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At this point I'm fairly certain that even people who don't play or care about DayZ know full well how it has some terrifying performance issues when visiting large inhabited areas.
These problems might soon become a thing of the past, however, as the recent Dev Log showcased absolutely massive FPS gains due to the switch from DirectX 9 to DirectX 11 with Enfusion Rendering. Have a look, though be warned, the constant clip-clopping might just drive you insane:
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Its unfortunate that Gears of War: Ultimate Edition released in such a buggy and unfinished state as its population practically evaporated overnight, but I'm glad the developers are still working hard on ironing out all of the remaining kinks.
The upcoming Update 3 brings with it support for ultra-wide resolutions, fixes for mouse sensitivity issues, slightly increased performance, and a couple of bug fixes. Besides the update itself, the developers are also currently working on a couple of other features I will list out below, but first let's start with the patch notes:
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The most recent Overwatch beta patch brought with it a new map, match highlights, achievements, and most interestingly, weekly brawls modeled after those found in Hearthstone.
Blizzard only mentioned a couple of examples in their announcement, those being "play only as support heroes" and "everyone must play as Soldier 76", but the crafty dataminers over at Overpwn have managed to find all of the 14 currently available brawl permutations. Here's what they are:
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Back when I first tried out Ark: Survival Evolved it seemed to be just this generic blend between dinosaurs, crafting, and modern military weapons. However, somewhere along the way the developers figured out that realism is a terrible thing to burden oneself with, so they started adding mega-kangaroos, evil beavers, yetis, and eventually even dragons!
Now that Easter is right around the corner the developers are, obviously, adding dino-bunnies as a part of their, you guessed it, Eggcellent Adventure update. Despite the silly name and theme, the update also brings the much anticipated Swamp and Snow Cave areas which are heavily geared towards High Level Survivors and those looking to delve further in to the lore. Here's the trailer:
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Before Heart of Thorns released ArenaNet was proudly announcing all of the new features, such as: a new set of legendary gear and weapons, a complete fractal rework and new fractals, a renewed focus on WvW, raids, and the third season of the living story which is to come soon after launch.
Six months later and the only quality, long-lasting content we've received are the raids, so I think you can understand why the community is going just sliiiighly bananas about AreanaNet's announcement that they have stopped developing the legendary weapons they sold the expansion with. Here's the message from ArenaNet's president, Mike O Brien:
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The aim of the Atari Vault is to enable fans to relive classic games in the modern age, with upgraded user interfaces, online and local multiplayer, Steam Controller and classic trackball support, leaderboards, and a couple of other nifty features for retro-gamers to enjoy.
The Vault was announced back in January, but Atari never specified when exactly it would be releasing, or what it would contain. A poor strategy as it turns out because the Atari Vault has released two days ago, and only now are people catching on to that fact. Here's a list of all the games included in the Atari Vault:
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The two main issues with the majority of Total War games were always launch bugs and terrible AI that is more than willing to throw away any advantage it might have in favor of charging down enemies.
Thankfully, the recently released Vampire Counts vs The Empire siege battle showcases a much more intricate AI that is capable of falling back, attacking on multiple fronts, and for once, not losing. Also, plenty of skeletons and skeleton based monstrosities. Have a look, its an exciting video:
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Two Worlds 2 might genuinely be one of my top contenders for the very prestigious "bad game I couldn't stop playing" award. Its buggy, its imbalanced, its story is stupid, yet somehow I found myself playing through it not once, but twice in its entirety.
It would appear I'm not the only one, however, as the developers have just announced that they are working on both Two Worlds 3, and an engine rework for Two Worlds 2 along with two pieces of DLC that will pave the way for the grand sequel.
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In a move that should surprise absolutely no one that has managed to lay eyes on the recent Dark Souls 3 footage, From Software has increased the recommended PC system requirements.
The minimum system specs which once required an i3 CPU & GTX 465 GPU combo have now been upscaled to an i5 & GTX 750 TI, while the recommended settings only did a "little hop" from an i7 & GTX 750 combo to an i7 & GTX 970 setup. Here's how the system requirements stand right now:
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Its quite impressive, and somewhat ironic, how Blizzard's least serious game is being the most serious about fostering a vibrant and long lasting competitive scene through multiple major tournaments, one of which is coming up really soon.
In a recent blog post the Heroes of the Storm team announced that the Summer Season will begin on April 14th with a massive $1,2 million USD up for grabs during the entire event.