Nintendo increases production of Nintendo Switch

Posted on March 18, 2017 by admin

Looks like Nintendo switch is really going to succeed! Nintendo has revised its plans for the near future and is preparing to increase the print runs of the consoles minimum in twice.

Plans are changes, Nintendo Switch is too popular!

This is reported by the Wall Street Journal. Nintendo is about to prepare not 8 million consoles in the coming fiscal year, as originally conceived, but 16 or even more. In this case, sales to end-users, as the Wall Street Journal considers, will exceed 10 million copies in 12 months and beat all the expectations of most analysts.

The fiscal year begins in calendar April 2017, so the new plan is distributed until the end of March 2018.

New Horizons for Nintendo Switch

The Wall Street Journal adds that 10 million copies in the first year are the elevation after which third-party software vendors become interested in the platform. Therefore, if the Nintendo switch is truly able to do this, a steady stream of new games will appear on the console. In the meantime, the hope is on Nintendo itself, which have a thin layer of games that will be released until the end of 2017.

For you to understand, the Wii U, the Nintendo’s previous console, in the four years of its sad existence, has been uploaded to the stores 13.56 million times. And was sold even less. Thus, a Nintendo switch can easily circumvent the results of the predecessor.

New Champion in Quake Champions – Scalebearer

Posted on March 17, 2017 by admin

Quake Champions — computer first-person shooter game with online multiplayer from id Software. Announcement of the new game in the series was held at E3 2016 at the Conference of Bethesda’s E3 Showcase. more details are became known about the game at QuakeCon in August 2016.

Quake is Back!

March 7, 2017 year announced the start of receiving aplications for the closed beta of the game, which should start in a few weeks. Also a lot of new information on the site, including a description of the weapons, maps, and champions that are available in closed beta of Quake Champions.

Introducing – Scalebearer, new Quake champions

Bethesda Softworks and id Software intriduced another Hero on whose behalf the PC owners will be able to destroy enemies on vicious arenas of Quake Champions. His name is Scalebearer.

How developers tells, this Galactic warlord conquered countless worlds and knows no mercy. His active skill called “Bull Rush” and allows Scalebearer smash enemies while he run at them. His passive skill – Big Guy. And here you can look how it works, video of new champion is below.

We remind that after the release of Quake Champions this ruthless man — as well as other heroes, in addition to the Ranger — will be available only to those who will spend money on a set of Champion Pack. In General, the same multiplayer network shooter will be free. And now on the official site you can enroll for the coming closed beta.

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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was Postponed

Posted on December 5, 2016 by admin

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice postponed to 2017

Company Ninja Theory, that created Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DmC: Devil May Cry, announced that they postponed release date of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice to 2017 year. This game has not a date of release, but all think that this game will be released in the end of 2016.

History of game is based on Kelth mythology. Main heroine is a woman warrior Senua, that goes into a dangerous trip in the depths of hell. And main twist of this game is that Hell is a psyhological subconscious of a girl.

As developers say postpone was because of they developed another project that was canceled, and studia need some time to understand all. Futhermore Ninga Theory united with Epic games to enhance the motion capture technology, and this will bring a huge advantage to all video games industry. And studia say that development of Hellblade takes more time then they wanted, so they need an additional time to complete this game on a high level.

Ninja Theory announced Hellblade in 2014 year, when project was in the earlies point of development, and that step was very strange for such experienced team. In the process of creation of this action, team always share information about various aspects with their fans. Last developers journal, for example, was dedicated to Voices in the head of the main character. It contain theme about psychological health, that is one of the central themes in the Hellblade video game.

Sony get the rights to a temporary exclusive of Hellblade for PS4, but project also developed to a PC.

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Christmas in Overwatch – Soon!

Posted on November 26, 2016 by admin

In the Overwatch files was found Christmas music theme.

After the recent patch in Overwatch files was found a hints to a Christmas events. It’s festive title theme can be heard on YouTube or in a post on Reddit, where players collect all the new audio files discovered by them.

According to information from the social network Reddit user, calling himself Venxa, said that the Blizzard company prepares special Christmas event in their first person shooter – Overwatch.

This is evidenced by a leak of files detected by this user. The files Venxa found several unused in the game audio files, including new replica of McCree, Tracer, Sombra and Reaper. In addition, the music track, which can become a Christmas theme of Overwatch was found.

