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Archived News:
The GeForce website now offers new version
361.43 WHQL-certified Windows drivers for GeForce graphics cards.
These release notes have the complete details, while the overview stresses
the additional VR support these introduce: NVIDIA continues to work
closely with VR headset and game developers to deliver amazing VR games and
applications. This Game Ready driver includes the latest GameWorks VR tweaks,
bug fixes, and optimizations to ensure you have the ultimate VR gaming
experience.
Gaming Technology
Support added for
GameWorks VR 1.1 including VR SLI support for OpenGL applications and
support for the latest Oculus SDK
Steam News announces the
release of the SteamOS editions of
Saints Row IV
and Saints Row: Gat out
of Hell. The whole open-world Saints Row series is on sale to celebrate,
and they say the SteamOS editions of the previous installments in the franchise
are in the works: Both
Saints Row IV
and Saints Row: Gat out of
Hell are now available for SteamOS!
Thanks to Steam Play, having either game in your library means you can play it
on any supported OS -- Windows or SteamOS.
To celebrate, for a limited time you can grab
Saints Row IV: Game of the
Century Edition for 70% off,
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
for 66% off, or the entire
Saints Row Ultimate Franchise Pack for 66% off.
Saints Row 2 and
Saints Row: The Third --
included in the Saints Row
Ultimate Franchise Pack -- are also planned for SteamOS early next year, and
will also support Steam Play.
In addition Full Steam Controller support for Saints Row IV and Gat out of Hell
is planned for early next year!
Hot off the
Rockstar Newswire is word that the holiday celebration in Grand Theft
Auto Online is underway for the next couple of weeks: Celebrate the
holiday season in Los Santos now through January 5th with the Festive Surprise
2015 for GTA Online. This year's holiday treats feature a whole new collection
of free seasonally appropriate clothes and accessories for PlayStation 4, Xbox
One and PC. This includes:
- New Santa outfits and a new collection of snug Pajamas
- Masks featuring Mr. and Mrs. Claus, Bad Elf, Crazy Gingerbread, Festive
Luchador and more
- 3 Christmas themed Car Horns
- Christmas Trees at Legion Square and in all owned Apartments, Stilt
Houses and Yachts
Also, all festive attire from years past will be available during the holiday
period for all platforms including original Masks and Clothes from both last
year's Festive Surprise and the original 2013 Holiday Gifts. Plus keep an eye
out for special gifts on all platforms during the holidays, including the chance
for a few snowball fights during the rare phenomenon of Los Santos snowfall in
the forecast as well as some special additions to the growing collection of fun
Adversary Modes on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
#FESTIVESURPRISE2015 SNAPMATIC PHOTO CHALLENGE
Post your best holiday-themed Snapmatic to Social Club between now and January
5, 2016, and our five most festive favorites will earn a GTA$1M award and also
be featured at the Newswire. Make sure to tag your photos with
#FestiveSurprise2015 on Social Club to be eligible. Official Rules.
THE GTA ONLINE HOLIDAY PARTY LIVESTREAM
Tune in tomorrow Tuesday December 22nd at 5pm ET on Twitch or YouTube Gaming for
the second annual Official GTA Online Holiday Party Livestream with special
invited community guests.
GOG.com
announces a holiday celebration that sees them putting their entire Bethesda
Softworks catalog on sale for 75% off, not counting games they are offering for
free. Here's the deal on the deal: With a new free game in our catalog:
Bio Menace, something of a mix
between the smooth and joyous gameplay of Commander Keen, and the alien
weirdness of the original Duke Nukem platformers. The spacey 2D shooter by 3D
Realms is now part of our selection of free, truly worth playing, classics.
With a Happy Holiday Sale from GOG.com & Bethesda:
Have a holly, jolly discount. It's the best time of the year. We don't know if
there will be snow, but have a cup of deal. It's
up to
75% off the entire Bethesda catalog on GOG.com - including the three and
only classic Fallout games, as well as some of the best shooters in history: the
retro Wolfenstein 3D & Return to Castle duo, The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II & Final
DOOM alongside the Quake series (from the singleplayer gory of Quake + Quake II,
through the timeless mutliplayer mayhem of Quake III). Finally, there's the
chance to explore the history of The Elder Scrolls with classics like Morrowind,
Battlespire, and Redguard.
As always, any purchase from the Bethesda catalog on GOG.com comes with a free
copy of The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls Chapter II:
Daggerfall!
Here's a new trailer
from Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition, introducing the 250 Legendary
Levels that are one of the package's enhancements. "We listen closely to our
community and hear many voices of people who did every single thing in Dying
Light wanting more. Legendary Levels are one of the ways how we’re making the
post-game content more meaty," explains Maciej Binkowski, lead game designer.
