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BioWare is looking into Star Wars: The Old Republic’s performance issues

Great news for all SWTOR fans, as BioWare has stated that they are investigating the game’s performance issues that were reported by their users. According to BioWare’s Associate Online Community Manager, Joveth Gonzalez, the team is ‘currently investigating this issue‘ based off of the information that were provided by the game’s members. Because this issue can be attributed to various factors, BioWare is currently investigating all possibilities, so this might take a little while before it get’s resolved. Continue reading BioWare is looking into Star Wars: The Old Republic’s performance issues

Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [January 1st- 7th]

Now that’s really surprising. The latest UK PC retail charts have just been issued and to our surprise, there is no change at all with the previous ones. As you may remember, some although the Top 10 PC retail chart was the same several weeks ago, there was a subtle change in various positions as some games gained places, while others lost. However, this is not the case this time as the first week of 2012 is the same, in every way, with the last one of 2011. Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [January 1st- 7th]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Official PC System Requirements

38 Studios revealed this weekend the official PC system requirements for their upcoming action RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. According to the developers, PC gamers will need – at least – an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or an ATI Radeon HD3650 512MB GPU. As you may have expected from a multi-platform title, it will only support DX9.0c and an internet connection will be required for the product activation/registration. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is currently slated for a February 10th release and you can view the game’s PC system requirements after the jump. Continue reading Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Official PC System Requirements

Capcom hints at a Street Figter x Tekken surprise this Friday

Great news for Street Figter x Tekken fans, as Yoshinori Ono tweeted that Capcom will be live-streaming SFxT on January 13th. Great news, right? Well, here is something even more interesting. According to Ono, a new feature will be unveiled in this live-streaming. What that new feature could actually be? Well, we’ll find out in a few days. Continue reading Capcom hints at a Street Figter x Tekken surprise this Friday

DICE’s Daniel Matros reveals: a lot of cheaters have been dealt with; details for upcoming patch coming soon

It’s a known fact that cheaters have been abusing Battlefield 3, and let us tell you that they are a lot of them. It’s good if you haven’t encountered anyone, but from our experience, each and every server has one of them these last days. Thankfully, DICE is already punishing them and Daniel Matros, DICE’s Community Manager, revealed that DICE will eventually give out accurate numbers about this whole thing. Continue reading DICE’s Daniel Matros reveals: a lot of cheaters have been dealt with; details for upcoming patch coming soon

PC gamers, meet Nyrthos; an upcoming indie 2D action RPG

BeerDeer Games officially announced its first game, Nyrthos, that will be an action RPG for web browsers, Anroid and iOS. Nyrthos is built on an in-house engine, in 2D, seen from an isometric view and it’s closed beta is scheduled to Q1 of 2012. Oh, and did we mention that Nyrthos looks really cool and has a Diablo II feel to it? Although we don’t know if it will be as good as Blizzard’s offer, we seriously prefer this game’s art style over Diablo III’s cartoonish look. Continue reading PC gamers, meet Nyrthos; an upcoming indie 2D action RPG

Overgrowth Alpha 164 Changes

Wolfire Games released a new video, in which David Rosen shows off the changes that were made to the latest alpha version of Overgrowth. This week, Rosen added the ability to climb ledges while holding light weapons, while characters don’t drop weapons when switching AI/player control. In addition, jumping through plants causes ragdoll if greater than speed threshold and Joysticks are enabled only when their input changes. Enjoy the video bellow! Continue reading Overgrowth Alpha 164 Changes

Star Marine: Infinite Ammo looks retro-sexy and comes out in January 12th on iOS devices

You know what? Sometimes, I’m really jealous of the iOS devices. Why you ask? But because they get so many cool retro games that are pretty much must-have for every retro fan. And while watching Star Marine: Infinite Ammo’s trailer, I couldn’t help but think how similar it looked with all those amazing run’n’gun SNES platformers, like Contra, Jurassic Park 2, Power Rangers and Super Turrican. Man, I really miss those days. But anyway, Star Marine: Infinite Ammo looks similar, which is a plus in our books. Continue reading Star Marine: Infinite Ammo looks retro-sexy and comes out in January 12th on iOS devices

Blizzard’s Bashiok puts all Diablo III’s release date rumors to rest

You’ve most probably heard that Diablo III could hit the stores in early February, right? Well, those were just rumors and speculations and nothing more. According to Blizzard’s Community Manager, Bashiok, Diablo III does not have any release date as of yet. More importantly though is that Bashiok tweeted that all the stores that have a specific release date are guessing at best. Continue reading Blizzard’s Bashiok puts all Diablo III’s release date rumors to rest

Alan Wake PC FAQ possibly coming this week; definitely next week

We are all dying to hear more news about the PC version of Alan Wake, right? Well, we might have to wait a little bit longer, as Remedy’s Community Manager, Peter Papadopoulos, revealed that the PC FAQ for Alan Wake will most likely be released this week. As Peter revealed, a meeting will be scheduled with Ozz this week and they’ll try to knock out most of the FAQ. This basically means that the FAQ could be ready either this or next week. Continue reading Alan Wake PC FAQ possibly coming this week; definitely next week