Time To Upgrade: 10 SSDs Between 240 And 256 GB, Rounded Up

If your PC boot times, game loading times, app loading times are still way too long then it's time to finally upgrade to an SSD. Tom's Hardware has helped with their SSD article comparing 10 SSD's in the 240-256GB range. If you haven't upgraded yet to an SSD trust me it is worth it. Head on over to Tom's Hardware for the article.

Lets take a look at Far Cry 3 Map Editor

Platform32 has made a video going over the crazy amount of features and details in the map editor for Far Cry 3. Should be some amazing maps being made. Check it out below.

Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer trailer

Looking for more PC gaming performance? Yes? Then get Razor Game Booster!

Razor has announced their Razor Game Booster software is out of closed beta and now available for public testing. This software looks promising as it has plenty of tweaking options to help squeeze everything out from your PC.

Getting the absolute best performance out of your system and games isn’t rocket science but it can sure be tough to figure out. In partnership with IObit, Razer Game Booster is your simple yet power solution. All it takes is a click of a button, and it will automatically enhance the state of your system and focus all its resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time searching online for the best game settings or configurations.

So if you want that performance boost head on over to Razorzone to download it and try it out!

THQ Updates us on their financial stuff

If you haven't been paying attention to THQ much they found themselves again in some deep waters financially but today they have some good news to share. Check it below. 

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) announced today that it has entered into a forbearance agreement with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC. Under the agreement, Wells Fargo has agreed to forbear from exercising its rights and remedies against THQ and its subsidiaries with respect to previous events of default under its credit facility. The period of the forbearance currently extends to January 15, 2013, during which time Wells Fargo has agreed to make additional loans to the company subject to the terms and conditions of the forbearance agreement.

 Additionally, THQ announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with a financial sponsor regarding financing alternatives which may result in, among other things, significant and material dilution to shareholders. Information concerning the identity of the sponsor, deal size, structure and/or timing will not be disclosed until such time negotiations have concluded. There can be no assurance these negotiations will result in a transaction.

 “We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Wells Fargo. This agreement enables us to continue focusing on bringing our games in development to market,” said Brian Farrell, THQ’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Meanwhile, we are evaluating financial alternatives that will transition the company into its next phase.”

THQ also announced today the resignation of Paul Pucino, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The Company is evaluating its alternatives with respect to the Chief Financial Officer role, and has retained FTI Consulting to assist its finance and accounting team. “We would like to thank Paul for his significant contributions over the past four years and wish him well in his future endeavors,” commented Farrell.

ESPN Sportscenter EA Sports Maui Invitational VIP Kit

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Tell Tales final trailer for The Walking Dead.

Don't forget to vote for Tell Tale and The Walking Dead for SpikeTVs awards! Head on here here!

Star Citizen nears $6 million in final hours

The siren song of space has called a record-breaking $5.97 million worth of pledges to Star Citizen, the PC-exclusive creation of Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts. The funding campaign, which runs both on Kickstarter and on the game's site, has drawn more than 85,000 backers and ends at 9 a.m. PST.The last stretch goal for $6 million promises launch with "100 systems, a full orchestral score and a free copy of the first Squadron 42 mission disk, Behind Enemy Lines" (we hope they actually send it out on a compact disc). Squadron 42 is the game's Wing-Commander-ish mode which enlists players in a linear campaign fighting on the cosmic frontier.It's definitely one of the most ambitious crowdfunded games we've seen--its figures right now put it clean past Project Eternity's previous game record of $4 million--and the raised cash will also be used to attract more traditional investors. Star Citizen is currently planned for release in 2014 with a beta beginning sometime next year.

Wow, that's all I really have to say about the support this game has had some day 1.

Introducing Uncharted: Fight For Fortune for PS Vita

Uncharted Fight for Fortune, an original title coming to PlayStation Store exclusively for PS Vita in early December (pricing TBC).Uncharted Fight for Fortune is an action-adventure turn-based card game featuring the heroes and villains from the Uncharted universe. Take a look at a video of the game in action below to give you an idea of how combat works in the game.

