Posts by John Papadopoulos:

New graphics overhaul mod, featuring 4K/2K textures, released for open-world survival FPS, 7 Days To Die

Posted on: 08 May 2019

DUST2DEATH has released brand new mod for the open-world game that is a combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games, 7 Days To Die. This new mod is called “HDHQ Overhaul – Textures – Lighting – Environment – Vehicles” and adds new 4K/2K terrain textures, as well as new and … Continue reading New graphics overhaul mod, featuring 4K/2K textures, released for open-world survival FPS, 7 Days To Die →

Doom Eternal will be playable at Quakecon Europe 2019 this July

Posted on: 08 May 2019

Bethesda has announced that it will host ‘QUAKECON Europe’ at Printworks, London, across 26-27 July. Not only that, but there will be a public playable demo for all those that attend this event, allowing them to get their hands on this highly anticipated shooter.

CRYENGINE Neon Noir real-time ray tracing demo runs at 1080p/30fps on AMD Vega 56, full 4K on the RTX GPUs

Posted on: 08 May 2019

Back in March 2019, we informed about a new real-time ray tracing CRYENGINE demo, called Neon Noir. This ray tracing tech demo was running on an AMD Radeon Vega 56, and yesterday Crytek revealed some additional details about it.

Anthem did not meet EA’s expectations, Battlefield 5 Firestorm battle royale is biggest BF live service event

Posted on: 08 May 2019

During its conference call for the fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, Electronic Arts revealed that Anthem’s launch did not meet its expectations. This shouldn’t obviously surprise us, however this is the first time the publisher comments on the game’s sales.

Electronic Arts has ended its fiscal year with strong growth thanks to its live services business

Posted on: 08 May 2019

It’s no secret that a lot of players hate microtransactions and the “live services” that more and more games are currently implementing. However, it appears that these services are really profitable for publishers as EA has just announced that it saw a strong growth in its Forth and Final Quarter of the Fiscal Year 2018/2019 … Continue reading Electronic Arts has ended its fiscal year with strong growth thanks to its live services business →

Fallout 76 Patch 9 available for download, introduces Backpacks, Personal Vending Machines & Pioneer Scouts

Posted on: 07 May 2019

Bethesda has released a brand new update for Fallout 76. According to the release notes, patch 9 introduces backpacks that players can equip to increase their Carry Weight, and adds Pioneer Scouts to the game, allowing players to join the Order of the Tadpole.

Anthem update 1.1.1 available for download, addresses loot exploit, full patch release notes

Posted on: 07 May 2019

Bioware has released a brand new update for Anthem. According to the release notes, patch 1.1.1 fixes an exploit that allowed defeated encounters to re-dispense loot from previously defeated creatures and fixes an issue causing a slight delay in Salvaging at End of Expedition.

Resident Evil 2 Remake exceeded Capcom’s expectations, Devil May Cry 5 also performed strongly

Posted on: 07 May 2019

Capcom has released the Fiscal Report for the Forth and Final Quarter of the Fiscal Year 2018/2019 that ended March 2019. During that final quarter, Resident Evil 2 Remake saw a great success and Devil May Cry 5 also performed well. Furthermore, Monster Hunter: World, which shook up the market last year, broke 12 million … Continue reading Resident Evil 2 Remake exceeded Capcom’s expectations, Devil May Cry 5 also performed strongly →

New Reshade mod aims to bring ray tracing Global Illumination to DX9, DX10 and DX11 games

Posted on: 07 May 2019

Pascal Gilcher is currently working on a ray traced Global Illumination method for ReShade. What this ultimately means is that PC gamers will be able to enable this ray tracing Global Illumination technique in all DX9, DX10 and DX11 (something that will obviously give a visual boost to a lot of older games).

Yakuza Kiwami 2 PC Performance Analysis

Posted on: 07 May 2019

Yakuza Kiwami 2 is a game that a lot of fans have been looking forward to. Powered by the Dragon Engine, the game’s PC version was handled by QLOC so it’s time now to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform.