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→
Crysis and Skyrim fans, here is something special for you today. Modder an0nym0uzz created a mod in which he introduces Skyrim to Crysis 2. As you may have guessed and from its title, this mod enables you to shout your enemies to oblivion. Hell yeah. You can find its download link, the installation instructions and a video for it below. Enjoy! Continue reading Skyrim meets Crysis 2 with this ‘Fus Ro Dah’ Mod for Crysis 2→
All hell has broken loose yesterday, when a lot of gaming sites reported that the new SimCity game would require an always-on internet connection in order to be played. Well, it seems that this is not entirely true as EA has made a clarification about it. As it was reported by GameSpy, the game will require an internet connection in order to be started. However, the game won’t kick you out if your connection drops after signing in. Continue reading SimCity Will Not Require An Always-On Internet Connection→
Good news for all Battlefield 3 fans as the highly anticipated patch for the PC version of DICE’s FPS has just been launched. PS3 users got it earlier but thankfully, we didn’t have to wait for a whole week or when until it would be released on X360, right? The update will be auto-downloaded from Origin. If it does not, right click the BF3 icon in Origins and select the ‘Check for updates’ option. You can find its entire changelog below. Enjoy! Continue reading Battlefield 3 – Patch 1.04 is now available for the PC→
Good news for all those who still have Crysis installed to their hard disks, as mckool has announced that the full version of his total conversion, The Mutant Factor, is hitting the Net in April 1st. In order to celebrate the mod’s launch, mckool has released its launch trailer that can be viewed below. The Mutant Factor is a new singleplayer campaign for Crysis and Crysis Wars. This a completely different story with a new set of characters which is heavily influenced by the Half-Life, Crysis, and F.E.A.R series of games. Sounds interesting to say the least. Enjoy! Continue reading The Mutant Factor, a Crysis Total Conversion, gets a launch trailer; releases on April 1st→
