Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream DLC Coming Out Next Week For Xbox 360, Hits Linux Later This Year The Left 4 Dead 2 team has officially updated their blog and it says that the Cold Stream DLC for the Xbox 360 will be out next week. So, without any more delays, expect to be playing the new DLC on or around July 31st for the previously announced 560 MSP ($7).
Left 4 Dead 2 will also be coming to Linux later this year and it marks one of the first Valve titles to be available for Linux. The game will let Linux users run Steam and play the game directly without having to run additional software.
The team also highlighted Deathcraft 2, a campaign based on Minecraft. Want Left 4 Dead 2 in Minecraft instead of the other way around? Well, all 8 survivors will be coming to Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sometime next month.
I do not know whether to treat it in the category of gossip, or proven information, but you can be sure that we write this as the first in the country, and perhaps the world. What is it? The day before yesterday, "our" man whom you may know from the podcast Degradation - Jacob took part in the finals of GT Academy, which took place in Warsaw. In addition to the struggling people there, and was the driver of Nissan - Lucas Ordoñez. What of that?
Well James cut off a short chat with him about a series of Gran Turismo and its future. And the information that James has been very interesting. Lucas revealed that Gran Turismo 6 is in full production process and be surprised with exactly how they are mapped to all the tracks and trails. In addition, their number in the game is such that pospadają Hats off.
When asked about the platform on which arises only replied:
" This is a very good question ...
How much this may be the truth? The Nissan driver and the "face" of GT Academy, Lucas certainly knows more than a mere mortal. A and GT6 is certain to one of the platforms.
Steam hardware survey suggests the average gaming PC is getting slightly slower The results of June 2012’s Steam hardware survey have just been published on the Valve site, and there’s something interesting going on. According to the data, PC’s are getting slower.
The Steam hardware survey is a rolling survey that continually polls a segment of the Steam audience to see what hardware is being used. Before we continue, it’s important to note that the data on display is affected by a bug that Valve introduced earlier this year that prevented new computers from being polled. The effect of this is that any changes appear to be suddenly introduced in April 2012, when the bug was fixed. The trends remain the same; it’s just they appear all of a sudden.
Here are the interesting data points.
The first: the rise of Intel Integrated Graphics. Traditionally, Intel’s integrated graphics aren’t suitable for gaming - but now 11% of computers polled by the Steam survey rely on them, from a rolling average of between 3% and 4%.
The second: the increasing volume of dual core processors: previously on the decline, from 48% of PCs polled, to 50%. Similarly, the percentage of computers using single core processors has increased from 5% to 7%.
Digging further into the numbers, the growth rate in GPUs is at the low end. The proportion of DirectX 11 GPUs increased only by .06% over the course of the survey. DirectX 10 GPUs increased by half a percentage point. But DirectX 9 level GPUs (including the various types of shader model) increased by 1.5%, making up nearly 20% of the total number of PCs polled.
Most interesting though, is combing through the resolutions Steam users use.
The most popular resolution, by far, is 1920x1080 - that makes up 25% of the Steam userbase. The second most popular resolution is 1366x768, at 18% of Steam computers. 1680x1050 follows at 10%, then 1600x900 at 7%.
Here’s what I think is going on: gamers are starting to install Steam onto their laptops.
It’s important to note that the bug mentioned earlier meant that new installs of Steam weren’t being properly polled by the Steam survey program. That meant that if, say, you’d installed Steam on your main PC a few years ago, but recently installed it on a laptop, that laptop may not have been checked.
But the data supports the hypothesis. A bit. The growth of dual core processors, integrated graphics, and DirectX 9 GPUs suggest that lower spec PCs are being added into the mix. The growth of the laptop friendly 1366x768 resolution suggests they’re portables.
What’s more, the big success story of the past two years of PC gaming is in the growth of smaller indie games that require a low end PC to run: think Dungeons of Dredmor, Super Meat Boy, Plants vs Zombies, Dungeon Defenders, Torchlight and Terraria. There’s the success too, of the Humble Indie bundles, which are mostly distributed as Steam keys.
Meanwhile, there are a number of publishers pursuing projects that work increasingly well on a laptop: think Civilization, Total War (Creative Assembly have put a lot of work in making the latest Total War games playable on laptops) and the monster that is Football Manager.
Put simply: there are lots of very good reasons to install Steam on your laptop.
