Okay, I’m a little puzzled here. Although I love animes – still consider Death Note as one of the best animes ever – I’m not fascinated by the idea of an anime movie that is based on BioWare’s RPG, Dragon Age. This movie is produced in co-operation with director Sori, and according to EA, Japanese animes are really popular in North America and that’s precisely why the company decided to make one. Dragon Age: Blood Mage Crusade – as it will be called – is currently slated for a February 11th release and TOEntertainment released a new trailer for it that can be viewed bellow. Enjoy! Continue reading Dragon Age Anime Movie – Coming on February 11th, New Trailer Released→
Perfect World Entertainment announced the launch of the closed beta testing for its free-to-play first-person shooter, Blacklight Retribution. This is basically the “phase three” of the game’s closed beta, and the company has also released a new trailer for it. Developed by Zombie Studios, Blacklight Retribution is the sequel to last year’s Blacklight: Tango Down. Those interested can visit the game’s official website and sign up for the beta. Continue reading Blacklight Retribution Enters Closed Beta Phase→
At last, Croteam’s old-school FPS is finally here with us and it’s time to see how this bad boy performs with a modern-day PC. As usual, we used an overclocked Q9650 at 4.2Ghz, 4GB RAM and a GTX295 with Windows 7 64-Bit and Nvidia’s latest ForceWare drivers. First things first though; we have to congratulate Croteam for all those graphical options that are available. PC gamers can tweak pretty much everything, from the parallax occlusion mapping quality to the textures’ quality and the LOD amount. These are by far the best in-game options we’ve ever seen and every developer should take a good look at them. Continue reading Serious Sam 3: BFE PC Performance Analysis→
Ah, the CryEngine 3. Such a remarkable game engine yet there isn’t anyone willing to take advantage of it. Well, at least not a triple-A gaming studio as modders and indie developers are already experimenting with it. So, get ready everyone as today we bring you some new screenshots from modders [LSD]Timewarp82, MrEnergy, Cinoshe, ReVan1199, rGOt, iSqueezee, darkchazz, ODemuth, neo83_gr and chicken. In addition, a new game will be powered by Crytek’s engine and will be called Stone Rage. Stone Rage will be a 3rd person multiplayer game that was originally developed on the Unreal Engine. Well, that’s for today. Enjoy the screenshots after the jump! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [November 27th – December 3rd]→
Now that’s what we’ve been waiting for. Contrary to the first HD Texture Packs that got released earlier, modder Z4G4 went ahead and re-textured most of them in higher resolution. Now don’t get the wrong impression; these new textures are not the originals, re-touched with noise or any other sharpening tools. No my friends. These are brand new HD textures that are miles better than those of Skyrim vanilla. Or to put it simply; this is how the PC version of Skyrim should look in the first place. Download link and comparison shots are bellow and we dare you; take a good look at them and tell us that you are not impressed. Come on, go ahead, don’t be shy! Continue reading The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – “HD Retexture Landscape” marks a new age of visuals for Bethesda’s RPG→
Great news for all AMD fans as the Red team has released a new version for their Catalyst drivers. According to its release notes, Catalyst 11.11C come with improved performance on Batman: Arkham City, as well as AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series and improved performance on single GPU configurations that is up to 7% on Skyrim. These drivers are also essential to all PC assassins as they feature improved performance on Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Download links and full release notes after the jump. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 11.11C Performance Driver Released→
As we reported in our previous Morrowind post, Morrowind 2011 will also get updated this month and the modder behind it has just uploaded a brand new preview video for it. This video showcases the mod’s new effects and does not include any replacement textures, as the modder is currently working on a new set of them. It looks beautiful and this new, version 2.0 update will be released this month… hopefully. Enjoy the video after the jump! Continue reading Morrowind 2011 Version 2.0 – Preview Footage→
Ah, Skyrim. Such an amazing game and yet we haven’t covered it in our performance analysis section. There is a reason to that and that’s obviously due to some mods that we are really looking forward to. Then again, our GTX295 is not powerful enough to handle most of the high-resolution textures so we’d be limited by its low vRam. Add to this that Bethesda didn’t send us a review code and that we need to cover first Serious Sam 3 and there you have it. And while most of you are already enjoying this RPG, some modders felt the need to return and overhaul – for one more time – Bethesda’s previous gem. Yeap, that’s right everyone; Morrowind is about to get another big overhaul this Christmas. Continue reading Morrowind Overhaul Version 2.0 Coming This Christmas→
Bohemia Interactive released a new, massive update for their military sim game, ArmA 2. This new release candidate is 533MB in size and includes both ArmA 2 1.11 and ArmA 2: BAF 1.03 updates. Alongside some major fixes and especially multiplayer networking/jip/ ones there are tweaks, improvements and bonus stuff like FXAA. Those interested can head over to ArmA 2’s official website and download it. Be sure to also check the – literally huge – changelog bellow for a full list of what has been changed/added. Continue reading ARMA II 1.60 Release Candidate Released→
FireFly Studios released a new patch for their strategy game, Stronghold 3, that updates its version to 1.6.24988 and comes with some interesting additions and fixes. We should note that save games that were made before patch 1.3.24532 and contain fire will crash when loaded. This new update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and – among other things – adds a new free-build mode map and a new free-build mode control panel. You can view the entire changelog of this latest update after the jump. Continue reading Stronghold 3 – New Update Released→