Earlier Overwatch celebrated Halloween, and before that in that shooter from Blizzard was found a variation on the theme of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio. These events were very successful for Blizzard, as during the compilation adding new cosmetic items. The time allotted to receive them is limited, and want to get everything at once, and can pay real money instead of day and night to participate in the matches.

As always, Blizzard will certainly decorate some of the maps to the holiday and a large part of the heroes will receive additional costumes. Fans are already building theories as who will become Santa, Grinch, Christmas reindeer and gingerbread man in the Overwatch World.

And probably new “arcade” mode

Also among the files we found mention of the mysterious mode “Arena”. There is an audio file with the words “you arrive to the arena,” and the participants there appears to be “Challengers” and “Gladiators”. Blizzard itself did not give yet any comments.

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New experience gain system in Overwatch

Posted on November 17, 2016 by admin

Recently Blizzard released new patch for Overwatch, which has new hero, battle mods and location (for an arcade mod) and a few balance strings. Due to all these changes, the changes in the mechanism of gaining experience might go unnoticed.

No more event crates abuse in Overwatch

Well, director of project Jeff Kaplan specifically focused on this point a little more to explain to players what Blizzard wants to achieve. Let us explain: earlier upon reaching level 100 you can start you leveling as you was 1st level, and at the same amount of experience as you get at the starting levels was again in exactly the same way as in the first playthrough. The trick is that for each level the player gets a free container of cosmetic items and, according to Jeff Kaplan, the old algorithm negatively impact on the game.

He said that before seasonal activities (for example, to “summer games” or “Horror on Halloween”) high-level players stop playing to start the re-leveling from the 1st level at the start of the festive events. The motivation is simple – on the lower levels, up to the 23th, character leveling is much faster, so that players very quickly received 23 free container. And with this new system players can not exploite Blizzards system to get 23 “free” containers. When player reach 100 level, every next level will require 20 000 units of experience.

Developers words abut this issue

“These changes should provide the advantage to the community of players – Jeff said. – If they come into force before the start of the “Horrors of Halloween”, we would have distributed crates to players. More players would get more cosmetic things”. Of course, users argued that in this way Blizzard wants to increase sales containers for real money. “This decision has nothing with the desire to increase sales – reported the director of the project. – The purpose of the changes – to prevent excessive haste in the game, or vice versa, the rejection of her. We want to people who have not yet reached the levels of prestige, do not feel deprived, we did not think that you missed a nice bonus“.

In general, developers will allow to rapidly increase the levels and get a reward at the first acquaintance with the game, then all players must be in equal conditions. “We want you to play in Overwatch, or do not play only when you really do not want; that’s the whole reason for the changes … nothing more “- summed up Jeff Kaplan.

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Metro 2035: Game was announced

Posted on November 10, 2016 by admin

New part of the post apocalyptic game?

The last book in the trilogy of “Metro” has appeared in the russian market this year under the name “Metro 2035”. The English site has recently been updated for receiving pre-orders for the book (in the US it will be released at December 10) and, most curiously, the same casually informed about the next game in the series of the same named shooters, pointing as the release date – 2017.

It is reported that the action of the game will unfold in the moment when the book story ends, and developers promised greater openness for the players. So we give a brief description of Metro 2035: “The final part of the cult trilogy continues and completes the story of Artyom from the first book. This book have been waiting by millions of readers for long ten years, and the right for translation foreign publishers have bought long before the novel was finished. “Metro 2035″ – independent book, and with it you can start your dedication to the saga that won Russia and the whole world. ”

Sincerely excuses from developers

However, soon after that on the official website of the game publisher Deep Silver following message was published in the Facebook: “You may have noticed that some sites were reporting the output of a new game Metro in 2017. – Deep Silver has released the following statement … As the exclusive owner of the rights to this video games in the universe “Metro 2033”, Deep Silver has ambitious plans for the very successful series of “Metro” games. But in order to meet the expectations of our fans, we hasten to inform you that the release of the new game “Metro 2035” in 2017 is not included in our plans. When we have news to share with you, we will. Thank you for your patience“.

