Depth GDC 2012 Trailer
Like sharks, blood, gore, stealth and stealing treasure? Good, then Depth is for you. Coming soon!
Depth is an indie game being developed with Unreal Engine 3 by several of the original minds behind ‘Killing Floor’. You can find more info about it the official website or on ModDb
Are These Doom 4 Leaked Screenshots?
After another rumour of Doom 4′s cancellation and now a bunch of unofficial screenshots have found their way online, Bethesda still says that Doom 4 is still in development. I personally think the game is very much alive, and from what I can see they are using the same engine as Rage, and with that could bring low res textures and static maps.
Judge for yourself. View the rest of the gallery here
Interstellar Marines – Deadlock 0.3.0 released
As part of the active open development the team at Zero Point Software has released a new version of their work in progress game Interstellar Marines and a new Trailer explaining the new features, you can check the game info and join the community at www.interstellarmarines.com
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City Brutality Trailer
Here we have a new Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City gameplay trailer. Just look at those moves! The game is released in North America and Europe on March 23rd for PS3 and Xbox 360 and May 18th on PC.
Max Payne 3 PC Screenshots Released
Rockstar Games have today released the first ever screenies of Max Payne 3 for PC. It’s looking crisp, clean and mean. Here’s the goods, straight from the guys at Rockstar Games (literally):
Check out the debut selection of screens from the PC release below – and look for many more to come, including as part of the first hands-on previews of Max Payne 3 hitting next week. And stay tuned for more detailed information including special graphics hardware support and enhancements – as well as system specs to be announced a bit closer to game release.
Click each image to open it in glorious HD detail or view via the gallery section of the Max Payne 3 website.
Borderlands 2 Launch Date Trailer
Buckle up hombres! Gearbox have today launched a lush looking trailer for the sequel to the game that sapped hours off my life. Borderlands…. hmmm… must get.. pearlescent guns…! Anyway, check it out and wait impatiently until September comes.
Can’t bloody wait!
OverDose – The Game YOU can Help to Make
Team Blur Games are currently in cahoots with Indie Go-Go in an effort to raise $20,000 (approx £12,761.9) to enable the guys to recruit some good, honest to goodness, raw talent so that they can finally crack on with the development of the Quake 2 engine powered FPS. None of the money donated lines their pockets. Invest today and save the world. It makes sense, it really does.
Just What Is “OverDose”?
OverDose is set is a post apocalyptic war torn world and see’s two sides, the newly foundedConfederate Marine Corps. (CMC), and the mutated Marauders (MDR) face off against each other. Taking heavy inspiration from the classic multiplayer in “Return To Caslte Wolfenstein”, players are split into two teams with a heavy emphasis on team play. Objectives play a huge role in OverDose, as rounds are won/lost not on who has the highest frag count, but which team played the best together to reach their goal.
What Makes “OverDose” different?
In a world littered with first person shooters, OverDose is trying to be different. We realise that just slapping a gun on a screen isn’t going to set the world on fire, especially not in a post Call Of Duty risen generation, thats why we have a few tricks up our sleeves. For one, OverDosecontains an expanded movement system, allowing you to jump, leap, walk, run, sprint, crouch, slide, go into prone, dive, climb, hang, lean, swim and pull yourself up. But we also have buddy based actions available, so for example if a ledge is too high to climb onto yourself, and another player is already there, you can work together to climb up and over. In this field, we are aiming to be very much like Mirrors Edge in that we believe the key to a good first person shooter isn’t just the shooting, but the movement too.
But of course, as much as you may have a marmite relationship with Call Of Duty, it does do “some” things very well, thats why OverDose contains a full on ranking system thats used to track player progress and allow you to pair up in games with people more suited to your skill level.
Head on over to Indie Go-Go and check out the guys’ profile and maybe dig deep and toss a few quid at them. What’s the worse that could happen, aye?
