Let me borrow some of ‘Morpheus’ lines from the first Matrix movie. Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream. How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world? Well, that’s exactly the idea behind birgirpall’s latest experimental BF3 video. Even though BF3 is an action shooter and nothing more, you can come up with some really creepy stuff when you throw in some proper and ambient music, great montage skills and a lot of fantasy. Special thanks to our friend ‘Ghost Rider LSOV’ for sending us this video. Enjoy! Continue reading This is perhaps the creepiest Battlefield 3 video you’ll ever see→
Electronic Arts and BioWare have announced Mass Effect 3:Extended Cut, a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of the critically acclaimed Action RPG. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes. Coming this summer, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download on X360, PS3 and PC for free. Continue reading Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut Announced; free DLC that explains the game’s ending coming this Summer→
Electronic Arts, 38 Studios, and Big Huge Games unveiled today Teeth of Naros, the second downloadable content (DLC) pack for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Players will journey through a forgotten land called the Teeth of Naros, a harsh environment named after an ancient troll god. In this new journey players will encounter the Kollossae, a devout race of giants, and uncover the mysteries of their faith. Teeth of Naros will be available starting on April 17,2012 on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Origin and Steam. Continue reading Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Second DLC Announced, Coming in April 17th→
YouTube’s member ‘irontjunfisk’ has released a gorgeous cinematic and emotional video for Battlefield 3. irontjunfisk did an amazing work and there are scenes where you’ll really question yourself whether this is the ‘battlefield’ you knew or an entirely different game. This video also proves that artistic videos can be made from action oriented games. Just take a seat, relax, and enjoy a truly unique and atmospheric video! Continue reading Battlefield 3 – Cinematic and Emotional Fan-Made Video→
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→
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→
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→
Although we have some interesting CryEngine 3 shots for all of you today, nothing can really come close to what modder ‘wenda’ has achieved. Wenda has released a video of his WIP map and we have to say that this is exactly how Skyrim would look like in CryEngine 3. The attention to detail is really amazing and although we’ve included an image from it, you really need to see it in motion. Alongside wenda’s work, we bring you some screenshots from the works of Cleric, RayFan9876, themodman101, [LSD]Timewarp82, birdeez and BmB. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [March 25th – 31st]; this is how Skyrim would look in CryEngine 3→
