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Archived News:
Steam now offers a
WRC 5 Demo,
providing
the chance to test drive this game based on the FIA World Rally Championship
(thanks Frans). This violates the old proverb by allowing you to ride for free,
requiring no gas, grass, nor ass. Here's what this offers: Test
your driving skills at the wheel of Thierry Neuville's Hyundai i20 WRC on 2
challenging WRC special stages: the straight and technically demanding icy
asphalt of Sisteron-Thoard from the Rally Monte Carlo; and Newry's winding,
dusty forest roads from the Coates Hire Rally Australia.
UbiBlog now
offers minimum and recommended specifications for the PC edition of The
Division. They also outline
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Facts about the PC Version of The Division, saying this is "more than a
port" of the console edition, and that the game will support most hardware
setups; custom controls; and a customized UI, but not mods. Here are the specs reformatted for readability: MINIMUM
CONFIGURATION
- Supported OS: Windows® 7, Windows 8.1,
Windows 10 (64-bit versions only).
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 | AMD
FX-6100, or better.
- RAM: 6GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 with 2
GB VRAM (current equivalent NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760) | AMD Radeon HD 7770
with 2 GB VRAM, or better – See supported List*.
- Notebook support: Laptop models of these
desktop cards may work as long as they are on-par in terms of performance
with at least the minimum configuration. For an up-to-date list of supported
hardware, please visit the FAQ for this game on our website:
http://support.ubi.com
- DirectX: Version 11
- Hard Drive Space: 40 GB available space.
- Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Dual Layer.
- Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible
keyboard, mouse, headset, optional controller.
- Multiplayer: Broadband connection with 256
kbps upstream, or faster.
RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION
- Supported OS: Windows® 7, Windows 8.1,
Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD
FX-8350, or better.
- RAM: 8GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | AMD
Radeon R9 290, or better – See supported List*
- Notebook support: Laptop models of these desktop
cards may work as long as they are on-par in terms of performance with at
least the minimum configuration. For an up-to-date list of supported
hardware, please visit the FAQ for this game on our website:
http://support.ubi.com
- DirectX: Version 11
- Hard Drive Space: 40 GB available space.
- Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Dual Layer.
- Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible
keyboard, mouse, headset, optional controller.
- Multiplayer: Broadband connection with 512
kbps upstream, or faster.
A new
Developer Video #1 from The Solus Project offers an introduction to this
upcoming first-person survival adventure set on an alien world. In the face of
overwhelming odds, you'll be left with only one option: to science the poop out
of this. Or something. We'll find out soon enough, as the clip is accompanied by
word that this will come to Steam early access and Xbox Game Preview early next
month. Here's more: The Solus Project is a first-person survival adventure
game, set on a deserted alien planet. Unlike most other survival games, The
Solus Project is not a sandbox game with an open world, but rather more linear
single-player experience, with survival elements and ten large and complex
environments to explore.
The story goes that you crash-landed on an alien planet and every other member
of your crew is dead. While exploring the barren surroundings you find out that
you are not the first intelligent being to set foot here. Mankind is on the
verge of extinction and you were supposed to be the last hope to find a safe
haven to set up a colony. You have no choice, but to survive, as the fate of
mankind rests in your hands.
The Solus Project is an experience of intense isolation. “Solus” is Latin for
“alone”. You are light years from any human contact and there are no other ships
that can come to your rescue. You are completely alone.
Continue here to read the full story.
This post details
new heroes, skins, and mount coming to the Nexus in Heroes of the Storm,
Blizzard's MOBA. The new heroes are Li-Ming, the Diablo sorceress, and Xul, the
Diablo Necromancer. They
This video shows them off along with a bunch of new skins and three new
mounts. Word is these will enter the game "in the coming weeks." Continue here to read the full story.
Link of the Day:
Keanu - Redband Trailer. NSFW. Thanks nin.
Shacknews has details on a package called Atari Vault from developer
Code Mystics coming to Steam this spring with over 100 classic arcade games
from the 1970s and 1980s. They mention Asteroids, Centipede, and
Missile
Command, but don't have specifics on other titles to be included or what ROMs
will be used. They do note these will be updated with modern touches like online
and local multiplayer, Steam leaderboards, and Steam Controller support, and
we should get to see more of how this will work when the game is shown off next
month at PAX South. Thanks nin.
Amplitude Studios celebrates their fifth anniversary by announcing a new
expansion called Endless Legend Shifters, more details on Endless
Legend 2, and word to expect more unlockable content for all their Endless
games, helping them live up to their titles. Here's word on "Endless Day,"
which, while not literally endless, is closer to a week than a day:
Award-winning indie developer Amplitude Studios celebrated its annual
‘Endless Day’ yesterday with new unlockable content for it’s games as well as a
livestream which announced more details about Endless Space 2 and a new
expansion pack for Endless Legend named Shifters.
During ‘Endless Day’ players are
encouraged to play Amplitude Studios’ Endless Space, Endless Legend, and Dungeon
of the Endless (PC) before Monday 25th of January to unlock the Endless
Archivist hero and permanently unlock him, as well as a special Steam
achievement in each of the games.
“This ‘Endless Day’ marks the fifth anniversary of our studio, we want to thank
all the players and supporters for making us what we are today” said Romain de
Waubert de Genlis, creative director at Amplitude Studios. “2016 is going to be
a very exciting year for us, and we hope you all stick along for the ride.”
During Amplitude’s livestream the team announced an all new expansion pack for
Endless Legend called Shifters, launching in April. This expansion will include
a new Major Faction called The Allayi. This new civilization will be able to
‘shift’ during long winters. All factions will also be able to collect a new
resource called the ‘Pearls of Auriga’, enabling them to unlock new powers
through the ‘Altar of Auriga’ and modify the upcoming winters’ impact.
This trailer shows
off a few of the 101 ways to die in 101 Ways To Die, Four Door Lemon's upcoming
puzzle platformer. The game is due on Steam on March 22nd, and you can keep up
with things between now and then on the
official website. Here's word on the sadism the game involves: Dr
Splatunfuder has dedicated his life’s work to a twisted "recipe book" focused on
the death of his enemies. However, an unfortunate laboratory accident resulted
in the destruction of the first draft. As the ethically challenged assistant of
Dr Splatunfuder, players must assist him piecing the fragments back together;
page by page; chapter by chapter; kill by kill as they progress through a
fiendishly clever array of game puzzles.
By utilizing a variety of madcap and deadly implements, players must trap and
punish lab-created creatures known as Splatts – before ripping them apart in the
most stylish and imaginative ways possible. And whatever you do, don’t let them
escape.
Continue here to read the full story.
Okay, this is pretty awesome. I have the all the makings of a
batch of chili in place to start cooking tonight. I made this plan earlier
in the week when I found some Choice grade chuck to base this on. The awesome
part is
this post passed along by Ant shows that in a marvelous coincidence, today
would be the 151st birthday of Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, inventor of the Scoville
Scale of measuring the "heat" of peppers." That makes the operative number of
the day somewhere between 100,000 – 350,000, which
Wikipedia says is the
Scoville range of the Habanero peppers I will be using. Yee-hah!
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