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Archived News:
The Overwatch website
outlines the "launch protocols" for Blizzard's multiplayer shooter, explaining
when the game will go live in various territories. This is to be a simultaneous
global launch, so all the various times translate to midnight BST on May 24th,
which is 7:00 pm EDT on May 23rd. To help those eager for the game bide their
time, this post
promises the release of the next animated short for the game on Sunday, saying
this will feature Soldier: 76. Finally, here's a
new
Overwatch comic featuring Pharah.
Gearbox announces release plans for Alani, saying this warrior-monk healer
will come to Battleborn on May 31st, with early access beginning a week before that, saying
this is the first of five promised free post-release characters for the
first-person shooter/MOBA. They also reveal this will be an extended double XP
weekend in the game: Join us for a Double XP event in Battleborn! From
Friday until Wednesday, you can reap the rewards of earning double Command Rank
and Character Rank experience in all Story Mode missions and Competitive
Multiplayer matches. This event is global and available to all platforms. All
you need to do is jump into battle and bask in double XP glory.
- START: Friday, May 20 at 8am PDT
- END: Wednesday, May 25th at 8am PDT
New Fire Mountains DLC is now available
on Steam, offering new
content for the Steam
edition of Valhalla Hills, the newest strategy game from the team
behind The Settlers II and The Cultures. The game is currently on sale on Steam,
and word is a promotion will follow on
GOG.com. Word is: "the
second DLC of Valhalla Hills is burning hot like Lava! With the Fire Mountains
add-on, Daedalic Entertainment and Funatics bring Vulcano-mountains into play
that fire up the sturdy Vikings. Eventually, the stony ground is not suitable
for cultivation and lush meadows are rare. Only magic spells can be of help,
which are charged and activated by the sacrifical altars. However, unpredictable
vulcanos and hot lava are not the only threats to the Vikings: new opponents
such as Lavatrolls and Firescorpions wait for the opportunity to make life
harder for the brave Vikings."
A new Conquer This
World trailer from Total War: WARHAMMER offers another look at the
fantasy strategy game that's due for release next week. Here's the accompanying
word: Who will YOU lead?
The valiant men of the Empire, with powerful ranged weaponry from rifles to
tanks and access to the most varied selection of magic in the game? The vengeful
Dwarfs, masters of war machine engineering and devastating explosives? Murderous
Vampire Counts with the most deadly monsters and flying creatures or the brutal
Orcs and Goblins of the Greenskin tribes? Each Race is wholly different with
their own unique characters, campaign mechanics, battlefield units and play
style.
The Old World of Warhammer Fantasy Battles is as diverse as it is perilous.
Ready your approach for the most colossal and addictive Fantasy strategy game of
a generation in this latest video, as we invite you to Conquer. This. World.
Continue here to read the full story.
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Nadia Was Here by Joep Aben — Kickstarter. "Nadia Was Here is an RPG in
the vein of the classics of the 8 and 16-bit eras. Inspired by gems like
Golden Sun, Final Fantasy and many others. However by changing some
fundamental aspects, Nadia Was Here brings you a fresh, new experience. Dive
into the wonderful world of Amytah and fight epic battles in a battle system
unlike any other. Develop your heroes in a completely new way and explore an
intriguing story."
- Arkshot is a multiplayer, bow-and-arrow shooter for Windows, OS X, and
Linux, now available on
Steam…
Steam News announces the
release of Far Harbor, the new DLC pack for Fallout 4, the
post-apocalyptic RPG sequel. Here's word on the new content and an accompanying
sale: Fallout 4 Far
Harbor, all new content for
Fallout 4 is Now
Available on Steam!
To celebrate Bethesda is offering
Fallout 4 at 33% off!
A new case from Valentine’s Detective Agency leads you on a search for a young
woman and a secret colony of synths. Travel off the coast of Maine to the
mysterious island of Far Harbor, where higher levels of radiation have created a
more feral world. Navigate through the growing conflict between the synths, the
Children of Atom, and the local townspeople. Will you work towards bringing
peace to Far Harbor, and at what cost? Far Harbor features the largest landmass
for an add-on that we’ve ever created, filled with new faction quests,
settlements, lethal creatures and dungeons. Become more powerful with new,
higher-level armor and weapons. The choices are all yours.
* offer ends May 23rd at 10AM Pacific Time.
bitComposer Interactive announces Space Rift, a space sim for Oculus Rift
and HTC Vive. The Spacerift website
has details, though there does not yet seem to be an English option for the
German text, and their YouTube link is generic, so things are still being worked
out. They will have to hurry, as word is this is coming this summer. Here's word
for now: "The action space adventure Space Rift is compatible for all PC Virtual
Reality headsets, such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive and others. Space Rift is one
of the first science fiction space adventures developed specifically for Virtual
Reality hardware. The new technology guarantees gamers a breathtaking playing
feel. In Summer 2016, the Windows version of Space Rift will first be released
for $19,99 RRP. Only a few weeks later a PlayStation 4 as well as an Android
version will be available."
Focus Home Interactive sends word about their upcoming Martian RPG, saying: " The
Technomancer, the sci-fi RPG set on Mars, releases on June 28 and will be
available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. A few days ago the
Gameplay Trailer
unveiled deep RPG mechanics - character evolution, dynamic combat, crafting,
equipment customization, multiple ways to solve quests - as well as a
captivating story where all your choices will have a direct impact on the
destiny of Mars." That trailer was actually released a
month ago, and at that time they set the game's release date as June 21st, so
this announcement represents a one-week delay. The short setback is not
acknowledged, so it's likewise not explained.
This
trailer offers a creepy first look at Deal With The Devil, an upcoming
episodic adventure game Round Table Games Studio is developing using Unreal
Engine 4. This is the first in a series of five trailers, which apparently
combine together to form a puzzle of their own. Here's the explanation: "The
first of five episodes giving insights into the story and background of our
protagonist. Amelia Woods, a woman on a knife-edge, poised between seeking truth
and tranquillity or the abandonment of her own principles and the resulting
plunge into the darker side of herself. Clues across these episodes lead you
deeper into the story of her world, if only you can over it." Continue here to read the full story.
A couple of comments about my overclocking experiments mentioned the black arts
of voltage tweaking and stuff like that, but I was working on a more superficial
level, just playing with increasing clock and fan speeds and stability testing
to take advantage of the headroom in my CPU and GPU. I'm sure I could go further
with more aggressive tweaking, but I'm happy enough with where I ended up. If
you're curious, I have an i5-3570 on an ASUS Sabertooth Z77 mobo with a Gigabyte
GTX 970 video card, and at stock speeds (CPU @ 3.4 GHz burst) the system
scored 9285 on the 3DMark FireStrike demo. Overclocking the CPU to around a 4.2
GHz burst brought that up to 9565 and pushing the 970's core up 140 MHz and the
memory clock up an additional 280 MHz increased that score to 10227. Things are
remaining stable, cool, and quiet with those settings, so I got about a 10
percent improvement for free. That's good timing, because my Oculus Rift should
arrive today, and that initial 3DMark score is right at the minimum specs, so at
least I've built up a little leeway there.
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