Ubisoft has released a new dev video for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, in which we get to discover the diversity of environments and settings the development team has implemented in the game; from varied Cities and Mayan Ruins to the vast sea and its sunken ships. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is currently scheduled for a November 1st release on PS3 and X360. The game will hit PC, Xbox One and PS4 at a later date. Enjoy! Continue reading Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Gets A New Vidoc That Focuses On Its Diverse Open World→
Our reader ‘Jonathan Gustafsson’ has informed us about a new, hilarious, mod for GTA IV that introduces a giant duck, a zebra, an ostrich and a tiger to Rockstar’s title. Naturally, there are all sorts of collision issues with these new animals, but the purpose of the mod is to provide some alternative fun experience (and it bloody as hell achieves that). As Jonathan noted, a download link for this mod – which was created by indirivacua – will be available next week, and you can view below a video from it. Enjoy! Continue reading GTA IV – “Giant Duck,Zebra,Ostrich And Tiger Animals” Mod Brings The Zoo To Rockstar’s Title→
A team of Final Fantasy fans got together and created an amazing live action trailer for an unofficial, fan-made, movie based on Final Fantasy VI. And even though the trailer looks great, we are pretty sure that Square Enix will send Bad Pixel a C&D letter. Which is precisely why the team has not started working on the full movie. Bad Pixel wants to acquire permission from Square-Enix to run a Kickstarter Campaign, however that will most probably won’t happen anytime soon. Let’s not forget that another FF movie – based on FFVII – had a Kickstarter and Square Enix took it down. Here is hoping that the Japanese studio will give the green light to Bad Pixel, though things are not looking ideal. Still, the trailer looks good so go ahead and take a look! Continue reading This Final Fantasy VI Fan-Made Movie Looks Great But May Never See The Light Of Day→
During this year’s SIGGRAPH 2013, Jonathan Dupuy, Eric Heitz, Jean-Claude Iehl, Poulin Pierre, Fabrice Neyret and Victor Ostromoukhov presented a new graphical technique that could be used in next-gen (or next-next-gen) games. This new technique called ‘Linear Efficient Antialiased Displacement and Reflectance‘ (LEADR) is a reflectance filtering technique for displacement mapped surfaces that preserves surface appearance at all scales, is compatible with tessellation and promises to be the fastest, seamless, and antialiased progressive representation for displaced surfaces. Continue reading New Linear Efficient Antialiased Displacement and Reflectance Technique Showcased→
SEGA and Sports Interactive have released a new video blog for Football Manager 2014 that focuses on the game’s match day options. Football Manager 2014 promises to be the most feature-packed and technically advanced release in Sports Interactive history, with over 1,000 new features and improvements. In addition, the game will support ‘cloud save’ technology and will also hit Linux. Enjoy! Continue reading Football Manager 2014 – Second Video Blog Focuses On Match Day Options→
Codemasters has released a new trailer for its upcoming F1 racing game, F1 2013, featuring Fernando Alsono’s hotlap at Monza. F1 2013 will feature all the cars and stars from the 2013 season, as well as a new gameplay mode called F1 Classics that will give fans the chance to race classic cars on iconic circuits against legendary drivers for the first time in this series. F1 2013 is scheduled for an October 4th release on PC, X360 and PS3. Enjoy! Continue reading F1 2013 Gets A New Trailer, Featuring Fernando Alsono At Monza→
Electronic Arts and DICE have released a new trailer for Battlefield 4, in which the teams compare a real life skyscraper collapsing with the in-game one that made everyone’s head turn in the recent live demonstrations of DICE’s upcoming shooter. Battlefield 4 promises to feature dynamic and destructible environments with epic vehicle battles and huge battlefields. The game is planned for an October 31st release on PC, X360 and PS3, and will arrive on next-gen consoles at a later date. Enjoy! Continue reading New Battlefield 4 Trailer Shows Off & Compares Real Life With In-Game Skyscraper Collapsing→
Drunken Lizard Games has released a new video update for its upcoming indie MP FPS parkour title, No Heroes. According to the team, the latest build of its game features a completely new player skeleton and all new animations for players and weapons, first person character shadows, improved transitions between animations,a redesigned menu with improved functionality, improved overall sound and volume, additional detail to the island and the ability to jump walls. Continue reading No Heroes Gets A New Video Update – Indie FPS Parkour Shooter By A Two-Man Team→
Devolver Digital has released a new trailer for Shadow Warrior, showing off some of the game’s under-appreciated features. Shadow Warrior is a reimagining of the classic 3D Realms’ shooter from independent developer Flying Wild Hog – creators of Hard Reset – starring the legendary and quick-witted warrior Lo Wang. Players will be able to combine the brute force of overwhelming firepower with the elegant precision of a katana to annihilate the merciless armies of the shadow realm in an exhilarating and visually stunning transformation of the classic first-person shooter. Enjoy! Continue reading New Shadow Warrior Trailer Shows Off Under-Appreciated Features→
Our dear friends over at PCGamesHardware have created an interesting comparison between the alpha and the retail version of Total War: Rome II. As we can clearly see, the alpha version had a specific color grading effect that is missing from the retail version. Not only that, but the whole lighting system seems better in the alpha version. To be honest, the retail version feels a bit bland in some scenes, so we don’t know what had gone wrong with it. HDR and bloom effects also seem better enhanced in the alpha version. Moreover, it comes as no surprise that the first set of screenshots for Rome 2 were bullcraps (in short, photoshopped) and nothing more. Enjoy the video below! Continue reading Total War: Rome 2 – Alpha versus Retail Video Comparison→
