Call of Duty: Ghosts – Official Minimum Specs Revealed, 6GB RAM & 40GB HDD Required

Call of Duty Ghosts

Holy bloody hell. Activision has just revealed the official minimum requirements for Call of Duty: Ghosts, and even though the game supports dual-cores… PC gamers will need at least 6GB of RAM, 40GB of free HDD and a 64bit OS to run it. The PC version of Call of Duty: Ghosts is rumored to feature higher resolution textures than its next-gen version, however it’s pretty funny that the game demands 6GB of RAM as a minimum requirement. You can view the complete list below, and kudos to our reader ‘John Vanitsidis’ for spotting them. Continue reading Call of Duty: Ghosts – Official Minimum Specs Revealed, 6GB RAM & 40GB HDD Required

Nitrous Engine Announced – 64-Bit Next-Generation Multicore Engine To Power Strategy Titles

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Oxide Games, new studio formed by Firaxis and Microsoft ex-employees announced the definitive 3D engine for next-generation strategy games for console and PC. The engine, Nitrous, is a native 64-bit multicore game engine designed specifically for the hardware now common in PCs as well as PS4 and Xbox One. Continue reading Nitrous Engine Announced – 64-Bit Next-Generation Multicore Engine To Power Strategy Titles

Free-To-Play Action RPG “Path of Exile” Now Available

Path Of Exile

Great news for all action RPG fans as Grinding Gear’s F2P title, Path of Exile, is now available via Steam and other digital platforms. In Path of Exile, players will be able to create and customize hundreds of unique skill combinations from tradable itemized gems and a gigantic passive skill tree. In addition, players can combine skill gems, support gems and trigger gems to create your own unique combination of power, defense and destruction.  Continue reading Free-To-Play Action RPG “Path of Exile” Now Available

AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA3 Drivers Leaked

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A new set of beta drivers for AMD’s graphics cards has been leaked onto the Internet. Although there is no release notes at this moment, AMD users claim to have gained better performance in a number of benchmarking tools. Moreover, this driver seems to be working fine, meaning you won’t brick your GPUs if you install it. Still, we advice you to use these drivers at your own risk (the same thing applies to all beta drivers coming from the green team). Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA3 Drivers Leaked

DICE Claims That 15+ Titles, Powered By Frostbite, Will Support Mantle – Hints At Unannounced Games

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Now this is interesting. We all know that DICE will implement Mantle in Battlefield 4 as a means to test waters and see what benefits this new API will bring to the table. What we did not know, though, is that there are currently 15+ titles that will benefit from the implementation of Mantle in DICE’s engine. Continue reading DICE Claims That 15+ Titles, Powered By Frostbite, Will Support Mantle – Hints At Unannounced Games

There Is Nothing Stopping This Space Train – Star Citizen Surpasses $24 Million

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Okay everyone, there is nothing stopping this crowd-funding campaign. After hitting its $20 million, a lot of people thought that Star Citizen’s crowd-funding campaign would come to a stop. Ha, guess again. Star Citizen has just surpassed its $24 million goal, and it’s still going strong. We won’t be surprised if this title breaks all records – okay okay, it has already broken them – and hit $30 million. Continue reading There Is Nothing Stopping This Space Train – Star Citizen Surpasses $24 Million

The History of Rally Games

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YouTube’s member ‘nfsking2000’ has created an interesting tribute to rally games, in which we get to see the actual evolution of this genre from its MS-DOS days to its current-gen ones. The only downside we found in this video is that some games were not captured on max settings or the captured video does not make justice to those games. For example, Sega Rally Championship 2 looks way better than what is being shown here. Apart from that, this tribute is great, so go ahead and take a look at it! Continue reading The History of Rally Games

Unreal Engine 4 – Visual Effects Showcase – Part #1

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Epic Games has released a new video for Unreal Engine 4 in which Epic’s Tim Elek and Zak Parrish go under the hood of Unreal Engine 4 to show how artists utilized a host of visual effects, including advanced GPU particle simulation and collision, materials, dynamic particle lights and other VFX to create the Infiltrator real-time demonstration. It looks kind of interesting and cool, so make sure to watch it if you are fans of this particular engine! Continue reading Unreal Engine 4 – Visual Effects Showcase – Part #1

Star Citizen – Official Anvil Aerospace Hornet TV Commercial

Star Citizen

And here is another video for yet another game. Roberts Space Industries has released a new TV commercial video for its upcoming space combat title, Star Citizen, featuring some new gameplay footage scenes. Star Citizen is currently planned for a late 2014 release and is powered by CRYENGINE. The game has raised over $23 million and promises to be among the best PC titles of next year. Enjoy! Continue reading Star Citizen – Official Anvil Aerospace Hornet TV Commercial