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.
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”
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 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
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is out May 19 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
via The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt reviews – everything in one place | VG247.
You don’t mess with Geralt! See the brutal trailer now! Viewer discretion is advised.
Those thinking about getting a GTX 980, or its more affordable brother the GTX 970, will be very happy to know that Nvidia will throw in free copies of both The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight when you buy either of the cards.
The GPU manufacturer revealed the promotion recently.
You will receive a copy of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with purchase of all 900 series cards. Purchase of the higher-end cards (GTX 980 or GTX 970) gets you both The Witcher 3 and Arkham Knight.
The offer is valid through June 1 at participating retailers around the world.
via Get The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight free with purchase of new Nvidia GPUs | VG247.
Oculus Rift will be shipping to consumers in Q1 2016, with pre-orders later this year.
The Oculus Rift builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well as a highly refined industrial design, and updated ergonomics for a more natural fit.
In the weeks ahead, Oculus will be revealing the details around hardware, software, input, and many of unannounced made-for-VR games and experiences coming to the Rift. Next week, Oculus will share more of the technical specifications on the Oculus blog.
via Oculus Blog
In order to become the best monster hunter, you must first learn how to understand your foes – where they can be found, their attack pattern, and what they fear. And it is your job to figure out the best way to kill them.
I’m not one to start blazing any trails when it comes to real journalism however I feel like I’m the only out there that seems to have noticed that Canadian gamers are going to be paying more for their games starting this Fall.
When browsing Eb Games website I happened to noticed the homepage was advertising the pre-order for Black Ops III, at first glance things seems pretty normal. I then noticed the price, $79.99 CDN and this wasn’t for any special edition. This was for the regular run of the mill standard edition, no extra bells and whistles except maybe some BS day one pre-oder downloadable crap. So, I started digging and noticed that Star Wars Battlefront was also marked up to the new low price of $79.99. To be clear since the Canadian dollar started slipping over a year ago game prices immediately went up $10 to $69.99, however the dollar has stabilized and to be exact actually went up recently. So, why the price increase? Does Eb Games know something we don’t, will the Canadian dollar crash this Fall and we should all invest in US currency while we still can? or are we getting f*cked? My money is on the getting screwed part. This leads me to wonder if our American friends have an ugly price increase coming their way? To be fair the increased prices have been spotted on Amazon.ca as well and I’m sure other retailers are following suit so Eb Games isn’t the only guilty party. I just thought it was strange that nobody has seemed to notice or made a stink.
My suggestion is that you please refrain from pre-ordering any titles and letting the retailers know that this increase isn’t OK. Hopefully I haven’t stumbled onto the future price of admission for gaming, as it is already an expense hobby to begin with.
The first Just Cause 3 Gameplay trailer takes you straight into the action with wingsuits, grappling hooks, and massive explosions. Watch Rico Rodriguez wreak havoc to undermine the regime of the ruthless dictator, General Di Ravello, and liberate Medici, his home.
All footage is captured using cinematic camera angles. It contains no cutscenes, staging, or scripting. It’s all gameplay.
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