Posts by John Papadopoulos:

Nitrous Engine Announced – 64-Bit Next-Generation Multicore Engine To Power Strategy Titles

Posted on: 23 Oct 2013

Oxide Games, new studio formed by Firaxis and Microsoft ex-employees announced the definitive 3D engine for next-generation strategy games for console and PC. The engine, Nitrous, is a native 64-bit multicore game engine designed specifically for the hardware now common in PCs as well as PS4 and Xbox One.

AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA3 Drivers Leaked

Posted on: 23 Oct 2013

A new set of beta drivers for AMD’s graphics cards has been leaked onto the Internet. Although there is no release notes at this moment, AMD users claim to have gained better performance in a number of benchmarking tools. Moreover, this driver seems to be working fine, meaning you won’t brick your GPUs if you … Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA3 Drivers Leaked →

DICE Claims That 15+ Titles, Powered By Frostbite, Will Support Mantle – Hints At Unannounced Games

Posted on: 23 Oct 2013

Now this is interesting. We all know that DICE will implement Mantle in Battlefield 4 as a means to test waters and see what benefits this new API will bring to the table. What we did not know, though, is that there are currently 15+ titles that will benefit from the implementation of Mantle in … Continue reading DICE Claims That 15+ Titles, Powered By Frostbite, Will Support Mantle – Hints At Unannounced Games →

There Is Nothing Stopping This Space Train – Star Citizen Surpasses $24 Million

Posted on: 23 Oct 2013

Okay everyone, there is nothing stopping this crowd-funding campaign. After hitting its $20 million, a lot of people thought that Star Citizen’s crowd-funding campaign would come to a stop. Ha, guess again. Star Citizen has just surpassed its $24 million goal, and it’s still going strong. We won’t be surprised if this title breaks all … Continue reading There Is Nothing Stopping This Space Train – Star Citizen Surpasses $24 Million →

The History of Rally Games

Posted on: 23 Oct 2013

YouTube’s member ‘nfsking2000’ has created an interesting tribute to rally games, in which we get to see the actual evolution of this genre from its MS-DOS days to its current-gen ones. The only downside we found in this video is that some games were not captured on max settings or the captured video does not … Continue reading The History of Rally Games →

Star Citizen – Official Anvil Aerospace Hornet TV Commercial

Posted on: 22 Oct 2013

And here is another video for yet another game. Roberts Space Industries has released a new TV commercial video for its upcoming space combat title, Star Citizen, featuring some new gameplay footage scenes. Star Citizen is currently planned for a late 2014 release and is powered by CRYENGINE. The game has raised over $23 million … Continue reading Star Citizen – Official Anvil Aerospace Hornet TV Commercial →

The Sims 4 To Be Released In Autumn 2014

Posted on: 22 Oct 2013

Electronic Arts today announced that The Sims 4 will be shipping in autumn 2014 worldwide. In development at Maxis’ The Sims Studio, The Sims 4 brings all new ways to play with life; powerful new creative tools, all-new Sims with enhanced emotion and intelligence, and a gaming experience where players control the mind, body and … Continue reading The Sims 4 To Be Released In Autumn 2014 →

TitanFall To Be Released On March 11th

Posted on: 22 Oct 2013

Electronic Arts announced today that Titanfall, the debut game from acclaimed independent videogame developer Respawn Entertainment, will be landing on store shelves beginning March 11, 2014 in North America and March 14 in Europe on Xbox One, PC and X360. Crafted by one of the co-creators of Call of Duty and other key designers behind … Continue reading TitanFall To Be Released On March 11th →

Battlefield 4 – Official Single Player Story Trailer

Posted on: 22 Oct 2013

Yesterday, Activision officially released the launch trailer of Call of Duty: Ghosts. So guess what Electronic Arts decided to do. That’s right. The big publisher has unveiled the single player story trailer of Battlefield 4 in order to steal COD’s thunder. Okay okay, Activision tried to steal BF4’s thunder in the first place by releasing … Continue reading Battlefield 4 – Official Single Player Story Trailer →

Nvidia’s Tom Petersen: We don’t expect G-Sync to work with other GPUs anytime soon

Posted on: 22 Oct 2013

Nvidia’s G-Sync technology seems to be the next big thing according to both reporters and developers that attended the green team’s recent Montreal event. However, it seems that customers will have to rely solely on Nvidia’s GPUs in order to enjoy this new tech, as G-Sync won’t work with other GPUs in the foreseeable future.