Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase today announced that they will be co-hosting the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai, China on Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18, 2012. The Battle.net World Championship will bring to a riveting conclusion Blizzard’s 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series, which comprises more than 30 national and continental tournaments around the world, and the World of Warcraft Arena global finals. Blizzard gamers and eSports fans will be able to witness some of the most skilled pro players on the planet in action as they battle it out at the Battle.net World Championship for glory, cash prizes, and the title of undisputed world champion. Continue reading Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase to host the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai→
Wolfire Games has released a new video for Overgrowth, in which the company’s main programmer, David Rosen, explains the changes that have been made to the latest alpha version of the game. This week, David added ten early prototype challenge levels, an initial challenge level selection menu and added LevelSet xml files, which list a whole set of challenge levels to display in selector. These new additions show what a potential tutorial or campaign mode would look like, so go ahead and take a look below. Enjoy! Continue reading Overgrowth Alpha 186 Changes; Potential Campaign/Tutorial Mode Added→
Ubisoft’s creative lead, Alex Hutchinson, has revealed in this year’s Comic-Con that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 3 will support DX11. Hutchinson said that a dedicated team is working on the PC version and that the game will take advantage of many DX11 features. Hutchinson did not reveal what those features could actually be, but we expect to see tessellation support as this is the highlight of DX11. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed 3 PC will support DX11, dedicated team working on it, on track for October release→
Dreampainters have finally released Anna, a new adventure game that features a couple of horror sequences. Although we originally thought that it would be similar to Frictional Games’ Amnesia game, Anna is more of a traditional adventure game that suffers from issues that plagued this genre all these years. But before sharing our thoughts on this indie title, let’s see how Anna runs on a modern-day machine. Continue reading Anna – PC Performance Analysis & Impressions→
Slightly Mad Studios has released a new build for Project CARS that adds rain spray effects and Darkdeus has shared some new screenshots from it. We’ve also included two screenshots that were shared by Rage3D’s user, Mahjik. As you’d expect, these screenshots show in-game footage and have not been photoshopped in any way. Moreover, these new images showcase the newly added rain spray effects. Enjoy! Continue reading New Project CARS Build introduces rain spray effects; new gorgeous screenshots from it unveiled→
The fourth day of Steam’s Summer Sale is a go and PC gamers can get today Hitman: Blood Money, Serious Sam 3, Saints Row: The Third, The Darkness II, Trine 2 and Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword with a 75% discount. In addition, The Walking Dead comes with a 40% discount and there are some interesting incoming Community Choices. Moreover, yesterday’s offers will end soon so be sure to give them another quick look. Continue reading Steam Summer Sale – Day Four→
Back in May, we told you that Kojima would showcase Fox Engine in July. Well, it seems that was half the truth, unless the Japanese company decides to unveil what has been shown in this year’s Comic-Con behind closed doors. Hideo tweeted a couple of hours ago that we could expect lots of happenings at ComicCon. And although the Konami team did not reveal anything to the public during Comic-Con, Cliff Bleszinski and some other developers were pulled into a back room at Comic Con by Hideo and were showcased some ‘crazy new secret stuff’. Continue reading Hideo Kojima showcased Fox Engine behind closed doors in Comic-Con→
Skyrim keeps getting better and better with all the upcoming mods and custom ENBSeries settings. Today, we bring you new images from the works of 83Willow, gionight, BKnumber3, VictoriaG, Chilliblitz, Staind716, Steschu, PMind, tupadre, zzjay, Hungryriceball, ScreaminGreenMachine, Evangeli, Rosendaemonin, ShadowHeartsTwo, theradikal11, solsikke737 and dryna. Games of Thrones’ characters Daenerys and Khal Drogo come to life thanks to Rosendaemonin. However, the highlight of this week is undoubtedly dryna’s landscape images (first two). It’s really hard to capture gorgeous landscape screenshots (due to the engine’s behaviour when it comes to distant textures) but dryna has outdone himself. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly Skyrim Gallery [July 8th – 14th]; Game of Thrones comes to Skyrim→
Today we bring you some new images from the works of Crysis 2 modders d1ea, kabrita, USSR_GRAND, neo83_gr, angjminer, iSqueezee, chicken, and rGOt. iSqueezee and chicken had been experimenting with various assets, while rGOt and kabrita had been tweaking their tropical maps. angjminer on the other hand is creating a Doom map for Crysis 2, and both neo83_gr and USSR_GRAND are working on their own, custom maps. Last but not least, d1ea has posted some images from the Titanic total conversion that is currently under development. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [July 8th – 14th]→
Do you know what would be really cool in Battlefield 3, apart from fighting against dinosaurs? Well, fighting against dragons. It appears that more gamers share this vision with us, and we were surprised to see some of them creating amazing mashups between these two games. Imagine a game with Skyrim’s openness and Battlefield’s mechanics. Man, that would be really interesting. Until some developers decide to offer us something like that though, we’ll have satisfy our need with the following two screenshots. Kudos to Reddit’s users ‘zimm3rmann’ and ‘SentientOne’ for sharing them. Enjoy! Continue reading Battlefield 3 meets Skyrim in these custom, fan-made screenshots→
