
Assassin’s Creed: Unity – New Video Shows Off NVIDIA Optimizations
Man, lots of NVIDIA videos today. Ubisoft has just released a new video for Assassin’s Creed: Unity, showing off the NVIDIA exclusive optimizations in the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Unity. This is also the first official PC footage from this latest Assassin’s Creed title, so make sure to give this video a go. Enjoy! Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Unity – New Video Shows Off NVIDIA Optimizations
Dirty Bomb “Know Your Heritage” Developer Diary
Splash Damage has released a dev diary in which the development team discusses its PC shooter heritage, and how that has influenced Dirty Bomb as a shooter designed exclusively for PC gamers. Dirty Bomb was previously renamed to Extraction. Ironically, the team has – once again – changed the game’s title back to Dirty Bomb. So yes, Dirty Bomb was Extraction which is now again Dirty Bomb. But anyway, enjoy the dev diary after the jump! Continue reading Dirty Bomb “Know Your Heritage” Developer Diary
Crytek’s Free-To-Play Shooter, Warface, Gets NVIDIA’s GameWorks Treatment
NVIDIA’s Andrew Burnes has informed us about a video that showcases the newly implemented NVIDIA GameWorks effects in Crytek’s free-to-play shooter, Warface. Via its latest update, Warface supports dynamic smoke effects, realistic turbulence, and persistent real-time PhysX particles from explosions that interact with the virtual environment as well as characters. As NVIDIA noted, owners of GTX760 graphics cards and above will be able to enable all of the game’s bells and whistles (including PhysX High). Enjoy! Continue reading Crytek’s Free-To-Play Shooter, Warface, Gets NVIDIA’s GameWorks Treatment
Unreal Engine 4 Gets Geomerics Enlighten Global Illumination Support, Showcasing Incredible Visuals
Geomerics has released a new video, showing off its Global Illumination effects that have been implemented in Unreal Engine 4. As the company noted, it has explored how Epic’s latest physically-based lighting techniques interact with dynamic lighting through Unreal’s dynamic light types and Enlighten’s global illumination technology. The results are gorgeous, so make sure to watch the video. Kudos to our reader ‘PLASTICA-MAN’ for informing us! Continue reading Unreal Engine 4 Gets Geomerics Enlighten Global Illumination Support, Showcasing Incredible Visuals
DSOGaming – The Detail – First Impressions + First 10 Minutes Playthrough
Rival Games was kind enough to provide us with a review code for The Detail, and you can read below our first impressions. The Detail is a game that will surely catch your attention. Inspired by TV crime drama series and featuring an incredible art style, The Detail shows that there is still life to adventure titles. Continue reading DSOGaming – The Detail – First Impressions + First 10 Minutes Playthrough
Battlefield: Hardline Coming March 17th, Star Wars: Battlefront Targets Holiday 2015 Release
Electronic Arts has announced – during its latest financial conference call – the release windows for Battlefield: Hardline, Star Wars: Battlefront and the next Battlefield game (that will most probably be Battlefield 5). Continue reading Battlefield: Hardline Coming March 17th, Star Wars: Battlefront Targets Holiday 2015 Release
Crusader: No Remorse – Available For Free Via Origin (Limited Time Offer)
Great news for all old-school fans as Electronic Arts is offering Crusader: No Remorse for free via Origin’s ‘On the House’ special deal. This basically means that you can launch the Origin client, head over to Store’s Free Games section, and download for free this classic isometric shooter. Continue reading Crusader: No Remorse – Available For Free Via Origin (Limited Time Offer)
Dying Light – Now Coming Exclusively To Current-Gen Platforms, “Old-Gen Couldn’t Run The Game”
Techland today announced that Dying Light, the first-person zombie action survival game, will be released for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, while development on the previously announced Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions has now ceased. Continue reading Dying Light – Now Coming Exclusively To Current-Gen Platforms, “Old-Gen Couldn’t Run The Game”