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Archived News:
The Jack the Ripper DLC for Assassin's Creed Syndicate is now
available, as is a new patch for the latest installment in Ubisoft's
assassination series.
The patch notes have all the details on the new version, and the
UbiBlog has the rest of what you need to know: If you’re playing
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate on PC, you can now dive into the macabre, fear-fueled
Jack the Ripper DLC and solve the mystery of the Whitechapel murders on your
platform of choice. Unfolding (mainly) from Evie Frye’s point of view, the new
adventure is set 20 years after the events of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and
tasks you with tracking down history’s most notorious serial killer.
Jack the Ripper is available through Steam and Uplay for $14.99, and is also
included in the $29.99 Season Pass along with a slew of other content. Before
you grab the DLC, however, make sure you download the 1.31 patch (detailed in
full here), which adds Jack the Ripper support, better performance and stability
and a number of other fixes, including the following:
- Added additional parameter to AC.ini for disabling
cloth motion 30FPS limits
- Fixed crash in multi-monitor mode in London
- Fixed FXAA with enabled MSAA
- Fixed changing of display in fullscreen mode
issues
- Fixed flickering panel in World Map
- Fixed various render issues
- Fixed several online issues
- Minor UI improvements
Battle.net has a first
look at Season 5 for Diablo III, which Blizzard has
already revealed will begin on
January 15th. Here's the introduction: Patch 2.4.0 is live on the PTR for
testing and headed soon to live realms, stuffed to the brim with great new
features for Diablo III. For our Seasonal heroes out there, we’ve prepared this
guide to Season 5 so you can roll right into a fresh start on day one.
Several changes are coming to Seasons with Season 5, including the removal of
Season-exclusive Legendary Items, the introduction of new and varied rewards,
and a whole new feature in the form of Season Rebirth. Let’s check it out!
Table of Contents:
The Winter Sale is now underway on
Steam, offering discounts on thousands of games between now and January 4th.
This news post lists
first day specials and announces the debut of
a new daily serialized
comic: "The Steam Winter Sale starts today! For the next two weeks*, take
advantage of great discounts on thousands of games and software, and exclusive
Winter Sale trading cards. The event also includes the first-ever Steam Sale
comic, “Gingerbread Jake In: North Pole Noir,” with a new page of the comic
revealed every day." Here are today's highlighted deals:
Dutch developer Ronimo Games announces Awesomenauts: Overdrive, an upcoming
expansion for Awesomenauts, their 2D MOBA. Most of what's included, including an
overhauled matchmaking system, will be free to all owners of the game, though a
couple of premium characters are also included.
This page has all the details, the
announcement trailer
offers a look, and here's word: Today Ronimo is ready to announce a new
expansion for Awesomenauts, called Awesomenauts: Overdrive! The expansion will
be released in Q1 2016 and includes a massive overhaul of our matchmaking system
and updates to core game mechanics! In addition to these features, Awesomenauts:
Overdrive will add three technologically-advanced characters to the playable
roster, and brings visual improvements to various aspects of the game, including
a complete visual rework of fan-favorite Sheriff Lonestar!
- New Matchmaking
We will introduce a completely new matchmaking system, running on our own
servers, that is more stable and does a better job at pairing players of
equal skill, and prioritizes connection quality. This will end up being more
rewarding for our most veteran players, and be less daunting for new
recruits! Whether you win or lose a match, everybody wins with this new
system.
- Premium Characters
The time-travelling inventor Professor M. Yoolip, hyperbike-riding bounty
hunter Chucho Krokk, and the LUX5000 bot piloted by the twin babies Jimmy
and Amy, are gearing up to join the Awesomenauts. These three Awesomenauts
will form the premium content for the Awesomenauts: Overdrive Expansion and
they will all launch together on Steam in March 2016. Each of them will
receive a Beta phase that’s open for everyone, starting today with a Beta
Professor M. Yoolip!
Continue here to read the full story.
WBIE and DC Entertainment now offer Season of Infamy, a new DLC pack for Batman:
Arkham Knight that's included with season passes and is also available for
separate purchase for owners of the comic-inspired action/adventure. A
new trailer shows
off all the content in this December DLC update, and here's an outline: Play
as Batman in the Season of Infamy: Most Wanted Expansion, protecting Gotham City
from an invasion of legendary Super-Villains. Fight back against The Dark
Knight’s biggest foes in four separate missions, with all new story arcs
featuring DC Comics characters The Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Ra’s Al Ghul and Mr.
Freeze.
Season of Infamy missions include:
- Wonderland: The Mad Hatter makes things personal
as the Super-Villain lures Batman into a demented, hallucinatory battle of
wits across Gotham City and within the pages of a twisted story book.
