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Though neither noted nor available on the
GeForce website, the more general
NVIDIA Website now offers new
version 382.33 WHQL-certified drivers for GeForce graphics cards (thanks
Hypothermia).
These release notes have all the details. Here's a bit: Gaming
Technology
Includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases
for a variety of titles.
Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for the following:
- Heroes of the Storm 2.0
- Gears of War 4 Multi-GPU Update
- Prey
- Quake Champions Closed Beta
- Star Trek Bridge Crew
- Tekken 7
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Game Ready VR
Provided optimal VR experience for the following:
- Batman: Arkham VR
- Battlezone
- Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
- Wilson's Heart
New Product Support
Added support for the NVIDIA TITAN Xp and GeForce GT 1030 products.
Steam News has word that
Starpoint Gemini 2 is currently free
on Steam, and that
anyone who adds it to their library over the next two days will get to keep it:
Get Starpoint Gemini
2 for FREE starting now until May 24th at 10AM Pacific Time! Once you add
the game it will remain in your account after the free period, so don't miss
out!
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space
simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but
images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini
war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than
ever.
UbiBlog
promises more details about Far Cry 5 on Friday, and in the meantime, offer a
new teaser trailer
showing off the game's setting of Hope County, Montana. This runs about 41
seconds, but there's also a
this video which adds
three additional teasers to total 2:30. These clips might suggest that the new
installment in the action-packed series will involve harvesting fields or fly
fishing, but the placid environments may also confirm rumors the game will have
a western theme to match this western locale. Here's word on the plan to reveal
some details this week: "We’ll have a lot more to say about Far Cry 5 this
Friday, May 26 – but to whet your appetite (and because we’re terrible teases),
here are a few brief postcards from Montana’s beautiful Hope County, pulled
together into a single teaser video." Continue here to read the full story.
Kalypso Media announces that closed beta testing is now underway for Sudden
Strike 4, the next installment in the World War II strategy series. This is
available to all who pre-purchase the game
on Steam, which comes along with a free copy of the
Sudden Strike Trilogy. Here's
a trailer along with details on the testing: The beta will
run all the way to the game’s full release on August 11, 2017, offering
pre-purchase customers a first look at Sudden Strike 4, with access to the
game’s tutorial, three singleplayer missions (Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad
and Balaton Defensive Operation) and two multiplayer/skirmish maps. Testers will
also have exclusive access to the Beta Test Forum on Steam, where they can
submit feedback and bug reports to the developers as they continue to polish the
game in the run up to launch. The beta will be available in the following
languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Korean,
traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese.
Continue here to read the full story.
BANDAI NAMCO BADGER SNAKE announces the release of the Windows edition of
Impact Winter
on Steam,
saying the console editions of the survival game are coming later this year. The
release trailer offers
a look at what to expect, and here's word: Leading interactive
entertainment media publisher and developer BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America
Inc. today announces that IMPACT WINTER, a post-apocalyptic survival adventure
game from developer Mojo Bones, is now available digitally in the Americas for
PC via STEAM®. Digital versions will be available for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One
later this year.
The year is 2018 and after a devastating asteroid collision, the world is buried
deep beneath perpetual snowfall. Supplies are scarce and each day exposes a more
difficult challenge to survive than the last. A mysterious radio transmission
changes everything by bringing a glint of hope -- help is coming in 30 days.
Players take on the role of Jacob Solomon as he leads a group of four other
survivors, each with their own special skill sets, throughout a month-long
journey to scour the land, acquire supplies, craft new tools and items, and stay
united as a cohesive team to fend off the hostile winter and survive long enough
until rescue comes. The music soundtrack was created by famed synthwave/electronic
composer Mitch Murder.
“The talented team at Mojo Bones created a riveting story-driven adventure for
players who enjoy survival and strategy games,” said Eric Hartness, Vice
President of Marketing at BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. “Players have
to face tough moral decisions, and fight to keep their teammates together,
making IMPACT WINTER a uniquely powerful gameplay experience.”
Continue here to read the full story.
If you're specin' TEKKEN 7, look no further than the
GeForce website where they have system specs for the brawler sequel with a
headline saying "GeForce GTX 1060 & 1080 Ti Recommended For The Definitive
Experience," outlining a broad performance range that seems anything but
definitive. The distinction involves 4K gameplay, which is shown off in
this previously released
trailer. Here's word: To run Tekken 7 at 4K at this level of detail,
at a constant 60 FPS, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is required. If your system
doesn't sport the world's fastest gaming GPU, don't despair: Anti-Aliasing,
Effects, Shadows, Post-Process Effects, and Motion Blur can all be dialed back
to give your system enough frames for an excellent experience. Or you can try
the "Dynamic Adjustment" setting, which will dynamically raise and lower the
quality of settings as you play to ensure a smooth, consistent 60 FPS is
achieved.
For other resolutions, such as the commonly-used 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, the
GeForce GTX 1060 is recommended by Bandai Namco:
Tekken 7 Minimum System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core Intel Core i3-4160 @
3.60GHz or equivalent
- GPU: GeForce GTX 660 or 750 Ti, or
equivalent
- RAM: 6GB
- OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
(64-bit versions)
- HDD: 60GB free space
- DirectX: Version 11
Tekken 7 Recommended System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5 GHz or
equivalent
- GPU: GeForce GTX 1060, or equivalent, or
higher
- RAM: 8GB
- OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
(64-bit versions)
- HDD: 60GB free space
- DirectX: Version 11
Continue here to read the full story.
Link of the Day: We
Broke: Prey. NSFW. Thanks Ant.
