Wargaming has announced that World of Tanks has passed 160 million registered players, and that its major update 1.0 is now available, unleashing Wargaming’s high-end Core graphics engine exclusively for PC players. The biggest ever update to the game takes tank combat to new heights with improved visuals, 29 completely reworked battlefields, a new soundtrack, and the new Glacier map. Continue reading World of Tanks has surpassed 160 million registered players, Update 1.0 is now available
Futuremark shows accurate reflections with DXR, first raytracing tech demo coming at the end of 2018
Futuremark has shared with us some GIFs, showing some of the visual improvements that are coming with real-time raytracing. According to the team, real-time raytracing can render accurate real-time reflections of dynamic objects, can produce reflections of objects that exist outside the main camera view, can produce accurate, perspective-correct reflections on all surfaces in real-time, and they can make other surfaces (than mirrors) look more realistic too. Continue reading Futuremark shows accurate reflections with DXR, first raytracing tech demo coming at the end of 2018
NVIDIA GeForce 391.24 WHQL driver is available, optimized for Sea of Thieves
NVIDIA has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 391.01 WHQL driver is optimized for Sea of Thieves. In addition, this driver fixes an issue that prevented the NVIDIA Freestyle being enabled for supported games and some display flickers continuously after disabling and enabling the GPU using Device Manager, or when rebooting the system in Volta GPUs. Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce 391.24 WHQL driver is available, optimized for Sea of Thieves
Attack on Titan 2 is easily the best KOEI Tecmo game on the PC
Attack on Titan 2 has just been released on the PC and we are happy to report that this is THE BEST Koei Tecmo game on Steam. To be honest, after Dynasty Warriors 9 we were a bit worried about the state of the next KOEI Tecmo PC game. However, Attack on Titan 2 actually ‘feels‘ like a PC game. Continue reading Attack on Titan 2 is easily the best KOEI Tecmo game on the PC
The spiritual successor to Rollcage, GRIP, will release later this year
Wired Productions has announced that GRIP – the ferociously fast, futuristic combat racer – is set to arrive on PC via Steam in 2018. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team released a new trailer for its racing game that you can view below. Continue reading The spiritual successor to Rollcage, GRIP, will release later this year
Agony has been delayed
Madmind Studio’s first-person survival horror game that is powered by Unreal Engine 4, Agony, was meant to hit Steam on March 30th. However, the team has announced that the game has been delayed, and there is no ETA on when it will come out. Continue reading Agony has been delayed
CD Projekt RED opens new Wroclaw studio to help with the development of Cyberpunk 2077
CD PROJEKT RED, developers of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher and GWENT, announced that it will open a new division — CD PROJEKT RED Wroclaw. Located in the city of Wroclaw, south-western Poland, the new studio will join forces with CD PROJEKT RED Warsaw and Cracow, and bolster development of Cyberpunk 2077 — the upcoming futuristic AAA role-playing game. Continue reading CD Projekt RED opens new Wroclaw studio to help with the development of Cyberpunk 2077
Third-party GPU manufacturers have removed the ‘gaming’ brand label from their AMD graphics cards
Earlier this month, HardOCP published a really interesting story about NVIDIA’s GPP program. According to HardOCP’s sources, this program prohibited – among other things – third-party GPU manufacturers to use their gaming brand label on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. And even though some claimed that this was merely a rumour, today we’ve discovered some third-party manufacturers – that create GPUs for both companies – who have already removed their gaming brand label from their AMD graphics cards. Continue reading Third-party GPU manufacturers have removed the ‘gaming’ brand label from their AMD graphics cards
Real-time raytracing is a next-next-gen feature, Seed Tech Demo ran on three NVIDIA Titan V
We here at DSOGaming have been closely following ray/path tracing rendering techniques in engines. After all, back in 2012, we informed you about the Brigade 2 Engine and claimed that ray/path tracing will be the future. And while we haven’t seen any game using real-time ray tracing since then, NVIDIA and Microsoft announced yesterday a collaboration in order to add support for such a thing in the DirectX API. Continue reading Real-time raytracing is a next-next-gen feature, Seed Tech Demo ran on three NVIDIA Titan V
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has sold more copies on the PC than its predecessor on all platforms
It appears that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is a hit for Fatshark. According to its CEO, Martin Wahlund, the game has sold more copies on the PC than its predecessor on all platforms. In other words, in just two weeks, the team has managed to outsell the lifetime revenue of the original Vermintide. Continue reading Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has sold more copies on the PC than its predecessor on all platforms