Tag - Steam

Flat Heroes Delayed Until Further Notice

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 13:38:52 +0000

Featuring high speed action with precision controls, you'll need a steady hand to survive everything Flat Heroes will throw at you.

Nvidia and AMD GPU cryptocurrency demand to rise again... and you can thank mother nature

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 10:09:15 +0000

Graphics card and ASIC miner orders are to see a sudden short-lived surge due to heavy flooding in the Sichuan province in China. As reported by Chinese-language news outlet, Economic Daily News, the area has been prime real estate for cryptocurrency miners, and is the location of 70% of China’s mining systems.

There have been constant reports over the last few months of graphics card shipments reducing due to lacklustre demand, and that has been great news for gamers finally being able to pick up graphics cards for even less than MSRP. That comes only months after prices skyrocketed due to ludicrously high cryptocurrency values and memory shortages.

GPU pricing seems pretty steady for the time being, and let’s hope it stays that way until new cards arrive. Here are the around.

Various graphics card manufacturers, MSI, TUL, and Gigabyte, all expected massive shipment drops month-on-month, roughly amounting to a . Gigabyte also told investors to expect large drops in demand and average selling price over the next quarter.

But that might be changing in the short-term if damage to mining operations is as serious as some reports make out. The flooding has reportedly damaged tens of thousands of mining systems, notes the report via , which has also caused the overall hashrate worldwide to drop considerably.

Steam link unable to connect to PC

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 09:29:00 +0000

Whenever I connect via steam link to PC, it brings up the Big Picture mode and then hangs and finally disconnects. On the host PC where the games are running the Big Picture mode is stuck and if I click on the screen Windows pops up a dialog box saying 'Steam Client Bootstrapper is not responding'. I have to kill the program and steam restarts. However, I can't play games on steam link anymore. I have tried several things... updating to Beta, downgrading from Beta, steam link factory reset,...

Far: Lone Sails' solo journey is far from lonely

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 07:00:00 +0000

A moment of calm. The wind is doing the work, blowing my rickety vehicle along a flat stretch. With no need to be inside, repeating the frenetic cycle of feeding the engine, full-body-pushing the enormous button to send it roaring to life and venting steam to prevent it exploding from its own heat, I'm standing on the roof watching the world go by. It's quiet.
When I drop back down into the guts of the car, something's on fire.
So it goes in Far: Lone Sails. The game follows exactly one trip, and takes place almost entirely within its vehicle. It's not the reliable car that we use in our day-to-day lives, and it's not the obliging horse that we so often use to get around in video games. It's the complete opposite of fast travel. There are no objectives or quests where you're going or where you're coming from.

If Ubisoft wants to cling on to Clancy, it's time to talk politics

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 02:47:15 +0000

How do you duck a question about the politics of a game which pits a citizen militia against a corrupt government in modern-day Washington DC? Well, you could start by talking about the weather. "I loved the coldness of the first game, and to be able to go to DC and actually get to feel the humidity and hot summer of East Coast weather," The Division 2's creative director Terry Spiers to Polygon at E3, when pressed about what it meant to stage an armed uprising in the capital of his own country. "That's what I'm most excited about."
This kind of chipper, non-committal platitude has become as natural as breathing for Ubisoft, even as its various Clancy properties bury their expensively accessorised noses in topics like the South American narcotics trade or the ethics of torture. It's all rather odd when you consider the pride, not to say enormous smugness, Tom Clancy himself took in the links between his stories and the shadow realm of superpower relations and national security. on TV in 1998, for instance, arguing for a change of law to permit the assassination of heads of state with reference to his 1996 door-stopper Executive Orders. in a memorably unsympathetic Washington Post profile, boasting of the "half-million" calls he received from admiring reporters in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm.
With their starchy casts of alpha nerds and special operators, visions of an America that is at once wargod and underdog and steamy accounts of missile launches and fleet manoeuvres, Clancy's books were warmly embraced by the military establishment. Colin Powell - former US secretary of state and one of the minds behind the bogus case for Saddam's secret WMDs - once declared that "a lot of what I know about warfare I learned from reading Tom". Ronald Reagan was also a fan: while negotiating with the USSR in Reykjavik, he recommended Red Storm Rising to Margaret Thatcher for its "excellent picture of the Soviet Union's intentions and strategy". Clancy, who never served in the armed forces thanks to acute near-sightedness, reveled in all this, name-dropping high rank contacts to reporters and railing against peaceniks and grifter politicians in speeches at academies and bases. You wonder what he'd have made of Ubisoft's determination to avoid seeing Tom Clancy games in any kind of context, to show us footage of democracies on fire while talking gaily of blue skies and "exploring a new city".

Battlefield 5 may be an Nvidia GeForce game now, but AMD ruled the closed alpha

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 02:46:31 +0000

AMD has won this battle, and Nvidia is going to have to step up its Battlefield 5 optimisations if it wants to win the war. In our testing the RX 580 massively outperforms the supposedly equivalent GTX 1060, despite BF5 now being a bought and paid for GeForce game.
The Battlefield 5 closed-alpha has just closed this very afternoon and we’ve spent a good while playing, killing, capturing, and testing graphics cards. It’s a tough life. The most interesting thing to come out of our closed alpha playtime, however, is just how differently the two mainstream GPUs from Nvidia and AMD perform.
If you want to know what the around is, you know where to come.
In general graphics testing the GTX 1060 and RX 580 regularly trade benchmark wins, but normally only by the slightest of margins. With the Battlefield 5 closed alpha, however, there is a sizeable disparity in performance, with the RX 580 some 33% faster in our tests. That’s not the only bad news for Nvidia either, as the DirectX 12 implementation in the game does its GPUs no favours either.
It does really look like all the efforts that AMD put into making sure its GPU architecture was catered for, with Battlefield 1 being a flagship Radeon Gaming title, are still paying off with Battlefield 5.

