Assassin’s Creed 2 Rumors

GiantBomb.com has the word that Ubisoft’s sequel to Assassin’s Creed maybe based in the 1700s time-period. Yes, but will it have Jade Raymond? Read more

Microsoft Getting Ready for Digital Distribution

With the recent Games for Windows LIVE update, Microsoft has climbed another step to reach the Digital Distribution door. The software conglomerate has been eying digital distribution for a while now and we may soon see Microsoft launching a dedicated Games for Windows LIVE Application to compete with the likes of Steam and Impulse. Whilst content such as games and DLC. (Although, given its Microsoft, don’t expect it to be free) How will Microsoft fare against Valve’s gigantic userbase, their comparatively unintrusive DRM and constant product support? Only time will tell.

When we get to the place where we do distribute games digitally, will we have a digital rights management system? Maybe. Or maybe we’ll just continue to support the industry leaders in that. Because it is a hard thing to do. You talk to any of those companies, and that is their whole company, is doing digital rights management.

Far Cry 2 - v1.1 Patch Released

Ubisoft has released the first patch for Far Cry 2. The patch fixes numerous bugs and adds 5.1ch sound support for most sound cards. Full info after the jump. Read more

Alan Wake is Alive & Kicking, New Trailer Coming on 15th!

To everyone’s surprise, Alan Wake is not vaporware. The mysterious action/adventure title, announced back in 2005, is still in development. Remedy’s writer Sami Järvi revealed this in an interview/podcast with the Finnish Magazine Pelaaj.

Why is it taking so long? Well, according to Remedy (The geniuses behind Max Payne games) they are rather short of bandwidth. With the game being so open-world and huge, it’s taking their small team a while to get everything ready. Oddly enough, with a huge Publisher like Take-Two backing them, it’s rather puzzling that they haven’t expanded their team. Make sure you checkout the full Podcast to get all the juicy details about the title. There’s also a new trailer that will be shown in Finland on 15th.

We’ve got Remedy’s lead writer Sami Järvi taking part in our special Pelaaja podcast, where we discuss the upcoming Alan Wake trailer.

Topics of discussion include: why release a new trailer now and what are Remedy’s hopes with it, the way they are approaching storytelling in an open world game. Also, since this is the first time in two years that they talk about the game, has something significantly changed in the game’s design and the improving quality of videogame’s scripts in recent years.

Obviously, we ask why it’s taking so long to finish the game, but that’s mostly due to the small team size and owning the IP giving Remedy the chance to work on the game longer than most etc.

Crysis Wars: Free Weekend!

Following Valve’s free weekend roots, Crytek has annouceed a free-weekend for Crysis Wars. You can play Crysis Wars for free from 10th October to 12th October by registering at MyCrysis.com and downloading the client (which weighs 6GByte) More info below:

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Crysis Warhead - Opening Intro Leaked

Someone was nice enough to leak the full opening intro for Crysis: Warhead. If you can’t wait till the game goes retail, check out the intro after the jump. The intro is spoiler free. Read more

AMD Announces DirectX10.1 Capable Titles

AMD, touting it’s support for DirectX 10.1 API, has announced 3 titles that will support DX 10.1 when they’re released on PC. Namely;

BattleForge (EA)
Stormrise (SEGA)
Cloud 9 (NHN)

The most interesting thing, perhaps, is that Stormrise was announced as an RTS especially designed for consoles and not the PC. You can bet SEGA isn’t too happy about the surprise platform getting leaked before they could announce it themselves. Read more

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures - DirectX10 Screenshots

Funcom has released some DirectX10 and DX10 vs DX9 comparison screenshots for Age of Conan. Check them out below, though the level of detail isn’t anything spectacular.

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Age of Conan DirectX10 Features To Be Revealed at GC

The delayed DirectX 10 launch of Age of Conan will be shown at this year’s GC, behind closed doors:

Press Release:

Conan is invading this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. Funcom and Eidos invites everyone to come join the festivities at his majesty’s outpost located at stand B10 in Hall 5. Behind the tall walls of the King’s fortress press and gamers alike can play the game, meet and chat with the developers, collect amazing give-aways and observe live stage shows where Funcom will reveal and demonstrate brand new and never-before-seen locations, content and features that will be put into the recently launched massively multiplayer online game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ in the months ahead. Read more

DirectX 11 Is Official

 

The original rumor was true as Microsoft has officially announced DirectX 11. Details below:

Features include new shader technology that begins to allow developers to position GPUs as more general-purpose parallel processors, rather than being dedicated solely to graphics processing; better multi-threading capabilities; and hardware-based tesselation.

Said newly promoted Microsoft’s Entertainment Business Division CTO Chris Satchell during a Gamefest keynote, “We want to break away from purely having a paradigm of pixels, vertices and shaders.”

DirectX 11 will be backwards compatible with DirectX10/9. Though with the lack of DirectX10 applications/game and the miserable adoption rate (due to consolization), it’ll be interesting to see how well DirectX 11 is received.

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