New feature trailer for Far Cry 3

Wii U gets the Anandtech teardown treatment

Interested in what makes the Wii U tick? Head on over to Anandtech for the full breakdown.

TellTale teases us again....

New trailer coming monday for the final episode

Tom's Hardware Benchmarks Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Tom's Hardware has decided to benchmark numerous graphics cards on the latest Call of Duty game to answer the question How well does your graphics card handle it? Full article over there at Tom's Hardware!

TellTale releases a screenshot of Walking Dead Ep 5

With only 5 days left until the final episode of The Walking Dead releases Tell Tale decided to tease us with one screenshot of Lee basically whooping ass. The wait is killing me and it's probably killing you too.

Cast your vote for Valve SAXXY Awards

Help choose the 2012 winners. Watch and rate the submissions below. Voting ends on Nov. 27 at 12:00am GMT.

The winners will be revealed on Nov. 30th on www.teamfortress.com. For complete contest details click here.

Splinter Cell Blacklist First Look: Closer Than Ever trailer

Assassin Creed 3 bugs to be ironed out for PC version

Over on Reddit a few Ubisoft developers working on Assassins Creed 3 to answer questions from the community. One Reddit member asked

"would you know if all these patches and what not will be included come the release of the PC version?"

to which UbiGabe responded with:

  "So, when PC launches, it will include ALL of the console patches out at the time (so, that includes any patches we might be releasing in between now and PC launch). In addition, PC has a special patch designed to ensure that everything runs as smoothly as possible. We've added extra DX11 support for the PC version, so you'll notice some significant increases in texture resolution (double-res in most cases, but quadruple in some), TESSELLATION (which is like, the new DX11 hotness) and some other shader improvements that will have an impact, but aren't all that sexy to enumerate in a reddit post, hehe."

 I for one can not wait for this game to come out on the PC. Haven't played an AC game since AC1 but for some reason AC3 is pulling me in.

GTA V Trailer #2 released. Looks sex.

Nvidia releases their latest drivers

Nvidia released their latest the other day improving performance across numerous games including the latest Call of Duty and Assassins Creed.

Head here to download.

God of War: Ascension Beta Update *PLEASE READ*

God of War fans, to those who recently purchased the God of War: Saga and received the PlayStation Plus voucher encouraging you to redeem it on November 13th for exclusive access to our upcoming God of War: Ascension Beta, please read this critical update.

The God of War: Ascension Beta is not landing on the PlayStation Store tomorrow. Our development team here at Sony Santa Monica is burning the midnight oil in preparing our Beta for your Ascension, and we could not be more excited to open the flood gates. We are still working feverishly and have yet to announce the date it will deploy. The God of War: Ascension Beta will be open to all PlayStation Plus members when we go public.

If you are not a PlayStation Plus member and will be using your God of War: Saga trial voucher to get in, PLEASE DO NOT REDEEM YOUR VOUCHER UNTIL OUR ANNOUNCED LIVE DATE. This way you will ensure your 30-day PSN Plus trial is maximized for the full duration of our Beta period.

For further updates on our Beta live date and God of War: Ascension updates in general, keep your eyes posted at our official website right here, and at www.facebook.com/godofwar.

Thank you again for your patience,
The God of War Team

Halo 4 fan? Then join the Fight Like A Girl tournament

The 2012 Fight Like A Girl (FLAG) Tournaments are right around the corner. If you love Halo 4 and boobies it would be wise to help bring the fight against breast cancer! This is an amazing event that will help thousands of people around the world with their battle against breast cancer.

Register over at FLAGTournaments.com for their 2v2 Competitive Slayer, Griftball and their Creative tournaments.

Have any questions about the new PlayStation Store? Get to Playstation twitter NAOOO

Playstation will be conducting an interview with the Playstation Store director soon so hit up the Playstation Twitter and ask away!