- Beneath The Surface: The World’s Greatest
Detective and Nightwing venture out to investigate Iron Heights, a flying
airship prison that housed Killer Croc, after it crashed in the waters
surrounding Gotham City.
- Shadow War: Picking up after the events of Batman:
Arkham City, Batman’s devout moral code is pushed to its limits as Ra’s Al
Ghul’s health rebounds with the help of the League of Assassins.
- In From The Cold: Mr. Freeze returns to Gotham
City, where he is immediately entrapped in Arkham Knight’s Militia and
Scarecrow's plan to destroy Batman. Arkham Knight’s Militia has kidnapped
Nora and will return her to Mr. Freeze in exchange for Batman’s capture.
Continue here to read the full story.
The
Xsyon website announces that this postapocalptic sandbox MMORPG has dropped
its monthly subscriptions, and can now be played online for free as part of your
one-time purchase of the game. Here's the news: Xsyon: Prelude, the
apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG no longer requires a monthly subscription!
Due to popular demand, Xsyon has switched to a one time buy-to-play price
allowing for unlimited and unrestricted game play.
Past paid players are welcome to return for free to the world of Xsyon to rejoin
and rebuild tribes or simply enjoy the latest features! All players are also
welcome to join in testing upcoming improvements. Currently development is
focused on creatures, including combat revisions, taming, mounts and pets.
Steam keys are available to
all past paid players for those that wish to rejoin Xsyon through Steam.
An open
discussion has been posted for players with questions and suggestions about
this big change.
A
Kickstarter update for Torment: Tides of Numenera reveals the beta
version of the RPG will not be released this year as planned (thanks
PCGamesN). In early November inXile
entertainment announced the game's release was being pushed forward into 2016, but
that they had "full intentions" of releasing the beta this year, but that plan
has changed as well. They include a progress reports, and here's word on the
delay, since it was too long for their TL;DR: Chris here. Our team is
continuing to work hard on getting the Beta Test ready to deliver to you.
Torment is in that exciting stage where things are coming together rapidly, and
it's been amazing over the last few months to see so many elements of the game
take shape. We want to continue cleaning up some rough edges so that you can
have the best experience possible. For that reason, we are planning to release
the Torment Beta Test early next year so we can deliver a more polished and
complete Beta Test.
We know that you have been waiting for this, and we want to get the game to you
as soon as we can, but we felt that the Beta version we could bring you would be
that much better with a little more time in development. We appreciate your
patience.
We were quite happy with the release of the Alpha Systems Test, in that it
allowed us to collect useful feedback on even the smallest elements of the game.
We want the Beta Test to be a continuation of that level of collaboration with
our community, while also being a great first hands-on impression for Torment.
And this is going to be a legitimate hands-on. While the Alpha Systems Tests
could be finished in around 20 minutes, the upcoming Beta release will contain
over 10 hours of gameplay on a normal playthrough.
- ASUS R9 390 STRIX DirectCU III Video Card on
HARDOCP.
- ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q Monitor on
TweakTown. "NVIDIA G-Sync 165Hz Bliss."
- Corsair Carbide Series 600Q EATX Case on
HARDOCP.
- Fractal Design Kelvin S24 on
Technic3D. German.
- FSP Hydro G Series 750 W on
techPowerUp.
- G.Skill SR910 & SV710 Headset on
Hardware Canucks.
- G.Skill TridentZ 3200MHz DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) Dual Channel Memory Kit
on
eTeknix.
- GIGABYTE P34W v5 on
Vortez.
- HP Z27q Monitor on
AnandTech.
- HyperX Predator PCIe M.2 SSD Bootable RAID 0 Performance on
Legit Reviews.
- MSI Z170 XPOWER Gaming Titanium Edition Motherboard on
Play3r.net.
- NZXT HUE+ Advanced PC Illumination Kit on
eTeknix.
- Patriot Viper V360 Gaming Headset on
Technology X.
- SilverStone TD03 Slim AIO Liquid Cooler on
Benchmark Reviews.
- Sound Blaster Roar 2 on
LAN OC.
Happy first day of winter/summer, depending on which hemisphere you call home.
That would make it winter here in North America, though this really does inspire
a double-check (Rodgers!) of the calendar, since it's been so warm around here.
In fact, El Niño has it so that I've only worn a real coat twice so far this
season, and one of those it was clearly overkill. This will boil over, so to
speak, on Christmas Eve, when the forecast calls for a high of 70 °F. If it's
going to be a white Christmas around here, it's going to be because of sunblock.
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