Posts by John Papadopoulos:

New GRID 2019 in-engine trailer highlights player choice, showcases enemy AI and weather effects

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

Codemasters has released a new in-engine trailer for its upcoming racing game, GRID. This trailer highlights player choice, showcasing multiple car classes on some of the most challenging track and street circuits in various settings including night time and heavy rain race conditions.

Planet Zoo beta begins on September 24th, gets new gameplay trailer

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

Frontier has announced that the beta phase for Planet Zoo will begin on September 24th. This beta will last until October 8th and in order to celebrate it, the team released a new gameplay trailer that you can find below.

Windows 10 now has another high CPU usage bug/issue due to Input Method Editor (IME)

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

Earlier this month, we reported about the KB4512941 update causing high CPU usage issues in Windows 10. And today, Microsoft has confirmed another bug/issue that may cause high CPU usage on particular systems.

Gearbox is currently working on a performance & QoL patch for Borderlands 3

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

As we wrote in our PC Performance Analysis, Borderlands 3 currently suffers from some optimization issues. And today, Gearbox announced that it is currently working on a performance patch for it. According to the team, this patch will also feature some Quality of Life improvements.

Kine dev: “Valve wants developers that are releasing on other storefronts to have a Steam page”

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

Kine is a new 3D puzzle game about music, machines, and dreams that will be coming exclusively on Epic Games Store. However, and similarly to all timed-exclusive EGS games, it already has a store page on Steam. The fact that there is already a Steam store page puzzled some gamers, and its developer has revealed … Continue reading Kine dev: “Valve wants developers that are releasing on other storefronts to have a Steam page” →

Rockstar releases its own launcher, gives away for free Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

Rockstar has launched its very own launcher via which PC gamers can enjoy the company’s games. In order to celebrate this launch, the team is currently offering Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for free to everyone that downloads the launcher.

World of Tanks will be using Ray Tracing via Intel’s oneAPI, will support DirectX 11 GPUs

Posted on: 18 Sep 2019

Wargaming has announced that World of Tanks will support Ray Tracing via Intel’s oneAPI. Wargaming will be using ray tracing for for shadows and lighting in direct sunlight, and will support both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 graphics cards.

This mod allows you to play the Half-Life campaign in co-op mode, available for download

Posted on: 17 Sep 2019

Modder ‘Hiems’ has released a pretty cool mod for the first Half-Life game. As its title suggests, Half-Life: Coop allows you to play the campaign of Valve’s classic shooter in co-op mode.

Here are Fifa Street 4 and Supremacy MMA running on the PC in 4K and 60fps via RPCS3

Posted on: 17 Sep 2019

While Fifa Street 4 and Supremacy MMA never came out on the PC, PC gamers can finally enjoy these two titles in 4K and with 60fps. This is possible thanks to the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3, as its latest version runs these games smoothly.

The Division 2 Update 6 available now on PTS for the PC, full patch notes revealed

Posted on: 17 Sep 2019

Ubisoft has launched title update 6 for The Division 2 on the Public Test Servers for the PC. Title Update 6 will have two phases. The first one started yesterday and targets Loot and Dark Zone.