"Hitman: Absolution is a mess. The police do not expect Blood Money is involved"

With all the hype for the new IO Interactive Hitman: Absolution game it's hard to swallow this bit of news from the recent review from PCGamer Christmas 2012 issue. According to Tom Francis the game is "a passable stealth game, but one that betrays almost everything that, until now, has made Hitman great."

This isn't sounding too good for the fans of Hitman. Tom Francis also talked about the games artstyle, poor story, OD amount of Bloom, small levels, opening doors as an objective, bad AI and no saves (wtf?!?). What's worse is since this is PC Gamer the review was done obviously on a PC and ran like ass running at times at 15 frames per second!

With all of the talk about Hitman: Absolution being so much better on the PC and IO stating that it "won't just be just a port" it bothers me to hear this. I've been looking forward to this game for awhile so I hope IO has a patch ASAP or else they shall fear the wrath of the PC community.

/v/ Goes to Valve

Minecraft has sold 8 million copies on PC!

Mojang has reported that Minecraft has sold an amazing 8 MILLION copies on PC. Notch responded in his usual cryptic way.

”Notch replied with this:

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Thanks for buying Minecraft everyone! Have a lovely day. :D"

Tyler Wilde says "Lets stop calling games "too repetitive".

Tyler Wilder of at PCGamer has written an interesting article about how "the word “repetitive” commonly has a negative connotation, and it’s especially used negatively (all the time, every time, forever and ever) when talking about games."

Interesting article. Head on over to PCGamer for the full thing.

Crytek to make another Crysis, but it won't have a number after it

Crytek spoke with Eurogamer recently about the future of the Crysis series and their plans for F2P.


“[Crysis 3] is the end of the story of Crysis, but it doesn't mean it's the end of the franchise,” he said.

There are a number of details that need to be ironed out, such as which platforms this post-Crysis 3 game will launch on, but Yerli has already decided it won't be called Crysis 4.

“I wouldn't name it Crysis 4 at this stage because it would be misleading,” he explained. “We want to finalise Prophet's story and Crysis 4 would imply the story just moves on.”

Speaking on Free2Play (F2P)

Yerli has been vocal in his prediction that free-to-play will dominate gaming in the coming years. Indeed he has gone on the record to say once Crytek's current obligations are complete, including Crysis 3 and Homefront 2 for THQ, it will only make F2P games.

Yerli confirmed to Eurogamer that Crytek has a plan for a F2P version of Crysis, but it may exist as a traditional retail game/F2P hybrid as the industry transitions to the next-generation of consoles.

"The truth is much more complicated," he said. "There's a transformation period for the industry. I believe F2P is our inevitable future. I believe there are F2P titles out there that can be story-telling, co-operative with your friends and competitive with your friends. It's all possible. The business model is independent from the way you design games. It's a very important thing. People always make these things dependent, but it's actually completely independent.

Microsoft restricts DirectX 11.1 to Windows 8, Say Whaaaa

Daniel Moth has confirmed that the new version of DirectX, DirectX 11.1 will only be available for Windows 8. His post below

"As you figured out WARP is part of DirectX 11. With DirectX 11.1, WARP was enhanced with (among other things) support for DirectCompute and hence it is one of the accelerators for C++ AMP. DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, just like DirectX 11 was part of Windows 7. DirectX 11 was made available for Vista (bing it), but at this point there is no plan for DirectX 11.1 to be made available on Windows 7"

In my opinion I feel MS is doing this so people that would like Stereoscopic 3D support will have no choice but to upgrade even if they don't want to. What you think, leave comments!

Cognition Episode 1 The Hangman Walkthrough Videos Complete

If you're stuck in Cognition and don't know what to do with your Intuition or gadgets then look no further Infinite PC Gaming has you covered with a complete walkthrough of the game. Head on over to the Cognition Walkthrough section for all the videos!!

