Kotaku has published today an interesting opinion piece by Katie Williams. Katie attended this year’s E3 and faced a sexist attitude towards her from various PR representatives. Although Katie did not reveal which studios were the ones that had that attitude towards her, she described a game in which she encountered – perhaps for the first time during E3 – that sexist attitude and it seems that this game is no other than Bohemia’s Interactive military FPS, ArmA III. Continue reading ArmA III’s E3 PR representative accused of being sexist against Kotaku’s Katie Williams→
Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, is excited to announce Unity 4, the next generation of the Unity development platform. The launch of Unity 4 demonstrates the platform’s AAA push that levels the playing field between the largest and the smallest studios, enabling anyone from the most indie game designer to the biggest multinational AAA studios to develop amazing groundbreaking games, and effortlessly deploy to multiple platforms. Customers who pre-order Unity 4 will be offered early access to the Unity 4 beta. Continue reading The Next Generation of the Unity Game Engine Unveiled→
Nvidia has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. These new drivers come with increased performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs. In addition, Nvidia has included new SLI and 3D profiles for most recent games, and we highly recommend them if you’re planning on playing Spec Ops: The Line. So, SLI owners can enjoy updated and new profiles for Spec Ops: The Line, PlanetSide 2, F1 2011, Final Fantasy XIV, Saints Row: The Third, Torchlight II and Tribes: Ascend. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce 304.48 Beta Drivers Released; GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs Performance Increases→
Electronic Arts and Visceral Games have released a 20 minutes gameplay footage of Dead Space 3. Narrated by Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis, you’ll get an in-depth look at how Isaac and his partner Carver will work their way through the frozen planet of Tau Volantis. This length video shows new environments, co-op mechanics, weapons, enemies, and boss fights. Enjoy! Continue reading Dead Space 3 – 20 Minutes Gameplay Footage→
THQ has released a live-action trailer for Darksiders 2. Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen, embarks upon a quest to restore mankind, and redeem his brother’s name. Along the way, the Horseman discovers that there are far worse things than an earthly Apocalypse, and that an ancient grudge may threaten all of Creation. Darksiders 2 is currently slated for an August 21st release on current generation consoles and PC. Enjoy! Continue reading Darksiders 2 – Last Sermon Live Action Trailer→
The UK PC Retail and Steam Digital charts have been revealed and as we can see, Diablo III and ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead are at the top places. As usual, the UK PC retail charts are, somewhat, similar to last week’s. Max Payne 3 lost three places, whereas Shogun 2: Total War Fall of the Samurai and Battlefield 3 gained one and three places, respectively. Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [June 10th – 16th]→
After Cevat Yerli’s statements, it’s time for Epic to heat things up. Instead of bashing the other engines though, Mark Rein, Vice President and Co-Founder of Epic Games, concentrated on their own engine and claimed it to be their best engine yet. Not only that, but Rein re-confirmed that the engine will scale down on all other devices and stated that it will be ‘rocking up and down the entire scale of next gen devices‘. Continue reading Mark Rein: We are really excited about next-generation, Unreal Engine 4 will be our best engine→
Perfect World Entertainment and Zombie Studios announced that their free-to-play FPS, Blacklight: Retribution, will hit Steam and will be packed with both Steam Achievements and Stats. Although the companies have not announced any release date yet, we can expect it to hit Valve’s distribution service ‘soon’. Let’s hope that Zombie Studios’ soon timeframe is not the same with Valve’s. Continue reading Blacklight: Retribution comes to Steam with Achievements and Stats→
It’s been almost a week since the release of Wolfram, the freeware remake of Wolfenstein 3D, and more than 10K people have downloaded it. That’s really amazing and we bet that Chain Studios was really impressed with that number. In addition, the indie studio has released a new update for Wolfram that fixes various issues, crashes and rebalances the game a bit. Continue reading More than 10.000 people have downloaded the freeware remake of Wolfenstein 3D; New Update Released→
