Albion Online Headed Into Final Beta

On July 3, 2016July 3, 2016 By AnjelIn Android, Games, Games, iOS, News, PC, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneLeave a comment

Albion_Online_Final Beta_Art_s

Albion Online is a sandbox MMORPG in a similar vein to Ultima Online. They are creating a game similar to that, but with a new modern twist on the formula.

Albion_Online Screens_Reputation

Currently the game is in beta until mid July, then it will be offline while they add in the final changes, before heading into the final beta on August 1st.

Albion Online is a giant open sandbox and thanks to a system of “you are what you wear” you can truly transform yourself into anything you want, just by changing the clothes you are wearing. In this way you can be a farmer dealing with your crops, to a bad ass archer just by changing your clothes. Thus allowing any player to truly play however they want.

Albion_Online Screens_Guild vs Guild

They will be adding in three new, bigger biomes (area’s) for the final beta, as well as a reputation system. In the reputation system, if you are not nice, that could hold consequences such as guards hassling you or even arresting you depending on your reputation.

Albion_Online Screens_Item_Enchanting

When the Final Beta of Albion Online goes live, all accounts will be reset to zero, with all Founders getting the perks from their Founder’s Packs, as well as the gold bought through the website credited to their game account.

If you are interested in learning more, or signing up for the beta, you can head over to their website Albion Online

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter @DayneCody

Fallout 4 Officially Announced

On June 3, 2015July 6, 2015 By SunstormIn Game Videos, Games, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneLeave a comment

Fallout 4

Watch the official in-game trailer for Fallout 4 – the next generation of open-world gaming from the award-winning creators of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda Game Studios. Tune into Bethesda’s E3 Showcase on Sunday, June 14th at 7:00pm PT to see the world premiere of the game.

via Fallout 4 – Official Trailer

Heroes of the Storm and New Hero Johanna Launch Today

On June 2, 2015 By RicoIn Games, PCLeave a comment

Johanna

Heroes of the Storm launches today and so does the new hero Johanna. Watch her intro trailer below and make sure to check out the game as well.

via Heroes of the Storm – Johanna Trailer – YouTube.

Official Arkham Knight PS4 Gameplay Trailer

On May 29, 2015May 29, 2015 By AnjelIn Game Videos, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneLeave a comment

The new Batman game, Arkham Knight, is almost here. So, to get us even more excited for it, Warner Bros sent out this PS4 gameplay trailer to wet your whistle. Take a look at the trailer below, this game is looking pretty wild.

Batman: Arkham Knight will be here June 23 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter-@DayneCody

Official Mad Max Story Trailer Drops, Shows Us a Savage Road

On May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 By AnjelIn PC, PlayStation 4, Steam, Videos, Xbox OneLeave a comment

So the guys over at Avalanche Studio’s dropped this sweet new Mad Max trailer on us. It shows off a bit more of the story and some of the world, lots of in game driving footage and some of cutscenes. If you are interested in this game, it is definitely worth a watch, and after how good the movie was, we have high hopes that the game will deliver as well.

Mad Max is due out on September 1st for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

You can check out even more over on their website.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody

Need For Speed Announced, Open World “Full Reboot” On the Way

On May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 By AnjelIn Online, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneLeave a comment

The new Need For Speed has been announced today by it’s developer, Ghost Games. This is going to be, as they said “a full reboot” of the series. This new game is being developed for the PS4, Xbox One and the PC and is going to be an open world, day-to-night racing game. The first look at this new game is shown in the teaser trailer below.

They have said it will offer the kinds of deep customizations that fans of the series have come to know and love and have even teamed up with EA’s own Speedhunters website, it will also offer an immersive narrative, a first for the series.

Not many details were given about this new game other then a a full gameplay trailer will be coming on June 15th, and that many more details will be shown at E3.

This new entry into the Need for Speed franchise is scheduled to hit gamers this fall. We will be following E3 and will let you all know when we have more details.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Launch Trailer “Go Your Way”

On May 18, 2015 By RicoIn Game Videos, Games, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneLeave a comment

Witcher 3
In Wild Hunt, you as Geralt embark on your most epic and dangerous journey yet. Your mission — to find the child of prophecy, an ashen-haired girl, a living and highly volatile weapon everyone wants to control. The stakes have never been higher: the Elder Blood flowing in the child’s veins can bring about a final end. The fate of worlds lies with you.

via The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Launch Trailer (“Go Your Way”) – YouTube.

The Oculus Rift’s Recommended PC Specs released

On May 15, 2015May 15, 2015 By AnjelIn News, PC, Steam, TechLeave a comment

Today in a blog post, Atman Binstock; chief architect and technical director for the Rift, dropped the skinny on what kind of hardware you are going to need in order to get what he called “the full Rift experience”. And fair warning, it is not for the faint of heart, there are going to be a LOT of people looking to upgrade in order to play games properly on the Rift. So without further ado, here are the recommended specs to get “the full Rift experience”

NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
8GB+ RAM
Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output (required)
2x USB 3.0 ports (required)
Windows 7 SP1 or newer (required)

Like I said, not for the fair not heart as those are some fairly steep requirements, and we imagine that a lot of people will be looking to upgrade some hardware over the next 6-10 months before the Rift is released.

They also went on to say that they are going to be using those specs over the “lifetime of the Rift”, and as time goes on, naturally that hardware or the equivalent will come down in price. They are using this as a standard so that “Developers, in turn, can rely on Rift users having these modern machines, allowing them to optimize their game for a known target, simplifying development.”
He also went on to explain some of the resolution and latency details of the consumer model;

A traditional 1080p game at 60Hz requires 124 million shaded pixels per second. In contrast, the Rift runs at 2160×1200 at 90Hz split over dual displays, consuming 233 million pixels per second. At the default eye-target scale, the Rift’s rendering requirements go much higher: around 400 million shaded pixels per second. This means that by raw rendering costs alone, a VR game will require approximately 3x the GPU power of 1080p rendering.

You can read the whole, very detailed blog post over here.

Still no word on the pricing for the Rift when it is released sometime in Q1 of next year, but it is great to start seeing more details trickle out.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Reviews

On May 12, 2015 By RicoIn Games, PC, PlayStation 4, Reviews, Xbox OneLeave a comment

Witcher 3

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the third game in the series, which started off on PC. The game takes protagonist Geralt of Rivia on a quest to track down Ciri, the Child of Prophecy. Ciri will even play a much bigger role later on. In parts of the game you’ll get to control her, a first for the series.

Here are the scores, and as usual, they’re out of ten, unless where noted.

Gamespot – 10
IGN – 9.3
Kotaku – Yes
GameTrailers – 9.8
Metro – 9
IGN Italy – 9.1
GamesVillage – 8.7
Gram.pl – 8.5
PlayStation Trophies – 92 / 100
Eurogamer – no score