GamesRadar Roccat PC gaming prizepack giveaway - Win a keyboard and headset

Toss out that old crusty keyboard and those tin cans you call headphones because Roccat is giving away a set of their Isku gaming keyboard and the Kave gaming headset. All you have to do to get them is like GamesRadar on our Facebook page and they can be yours. How do you do that? It's simple. Just follow these instructions:

1. Head over to the GamesRadar Facebook page.

2. Click the like button.

3. That's it! You're in.

We will pick one winner randomly. Be sure to visit our Facebook page before Monday, November 12 at 5pm PST and you'll have a chance to deck out your PC setup with some brand new peripherals. US residents only.

Radeon HD 7990 And GeForce GTX 690: Bring Out The Big Guns

Tom's Hardware pits these 3 beastly cards against each other to see who will take the World's Fastest Graphics Card crown. They've listened to the community and have completed the benchmarks with Extreme graphics settings and Multi-Monitor setups as well.

Full article over at Tom's Hardware.

Phoenix Benchmarks NVIDIA R310

This week NVIDIA began advertising their new "R310" Linux graphics driver that "delivers [a] massive performance boost to Linux gaming" as a result of Valve releasing their Steam Linux Beta. The NVIDIA 310.xx Linux graphics driver not only improves the performance for Valve's Source Engine games, but many Linux OpenGL games. In this article are benchmarks from three graphics cards to highlight the optimizations.

NVIDIA's 310 Linux driver beta actually came last month with the performance enhancements and multi-threaded OpenGL support, but it wasn't until Tuesday when the Valve beta got underway that NVIDIA issued the press release. Last month I did some early NVIDIA 310 Linux benchmarks and of the threaded OpenGL, support. The 310 driver was faster than earlier series, but the experimental threaded OpenGL support wasn't always delivering better results.

Full benchmark results over at Phronix.

NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost To Linux Gaming

NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® drivers -- R310 -- double the performance(1) and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience -- and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.

Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today. "With this release, NVIDIA has managed to increase the overall gaming performance under Linux," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. "NVIDIA took an unquestioned leadership position developing R310 drivers with us and other studios to provide an absolutely unequalled solution for Linux gamers."

The R310 drivers support the newest GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs, which have redefined gaming for desktop and notebook PCs by combining revolutionary performance and gaming technology features with an incredibly power-efficient design. Gamers with previous generation GeForce GPUs, including the 8800 GT and above, are encouraged to download these new drivers as well.For an up-to-date third-party listing of games and applications that are currently in development for Linux, visit the Marlamin site.For more information on how GeForce GTX GPUs are dramatically changing the way games are played and experienced on Linux, visit www.geforce.com. For more NVIDIA news, company and product information, videos, images and other information, visit the NVIDIA newsroom. The NVIDIA Flickr page hosts the entire lineup of GeForce product photos.

Tom's Hardware Microsoft Surface Review, Part 1: Performance And Display Quality

If your in the market for a new tablet out just want to see how the new Microsoft Surface performs them Tom's Hardware has you covered. They just put out part 1 of their Surface coverage.

Go check it out at Tom's Hardware

Skyrim Dragonborn DLC revealed

Hurricane Sandy delays GTA trailer. Rockstar releases posters instead

Due to Sandy the trailer will be delayed so Rockstar decided to give us posters instead. Down below they be.

Bethesda teases us on Twitter

A tweet from Bethesda Game Studios is tell us to keep an eye out for a full trailer tomorrow. Will we be able to fly dragons in the next update? More DLC?

60% off EA GOG games!

These games might be old, but they're classics. You can purchase all 26 games for $62.14. With only a day left for the sale it's best to get over to GOG now to take advantage of the sale.