Daemonicon – The Game YOU can Help to Make
All you old school UT 2004 players may remember a very long time in development mod called “Out of Hell” – yeah, creepy as hell, gory and pretty good to boot. Now the creator, Long Nguyen is setting out to scare the pants off us again with his new project “Daemonicon”.
Long has started a crowd-funding campaign with “Indie go-go” in hopes of raising enough money to help out with game development costs. The goal is to raise $15,000 USD or more if possible. I think it’s a modest amount, given the amount of blood, sweat, time, tears and no doubt late, late nights he spent creating Out of Hell to release free of charge.
You can check out the project and make a noble donation HERE: also check out Long’s blog, with info on Out of Hell, which is still available for download: HERE
Dig deep people, I know times are hard but $20 isn’t a great deal and it’ll help a lot.
Rage Updated
iD drop a 125MB patch on us PC Gamers. It should automatically update via Steam, if not, give it a restart and double-check you have the game set to auto-update in game properties.
Changelog:
RAGE 1.2 Patch Release Notes
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This RAGE patch adds some new features and addresses various compatibility and performance issues.
New Functionality
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Texture Detail: Enabling Texture Detail will improve up-close texture quality by performing upsampling with adaptive sharpening. This does not update or increase the resolution of the base textures included with the game but improves the perceived resolution and crispness of textures. This is an intensive operation and is only recommended if you have a quad-core CPU or higher. Please disable this feature if you encounter poor performance, stability issues or are given a notification that the game has run out of memory after loading a map. The Texture Detail option can be found in the Settings -> Video Menu.
Transcode Benchmark: A new benchmark has been added that determines how quickly texture data can be translated from the compressed format on your hard drive to a format that can be used by your video card. The higher your score, the faster your PC is able to make higher detail texture data available. This is not a traditional benchmark that runs through a scene of the game and returns a min/max/average framerate based on hardware and video settings. Other than the GPU Transcode option, the score will not be affected by changing any video settings. The Transcode Benchmark option can be found in the Settings -> Video Menu.
Error Messaging: If you attempt to apply video settings on a system that is not capable of handling them, an error may come up stating that your system ran out of memory. You will be allowed to continue, however, it is recommended that you either reduce your video settings until this message no longer occurs or you will be asked to restart the game with lower video settings. If you ignore this error and continue playing without altering your settings you will likely encounter texture corruption and/or system instability.
Automatic Video Settings Fallbacks: When an advanced video setting fails to apply, the setting may be set back to a safe default. Anti-aliasing will fall back to NONE if the allocation of a multi-sampled FBO fails. Texture Cache will fall back to SMALL when the allocation of a large texture cache fails. Texture Detail will fall back to OFF when large page table allocations fail. On failure, these settings will automatically fall back to safe values without the need for user input.
Patch Changes / Fixes
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- Fixed crash from potentially having stale transcode jobs in flight when switching between texture cache sizes.
- Fixed crash from using SIMD optimized memcpy with a PBO pointer that is not 16-byte aligned.
- Fixed GPU transcode option always turning off when restarting the game.
- Fixed progression in Dead City where player could not advance through sliding door en route to the defibrillator upgrade.
- Fixed CPU feature detection.
- Fixed issues with launching MP by using double quotes around path name.
- Fixed lack of texture detail on parts of the screen at high resolutions due to limited feedback analysis buffer.
- Fixed thread stack space usage and freed up 700 MB of virtual address space.
- Re-enabled UBOs.
- Adjustments to default VDM values for balance.
I’m hearing reports that the game looks WORSE after this patch. Hmmm…. *starts up Rage*
Steam Mobile now Available to all
The Steam application for iOS and Android devices, announced last week, is now available to all gamers around the world.
Launched last week in a closed beta, the Steam app allows gamers to chat with Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots and user-generated content for their favorite games, read the latest gaming news, stay up to date on unbeatable Steam sales, and more.
Want to check it out? Simply download the Steam app (free of charge) and log in to your Steam account via the mobile app.
Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 1,800 titles offered.
For more information, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/mobile
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