There are a couple of other possibilities. The first is Steam’s growth outside of the West, where there might be many lower end PCs still in circulation. The data for the Windows language used doesn’t help here: the language use is mostly stable, with the only significant increase seen in PCs set to English.
The second is slightly oddball, but worth considering. I wonder if the incredible success of Minecraft might have a minor influence on PC gaming in general. Minecraft doesn’t need a high-end PC to run at all - it’s the kind of game you install on an older PC or laptop which you then hand it over to your younger brother or sister. I’d love for this to be true - it would mean that there’s a whole new generation of PC gamers growing up, and they’re gradually being introduced to the PC’s amazing back catalogue via Steam.
Nέο trailer για το FIFA 13 H EA Sports βγαίνει στην αντεπίθεση, με ένα νέο trailer για το FIFA 13, αυτή τη φορά με τη νέα εμφάνιση της Manchester City. Μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε το video μέσα από τον παρακάτω player.
THQ registers web domains for Saints Row 4, and mysterious 1666 project THQ has registered new website domains for not only the next Saints Row, but its 1666 project which popped up back in March via a trademark application.
The Saints Row domains are rather obvious: EnterTheDominatrix.com and IAmSaintsRow.com, pointing to the SR3 expansion Enter the Dominatrix which will be enveloped into Saints Row 4.
Domains for 1666 include 1666Amsterdam.com and 1666TheGame.com.
Ναι ρε Cage... για αυτό πλέον ΔΕΝ βγαίνουν πολλά παιχνίδια αλλά interactive ταινίες! Όποιος ΔΕΝ μπορεί να τα τερματίσει ή δεν θέλει, ας τα αφήσει, αλλά κάποιοι θέλουν ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙΑ!
Minecraft Extreme Graphics - Sonic ether's Unbelievable Shaders V10 with water shaders
World record Portal speedrun completed in 8 minutes The world record time for a Portal speedrun has been demolished by a new attempt that completes the game in just 8 minutes 31.93 seconds.
F1 2012 - This years game detailed: Young drivers, Texas and more
MechWarrior Online Jenner Trailer [HD]
FINAL FANTASY XIV - Debut Trailer "The Fate of Eorzea"
Worms: Revolution Dev Diary #5 - Weapons and Gameplay Tips
Total War Shogun 2 - Saints and Heroes DLC Announcement Trailer
Epic Games Releases July 2012 Unreal Development Kit Beta Epic Games, Inc. has released the July 2012 Unreal Development Kit Beta, the latest version of the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides access to the award-winning 3D game engine and professional toolset used in blockbuster video game development, architectural visualization, mobile game development, 3D rendering, digital films and more. The latest UDK beta is available now for download. http://www.unrealengine.com/news/epic_games_releases_july_2012_unreal_development_kit_beta/
Zynga Insiders Dumped 43 Million Shares Before Stock Crashed
It's been a bad week for Zynga. It's stock took a dive earlier in the week, falling over 41 percent to a low of $2.99 (at the time of this writing, it is trading for $3.17 a share). But what's really notable is the fact that many large investors in the company -- including founder Marc Pincus -- had recently cashed out huge amounts of Zynga stock, to the tune of $516 million.
In April, which as Yahoo Finance notes is in the same financial quarter that the company's poor earnings prompted its stock to fall, Zynga held a "secondary stock offering." This offering consisted solely of stock owned by Zynga executives and well-heeled investment houses. All told, they sold off 43 million shares at $12 a share -- shares which are now trading for a little over $3.
Marc Pincus himself sold 16.5 million shares for over $200 million. Zynga CFO David Wehner sold 386,000 for $4.6 million, and former EA and Microsoft exec and current Zynga COO John Schappert sold 322,000 shares for $3.9 million.
While there is no evidence of wrongdoing as yet, it certainly looks suspicious when so many company insiders dump stock in the same quarter that the company's financials go south.
Minecraft Creator Notch Cancels FPS Project
Mojang head Markus "Notch" Persson has revealed more about a recently canceled project. For a time the company was working on a project codenamed "Rex Kwon Do" in collaboration with an unnamed external company.
Notch had tweeted that the project was canceled, citing the company's desire to devote resources to projects that were wholly owned by Mojang. Now, he's told Joystiq that the project was a first-person shooter. While we'll never know how the game might have turned out, it's interesting to learn that Mojang was working on an FPS, as it's certainly not what you'd expect from the studio.
PlanetSide 2: All-New Gameplay Screenshots From SOE