 List of games on sale

• CRUSADER: NO REMORSE™
• CRUSADER: NO REGRET™
• DUNGEON KEEPER™
• DUNGEON KEEPER™ 2
• LANDS OF LORE™ 1+2
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• MAGIC CARPET™
• NOX™
• POPULOUS™
• POPULOUS™ 2: TRIALS OF THE OLYMPIAN GODS
• POPULOUS™: THE BEGINNING
• SID MEIER'S ALPHA CENTAURI™
• SIMCITY 2000™ SPECIAL EDITION
• STARFLIGHT™ 1+2
• SYNDICATE™
• THEME HOSPITAL
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• ULTIMA™ 9: ASCENSION
• ULTIMA® UNDERWORLD 1+2
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PC Gamers Best Portal 2 Single Player Maps

Thanks to the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC’s intuitive and enthralling editor, Portal 2 has a near-endless supply of new puzzles for players to enjoy. Since its release, over 200,000 new community made levels have been uploaded to the Steam Workshop, ready for a one-click download and integration into Cave Johnson’s pan-dimensional scam. Whether you love lasers, revere repulsion gel or crave companion cubes (don’t we all?) there’s sure to be something out there. Here’s our pick of the best ten community-created puzzles available, and a further five fulsome campaigns. Obviously, with so many to choose from, some are bound to have fallen through the cracks. Be sure to share your favourites in the comments, and keep your eyes peeled for our top co-op maps in the very near future. Head over to PCGamer.com

Hitman: Absolution "Living, Breathing World" Trailer

With Hitman: Absolution right around the corner from release IO Interactive has blessed us with it's sixth trailer titled "Living, Breathing World". If this game isn't on your radar then I feel bad for you.

Deadlight Secrets and Diary Location vid guide complete!!

Need help looking for those handlhelds, secrets and diaries while escaping the shadows? Well InfinitePCGaming has you covered with our location videos for all chapters. Head on over to the Deadlight Walkthrough section for the vids! All vids recorded at 1080p 60fps

Sleeping Dogs Patch 1.7 + Hotfix Release Notes

The Sleeping Dogs Patch 1.7 and Hotfix was released this week on Steam. This update closely mirrors that of the recent console update and adds support for the Nightmare in North Point DLC in addition to several bug fixes and a few new features.

FEATURE UPDATES

• Aim-assist Option - A new option exists in the Game & Controls menu to enable/disable the auto-aim feature that assists the player in locking onto enemies while using guns.
• 40Cal Gun Unlock - Upon completing the main story missions and returning to any safehouse, the Golden .40Cal pistol will be available.
• Increased Daytime - Daytime should now last noticeably longer, but night time duration should remain the same (increasingly the real-time duration of the in-game 24hr cycle).
• Disable GPS Arrows Option - A new option exists in the Game & Controls menu to disable the in-world GPS arrows that indicate where to turn when navigating to a destination.
• In-game DLC Store Access - Wherever the user can see the infoticker while in-game (wardrobe, clothing & vehicle stores, garage, pause menu) there will be a button callout to open the Steam DLC store in-game.
• New Super-SWAT Outfit and Supercharged Police Cruiser unlocks - For owners of the Police Protection Pack, the Super-SWAT outfit and the supercharged police cruiser vehicle will become available. Owners of the Dragon Master Pack will receive this as well.

Cypress Hill backup singer "Shagg" loses $250 million law suit

Model and Cypress Hill backup singer Michael "Shagg" Washington was leaning on that fact when he sued Rockstar Games for $250 million in 2010, alleging San Andreas protagonist CJ drew heavily from his life's story and physical appearance without compensation.

The Hollywood Reporter says a California appeals court Wednesday backed up a prior decision that Washington couldn't prove CJ's creation was not covered by publisher Take-Two's transformative use defense. That is, the argument that the First Amendment permits existing materials to be used free and clear if they are altered enough for a new purpose.

Washington was not without ammunition in the case--Rockstar developers did in fact interview him about his history as former gang member in 2003, and he even appeared in San Andreas' credits as talent. But the appeals court wasn't having it, according to its unpublished written decision.


Source GamesRadar

State of Decay ALPHA build videos

State of Decay is our ambitious zombie-survival open world game currently under development at Undead Labs for release on Xbox 360 / Xbox LIVE Arcade and PC.

Giveaway: Win this absurd $2,800 Origin PC courtesy of The War Z

PC Gamer is having a contest where you can win this crazy gaming rig. I suggest you enter ASAP. Details below!

