Epic Games Holiday Sale 2019 Begins
The Epic Games Holiday Sale 2019 has just begun with two promotions: A free game every day for 12 days. The ability to chain $10 coupons (for “eligible purchases” – basically $15-and-up). While...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 19, 2019 | General Tech | 0
The Epic Games Holiday Sale 2019 has just begun with two promotions: A free game every day for 12 days. The ability to chain $10 coupons (for “eligible purchases” – basically $15-and-up). While...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 3, 2019 | General Tech | 2
Apparently mod support is coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection. If you installed this game (either by purchasing it on Xbox or Steam, or by installing it with the Xbox Game…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 9, 2019 | Shows and Expos | 0
The next few days will have a handful of E3 2019 Press Conferences ahead of the proper expo. While there will probably be some news coverage by us throughout the week, the…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 12, 2019 | General Tech | 5
At today’s Inside Xbox event, Microsoft announced that Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to PC on both Steam and the Microsoft Store. Not all games will launch simultaneously;...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 12, 2019 | General Tech, Graphics Cards | 4
Microsoft has just announced that they ported the DirectX 12 runtime to Windows 7 for World of Warcraft and other, unannounced games. This allows those games to run the new...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Feb 12, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 1
The upcoming version of Unreal Engine, 4.22, will include several new features. The most interesting addition for our audience is probably “Early Access” support for DirectX 12 Raytracing (DXR) on DirectX...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Feb 12, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 3
The Battlefield V Tides of War Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes Update #3 patch, beyond sounding like a Final Fantasy title, has quite a few major improvements. The headlining feature is...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 4, 2018 | General Tech | 5
NVIDIA has just announced a new major version to their popular physics middleware: PhysX 4.0. They also announced that it (both 4.0 and 3.4) will be re-licensed as 3-line BSD....
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 11, 2018 | General Tech | 2
Square Enix has announced that plans to update Final Fantasy XV (15) are much smaller than they used to be. The game was supposed to be receive four DLC episodes,...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Oct 25, 2018 | General Tech | 0
Near the end of their keynote at the Unite LA conference, Unity showed off “MegaCity”. This scene, created by their internal Demo team, contains about 4.5 million rendered objects and plays at…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Oct 6, 2018 | Graphics Cards | 0
Another major version bump has occurred in NVIDIA’s Game Ready Drivers over the span of around two weeks. Typically, although there has been a couple of exceptions, NVIDIA has branches that contain…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Oct 1, 2018 | General Tech | 1
But which one will it be? So this is an interesting promotion. To honor their ten years of existing, GOG.com is planning to give away a free game. The twist is that…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Sep 21, 2018 | General Tech | 7
This afternoon, Telltale Games announced that they have laid off all but 25 employees; those who remain are there to “fulfill the company’s obligations to its board and partners”. Various...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Sep 3, 2018 | General Tech | 2
After summer comes back-to-school. What is the relevance for video games? Well, students will probably need to cut back on them, so might as well use it as an excuse for big…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Aug 11, 2018 | General Tech | 0
Starting with a slowly-ramping group of ~50,000 Canadians, Discord has begun distributing PC games. Specifically, there will be two services for paying members of the Discord Nitro beta program: a...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Aug 11, 2018 | General Tech | 2
Bethesda, as usual, held a keynote at their QuakeCon event in the Dallas / Fort Worth region of Texas. So far so good. They then revealed DOOM Eternal with over 15 minutes…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Aug 8, 2018 | General Tech | 2
Yet another video game engine has entered the market – this time by Google. Filament is written in C++, supports OpenGL 4.1-and-up, OpenGL ES 3.0-and-up, and Vulkan 1.0 on Android, Linux, macOS,…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jul 22, 2018 | General Tech | 0
The European Speedrun Assembly begun yesterday (July 21st) at 10am EDT with a two-player Dark Souls III All Bosses race. Like Games Done Quick, it is a week-long, 24-hour charity marathon…
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