Posts by John Papadopoulos:

Serious Sam HD: TSE and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action get new patches

Posted on: 15 May 2012

Coreplay and Croteam have released new updates for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. In preparation of the upcoming DLC, Croteam had added a FOV slider to graphics options menu and made various improvements and corrections to Serious Sam HD: TSE. Coreplay on the other hand added DLC support (DLC … Continue reading Serious Sam HD: TSE and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action get new patches →

Diablo III – All Cut-Scene Cinematics

Posted on: 14 May 2012

The gates of Diablo III will open in a couple of hours and here we are now with all the cut-scene cinematics from the game. Naturally, some of them contain spoilers so avoid them if you don’t want to spoil the fun. As we can see, there is the intro cinematic, three more cinematics and … Continue reading Diablo III – All Cut-Scene Cinematics →

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Alpha – Live Action Short Film Released

Posted on: 14 May 2012

Ubisoft has released the 25-minutes live action short film that is inspired by and serves as a prequel to the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier game.  Players should watch carefully, as – somewhere in the movie – there is a code that will unlock exclusive weapons for use in Future Soldier. Ghost Recon Alpha invites players into the … Continue reading Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Alpha – Live Action Short Film Released →

Beamdog’s Trent Oster teases two new adventure games

Posted on: 14 May 2012

Beamdog seems hard at work lately and Trent Oster has revealed that the company has two new adventure games in store for us. A couple of days ago, Oster said that they’ve done some placeholder voice overs for characters in a new adventure that is currently in works and will be temporary called as Adventure X.

Dreadline Announced; an action RPG/RTS hybrid by former System Shock 2 and Bioshock developers

Posted on: 14 May 2012

Eerie Canal Entertainment has announced a new action RPG/RTS hybrid that is being created by former System Shock 2, Bioshock, Titan Quest, Guitar Hero 2 and Freedom Force 2 developers. Dreadline will be a fast paced action RPG/RTS hybrid where you control a team of monsters, equipped with a time machine, who visit human calamities to … Continue reading Dreadline Announced; an action RPG/RTS hybrid by former System Shock 2 and Bioshock developers →

This is why we need more than 2GB vRAM in our graphics cards

Posted on: 14 May 2012

You know what? Specular and diffuse maps are perhaps the cleverest things we’ve ever seen in the gaming industry. In case you were unaware of, specular and diffuse maps are usely applied when light is being casted on various textures. Ironically, they are also those that have kept us behind this whole time, as most developers use detailed … Continue reading This is why we need more than 2GB vRAM in our graphics cards →

Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Final Fantasy XIII-2 saved Square Enix’s Fiscal Year 2012

Posted on: 14 May 2012

Square Enix revealed today its FY12 Financial Results and according to the report, Square Enix’s Digital Entertainment division was boosted by some incredible sales figures for both Deus Ex and Final Fantasy XIII-2. As of September last year, Deus Ex had sold more than 2.18 million copies across all territories after releasing in August. We … Continue reading Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Final Fantasy XIII-2 saved Square Enix’s Fiscal Year 2012 →

EVE Online: Inferno (Free Expansion) Launches on May 22th

Posted on: 14 May 2012

CCP Games have unveiled that the 17th free expansion for its award-winning game EVE Online, called Inferno, will be launched on May 22nd. More than any other expansion in EVE’s history, Inferno aims to shake up all levels of warfare in the over 7,500 solar systems in EVE’s massive universe. Overhauls of major war-related game systems will affect … Continue reading EVE Online: Inferno (Free Expansion) Launches on May 22th →

Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [May 6th – 12th]

Posted on: 14 May 2012

The latest UK PC Retail and Steam Digital charts have been revealed and as we can see, Football Manager 2012 and Portal 2 are at the top places. The UK PC Retail chart is almost the same with the one of last week, so there isn’t really anything to say. TERA has lost one place, while The … Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [May 6th – 12th] →

Tomb Raider delayed to 2013

Posted on: 14 May 2012

And another one bites the dust. Crystal Dynamics have unveiled – a couple of hours ago – the the highly anticipated reboot of Tomb Raider will be pushed back to 2013. According to Darrell Gallagher, Head of Studio at Crystal Dynamics, when Crystal Dynamics first set out to reboot the Tomb Raider franchise, there were … Continue reading Tomb Raider delayed to 2013 →