For the low, non-existent price of liking us on Facebook and sending us an email, you can be eligible to win a new PC. Courtesy of The War Z creators Hammerpoint Interactive, we’re giving away a fancy rig tricked-out with the laser-etched logos you crave. But more importantly, it’s stuffed with a quad-core Intel Core i7 3770K, a liquid cooling system, a GTX 680, and backed by Origin’s warranty program.

Regrettably, we can’t extend this giveaway to our readers outside the United States. We’re also unable, weirdly, to offer the prize to residents of Rhode Island (because the prize’s value exceeds $500). We’re truly sorry that laws get in the way of us offering this giveaway to everyone.

HOW TO ENTER:
“Like” PC Gamer on Facebook, and write an email to contests@pcgamer.com with the subject line “Origin PC giveaway,” and provide your complete name, address, city, state, zip code, birthdate, and phone number. One prize winner will be randomly selected on November 12, 2012.

LIMIT ONE ENTRY PER HOUSEHOLD, REGARDLESS OF FORM OF ENTRY. Use of automated devices or methods of submission are not valid forms of entry. Any attempt at email or other alternative Internet entry is void. Entries become the property of the Sponsor(s) and will not be acknowledged or returned. Please read additional sweepstakes rules and information on the next page.

Check back on Monday for another contest—we’ll be partnering with non-profit gaming clan and community resource Gamersplatoon.com to give away 50 digital copies of The War Z.



System Specs:
Chassis: Corsair 800D
Desktop Case Lighting: Remote controlled multi colored LED Strip
Fans: Origin High-Performance Ultra Silent Fans – Red
Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K Quad-Core Processor (8MB L3 Cache) with ORIGIN PC Professional CPU Overclocking
Liquid Cooling: ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 120 Sealed Liquid Cooling System
Motherboard: Intel DZ77RE-75K (Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s)
Graphics Card: 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 with ORIGIN PC Professional GPU Overclocking
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz
Power Supply: 750 Watt Corsair TX750M
Hard Drive 1 and 2: Dual 500GB SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD in RAID 0
Optical Drive: 12X Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)
Operating System: Genuine MS Windows® 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Edition
Warranty: 1 Year Part Replacement and 45 Day Free Shipping Warranty with DVD image
and Lifetime Support
Laser Etching: Custom WarZ and PC Gamer Logos

XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2nd Patch update

2K Community Coordinator DrCane has posted up some info on the 2KGames forums for the second XCOM: Enemy Unknown patch. Details below.

Thanks for all the feedback you guys have provided here in the XCOM forums. We here at 2k Games and Firaxis have been listening to your comments and are preparing a patch that will be releasing soon on all platforms. Exact date is TBD, but we will let you know as soon as we get word.

Here are a list of changes that will be included in the patch.

Major Fixes
• Abductor roof visibility problems resolved.
• Interception game hang issues resolved.
   - If two interceptors are sent after UFO.
   - If Skyranger is returning from combat after an Interceptor was already deployed.
• SHIV inaccessible issues resolved.
• AI Alien Activity Hang resolution.
• Multiplayer connectivity optimization.

Other Fixes
• Temple Ship optimization: All Soldiers properly spawn when restarting the mission after clearing the second room of Temple Ship.
• Snapshot penalty should no longer apply when Overwatching without first moving.
• Easy Difficulty is now easier.

Again, thanks for all the feedback and for being super patient as we prepare each patch for release. We are always monitoring the forums for issues and will post as soon as we get official updates.

Updated:
Adding my reply to the defeat screen issue here so its more visible. This is NOT confirmed to be fixed on the upcoming patch.

Defeat screen after beating game Firaxis is currently aware and researching this issue. We got a couple save files (thanks to you guys) on Oct 22nd that they're looking at. I'll let you guys know as soon as I hear anything about it.

Classic PC game Descent being remade in Unreal Engine 3

Anyone remember this classic game? Well a lot of people still praise this game and one fan named Max decided to take it upon himself to recreate this classic game using Unreal Engine 3. Have to give him a lot of credit for doing this solo so far. Here's a list of what he's accomplished in a small amount of time plus his future plans along with a video showing it's current state.

