It’s Christmas time which means that there will be less and less gaming news. Still though, here is something that will please most PC racing fans, as Image Space Incorporated revealed that rFactor 2’s beta will be released after the Christmas holidays. Moreover, the company has already released the packages for this upcoming beta that can be downloaded right now, so waste no time. Continue reading rFactor 2 Beta Coming After Holidays; Beta Content Is Now Available For Download→
Arisu, the author behind the amazing TESV Acceleration Layer tool, posted in Bethesda’s forum some interesting notes about his tool and how it works. It’s really complicated, so we won’t go into full details but what caught our eye was the author’s claim that Skyrim would probably experience a speed gain of over 100% if it was properly optimized. According to Arisu, this is no exaggeration as the compiled code is simply bad. Don’t believe it? Then let us tell you that the TESV Acceleration Layer doesn’t modify even nearly 1% of the code, but still manages to cut the cycles per frame by 30-40%. Imagine what would happen with proper optimization. Continue reading Author of TESV Acceleration Layer: “Skyrim would probably experience a speed gain of over 100%”→
The seventh day of Steam’s Holiday Sale has just begun and PC gamers can get some interesting titles with a great discount. So, today guys you can find Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fallout 3, Overlord series, Alice: Madness Returns, the entire X3 franchise, Nuclear Dawn and Killing Floor with a 75% discount. Moreover, you can get Modern Warfare 3 with a 25% discount and Football Manager 2012 with a 33% discount. You can view the entire Holiday Sale list after the jump. Merry Xmas! Continue reading Steam Holiday Sale – Day 7 Is Now Live→
It’s Christmas time and GTA IV’s community has been hard at work creating some new, VIP cars. Although most – if not all – of them are spectacular, we tried to avoid flooding this post with cars. We only chose those that made our jaw drop to the floor. So, today we bring you new images from the custom ENBSeries settings and mods of mmikeyy, DenDi333, AlexFake, gtf323, Vlad_, opezdl, Simple999, Slixent, [FDC]NYZE.ONE, DarK64, and qhrzhdud. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly GTA IV Gallery [December 18th – 24th]→
The sixth day of Steam’s Holiday Sale has just begun and PC gamers can get some interesting titles with a great discount. So, today guys you can find Risen with a 50% discount, Company of Heroes with a 80% discount, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Hard Reset, Prototype with a 75% discount, Renegade Ops with a 66% discount and Skyrim with a 33% discount. You can view the entire Holiday Sale list after the jump. Continue reading Steam Holiday Sale – Day 6 Is Now Live→
Man, this simply can’t be a simple coincidence. It’s pretty much clear that most of us want to see Half-Life 3 and it’s true that Valve has been hinting for it, but is that all we got? Apparently not as all hell has broken loose these past days. Forget the HL3 T-Shirt and the fact that Gabe Newell – that’s according to an insider so take it with a grain of salt – has given the green light to Valve’s employees to start hinting about the next Half-Life title. Yeah, those are quite good enough in order to assume that we’ll have some news about HL3 in 2012 but Valve themselves has given us lots of little hints and easter eggs these past days. Continue reading Are we that desperate for Half-Life 3 or is Valve truly hinting towards a 2012 reveal?→
It’s really sad that there are no triple-A studios willing to take advantage of CryEngine 3’s secret power. And thank God that Crytek released its SDK, as its community has managed to produce some astonishing results with it. So, today we bring you new screenshots from [LSD]Timewarp82, chicken, iSqueezee, Cinoshe, neo83_gr, USSR_GRAND, and blackhorizon. All of them are Crytek’s community members and prove with their work how versatile this engine can actually be. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [December 18th – 24th]→
There is no denying that Crysis’ vanilla lighting looks a bit dated nowadays. And although you can tweak the SSAO and bring to the table some amazing results, Crytek’s member ‘Wulfen’ uploaded a video that shows off his new lighting system and the amazing combination of it with Cry-Styves’ Shaders. This combo seems quite demanding – if we can judge by the footage that is choppy, though we don’t know the user’s test system – but it surely looks sexy. This lighting/shader combo boosts Crysis visuals to a whole new level, so be sure to check this out! Continue reading The evolution of Crysis’s lighting; new lighting and shaders boost the game’s visuals to new levels→
Now this is simply awesome. YouTube’s user ‘avemagnadude’ recreated the entire Skyrim trailer in Minecraft. This mash up of the two games is incredible and took avemagnadude 2 whole months to create it. Everything is spot on, from the dragon to the game’s environments. This, this is art. There are no words to describe it so go ahead and watch it. Video – courtesy of Machinima – after the jump. Continue reading Minecraft meets Skyrim in this amazing machinima; Skyrim trailer re-created in Minecraft→
The fifth day of Steam’s Holiday Sale has just begun and PC gamers can get some interesting titles with a great discount. So, today guys you can find RAGE, Cities XL and From Dust with a 50% discount, Saints Row: The Third with a 33% discount, Dirt 3 with a 66% discount and Aliens vs Predator with a 80% discount. You can view the entire Holiday Sale list after the jump. Continue reading Steam Holiday Sale – Day 5 Is Now Live→
