Okugi Studio has just informed us about their upcoming, tower defense game, that is coming to the PC in early 2012. Shad’O promises to be an original Tower defense game with an exciting story in which players will have to help William, a nine years old boy lost in his own mind, to save his memory. He will be assisted by his luminous companions in order to remember what happened to him. Continue reading PC gamers, meet Shad’O; a new tower defense game, coming to your platform in early 2012→
The PC UKIE Games charts for this week has just been revealed and as we can see, there are no big changes from last week’s charts. Football Manager 2012 is still at the top, followed by Star Wars: The Old Republic and Skyrim. Both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 lost some places, while Shogun 2: Total War has managed to re-enter the charts. And as always, there are four ‘The Sims 3’ titles in the Top10 of the best selling titles in UK. Jeez. Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [January 15th – 21st]→
Futuremark is a talented studio. Although their first game, Shattered Horizon, didn’t meet a commercial success and its fan base was really small, it was amazing, addictive and full of great ideas. Needless to say that I was excited when I heard that the company was preparing a new game. But when I found out that Unstoppable Gorg would be a Tower Defense game, I got disappointed. And when I got the chance to,actually play it, I liked and enjoyed it, even though I’m not a fan of this genre. You see, most of the Tower Defense games require a ‘trial and error’ approach and… well… I hate that. And although this approach is pretty evident at the later levels of Unstoppable Gorg, it’s still a lot of fun. Continue reading Unstoppable Gorg Review→
Modder Vergis has released an interesting mod for Skyrim that offers additional performance to it. As you may already know, Skyrim is CPU bound and Bethesda didn’t take advantage of multi-cores. In addition, the special effects in this game, like snow and rainfall, are rendered by the already overtaxed CPU and not your GPU. Therefore, Vergis reduced the textures in those particle effects, and witnessed a nice performance boost. Vergis is using an i5-750 CPU and saw a 5-20 FPS improvement. Pretty good huh? You can find the download link as a comparison shot, as well as a video from the game’s Rift area, after the jump. Continue reading Skyrim Performance PLUS Mod comes with a 20fps boost→
Ever wondered how strategy games would look like in CryEngine 3? Well, time to find out as Crysis 2’s modder, sceab15c, has released a video, in which he shows off a top down strategy concept within the Crysis 2 SDK. This is great and shows that CryEngine 3 can do literally everything. Awesome stuff and we can’t wait to see a more polished version of this mod. Enjoy! Continue reading A taste of how strategy games would look like in CryEngine 3→
iCE La GlacE has uploaded a new video for GTA IV’s iCEnhancer 2.0 Beta 5. This beta version will be the last one as the next version will be the final for this highly anticipated mod. This footage is from GTA IV’s 1.0.4.0 version, showing a lot of weather & conditions. iCEnhancer 2.0 Final is currently slated for a late January release. Continue reading New GTA IV – iCEnhancer 2.0 BETA5 Footage→
We’ve seen a lot of recreations in Minecraft but this one looks really lovely and ideal for all Zelda fans out there. Project Hyrulecraft is a 1:1 reconstruction of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Minecraft. This project has been in development since May 2011, with the intent of being hosted on a custom built server. The Hyrulecraft multiplayer server will feature many RPG and MMO aspects such as quests, classes, experience and leveling, and a fan-written storyline that continues the story after the events of OOT’s child timeline. Continue reading Ocarina of Time recreated in Minecraft with Project HyruleCraft→
Remember when we told you, earlier last week, that Duke Nukem 3D would be coming to CryEngine 3? Well, it seems that another classic game will also find its way to Crytek’s engine. Mapper ‘Cleric’ was working in a CryEngine 2 map that would be based on the first level of iD Software’s little gem, but hit many walls and never got very far due to various problems. With the release of CryEngine 3’s SDK, the mapper decided restart that project in Crysis 2 and released some new screenshots from it. Cleric is currently recreating the first level, but there is a possibility for more Quake maps. Enjoy! Continue reading Surprise surprise; Quake comes to CryEngine 3 with Crysis 2 – E1M1 – The Slipgate Complex→
Last week, we concentrated on the car models that most modders are creating these days, so we think that it’s fair to dedicate this week’s gallery to GTA IV’s environments. And it’s really amazing how some custom ENBSeries settings can actually increase the game’s image fidelity. Thanks to the modders, GTA IV looks amazing and can – sometimes – achieve photorealistic visuals. Enjoy the following screenshots from GTA IV’s modders Simple999, King of K, DarK64, goobz, Lycan_182, legacyy, schakusa, Dpeasant3, KingNK, sly1286, and pramkies. Continue reading Weekly GTA IV Gallery [January 15th – 21st]→