"We’re adding 250 additional levels, so you can keep on developing your
character while unlocking new weapons, outfits, emblems, and skills. It means
massive replayability." Continue here to read the full story.
A new trailer from
The Deadly Tower of Monsters shows us some of the "monster movie magic" in
ACE Team's action/adventure game that's due for release next month. Here's word
from the description: When Dick Starspeed crash-lands his rocket on the
planet of Gravoria, he’ll have to fight through dinosaurs, nukular ants, and
other skilled, costumed stuntmen to make it up the deadly tower of monsters.
Fire up your ray guns, crystal swords, and laser whips, and get ready for
thrills and chills! Be amazed by the state-of-the-art effects, including
stop-motion, rotoscope, image compositing, and even some elaborate costumes
covered in real fur! With three incredible movie stars playing out decidedly
B-level sci-fi exploits, Dick Starspeed, Scarlet Nova, and Robot will have you
ready to jump off the side of the tower—right into adventure! Gather your
courage and prepare to face off against the more than half-a-hundred monsters
that will try and stop your ascension up THE DEADLY TOWER OF
MONSTERS!
Continue here to read the full story.
VG247 points the way to several videos that have appeared online from the
alpha version of The Division, Ubisoft's upcoming open-world shooter. These show
off environments and customization options, but they do represent leaks, as
those given access to the alpha signed NDAs and were instructed not to share
like this, so it's likely these will be removed before too long.
Obsidian Entertainment now offers
The Road to Eternity
for all, a documentary going behind-the-scenes with Pillars of Eternity,
their crowdfunded RPG. This will cost $0.99 to view, and here's an outline of
what you get for your buck: In “The Road to Eternity,” Obsidian's
talented team of developers Josh Sawyer, Adam Brennecke and CEO Feargus Urquhart
who have contributed to such notable franchises as Fallout, Star Wars, and
Dungeons & Dragons pull back the curtain on the Pillars of Eternity development
story, and share unguarded thoughts and testimonials about the bleak lows and
the dizzying highs of their journey. The documentary offers a great deal of
inside information for fans, as well as a rare look into what crowdfunding can
mean to an independent game developer.
Video development diary 19
from Hellblade offers a look at the atmospheric VFX in Ninja Theory's
upcoming hack-and-slash game. Word is: "In our final Development Diary of 2015
we show some of the work that is going into creating Hellblade’s
atmosphere." Continue here to read the full story.
GfK Chart-Track offers new U.K. game sales charts for last week. This close to
the holidays things are pretty stable, as the top 10 on the
PC sales chart is just reshuffled, with Football Manager 2016 retaining the
top spot. The
all platforms top 40 also remains fairly unchanged, and Call of Duty: Black
Ops III holds on at number one there. Here's the
summary of the action:
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’ becomes the 6th Call of Duty game to claim
the coveted Christmas No1 as the Top 5 are all non-movers this week.
There were three real contenders this year with newcomer ‘Star Wars Battlefront’
looking to dethrone perennial Christmas chart toppers FIFA and Call of Duty.
Sales of Activision Blizzard’s popular shooter jumped by the highest margin out
of the three, up 33% compared to Star Wars’ 20% increase and FIFA’s 24% jump in
sales. However, ‘Star Wars Battlefront’ does take the honour of EA’s biggest
selling title this week, holding on to No2 ahead of ‘FIFA 16’ at No3. A price
promotion on ‘Fallout 4’ was not enough for it to crash the party. Despite sales
climbing a healthy 44%, it remains at No4. ‘Minecraft: Story Mode’ (+11%) has a
solid performance at No5 meaning that ‘Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate’ (+20%) has
to settle for a move of one place up to No6 – the first time an Ubisoft title
has charted outside the Top 5 in a Christmas Chart week since 2008.
‘Just Cause 3’ (+0%) drops one place to No7, while ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (+21%)
and ‘Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege’ (-2%) are both non-movers at No’s 8 and 9
respectively. A jump of one place is enough to ensure Sony’s ‘Uncharted: The
Nathan Drake Collection’ (+10%) re-enters the Top 10 at No10.
My second replacement coffee cone arrived yesterday, which was my first
experience with Amazon Prime free delivery on Sunday, which is something that
will take some getting used to. I was a little pissed at the lack of padding on
the first cone that was delivered, as it was completely destroyed, but the
second one was completely intact, even though it was even less padded than the
first. But now that I see it, I understand better why they didn't bother to
swaddle this in packing material, as this thing seems about twice as thick and
heavy as the one it replaced. I am more surprised that the first one they
delivered broke when it fell, in fact I'm shocked it didn't chip the sidewalk.
I'm pretty sure this piece of porcelain could stop a bullet.
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