Bohemia Interactive was kind enough to provide us with an alpha code for its military sim FPS title, ArmA 3, so it’s time to see how this upcoming PC exclusive title performs on our platform. Before continuing, let us remind you that this is an alpha build, meaning that it does not reflect the final product. Obviously, some may ask then “So why are you guys doing a Performance Overview”? Well, the answer is simple; our purpose is to provide Bohemia with information regarding the game’s performance, in the hopes of further optimizing the game until it gets out. This is crucial, as we’ve seen lately a large number of PC titles suffering from such issues. Continue reading ArmA 3 – Alpha Performance Overview→
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is almost upon us and Blizzard has kicked off a community event for the game’s launch. We’re talking about a 21-hour global livestream of launch events, community features and the final of the Day[9] hosted King of the Beta tournament. I can’t remember of a similar pre-launch event, so kudos to Blizzard for attempting something like that. The full schedule is up on Blizzard’s event page. You can enjoy the stream below, so hit the ‘continue’ button, sit back and enjoy the show! Continue reading StarCraft II – Heart of the Swarm – Global Invasion Community Event Now Live→
The latest Top 10 PC charts have been revealed and as we can see, ArmA 3 and SimCity are the best selling titles on Steam’s digital and UK’s retail PC charts. Despite its server issues, SimCity has managed to claim this week’s top place, followed by The Sims 3: University Life and Tomb Raider. What really surprised us here was the fact that Football Manager 2013 is no longer among the best three selling titles, as it can be spotted in the fourth place. Crysis 3 is also going down and is now in the eighth place, while Guild Wars 2 has lost three places. Skyrim, on the other hand, has managed to re-enter the charts. Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [March 3rd – 9th]→
Good news for all Tomb Raider PC fans as Nixxes has released the first patch for it. This is the same patch that was introduced later this week, but was almost immediately taken down due to some stability issues. According to its changelog, this patch addresses some stability and startup issues on machines that have both Intel and NVIDIA graphics hardware, and comes with small improvements to TressFX hair rendering. We should note that SSAA with TressFX enabled brings a significant hit (after this patch) and Nixxes is investigating on it. You can find the complete changelog below and as with most Steam games, Tomb Raider will be auto-patched next time you launch the Steam client! Continue reading Tomb Raider – First PC Update Finally Released→
Even though City Interactive has not revealed the latest sales numbers of Sniper: Ghost Warrior, GameStop revealed that City Interactive’s first sniper title has managed to sell over 3 million copies worldwide. Naturally, this cannot come close to the sales of other triple-A, however we have to keep in mind that City Interactive was never a company as ‘powerful’ as EA or Ubisoft. In other words, it’s a pretty impressive number for a new IP. Continue reading Sniper: Ghost Warrior Sales Are Over 3 Million→
Acid Wizard Studio (a team of 3 people from Poland) has released a pre-alpha gameplay trailer for its upcoming title, Darkwood. According to the team, Darkwood is a top-down, oldschool survival horror set in a procedurally generated, open world, and features RPG and roguelike elements, with intense combat and a eerie atmosphere. Darkwood features a hardcore gameplay as it does not provide hand holding, tooltips or linear paths. Players will have to think, learn and adapt in order to survive. The game also comes with permadeath, meaning that if you die, your saved games will get deleted and you will have to start over. It looks pretty cool, so make sure to watch the trailer below. Continue reading Darkwood – Pre-Alpha Gameplay Trailer→
YouTube’s member ‘luishi5000’ has created a gorgeous outdoor environment with the Outerra Engine. luishi5000 made these structures to show off the potential scale of models in Outerra, and these models have baked in ambient occlusion. The total polygon count on the models (combined) is about ~400,000 (triangles) and this scene runs with 60fps at 1080p with a GTX660Ti. Enjoy! Continue reading Outerra Engine Shows Off Gorgeous Outdoor Environment→
It’s really amazing witnessing such detailed environments from 3D artists that surpass those of triple-A titles. Shaun Baker has created a gorgeous environment that is based on the Aliens franchise, an environment that puts to shame those featured in Aliens: Colonial Marines. Imagine if Gearbox’s title looked like that. Man, now that would be awesome. But anyway, alongside Baker’s shots you can find some more from 3D artists SeanO’Connor, Jackson31, rockstar6, Dommel, vemadesign, cmc444, Mr Smo and Boyo. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly UDK Gallery [March 3rd – 9th]; this is what Aliens: Colonial Marines should look like→
Today we bring you new shots from 3D artists and CryEngine 3 modders Glode, scotthomer, Rens, chicken, QuadReaktor, ReVan1199, EliteGhost and i59. The highlight of this week is undoubtedly scotthomer’s finished Bioshock environment, as well as Rens’ finished environment based on Bungie’s Halo. These two guys will be featured in the next issue of the online Vertex magazine, so make sure to keep an eye on it. Both scotthomer and Rens proved that CryEngine 3 has a lot of potential, so here is hoping that developers will start taking advantage of it. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [March 3rd – 9th]; Bioshock & Halo In CryEngine 3→
As said and in the past, we love 2D games. And we are happy to inform you today about an interesting 2D side-scroller RPG called Empire Eden. Empire Eden is being developed by a small trio of dedicated game enthusiasts, a team that has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for its title. This campaign goal’s is $19K and so far it has managed to raise only $1500. The bad news is that it looks interesting and there are still 17 days left to it. Continue reading Empire Eden is an interesting 2D side-scroller ‘Run n Gun’ RPG, Kickstarter ends in 17 days→