Completed to date:

- Complete 6DOF movement with proper acceleration on every axis and double/triple chording
- Weapon system basics for primary and secondary weapons that can be fired simultaneously
- Laser and ball fire projectiles
- Basic robot AI, currently tailored to the Class 1 and 2 Drone
- Spawn points for easy placement of robots in a map

The following features are on the table for the full game:
- A retelling of the original story
- Remakes of the original levels, with an emphasis on a thriller/horror atmosphere
- Remodeled and animated original robots with advanced AI
- All the weapons from Descent with potential new ones mixed in
- High-detail Pyro-GX ship model with 3D cockpit view
- More diverse gameplay, but with a strong focus on the basics that made Descent great

Since there is so much to do with this project he is asking for help from talented developers to help with models, textures etc. If you feel like you have what it takes send him an email to madmax1998@gmail.com. For further updates hit up his website Descent.Silverball-Magic

PS4: new kits shipping now, AMD A10 used as base

Multiple sources have confirmed to VG247 today that a new version of the Orbis kit is now shipping to developers, and that its housed in a normal PC case.There are to be four versions of the dev kit, we were told. A previous version was essentially just a graphics card. The version shipping now is a modified PC and the third version, appearing in January, will be close to final spec. A final version will be delivered to developers next summer.

Complete story over at VG247.

Devil May Cry will test your skills. Four extreme difficulty settings confirmed as unlockable

Games Radar has confirmed the new Devil May Cry game will boast 4 Extreme Difficulty settings once unlocked. Looking at these descriptions of the modes says it all. I suck at these games so good luck to anyone that gets through with them, especially Hell and Hell.

Son of Sparda - Enemies get tougher, attack waves are remixed.

Dante Must Die - Contains the strongest enemies and insane attack waves

Heaven or Hell - The remixed mode, but everyone and everything, including Dante, dies after one hit. 

Hell and Hell - The same as above, but only Dante dies after one hit. 

DayZ Build 1.7.3 Rolling Update

DayZ Build 1.7.3 Rolling Update Update from the DayZ Mod Forums.

This is the first community + development team generated update for the DayZ mod. It is the culmination of a huge amount of work by both the community and the development team. The half-done 1.7.3 patch was made available to the community, who included many of their own fixes and updates. While dogs are "in" there are some mechanics missing so they cannot currently be used. Both myself and Matt spent a significant amount of time playing this today, and it was a lot of fun.

Patch notes


Client:
* [NEW]  Tents can no longer be placed on concrete.
* [FIXED]  Building checks for tent placement (No longer place tents in buildings).
* [FIXED]  Tents now are one click place.
* [FIXED]  Fixed function for checking if in buildings.
* [UPDATED]  Vehicle repair menus now all replaced.
* [NEW]  Vehicle menus now list all damaged parts no matter if you have the item or not.
* [NEW]  Vehicle repair menus will now let you know the exact item you need to repair on failed repair attempts.
* [FIXED]  Vehicle Damage is now fully working.
* [FIXED]  Vehicle Killed is now in effect fully destroyed vehicles will now set correct in db.
* [FIXED]  Tents Now add and remove from db.
* [FIXED]  Food can no longer be consumed if the player does not have in inventory.
* [FIXED]  water can no longer be consumed if the player does not have in inventory.
* [UPDATED]  Updated UI control bug.
* [NEW]  Toolbox is now needed for all repairs.
* [NEW]  Alt-f4 is now locked and will only open your status menu.
* [Fixed]  No longer possible to drink/eat/pitch a tent/put on clothes/build sand bags/cat wire/hedgehogs/consume medical supplies/free filled water without consuming the item.
* [FIXED]  No longer possible to create axes out of thin air if you already have one
* [FIXED]  Switching skins no longer repairs pain shakes/broken legs/resets/dupes/screws/resets ammo
* [FIXED]  Duping no longer possible through zombie corpses/etc
* [FIXED]  It should now be impossible for a new players spawns to spawn unconscious.
* [FIXED]  You can no longer cook infinite free meat from camp fires
* [FIXED]  Survivors should no longer pickup a single item at the same time and both receive it.
* [FIXED]  You can no longer generate multiple tents while packing up a deployed tent.
* [FIXED]  You can no longer change clothes/eat/drink/etc. while in a vehicle
* [UPDATED]  ItemWire reduced from 0.06 to 0.01
* [UPDATED]  PartEngine updated from 0.01 to 0.06
* [UPDATED]  Version info is now displayed correct
* [NEW]  New Combat System If you fire a weapon, then you go into combat.  During combat, "ABORT" is disabled. (Need to look at the effects with high player counts)
* [NEW]  Combat 30 sec timer on all combat actions.
* [FIXED]  Zombie death animation is delayed (now it plays instantly)