After that, from English site of Metro 2035 information about 2017 as the release date of the game has disappeared, even though the nameless project in the universe remained . So while fans of 4A Games products remains to wait until the science-fiction game Arktika.1 for virtual reality. A new adventure in the post-apocalyptic underground, it seems, has been postponed until 2018.

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Skyrim is still for the Nords
This game can be named ask “Polished Armageddon“ – Worms W.M.D.

Skyrim Special Edition review

Posted on November 3, 2016 by admin

Skyrim is still for the Nords

I just can not say that Skyrim is the best TES game (not even at 3rd place at my top), but i still happy that Bethesda remastered it.

Let’s start from the good news to PC owners, and bad for the owners of consoles. So who got PC version with all add-ons, will revieve this remastered version for free, Consol owners need to buy this game for a full price, becouse Skyrim never relesed for consoles of 8 generation (PS4, XO).

Skyrim: Special Edition.

How good remaster has out, I think, should be judged not by the graphics, but by the impressions of all at once. Original 2011 visually, of course, was terrible.

Now graphics in Skyrim has been notably ennobled: they put on the walls beautiful textures and pulled npc models to sane species. Most of the work was made with lighting, shadows and backdrops.

Outdoors updates given their results – in static remaster looks great too. During the first hour of study walks, yet nothing happened really, I just stayed for 10 minutes to watch the sunset, urban landscapes, and dense thickets flattering.

Of course, it is necessary to compare the graphics, as they say, attaching one to the other. In this question our comrades from DigitalFoundry will help. They rescued us countless times.

Why you must return to Skyrim

In fact, there is reason better than upgraded visual part. Main thing that is not lost in almost 6 years since the release – the atmosphere and boundless freedom.

You are free to do what you wish and as you wish – even just peacefully go hunt, and then peacefully cooks omething from it. In Skyrim, war – this is not a straight road, and the whole arena of endless conflict, filled with decisions, dialogues, characters and their meaning.

Just say “Hello” to a stranger, and you will never know where this dialogue will lead. Maybe to the war of magic schools and the clash of their interests; to find vintage treasures; to the ancient curses, that cut out whole villages; arrogant power-hungry rulers; mad warlords with grandiose plans for the battle or even ordinary robbers, robbing passers-by on the way to Whiterun.

The game world is huge and not empty. Quests are wait for you at every turn. In caves inhabited by bandits and monsters, there are treasures and rare artifacts and quests. The city is full of different stories, some of which ends with the main branch more interesting tasks. In the end, you can spit on everything and just go to the mountains – to seek adventure on your digital ass.

My Impressions about Skyrim: Special Edition

Special Edition – is a great reason to try the game for those who for some reason missed the original at the time. Now you can make it more practical – because Special Edition includes all the DLC, all the necessary patches and everything you need for a comfortable game.

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Playstation VR: 5 trailers

Posted on October 18, 2016 by admin

With the release of a virtual reality helmet PlayStation VR and a number of projects for this device has released too. Players have a great variety of games to choose from, the most famous are:

VR DriveClub
Rise of Tomb Raider
Batman: Arkham VR

But there are also a great number of other games of different genres, which are able to demonstrate the capabilities of virtual reality. Few of them will be discussed below.

Battlezone

Battlezone offers the player to feel himself in the cockpit of a “Cobra” tank in the middle of a sci-fi environment in the world of the distant future. Among the features – the game supports cooperative, procedurally generated levels and tasks, so that none of the battle will not be repeated. Among the opponents – tanks, turrets, drones and mechanical swarms.

RIGS Mechanized Combat League

Another project, RIGS Mechanized Combat League, offers you to feel yourself in the role of one of the participants of the robotic sport in the near future where pilots control the powerful cars, exoskeletons and fighting with each other in the arena for the entertainment of the public. There are elements of martial arts, motor racing and basketball. Available a career mode and multiplayer matches.

EVE: Valkirie

EVE: Valkyrie – the player is invited to become part of an elite squad of fighters composed from a space pirates and mercenaries. Space battles with the computer opponents, multiplayer battles, the possibility of character development and updating of your own ship. Sony recently released a trailer of the game, and below you can see another one.

Job Simulator

Job Simulator – is a humorous simulator of a routine work. The game takes place in the world, where rules communism: the robots do all the work for the people, and people as an entertainment play in this simulator to understand what it is – to work. And at the same time it is possible, for example, to throw a stapler at your annoying boss.

