CD Projekt RED has released a new short animation, which summarizes events that preceded The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The video is the part of the Enhanced Edition of the game, which will be available April 17th for Xbox 360 and PC. Be warned that the following video contains spoilers. Continue reading The Witcher 2 – Surprise in May 5th, Recap Video of The Witcher 1 Story→
EA and Maxis have released the second part of their game engine demonstration for the upcoming SimCity game. This video is an insider’s look at the new Glassbox engine powering the next SimCity game, in which Gameplay Lead Dan Moskowitz describes the Economic Loop for Residential, Commercial, and Industrial zones in the game. SimCity is currently slated for a 2013 release, exclusively on the PC! Continue reading SimCity GlassBox Game Engine Part 2 – Scenario 1: The Economic Engine→
Gameforge announced today the first batch of figures for their free-to-play MMORPG, Aion. According to the stats, more than 750,000 accounts have been created on the Gameforge servers. Currently, around 20,000 new accounts are adding to this figure every day. The Karlsruhe-based company is also able to show a growth in the number of active daily users: since the release of the Free-to-Play version these numbers have increased fivefold already. With only four weeks of running time, AION has seamlessly added itself to the Gameforge portfolio, alongside other internationally successful titles such as Metin 2 and Ikariam. Continue reading Aion – Free-to-play Stats; more than 750K accounts created, 20K accounts every day→
EA Partners announced today that the pre-order campaign for the upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, The Secret World is now live. Everyone who pre-orders will be guaranteed access to all Beta Weekends beginning May 11, 2012 running most weekends up until the game’s launch on June 19, 2012 on PC. Players can pre-order the game at its official website. Continue reading Pre-Order ‘The Secret World’ and gain access to its public beta in May 11th→
We’ve been saying that CryEngine 3 is one of the most efficient and most impressive game engines out there and a few modders decided to prove our point. And although we decided to keep some maps for our upcoming ‘Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery’ feature, we can’t help but be impressed by modder’s hostilis work. This is one of the best foliage maps we’ve ever seen and pushes 49k instances and 800k polies in screen. Not only that, but the modder has used his own textures. Make no mistake, this can’t be achieved by current generation consoles. High quality textures, great LOD, incredible draw distance, huge environments with lots of detail, insane amounts of objects on-screen, and a lighting system with dynamic shadows and illumination effects. You might think that this is a simple map but no, when you start taking into consideration all of the features that are included, you can easily see why we’re not getting this kind of graphics in our current generation games. You can find some shots below, as well as a fly-through video. Enjoy! Continue reading Crysis 2 Modder introduces a custom foliage map that pushes 49k instances and 800k polies→
Morrowind Rebirth is a must-have mod for those who want to replay Bethesda’s old gem and comes with new enemies to fight, exciting areas to explore, as well as new weapons. What’s more impressive is that this mod is created by a single man, trancemaster_1988. trancemaster_1988 has been hard at work and released its latest version that comes with one hell of features, such as even more new creatures, locations and graphic enhancers. Continue reading Attention Morrowind fans; Morrowind Rebirth 1.7 Released→
T3Fun have announced some upcoming events for their free-to-play action RPG, Hellgate: Global. Hellgate: Global’s April plans include – along other things – the return of several popular events that previously saw very high participation from players. And as its press release states, high stakes rewards are on the table this month for players with the skills to defend their bases and those with a keen sense for solving codes. Continue reading Hellgate Global April Events Announced→
With the release of Battlefield 3’s patch 1.5, some extraordinary bugs were introduced to the game. Which is typical for DICE’s patches, right? Both Heat seekers and TV missiles were bugged and dogfights where – in general – screwed up. Thankfully though, DICE was quick to react and have just released a server hotfix that resolves those two issues and features some backend fixes. Continue reading BF3: Server fix for Heat seekers and TV-missiles rolled out, incoming fix for mortar in Grand Bazaar→
EA Sports have released the first trailer for the upcoming DLC for Fifa 12, UEFA Euro 2012. Euro 2012 promises to recreate all the drama and excitement of the official tournament with all 53 UEFA member national teams, all eight official stadiums in the tournament, and all the pageantry and atmosphere of one of the largest and most-watched sporting events on the planet. The DLC is currently slated for an April 24th release. Enjoy! Continue reading UEFA Euro 2012 – First Trailer Released→
Modder Bronze316 released a modified ENBSeries mod for Skyrim that is accompanied by an FXAA Injector to give a sharper look to it. According to the modder, this mod features vibrant “True Colors” and balanced lightning for all scenarios in-game. As a result of that, days are bright and vivid and nights are darker than vanilla. To be honest, it looks a bit saturated and some might not like that but I always had a crush on vivid colors. Continue reading Vivid days and darker nights come to Skyrim with a new ENB config and an FXAA injector Mod→