Server:
* [NEW] HiveEXT.dll now replaced with our new version.
* [NEW] Official Hive login is now hard coded into the .dll
* [NEW] New Hive can now set ingame time to custom, local(local server time), static
* [FIXED]  Object Gear syncs happen based on radius not just on menu.
* [FIXED]  Vehicle Position is now updated with client position.
* [FIXED]  Vehicles save fuel properly

IBM carbon nanotube transistors could make CPUs five to ten times faster than today's silicon chips

IBM have demonstrated a new way to place carbon nanotubes as transistors in the commercial production of the teeny, tiny and freakishly powerful, processors of the future. Microchip manufacturers have been looking for ways to keep up with the demand for ever smaller, ever quicker, ever more efficient chips to power all our techie devices - and they have been very successful. But we are getting to a point where the limits put in place by the laws of physics are going to get in the way of further generations of our gaming processors.

Full article over at PC Gamer

Counter Strike: Global Offensive free to play

In a post over at the Counter Strike blog news of the big Electronics Sports World Cup revealed some great news. Counter Strike: Global Offensive is free to play from now till Sunday! Official post below.

"We are so excited about this tournament, not only did we send half the CS:GO team to France to watch and talk with the pro players, we also want to make sure all players can view the matches; so we are making CS:GO free this weekend! From Thursday at 10am to Sunday at 1pm PST, CS:GO will be available to everyone free of charge.

In case that confuses you; here are the details. This weekend? CS:GO is free. Download it. Play it. Love it. It’s free. Who knows, we might even put it on sale if you want to keep playing after this weekend. For current players, tell your friends to join you and show them your GO skills. This will also be a great test for your skills in Competitive Mode. Ranked players will only meet Free Weekend players skilled enough to climb into their skill group.

Hitman Absolution system requirements

Hitman Absolution system requirements (MINIMUM)

CPU: 2.4 GHz dual core Intel or AMD processor
RAM: 1GB of system memory
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible card with 512 MB RAM. Nvidia 8-series or AMD Radeon 3000 series graphics cards.

Operating system: Windows Vista

Sound Card: DirectX compatible
HDD Space: 10 GB of hard drive space

Hitman Absolution system requirements (RECOMMENDED)

CPU: 2.6 GHz quad core Intel or AMD processor, Core i5 or Phenom X2
RAM: 2GB
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible card with 1GB of video memory, Nvidia 400-series or AMD 5000-series.
Operating system: Windows 7
Sound Card: DirectX compatible
HDD Space: 10 GB of hard drive space

Seasonic introduces new X Series power supplies

The very first full modular multi-output ATX, high-wattage power supply that has ever obtained the 80PLUS® Gold certification is introduced by Seasonic, this coveted power supply is named “X” and is offered in 560W versions.

Featuring a patent pending design of “DC Connector Module with Integrated VRM”, the X Series is set to achieve both near-perfect DC to DC conversion and fully modularized design without compromising efficiency.

After a long wait, finally there is a product that delivers the complete package, ultra-high efficiency, greatly improved dynamic response, and customizable cable arrangement that is tailored to meet any individual’s needs.

Head on over to Seasonic website for full details.