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John Carmack’s First Reactions To Sony’s VR: PS4 Great Platform, Don’t Get Your Expectations Too High

Yesterday, Sony revealed its VR device for PS4 called Project Morpheus. Naturally, we’ve been waiting to see what Oculus Rift’s reactions would be to that announcement and today John Carmack shared his first thoughts about it. Continue reading John Carmack’s First Reactions To Sony’s VR: PS4 Great Platform, Don’t Get Your Expectations Too High

From Software Responds And Gives The Dumbest PR Statement About Dark Souls 2’s “Downgrade-ation”

Well, deep inside we all knew that both From Software and Namco Bandai would give us the dumbest PR statements about Dark Souls 2’s “downgrade-ation”. And alas today, From Software told MCV the reasons why the final build of Dark Souls 2 looks worse than its early builds. Before continuing, we strongly suggest grabbing some popcorn because this is going to be gooooood. Continue reading From Software Responds And Gives The Dumbest PR Statement About Dark Souls 2’s “Downgrade-ation”

Paradox Interactive Will Distribute Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity

Paradox Interactive has announced that it has signed a deal with Obsidian Entertainment to market and distribute Pillars of Eternity worldwide. Now I know, most of you will damn Obsidian for doing something like that after a successful Kickstarter campaign but according to both sides, Obsidian is the one driving this car. Continue reading Paradox Interactive Will Distribute Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity

Thief Update V1.3 Released, Adds Mantle & TrueAudio Support, Brings Various Optimizations

Square Enix, EIDOS Montreal and Nixxes Software have released the highly anticipated patch for THIEF that adds support for AMD’s Mantle API and AMD’s TrueAudio. As usual, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Thief Update V1.3 Released, Adds Mantle & TrueAudio Support, Brings Various Optimizations

Epic Games Is Working On A New IP, First Concept Art Revealed, Has Nothing To Do With The Samaritan Tech Demo

Polygon revealed today that Epic Games is currently working on an unannounced title that will most probably be powered by Unreal Engine 4. In addition, Polygon shared a concept art from what seems to be a character from that unannounced title. Continue reading Epic Games Is Working On A New IP, First Concept Art Revealed, Has Nothing To Do With The Samaritan Tech Demo

AMD Catalyst 14.3 Beta V1.0 Driver Released, Adds THIEF Mantle & TrueAudio Support

AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to its changelog, this new driver adds support for AMD Mantle and AMD True Audio in THIEF, and improves stuttering observed in CrossFire mode. Obviously, you will also need THIEF’s latest update (that will release later today) in order to run the game via the Mantle API. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 14.3 Beta V1.0 Driver Released, Adds THIEF Mantle & TrueAudio Support

CD Projekt RED Details The Witcher 3’s Delay, Main Storyline Complete, REDengine 3 Optimizations

During its financial report, CD Projekt RED unveiled the main reasons behind The Witcher 3’s delay. According to the company, the development team is currently further optimizing REDengine3 and is still working on improving the quality of graphic assets, animations, effects and sounds. Continue reading CD Projekt RED Details The Witcher 3’s Delay, Main Storyline Complete, REDengine 3 Optimizations

SimCity Offline Mode Is Now Available

Well, it took EA and Maxis a while but thankfully the offline update for SimCity has just been released. According to EA’s page, servers are currently closed to all players and the deployment of the game’s latest update has started. In other words, in a couple of minutes you will be able to download Update 10 and enjoy the title in offline mode. Continue reading SimCity Offline Mode Is Now Available