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Major Titles from the Saints Row, Metro, & Darksiders Series Available on GOG & Completely DRM-Free

GOG.com – in cooperation with Deep Silver and Nordic Games – announced today a batch of five major releases, completely DRM-free for the very first time. According to the press release, the releases get rolling with five celebratory discounts up to 75% off until May 18th and include games from the Saints Row, Metro and Darksiders series. Continue reading Major Titles from the Saints Row, Metro, & Darksiders Series Available on GOG & Completely DRM-Free

Unreal Engine 4-powered 4X Space RTS “Starfall Tactics” Gets Kickstarter Campaign

Snowforged Entertainment has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its new 4X space RTS, Starfall Tactics. Starfall Tactics will be free to download and play, and it follows the Hearthstone model with booster packs as microtransactions. The team aims to raise $45K with its Kickstarter campaign and has 33 days in order to meet this goal. Continue reading Unreal Engine 4-powered 4X Space RTS “Starfall Tactics” Gets Kickstarter Campaign

CRYENGINE-powered Action RPG, Umbra, Gets New Screenshots & Gameplay Trailer

SolarFall Games have released a gameplay mechanics video as well as some new screenshots, for their forthcoming title, Umbra – an action RPG, powered by CryEngine3. The video gives a taste of the game ahead of the imminent launch of their Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading CRYENGINE-powered Action RPG, Umbra, Gets New Screenshots & Gameplay Trailer

Massive Entertainment & Ubisoft Annecy Join Forces, Four Studios Now Working on the Division

Ubisoft announced today that Ubisoft Annecy and Massive Entertainment have joined forces in order to create Tom Clancy’s The Division. Ubisoft Annecy is the fourth studio that is currently working on The Division. The other three are; Massive Entertainment, Red Storm and Reflections. Continue reading Massive Entertainment & Ubisoft Annecy Join Forces, Four Studios Now Working on the Division

Pillars of Eternity – Patch 1.05 Now Available on Steam, Changelog Revealed

Obsidian Entertainment has released a new patch for the Steam version of Pillars of Eternity. This patch contains lots of fixes and improvements, and will be coming to GoG and Origin within the next few days. Obsidian has also revealed the changelog for this update, so take a deep breath and read it after the jump. Continue reading Pillars of Eternity – Patch 1.05 Now Available on Steam, Changelog Revealed

Valiant: Resurrection – Yet Another 16-bit JRPG – Now Available on Steam

Aldorlea Games announced that its 16-bit JRPG, Valiant: Resurrection, releases today on Steam. As the press release reads, this is the twelfth game released on Steam by Aldorlea Games after ‘The Book of Legends’, ‘3 Stars of Destiny’, the full (5 episodes) ‘Millennium’ series, ‘Dreamscape’, ‘Undefeated’, ‘Asguaard’ and ‘Vagrant Hearts’. Continue reading Valiant: Resurrection – Yet Another 16-bit JRPG – Now Available on Steam

Ubisoft Montreal Knew That AC: Unity Was Not Ready, Always-Online Had Huge Impact on Performance

Reddit’s member ‘w3r3w0lv33‘ was granted a wish by the Make A Wish Foundation, in order to visit Ubisoft Montreal. That wish was recently fulfilled and w3r3w0lv33 shared some information about the state of Unity at its time of release. Continue reading Ubisoft Montreal Knew That AC: Unity Was Not Ready, Always-Online Had Huge Impact on Performance

Slightly Mad Studios’ Boss: “NVIDIA have not paid us a penny”, AMD Working To Fix Performance Issues

Project CARS has just been released, and a lot of AMD owners have reported performance issues, even when using red team’s high-end GPUs. Naturally, some may have thought that this is may be caused by NVIDIA, however Ian Bell, head of Slightly Mad Studios, claimed that NVIDIA has not paid Slightly Mad Studios a penny in order to intentionally cripple the game’s performance on AMD’s graphics cards. In short, this underwhelming performance is not due to NVIDIA’s “grand scheme.” Continue reading Slightly Mad Studios’ Boss: “NVIDIA have not paid us a penny”, AMD Working To Fix Performance Issues

New Assassin’s Creed Game to Be Announced on May 12th

Ubisoft has just announced that it will reveal a new Assassin’s Creed game on May 12th. And as you may have guessed, Ubisoft released a teaser trailer for this announcement. Funny thing is that the tessellation patch for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Unity is nowhere to be found. Not only that, but there haven’t been any major updates for that particular version these past few months. You can view the teaser trailer below. Continue reading New Assassin’s Creed Game to Be Announced on May 12th