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CryEngine 3 SDK 3.4 DirectX 11 Update Released

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This weekend, CryTek announced the release of the latest version of the free CryEngine 3 SDK, version 3.4 which supports new and revamped features including some highly anticipated DirectX 11 features among its core updates. Among the more noticeable upgrades, the CryEngine 3.4 SDK which is of course available as a free download now offers game developers updated DX11 tessellation, new advanced character rendering options, improved AI systems with multi-layer navigation meshes, improved skin rendering, eye and glass shaders, geometric light beams and a slew of bug fixes and general [...]

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Prototype 2 Weapons Trailer

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Walking around with heavy machine guns and anti aircraft guns trying to kill everything that moves… No I am not talking about the latest Rambo movie, I am talking about the latest trailer for Prototype 2. That’s right, in this trailer James Heller is showing off his cool new toys in style by blazing hot lead where it has never gone before! One thing I don’t understand in this trailer is the silly voice saying “boom” or “NOPE”, it just sounds really weird and out of context in the trailer [...]

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Crysis 3 Reveal Coming April 16

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Fresh Crysis 3 details have been leaked via a russian link aggregation site, which claims the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC threequel will release in spring 2013. Electronic Arts was forced to acknowledge the leaks today and stated that more information will be following next week. Crysis 3 will take place in a heavily destroyed New York which has become “almost a jungle”, thus combining the settings of the first and second games. I personally hoped for a new and more creative setting. Crytek apparently promised to deliver “the best [...]

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Assassin’s Creed 3 Launch Trailer + Release Date

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Like we announced a few days ago, tonight Ubisoft released the official Assassin’s Creed 3 launch trailer! Last week magazine Game Informers and Ubisoft released various images of the box art and concept drawings. After seeing those images it was pretty clear the new Assassin’s Creed game was going to be set in the 18th century during the American Revolution. Ubisoft has described the game as the largest project in the company’s history. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with six other first party studios, it has been in the [...]

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Assassin’s Creed 3 Setting Revealed!

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The battle between the Templars and Assasins will continue during the latter half of the 18th century in the new world: America. Today Game Informers released their April cover images which show Assassin’s Creed 3′s “daring new hero” wielding an axe and pistol. Along with the publication of the box covers and the other images the magazine writes: “Ever since the conclusion of Assassin’s Creed II, a senior team of Ubisoft developers has been secretly toiling away on what comes next. That team aimed high, with plans to examine and [...]

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New Far Cry 3 Trailer and Screenshots!

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Ubisoft is pumping out a lot of new Far Cry 3 media and the game is looking awesome! The Ubisoft Montreal developed first person shooter Far Cry 3 was announced last year at the E3 with a promising reveal trailer. Everybody was really excited and on the other hand also relieved because the Far Cry Series was going back home onto the tropical islands after the safari trip a few years ago in Far Cry 2. Only this island is not as tropical as it might seem at first glance. [...]

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Assassins Creed 3 is Underway!

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Now that all the Assassin’s Creed Revelations violence has died down we are ready to look forward to the actual official sequel title to Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed III. And it seems like the investors in Ubisoft were asking the same questions as CEO Yves Guillemot officially confirmed Assassin’s Creed III with a scheduled release date of October 30th 2012 in a conference call with investors this afternoon. He said: “Assassin’s Creed 3 is the true next generation of both the Assassin’s Creed brand and interactive entertainment/storytelling in general.” [...]

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Skyrim Creation Kit on Schedule and Comes With a Surprise!

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Pete Hines from Bethesda posted a nice tweet on twitter to let everyone know that the upcoming Creation Kit for The Elder Scrolls Skyrim is right on schedule, as well as teasing everybody with some sort of “special surprise” that they have in store which will be included in the Creation Kit. Since then a lot of rumors have been going around the gaming world ranging from a special horse armor ’till official nude patches (which I think is going to be highly unlikely). Here is the complete tweet from [...]

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Guild Wars 2 Announces Open Beta

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This morning ArenaNet founder and president Mike O’Brien announced in a blog post that Guild Wars 2 will get an open beta in March or April 2012. He said that after the relatively small closed-beta testing they were now ready to hold progressively larger events. “In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate”, he said. “Guild Wars 2 has captured [...]

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Skyrim Creation Kit on track for public release by month’s end

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Late yesterday Bethesda finally confirmed that the highly anticipated Skyrim Creation Kit and Steam Workshop were in the final testing phase with their modding community and would be ready for public release towards the end of January 2012. Currently being tested across all three platforms (Xbox360, PS3, PC), the Creation Kit is expected to usher in a whole new life of breath into the smash hit role-playing game which was released at the beginning of November 2011. Bethesda said they hoped to finalize the testing this week and submit to [...]

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The Trading Floor – A Rare Rant in Skyrim

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As I finished up my latest stint of looting and pillaging outside Whiterun, I became encumbered and found it difficult to flee the scene of my latest crime. I turned to Jenessa, my faithful servant in hopes that she could lighten my load by carrying some items from me only to find out that she too was at her maximum carrying capacity. Suddenly, I’ve been thrust into a difficult decision that can really only end in a loss for me – do I drop some heavy but powerful weaponry, or [...]

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Licensed Games: Reinforcing the Stereotype

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Sipping my morning coffee around 2 p.m. and watching t.v. shows on an actual television for the first time in months, I had an epiphany. Actually, Victor Lucas and the team at Reviews on the Run should be credited for the findings, but since they’re not here you’ll just have to give me the kudos. What for you ask? The realization that licensed games are among the worst that were produced this year and are a step backwards for the industry we love so much. It’s very rare that reviewers [...]

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Skyrim Creation Kit Modding Tools coming in January

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Its has not even been a month since released, but Bethesda has just announced some good news for all Skyrim fans out there in particular for modders and players looking for new content to expand the game with. Among other news such as upcoming incremental patches, most important to note is the information that Bethesda has confirmed it will be releasing the Creation Kit for Skyrim (PC) around the beginning of January 2012.

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Skyrim Dominating the Gaming World

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The game has only been released for a day but already it’s breaking records all over the place. We can truly say that The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim is dominating the gaming world in the last few months of 2011. The game has been setting an all-time record on steam with the most amount of players playing the game at the same time. The record peaked today at a whopping 231,593 players, leaving his main competitor Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 way behind with only 71,239 players. Of course [...]

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The World of Skyrim

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We’re officially 3 days away from the official launch of Bethesda’s latest epic Elder Scrolls offering: Skyrim. In what is potentially the most highly anticipated game of the year, Skyrim will pick up where the extremely successful Oblivion left off and bring us back into the timelessly magical and mystically authentic world of the Elder Scrolls. In an attempt to channel and keep up with the huge building of anticipation, Bethesda has pushed out just moments ago yet another trailer showing off some of the Skyrim glory that awaits us.

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