Posts by John Papadopoulos:

MMORPG Swords of Legends Online releases on July 9th

Posted on: 25 Jun 2021

Gameforge, Wangyuan Shengtang and Aurogon announced that their massively multiplayer online role-playing action game, Swords of Legends Online, will launch on July 9th. In order to celebrate this, the publisher released a new trailer that you can find below.

This mod removes mouse acceleration from Mass Effect 1 Remaster

Posted on: 25 Jun 2021

HenBagle has released a mod that aims to completely remove mouse acceleration from the first Mass Effect Remaster. Thus, you can use this mod only for Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and not for the original/vanilla version.

Unreal Engine 5 Nanite & Lumen Photorealistic Forest running on RTX 3070

Posted on: 25 Jun 2021

Melhem Sfeir has shared a video, showcasing a photorealistic tropical forest in Unreal Engine 5. This fan tech demo runs in real-time on an RTX 3070, and uses both UE5’s Nanite and Lumen techs.

New Star Citizen video showcases the major features of Alpha 3.14

Posted on: 25 Jun 2021

Cloud Imperium has released a new official video for Star Citizen in which it showcases all of the major features coming soon to Alpha 3.14.

Ubisoft and MGM take down the GoldenEye 64 fan remake maps from Far Cry 5

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

Earlier this month, modder Krollywood remade and released all the maps from GoldenEye 64 in Far Cry 5 Arcade. Krollywood only used assets from Far Cry 5 in order to remake these maps so, theoretically, he did not violate any rules for modding Far Cry 5. However, Ubisoft and MGM have decided to take down … Continue reading Ubisoft and MGM take down the GoldenEye 64 fan remake maps from Far Cry 5 →

Borderlands 3 Crossplay Update released, full patch notes revealed

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

Gearbox has released a brand new update for Borderlands 3 that enables crossplay between consoles and PC. Thanks to this update, players on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Mac, Stadia, and PC can play together.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will support Ray Tracing Global Illumination & Reflections

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

Ubisoft has released a new tech showcase video for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora that highlights some of the graphical features of the Snowdrop Engine. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a first-person, action-adventure game that will target next-gen platforms only.

Microsoft DirectStorage will be exclusive to Windows 11, won’t come to Win10

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

As I wrote in our previous Windows 11 story, Microsoft announced that DirectStorage will be now exclusive to this new operating system. Since this is a hot topic, I believe it deserves its own article. After all, a lot of outlets and Microsoft itself have already overhyped this feature.

Call of Duty Warzone June 24th Update is available and here are its patch notes

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

Raven Software has released the June 24th update for Call of Duty Warzone. According to the team, this new update adds a new limited-time event, called Ground Fall. This event will only last a couple of hours as it will end later today at 10AM PST / 7PM CEST.

Microsoft officially announced Windows 11, first details about PC gaming

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

After a major leak that occurred last week, Microsoft has officially announced Windows 11. According to the team, the big focus for Windows 11 is a simplification of the Windows user interface, a new Windows store, as well as improvements to performance and multitasking.