Star Wars Battlefront 2 Update 2.0 detailed, adds pre-compilation of DX12 shaders to reduce stuttering

Electronic Arts and DICE have released a new major update for Star Wars Battlefront 2. As promised, this patch makes a lot of changes to its progression system. Star Cards, or any other item impacting gameplay, will only be earned through gameplay and will not be available for purchase. Continue reading Star Wars Battlefront 2 Update 2.0 detailed, adds pre-compilation of DX12 shaders to reduce stuttering

World of Tanks has surpassed 160 million registered players, Update 1.0 is now available

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

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