Headmaster

Headmaster – is a very strange simulator, where the player is invited to perform a variety of tests and puzzles, by beating balls that flying right in his head. The game has some strange style, gloomy humor and puzzles. Player stay in the “center” of the room and he will have to undergo an intensive course on improving their skills.

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Resident Evil 7: System Requirements

Posted on September 25, 2016 by admin

New step in Resident Evil history

Game release was postponed to January, in the end it should allow to developers to patch all bugs and release the shining product. Well, of course, now we have time to think about on what platform we will buy this Resident Evil 7.

If the owners of consoles do not need to question the relevance of optimization and system requirements, the owner of desktops pc are still very interesting, what requirements will ask the 2017 game , which use the most modern technology and expensive foto geometry.

In fact, they will not ask too much from the owners of the PC. Resident Evil 7 will not test your system and resource with intensive locations and huge panoramas. According to the clippings and gameplay demo, we are unlikely to leave the suburbs and this terrible house from the logo.

System Requirements Resident Evil 7:

⇒ minimum (to start):

OS: WINDOWS 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 64-BIT
Processor: Intel Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300 or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x
DirectX: Version 11
Extras: 1080P CPU / GPU at 30FPS Players will have to either lower texture or set streaming textures to OFF in order to optimize performance. * Internet connection required for game activation. The game is still undergoing development, so all PC requirements are subject to change.

⇒ minimum (for a comfortable game):

OS: WINDOWS 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 64-BIT
Processor: Intel Core i7 3.4GHz or AMD 3770 or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X or better
DirectX: Version 11
Extras: «1080P CPU / GPU at 60FPS * Internet connection required for game activation. The game is still undergoing development, so all PC requirements are subject to change. »

Conclusion

System Requirements Resident Evil 7, for 2017, are adequate. Developers do not ask for top modern PC, what the vast majority of gamers does not have (judging by Steam statistics). Hardware with average productivity in the “budget” price category is enough.

However, on prehistoric PC you are unlikely to run it – Anyone need a 8 Gb of RAM and a modern processor. The video card spread was larger, although the presence of R7 260x on the list are still a bit encouraging. And if optimization will be sane, stated requirements may include an weaker hardware.

Worms W.M.D.

Posted on September 13, 2016 by admin

Good, old Worms returned

Team 17 finally decide to go back to the roots and release a Worms W.M.D. in 2d not in the awful 3d. But that mistake was very painfull to the studio, they lost too many fans. But fortunately developers recognized their mistakes and ready to move on!

Worms W.M.D.

This game can be named ask “Polished Armageddon“. Worms returned to 2d, as developers promised. This is a great news, because this is how Worms must look. It feels so old school: same mechanics, arsenal and even game phisics.

This is still slow, but dynamic turn-based strategy, where you have a squad of worms, that throws grenades. Small monsters armed to the teeth, so the 10-15 minutes of battle will destroy the arena.

Arsenal is not very extended, and all old toys was left on their places. You can destroy enemies with firearms, cold and futuristic weapon. The new players may be confused with such weapons as Holy grenade, super sheep or something else, but old player cant hide theirs tears of joy.

New ideas

This game has some surprises. For example. now you can find military vehicles! These machines will destroy your enemies if you know how to use it. Tanks, helicopters and even robots – choose what you want.

The second innovation – Shelters. Gas stations, markets and etc – thats all now not a solid texture, you can enter them to hide or use them as a bunker where you will be protected from an enemy fire. However constructions can be broken, thats why you can not hide there forever. But a couple of times you can survive a dense bombardment or attack of homing missiles.

Gameplay

You have 2 game modes:

Company
Network game

In single (company) mode you must complete several scenarios, where you must do some objective or kill all worms.

But all fun is in Network games. Where all can happen. I just can not describe all that madness that happens there, so just buy this game and try it. You wont be disappointed.

Recap

Team 17 have done everything correctly and bring the series back from the dead. Worms W.M.D as fun as 15 years ago, and it certainly great for the friendship battles on one PC or console. Game mechanics, that overcome the decade, works flawlessly and gives a sea of bright emotions. Tactical variety and content allows you to play this game in a long long time.

In general, the legendary “Worms” are back

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