DualShockers reports that PlatinumGames producer Atsushi Inaba revealed a
new IP during a keynote address in Japan (thanks
GameSpot). This is especially vague, as the Bayonetta studio
currently refers to this as a "formless, shapeless IP." Here are the
non-detailed details: Inaba-san teased the existence of a “formless,
shapeless IP” that he can’t talk about today. Interestingly, he also mentioned
that on top of the new IP, it’s also going to involve a new director, and it’s
going to be interesting to see how that new director will grow, and how he will
help PlatinumGames grow as a company as well.
An
interview on Eurogamer chats with Alexis Kennedy, talking with the Sunless
Sea writer about the next Dragon Age. Kennedy's move to BioWare last year
inspired
speculation that he'd be working on the Dragon Age series, and in their new
conversation he officially lets that Dragon out of the bag. He offers some
details on what he's doing, and here's the part where he confesses what game
it's for: "There are huge differences between all of that and what I'm
working on at BioWare," he says, pausing - "which I can now legitimately say is
in the Dragon Age franchise although it has been known for a while. Notionally
it was a secret but, because of who I was working with, everyone who cared knew.
And then the day I started, Mark Darrah [executive producer of the Dragon Age
franchise] tweeted saying 'welcome to the Dragon Age franchise', so I thought,
well, I guess that's official now then."
Telltale Games announces A New Frontier will be released on May 30th,
offering a fifth and final chapter for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series,
the episodic zombie adventure. They promise a gameplay trailer and a developer
commentary video next week, and in the meantime there's this overview of the
finale: Fellow survivors, the time has finally come!
We’re thrilled to announce the season finale for The Walking Dead: The Telltale
Series - A New Frontier will be available for download starting Tuesday, May 30.
As with previous episodes, 'From the Gallows' is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox
One, PC/Steam, iOS, and Android-based devices, and will automatically download
for all season pass holders.
Thanks to the nuanced relationships you’ve developed over the course of this
season, ‘From the Gallows’ will be Telltale's most tailored episode to date. As
you know, Richmond teeters on the brink of collapse, and the lives of its
citizens and all those closest to Javier hang in the balance. The decisions
you've made and bonds you've nurtured will determine which characters now trust
Javi to safeguard all they hold dear as this crisis pushes every relationship
past its breaking point.
Obviously I’m not going to spoil anything, but...stuff’s about to go down. And
don’t ask me about that key art!
Grasshopper Manufacture reveals an update coming next week to The Silver Case
next week adding new content to the remastered edition of this "adventure
novel." These free additions are already present on the PlayStation 4 edition,
and they help bridge the gap between The Silver Case and the game's upcoming
sequel.
This Tweet indicates the sequel will be a remake of The Silver Case: Ward
25, which was originally released for mobiles. Word is: "The 25th Ward: The
Silver Case is officially going into production" (thanks
Polygon). Here's more: We are happy to announce two new scenarios
will be added to “The Silver Case” HD remaster PC Version which tie the main
story and its upcoming sequel together. “White Out” will be a new chapter added
to “Transmitter” within the game, whereas “Yami” will be added to “Placebo”.
This new content will be added in a free update.
In addition to this, some adjustments to the game regarding some movies/images
and additional achievements will also be included in the update.
The update is scheduled for PC Platform distributers (Steam/PLAYISM/GOG/Humble
Store) on May 30th, 2017 Japan Standard Time. We hope you look forward to it.
Football Manager 2017 remains number one on the
GFK Chart-Track chart of the 30 bestselling PC games in the U.K. for last
week. This chart is pretty slow, as there a lot of reentries throughout. The
all platforms chart is more dynamic, as Injustice 2 is the new number one,
and FarPoint is new at number two. Here's
this week's summary:
‘Injustice 2’ follows in the footsteps of its predecessor ‘Injustice:
Gods Among Us’ by making No1 in the All Formats Chart in its launch week.
It is Warner’s first No1 of 2017 and the first ‘beat em up’ to reach No1 since
‘Mortal Kombat X’, also developed by NetherRealm and published by Warner, back
in W18 2015. Sony’s new VR title ‘Farpoint’ debuts at No2, making it the highest
position a ‘VR required’ title has ever reached in the All Formats Chart,
surpassing ‘Playstation VR Worlds’ – which debuted at No7 in W41 2016. ‘Fire
Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia’ from Nintendo hits No5 in its launch week,
while Focus Home Interactive’s new title ‘The Surge’ debuts at No10, forcing
‘Lego Worlds’ out of the Top 10 for the first time since its release, slipping
to No11. A final new entry in the All Formats Top 40 goes to 505 Games with
‘Portal Knights’ in at No30. Several older titles re-enter the chart thanks to a
retailer’s huge clearance sale, most notably ‘Skylanders Superchargers’, back in
at No20 and ‘Destiny: The Collection’ back in at No31.
- AOC Agon AG241QG Monitor Test on
Overclocked Inside.
- BitFenix Portal Window Case on
Play3r.
- COUGAR MINOS X3 Gaming Mouse on
Play3r.
- ICY DOCK FlexiDOCK MB522SP-B on
Mad Shrimps.
- Plextor M8Se 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD on
Guru3D.
- Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2 Keyboard on
Vortez.
Okay, I'm going to sheepishly state we seem to be making progress on our home
improvements. The ruined floor is now un-ruined, and the contactor we've ditched
is making good on some of the problems he caused. Even more so, we think we've
secured his replacement to finish things up once and for all. The bad news is
this guy's quote is closer to the high end than what we were looking at
previously, but the good news is that his reputation is impeccable, so hopefully
he's worth it.
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