Author: gamingninja
Watch Dogs PC specifications revealed
PC specifications for Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world game Watch Dogs were accidentally outed on the Uplay store, revealing the title’s PC edition will only support 64-bit operating systems. The Uplay page, spotted by NeoGAF users, has since been pulled by Ubisoft; however, saved details from the site outline its full specifications, ranging from minimum requirements to recommended and t...
RIP Tom Clancy: The great Storyteller
It comes as a shock to all of us, Tributes have been pouring in from friends, fellow authors and fans of the American novelist Tom Clancy . Dead at 66, Twitter has been flooded with mourners and well-wishers. Fellow writer Jackie Collins wrote: “RIP Tom Clancy. A great storyteller” He wrote a series of detailed military thrillers, set around the time of the Cold War, many of which wer...
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag trailer character showcase
Get clued up on all the characters you’ll meet in the sequel. Ubisoft has released a new trailer for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. The trailer has Ubisoft’s Matt Ryan playing the lead character for the game—Edward Kenway. The trailer focuses on the different characters that will be making appearances in Assassin’s Creed 4. The trailer shows Edward being a bra...
Oculus Rift support for more than 90 games
The beta for vorpX, a stereoscopic 3D driver that enables Oculus Rift support to more than 90 DirectX 9 and 11 titles, is now available for $40, the developer announced on its website. Games compatible with the product include Skyrim, Crysis, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Fallout 3 and more. The full list of supported games is available here. According to the developer, a demo will be released i...
Watch Dogs whole map open from the start
Watch Dogs won’t have players trapped in a small section of the map, waiting patiently to complete enough missions to unlock more areas. Watch Dogs creative director Jonathan Morin told The Average Gamer that the whole Watch Dogs world is “open right at the start”. “You can go anywhere you want. We are not restricting the player,” he said, That said, while you can go anywhere you like, you’ll need...
GTA Online launches tonight
Hey Folks! We know you must be having a lot of fun with GTA V, here is all that you need to know about GTA Online 🙂 Access to GTA Online Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with your copy of Grand Theft Auto V. On October 1st there will be a small downloadable Title Update released on PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE. Upon installation of that Title Update, direct access to begin GTA Online...
Batman: Arkham Origins Has A Permadeath Mode
Batman: Arkham Origins producer, Guillaume Voghel, has revealed an extra hard “I Am the Night” mode for the game. “We have a new difficulty level, New Game Plus is coming pack, that’s really difficult,” he told Eurogamer, “And when you’re done with that there’s I Am the Night mode, which is no saves and one life.” He also explained the first piece of DLC for the game which will see you playing as ...
Box Art Revealed for Destiny PS4
Come take a look as Bungie and Activision reveal the first box art for Destiny today: the PS4 cover. Here it is 🙂 What do you think? We think they could have done better. Destiny is out towards the middle of next year, and will be coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One as well as PS4.
Strong Link Between Gaming And Playing Real Sports
Your endless hours of playing Fifa has finally come good 🙂 New research from ESSEC, one of France’s leading business schools, has found that playing sports videogames can increase participation in real sports, especially among young men and boys. 38 per cent of boys under the age of 21 who play sports games on “active” game consoles practice their favourite virtual sport in real life, while ...
Performance anxiety for PS4 and Xbox One ?
With the upcoming next generation of consoles, PlayStation 4 is currently around 50 per cent faster than its rival Xbox One. Multiple high-level game development sources have described the difference in performance between the consoles as “significant” and “obvious.” It is reported that memory reads on PS4 are 40-50 per cent quicker than Xbox One, and its ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) is around 50 p...
Watch Dogs might run on 30fps on Xbox One, PS4
Creative director Jonathan Morin says “there’s always a balance, especially for open-world, between the simulation and the rest.” Ubisoft’s open-world action game Watch Dogs will run at 30 frames per second on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, the game’s creative director, Jonathan Morin, told Videogamer today. “Right now the frame-rate we’re focusing on [is...
Valve Unleashes the Steam Controller
Valve came out with the final announcement of the week, with the Steam Controller. They seem to be set out with a singular goal: to bring the Steam experience, in its entirety, into the living-room. Here are the few brief highlights of the controller. Complete catalog The Steam Controller is designed to work with all the games on Steam: past, present, and future. Even the older titles in the catal...