Though
Singularity is not due in the U.S. until Tuesday, Raven's first-person shooter is now available in Europe. A post on
Voodoo Extreme identifies a texture-streaming problem that's a severe example of a problem with other Unreal 3 engine games, and they point to
this post outlining a fix that should help correct this. The problem is that to change the pool size to address this, one must delve into the innards of a hidden bin file and the singularity.exe itself with a hex editor, which may be too daring for some folks, so hopefully Activison and Raven will come up with a more user-friendly fix going forward.
This Blog has some design documents for "a 3rd person, survival-horror open world game," which
superannuation identifies as being from "Crystal Dynamics' San Francisco-set '3rd person, survival-horror open world game' Downfall."
They also say that
this page offers some
Downfall concept art, though the URL includes "Urban Chaos," which suggests
a different game altogether.
A new unofficial patch for
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is now available, continuing the remarkable community support for the action/RPG that's lasted more than five years since the demise of its developer, Troika Games. As always, the patch can be found on its official home,
The Patches Scrolls. The
patch notes explain all that's new and different.
Steam announces the ten bestselling games on their service for the week:
- Left 4 Dead 2
- THQ Complete Pack
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Call of Duty Pack
- BioShock 2
- APB All Points Bulletin
- Resident Evil 5
- Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition + Awakening
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior
- Transformers: War for Cybertron
We stopped in on our neighbors yesterday for a party they held to celebrate their son's high school graduation. He's a nice young man who will be heading to Indiana for college, and it was very pleasant to wish them all well. It's also a little disturbing, because we've been living here for 10 years now, so while he is now a strapping 18 year-old, who's at least an inch taller than me, we still have some vivid "seems like yesterday" memories of him as an eight-year-old boy, which does a lot to hammer home how quickly time passes.
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