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Rumours that DirectX 12 will allow PC owners to tap into multiple GPUs simultaneously have been confirmed. Rumours of such a possibility emerged in February, and now Microsoft has confirmed that the API’s Multiadapter feature will use the power found across several graphics cards and even integrated GPUs simultaneously. Most …
Read More »Far Cry 4 Complete Edition coming to retail in June, skipping Xbox One and last-gen
A comprehensive version of Ubisoft’s open-world shooter Far Cry 4 is headed to PS4 and PC. Far Cry 4 Complete Edition includes the base game, as well as all of the content contained in the title’s Season Pass. The Season Pass consists of five pieces of add-on content: The Syringe, …
Read More »Hearthstone hits 30m players
Free-to-play collectible card game Hearthstone has registered 30m players, Blizzard has revealed. The company announced the news via its Twitter account earlier today: "BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined us by the hearth! Thanks for pulling up a chair!" Blizzard’s statement would seem to debunkYahoo editor …
Read More »Goat Simulator borrows a page from DayZ this week with GoatZ DLC
Goat Simulator is primed to receive a zombie survival game mode with the release of the DayZ-inspired GoatZ DLC later this week. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, developer Coffee Stain Studios boasts that GoatZ is the only survival game on Steam that isn’t in Early Access.” Though the claim isn’t …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers: April 26 – May 2
We’ve entered a new month, and Grand Theft Auto V still won’t loosen its grip of the number one spot on Steam’s top ten selling products chart. A hard-charging Star Wars Collection finished in the runner-up position for its debut, while last week’s runner-up Killing Floor slipped slightly to third. …
Read More »GOG.com opens GOG Galaxy public beta, vows support for more triple-A titles
GOG.com is opening its new online gaming platform to the public, highlighting its completely ‘optional’ and ‘free’ nature to gamers. GOG Galaxy has been in alpha testing for months, but will be brought into open public beta as of today (May 5th). Among the core factors GOG hopes will attract …
Read More »Chip’s Challenge and unreleased sequel land on Steam this month
Chuck Sommerville’s 1989 release Chip’s Challenge is heading to Steam later this month, along with its unreleased sequel. Following nearly two decades of off and on negotiation with the trademark owners, Chip’s Challenge 2 will be released in its original form. When I couldn’t release Chip’s Challenge 2, it hit …
Read More »Access Games details D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die for PC
The first official details on the PC version of Hidetaka ‘Swery65′ Suehiro’s D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die have been revealed by developer Access Games. There have been quite a few changes from the Xbox One version, not least of which is the removal of Kinect controls and the addition of …
Read More »PC gaming finally gets its own E3 press conference
PlayStation and Microsoft (and possibly Nintendo?) will this year be joined on the E3 stage by a conference dedicated solely to PC gaming. AMD has teamed up with PC Gamer to host the PC Gaming Show on June 16th, bringing with it speakers including Dean Hall and Cliff Bleszinski as …
Read More »Intel’s Skylake CPUs will outpace Haswell by around 15%
Leaked benchmark tests of Intel’s upcoming Skylake CPUs suggest users can expect performance improvements of around 15 per cent compared to current processors. PC Gamer reports that the Skylake i7-6700K benches at around 15 per cent ahead of the existing Haswell i7-4790K. That’s pretty much in line with the sort …
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