Posts by John Papadopoulos:

The first mod for Final Fantasy XV improves loading times, stuttering and HD texture streaming

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

Modder ‘Kaldaien’, best known for his incredible FAR mod for NieR: Automata, has released the first mod for Final Fantasy XV. This Special-K mini-mod improves performance, as well as loading times and texture streaming when using the High-Resolution texture pack.

343 Industries on Halo The Master Chief Collection on the PC: “we’ve heard you loud and clear”

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

In a new status update about Halo: The Master Chief Collection, 343 Industries’ community manager revealed that the team is aware of the huge demand for a PC version. And while 343 Industries does not have any official plans to announce at this time, it stated that it has heard PC gamers loud and clear.

After more than 13 years, Advent Rising receives a new update on the PC

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

Advent Rising is an action-adventure third-person shooter that was originally released in 2005. And after more than ten whole years – to be precise after 13 years – Majesco released a brand new update for it on Steam.

First gaming benchmarks, specifications and prices for AMD’s 2nd generation Ryzen CPUs

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

Spanish website ElChapuzasInformatico has leaked the official slides for AMD’s 2nd generation Ryzen CPUs, revealing the specs, prices and first gaming benchmarks. As we can see below, AMD will be offering six new CPUs which are: Ryzen 3 2200G, Ryzen 5 2400G, Ryzen 5 2600, Ryzen 5 2600X, Ryzen 7 2700 and Ryzen 7 2700X.

First episode for narrative adventure game The Council releases on March 13th

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

Back in December 2017, Focus Home Interactive announced a new narrative adventure game, called The Council. The first episode for The Council was originally meant to hit Steam in February 2018, however it was slightly delayed. And today, the publisher revealed that this first episode will be released on March 13th.

Noir horror adventure The Piano releases this Spring on the PC

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

Mistaken Visions and Game If You Are have announced a new partnership to launch ambitious indie game The Piano this Spring. The Piano promises to fuse traditional survival horror with noir-style murder mystery to create an unsettling and riveting indie adventure.

Where is our PC Performance Analysis for Final Fantasy XV?

Posted on: 08 Mar 2018

Final Fantasy XV is now available and while Square Enix has already provided us with a review code, we’ll slightly delay our PC Performance Analysis. The reason behind this delay is quite simple. Final Fantasy XV is an open-world RPG that taxes both the CPU and the GPU. As such, we’ve decided to invest first … Continue reading Where is our PC Performance Analysis for Final Fantasy XV? →

Vulkan 1.1 is now available to all developers, sporting developer-requested features

Posted on: 07 Mar 2018

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, announced today the release of the Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3 specifications. Version 1.1 expands Vulkan’s core functionality with developer-requested features, such as subgroup operations, while integrating a wide range of proven extensions from Vulkan 1.0. Khronos will also … Continue reading Vulkan 1.1 is now available to all developers, sporting developer-requested features →

Devil May Cry HD Collection appears to have some tech issues

Posted on: 07 Mar 2018

While Devil May Cry HD Collection releases on March 13th, Twitch Prime members were able to get their hands on the first Devil May Cry HD Remaster. And according to some early reports, there are some minor technical issues with this upcoming collection.

Someone is remaking the cancelled Playstation port of Unreal, demo available for download

Posted on: 07 Mar 2018

Man, I really love this kind of projects. Modder ‘Leo(T.C.K.)’ is currently working on a rework/remake of the Playstation port of Unreal that was being developed by Pterodactyl Software. This Playstation port had exclusive content and the about 75% of the content has been recovered.