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An apparent set of specs for AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 9770 graphics card suggests a killer GPU may be on the way. MaximumPC reports that the leaked numbers point to a card that betters Nvidia’s current market leading pair of the GTX 780 and the GTX Titan. Rumours point to …
Read More »VIDEO: The Knightmare remake is here
MCV readers got very excited last month when a brand new one-off episode of cult kids’ TV show Knightmare was announced. Well, Geek Week is now officially underway on YouTube and the Knightmare remake is with us. And it’s… interesting. Arguably the highlight is when one of the stars drops …
Read More »Australian man wants to kill CAPTCHA
A disabled internet user has begun a campaign that will attempt to rid the internet of CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA (which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an online security measure used by many leading websites that is designed to stop spam bots from …
Read More »Crytek websites hacked, personal details may have been accessed
Crysis developer Crytek has warned users that their personal details may have been accessed in a website breach. The studio took four of its websites offline over the weekend – Crytek.com, MyCrysis.com, Crydev.net and MyCryenginge.com. Each carried the following message: "We recently became aware of suspicious activity relating to some …
Read More »Trade-in your Green Man Gaming games at over 5,250 UK stores
Green Man Gaming has announced an ambitious trade-in partnership with parcel service CollectPlus. The retailer now offers customers the chance to hand over their trade-ins to any one of over 5,250 stores (including newsagents and petrol stations) for trackable delivery back to GMG. The offer is only available for trade-ins …
Read More »Another Ouya exclusive is heading to PC
Former Ouya exclusive Polarity is gearing up for a release on PC. Creator Craig Littler says the decision is down to the failure to negotiate exclusivity terms with Ouya. "I tried to negotiate with Ouya to remain exclusive but they were fairly resistant to change,” he told Eurogamer. As such …
Read More »Skyrim crowned this generation’s greatest game in Amazon poll
Amazon.co.uk has named the winner of it’s The Generation’s Greatest Game competition – and it’s Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The epic RPG had to fend off Sony’s latecomer The Last of Us in the semi-final, despite the PS3 title only being released two weeks into the competition’s initial …
Read More »VIDEO: SOE wants EverQuest Next to usher in new era for MMOs
Fourteen years after the series’ debut, developer Sony Online Entertainment has unveiled a new chapter in the EverQuest saga – EverQuest Next. The game has been in development since 2009 although SOE scrapped everything in 2011 and started over, saying that it was intent on abandoning many of the genre’s …
Read More »European version of The Last of Us is censored
Elements of the multiplayer component of The Last of Us were censored in the European release, it has been discovered. Eurogamer reports that the European version lacks some of the gore found in the US release – specifically, weapons that lead to exploding heads have been calmed to avoid the …
Read More »Innovation threatened by increasing dev costs, Raymond claims
Rising development costs will eventually stifle innovation in games, says the head of Ubisoft Toronto. Speaking toDigital Spy, Jade Raymond said as expectations rise with ever-more powerful hardware, it is tougher to take risks when developers are spending in excess of $100 million to create a triple-A game. That’s for …
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