Posts by John Papadopoulos:

Dauntless had 500K new players in its first day, surpassed 4 million total players

Posted on: 24 May 2019

Phoenix Labs announced that Dauntless, the recently released free-to-play co-op action RPG, welcomed over half a million players to the Shattered Isles in its first 24 hours, surpassing 4 million players total worldwide.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is coming to the Epic Games Store on August 27th

Posted on: 24 May 2019

Private Division and Panache Digital Games today announced that Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey will launch for PC via the Epic Games Store on August 27th. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is the debut title from Panache Digital Games, the independent development studio co-founded in 2014 by Patrice Désilets, the original creative director of the Assassin’s Creed … Continue reading Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is coming to the Epic Games Store on August 27th →

RiME is available for free right now on the Epic Games Store until May 30th

Posted on: 24 May 2019

Six Foot, Tequila Works and Epic Games are currently offering RiME for free on the Epic Games Store until May 30th. As with all the free Epic Games Store offerings, PC gamers will be able to acquire a free copy of the game and keep it theirs forever.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 – First beta patch allows to disable Depth of Field, adds more Anti-Aliasing options

Posted on: 24 May 2019

SEGA has released the first beta patch for Yakuza Kiwami 2. According to the team, this patch adds an option to completely disable the aggressive Depth of Field effect. This is something we’ve criticized in our PC Performance Analysis so we are really happy to see SEGA finally addressing it.

NVIDIA teases something “super”, could be hinting at a Turing refresh graphics card

Posted on: 24 May 2019

We all know that AMD will reveal its new NAVI graphics cards at Computex 2019 and E3 2019. However, and in an attempt to still its thunder, NVIDIA has just released a teaser trailer for something “super.”

Hunter’s Arena: Legends is a new mix of action RPG and Battle Royale, coming to PC in Q3 2019

Posted on: 23 May 2019

Korean developer Matisco announced today Hunter’s Arena: Legends; a unique hybrid of Action RPG and Battle Royale genres that will be released in Early Access on PC in Q3 2019. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released the game’s first gameplay trailer that you can find below.

The Witcher 3 looks gorgeous in 4K with Reshade Ray Tracing/Path Tracing

Posted on: 23 May 2019

YouTube’s ‘hodilton’ has shared a video, showing The Witcher 3 with Pascal Gilcher’s new alpha Reshade mod that adds path tracing/ray tracing GIobal Illumination effects to every DX9, DX10 and DX11 game.

Mortal Kombat 11 sold 1.8 million digital units, Apex Legends generated $24 million in April

Posted on: 23 May 2019

SuperData Arcade has shared its monthly report, stating that Mortal Kombat 11 has sold 1.8 million digital units on all platforms, thus making it the best digital launch in franchise history. On the other hand, Apex Legends fell out of the top rankings on console and PC and both Overwatch and Hearthstone still face declines.

Cyberpunk 2077 won’t have a public playable demo at E3 2019 but it will have gameplay presentations

Posted on: 23 May 2019

E3 2019 is almost upon us and CD Projekt RED has confirmed that it will be present at both the public and business areas, showcasing Cyberpunk 2077. Unfortunately there won’t be any public playable demo for the game, though CD Projekt RED stated that it will hold gameplay presentations.

A Plague Tale: Innocence PC Performance Analysis

Posted on: 23 May 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a new stealth adventure game developed by Asobo Studio that came out last week. The game is powered by an in-house engine, which also allows for over 5000 rats to be rendered onscreen at once, so it’s time now to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC … Continue reading A Plague Tale: Innocence PC Performance Analysis →