Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix have announced – via the game’s official FB page – that Tomb Raider has gone Gold. Darrell Gallagher, Studio Head had also a message to share, in which he thanked the fans for their enthusiasm and their support, and believes that they’ve created something that explores Tomb Raider’s history while pushing the limits in interactive storytelling and design. Continue reading Tomb Raider Has Gone Gold→
Yesterday, AMD announced its latest “Never Settle Reloaded Bundle Campaign”, in which PC gamers can get (for free) a number of games, depending on their purchase of an AMD graphics card. Alongside that presentation, AMD teased some PC exclusive features that will be coming to the PC version of IO Interactive Crystal Dynamics’ upcoming Lara game, Tomb Raider. Continue reading Tomb Raider PC Exclusive Features Teased→
Square Enix and Nixxes Software have released a new PC update for Hitman: Absolution. According to its changelog, this patch offers performance enhancements on various hardware configurations. We’ve already seen that Absolution had some optimization issues, therefore it will be interesting to see whether Nixxes has addressed them or not. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its changelog below. Continue reading New Hitman: Absolution Update Comes With Performance Enhancements→
Now this is awesome. As you may already know, we love DE: HR and we’re delighted to inform you about a fan film that is currently under development. This project is being handled by DCode Films, with Moe Charif acting as writer and director. Moreover, the team has released a teaser for this short film that can be viewed below. No ETA has been given as of yet, but DCode Films is trying to finish it as soon as possible. Enjoy! Continue reading Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gets A Fan Film, Teaser Trailer Released→
Nixxes Software and IO Interactive have released a new update for the PC version of Hitman: Absolution. According to its changelog, this patch adds an option to either lower or disable the game’s Bloom effect, improves – slightly – the general performance, and adjusts the game’s difficulty levels. In addition, the disguise parameters on ‘Professional’ difficulties have been tweaked via this update. You can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – New Patch Released→
Nixxes Software and Square Enix have released the first PC patch for Hitman: Absolution. According to its release notes, this patch enables DX10 owners to use the simplest version of the Depth Of Field effect, fixes various startup issues, and addresses all problems with the Sniper Challenge Unlocks not carrying over into Hitman: Absolution. This patch will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – First PC Update Released→
Ah, Hitman: Absolution. A Square Enix game that is ported to the PC by Nixxes. Awesome, right? After all, Nixxes was behind the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a version that featured a lot of graphical options, a FOV slider, and took advantage of quad-cores. In all seriousness (and despite the fact that there was an annoying stuttering effect that was later fixed), Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a great PC port. Therefore, we were expecting Hitman: Absolution to blow us away. However, it did not. And did you know that the PC version suffers from console optimizations? Oh, you didn’t know that, right? Well keep reading to find out why Hitman: Absolution PC is not as good as DE: HR, Max Payne 3 or Sleeping Dogs. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – PC Performance Analysis→
Bad news for those who are still stuck with Windows XP, as Nixxes Software has confirmed that Hitman: Absolution won’t support this particular OS. When asked about the minimum requirements of Hitman: Absolution (at EIDOS official forum), a member suggested that Windows XP would be supported as it was listed on Amazon’s product page. However, that’s not the case. A member from Nixxes then replied (the team porting the game, that was also responsible for the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution) and said that the game – as Hitman: Sniper Challenge – won’t support Windows XP. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution won’t support Windows XP either→
Well lookie here, we got us a new PC update for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. And no, we are not kidding. Nixxes and EIDOS Montreal have just released a new patch for the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution that reduces the stuttering in the game, improves parallelism with the graphics driver on multi-core machines, improves SSAO, and resolves various issues with Nvidia’s 3D Vision. The patch will be auto-downloaded from Steam and you can view its entire changelog below. Enjoy! Continue reading Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC gets a new patch; stuttering reduced, SSAO and 3D Vision improved→