If Ubisoft wants to cling on to Clancy, it's time to talk politics

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 02:42:33 +0000

Steam accounts can now track login attempts

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:45:38 +0000

If you're someone who takes their digital security seriously, you've no doubt got unique passwords for all of your...

If Ubisoft wants to cling on to Clancy, it's time to talk politics

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:37:44 +0000

Town building Sim Castaway Paradise Coming to PS4 and Xbox One This Month

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:39:13 +0000

Town building simulation game Castaway Paradise, which first launched for PC via Steam in May 2015, will launch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 31 for $12.99, developer Stolen Couch Games announced. Watch the Castaway Paradise Console Announcement Trailer: Here is an overview of the game, via Stolen Couch Games: About Castaway Paradise...

Cat Quest II: The Lupus Empire Launches Early 2019

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:31:21 +0000

PQube and The Gentlebros have announced that Cat Quest II: The Lupus Empire will be coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam in 2019. Check Out the Cat Quest II Reveal Teaser: Following the phenomenal success of the acclaimed Cat Quest, developers The Gentlebros, will be continuing the story of...

Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai Announced for PS4 and PC

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:09:57 +0000

Degica Games and Unknown Games have announced Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai, an “overhaul” of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms-themed fighting game Koihime Enbu for PlayStation 4 and PC (Steam). It will launch on July 12. Watch the Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai Announcement Trailer: Here is an overview of the game, via Degica Games: About Koihime Enbu...

MotoGP 18 Review - GamerKnights

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:34:42 +0000

Full review of the new "MotoGP 18" on GamerKnights. More: "Last years manager mode has unsurprisingly been thrown completely out of the window, replaced by a more detailed career mode that ruthlessly steals all of its ideas from the Codemasters F1 games. You can develop your car, thanks to taking part in a number of free practice tests. Youll get emails from a team manager, team objectives to meet, and the option to sign new contracts once objectives have been met or surpassed. Theres no new thinking here, but the concept works just as well on two wheels as four."

The HTC Vive Pro's resprayed blue controller bundle costs nearly 3x that of the original Vive

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:45:26 +0000

The Vive Pro is finally available as a completed kit with all the bits you need for immersive gaming - for only $1,400 / £1,299. Ouch. This “professional-grade VR” headset launched back at the end of April, however, until recently had only been available as a standalone headset for $799.

Gamers had high hopes for the Vive Pro back when it was first announced. The Vive has been around for quite some time and was in need of an upgrade. Enter: the Vive Pro… sort of. With a modicum of visual fidelity improvements, improved ergonomics, integrated headphones, and a huge bump in price, the Vive Pro fell short of expectations. And so, with that, it was back to basics or modding the original Vive for yourself.

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The new and improved headset didn’t even come with all the kit necessary for room-scale tracking or come with any controllers in the box. That’s despite the higher price tag than the all-inclusive first-generation Vive headset package all in, with all the extras included, and a wireless adapter.

But HTC has now completed the top-end setup. The Full Kit comes with two Steam VR 2.0 base stations and two matching Vive Pro blue wand controllers for / .

Neymar celebrates World Cup goal with CS:GO flashbang dance

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:30:00 +0000

The mainstream media is full of stories about national football teams kicking back and playing smash hit battle royale Fortnite in their spare time at the World Cup in Russia at the moment, but it appears the Brazilian team would rather play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive than battle it out around Tilted Towers.
It’s no big secret that Neymar Jr is a big fan of the Valve shooter, having being snapped several times with FalleN and the rest of the current MiBR roster, but it was a surprise seeing the superstar running over to his teammates after scoring Brazil’s first goal against Mexico yesterday, and pretending to blind them with a poorly thrown flashbang.
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The celebration, known as the flashbang dance, not only caught the eye of the CS:GO community on Reddit, but also the game’s developers who shared a gif of the celebration with a reminder for Neymar to call his flashbangs:

Make sure to call out your flashes, !!

Rockstar DRM Causing Launch Issues with L.A. Noire: VR Case Files

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:37:30 +0000

Multiple users over on Reddit and Steam are reporting that DRM issues with Rockstar Social Club are causing launch issues with L.A.Noire: VR Case Files on PC. Users claim that for the past week the game had been playable, but over the past day or so, Rockstar Social Club has been requiring a re-activation of the key, causing an error claiming that the

Resident Evil Revelations PC Steam Version

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 02:42:25 +0000

I want to buy the game but the demo has issues with retaining settings between program launches. If anyone has the full version, can you please set mouse sensitivity to 4 and disable mouse acceleration and auto-aim. Then re-launch the game. Do the settings stick?

Secret of Mana coming in February.

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 02:42:25 +0000

The voices sound awful, but otherwise the game seems fine. Square also has their own download service, so if you dont like Steam you have other options.

Steam Beta

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 02:42:25 +0000

How is everyone liking the new Steam Beta? I know it is a beta.