Elite: Dangerous – Premium Beta Kicks Off, Full Premium Beta Phase Starts May 30th

Frontier today announced the delivery date of the next milestone in the development of its forth-coming Elite: Dangerous game. According to the press release, the Premium Beta effectively starts today, with Premium Beta players able to download a single player combat build of the game. Continue reading Elite: Dangerous – Premium Beta Kicks Off, Full Premium Beta Phase Starts May 30th

Microsoft Releases Video Showing Why The Cloud Is Important For Games With Lots Of Physics Effects

Microsoft has released a new video, showing the importance of the cloud in games that are packing a lot of physics effects. This tech demo was showed off at Build 2014 during Steve Guggenheimer’s keynote. In this video, one side is a single computer doing all of the physics calculations real time by itself, the other is a computer taking advantage of remote destruction servers doing those calculations. As noted by Microsoft, this is real-time physics and lighting calculations and not scripted. It looks amazing, though we’d love to know the specs of the PC that was running those physics effects locally. Enjoy! Continue reading Microsoft Releases Video Showing Why The Cloud Is Important For Games With Lots Of Physics Effects

Dragon Age: Inquisition – Two New In-Engine Screenshots Released

Electronic Arts and Bioware have released two additional screenshots for Dragon Age: Inquisition. These new images show off the game’s Exalted Plains of the Dale environment that players will be able to explore. Dragon Age: Inquisition is powered by Frostbite 3 and will be coming on PC, as well as old-gen and current-gen consoles. Enjoy! Continue reading Dragon Age: Inquisition – Two New In-Engine Screenshots Released

Watch_Dogs Gets New Trailer Focused On Consoles, Will Use Full Capabilities Of Both Xbox One & PS4

What is that? A story that mentions consoles on its title? What blasphemy is this? What happened to DSOG? Aside kidding, PCGamesHardware has released the proper trailer of Watch_Dogs that is based on that video that was released earlier this month (you know, the one tagged as PC trailer that drove everyone crazy and started wondering whether the PC version would be better than the console version). Continue reading Watch_Dogs Gets New Trailer Focused On Consoles, Will Use Full Capabilities Of Both Xbox One & PS4

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Officially Revealed, Coming Fall 2014

Gearbox has released a new video in which Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software and Tony Lawrence, general manager of 2K Australia introduce us to the next standalone AAA Borderlands game – Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. This new Borderlands game is planned for release this Fall on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Continue reading Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Officially Revealed, Coming Fall 2014

The Evil Within Gets A PAX East Gameplay Trailer

Bethesda has released the PAX East trailer for The Evil Within, featuring gameplay sequences from this new upcoming horror title. The Evil Within is a survival horror game developed at Tango Gameworks under the direction of renowned game designer and studio head, Shinji Mikami. The game is powered by id Tech 5 and will hit stores on August 26th. Enjoy! Continue reading The Evil Within Gets A PAX East Gameplay Trailer

Auto Club Revolution – Free-To-Play Online Racing Title – Adds Alfa Romeo Vehicles To Its Roster

Eutechnyx announced today that its free-to-play online racing title, Auto Club Revolution, will now offer Alfa Romeo vehicles to its players. The first one that is being made available is the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, while other vehicles will be come to this F2P title at a later date. Continue reading Auto Club Revolution – Free-To-Play Online Racing Title – Adds Alfa Romeo Vehicles To Its Roster

Arcade Adventure “Source” To Be Unveiled At PAX East, Gets New Trailer

Fenix Fire announced today that they are heading east to attend the PAX gaming conference in Boston, where they intend to unveil exclusive details about their up-and-coming arcade adventure – ‘Source’ – a game currently in development for the PC, Xbox One and PS4. Continue reading Arcade Adventure “Source” To Be Unveiled At PAX East, Gets New Trailer

Dark Souls 2 – PC Version Does Not Feature The Old/Better Lighting System

The PC version of Dark Souls 2 is almost upon us and we’ve been wondering whether that particular version would feature the more advanced lighting system that was shown when the game was initially announced. After all, PC is more powerful than consoles so there shouldn’t be any limitation, right? Well, we’ve got some bad news for you today. Continue reading Dark Souls 2 – PC Version Does Not Feature The Old/Better Lighting System