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World of Tanks Comes to More European Countries

2011/12/02
Jerry Paxton
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Wargaming.net has announced that the boxed edition of their popular online tank action game, World of Tanks, is now available in the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and France. World of Tanks retail version from Wargaming.net and its partner Deep Silver available for EUR 9.99 comes with EUR 20 worth of bonus content. Apart from in-game gold and several days of premium account, the box edition contains the premium German tank PzKpfw 38H735 (f). The box also features the Newcomer’s guide that will help to master the essentials of World of Tanks.

Screenshots of the Premium Tank

KlickNation Acquired by Electronic Arts, BioWare Social Brand Created

2011/12/02
Jerry Paxton
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Electronic Arts has announced that it has acquired social RPG-maker, KlickNation, and has re-branded it as BioWare Sacramento. That’s not the end of the branding, however, as BioWare Sacramento and BioWare San Francisco will be brought together as “BioWare Social”. BioWare Social will focus on RPG games for social platforms like Facebook.

“KlickNation’s expertise in building innovative and compelling RPGs for social platforms makes them a seamless tuck-in with the BioWare team at EA,” said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA’s BioWare label. “We share the same creative values. The new BioWare Social unit will bring BioWare and EA franchises to the growing audience of core gamers who are looking for high quality, rich gameplay experiences on social platforms.”

 

New Screenshots from Wargame: European Escalation

2011/12/02
Jerry Paxton
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Focus Home Interactive has released some new screenshots form their upcoming Wargame: European Escalation, which is due out in early 2012 on Windows PCs.

Screenshots

3dMark Record Broken with 4-Way SLI System

2011/12/02
Jerry Paxton
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Nvidia has announced that renown overclocker, Vince “Kingpin” Lucido, has broken the previous 3dMark record with a 3dMark11 score of X12,554.

I was able to get a score of X12,554 in 3DMark 11X (Extreme preset) a few days ago during a lab test session trying to push the limits of 4-WAY SLI benching. The former 3d11X record on previous generation chipset(X58) that stood for over 1/2 a year was X11,474 which was done using EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 and QUAD SLI technology.

Skyrim Patch 1.2 Released

2011/12/01
Jerry Paxton
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Bethesda Softworks has released Patch 1.2 for their highly-popular RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The patch features a number of fixes, including a CTD issue regarding audio settings.

UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified)

  • Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz
  • Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
  • Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead
  • Dragon corpses now clean up properly
  • Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
  • Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
  • Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely
  • Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
  • Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
  • Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
  • ESC button can now be used to exit menus
  • Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues
  • General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls


Neverdead Gets Release Date

2011/12/01
Jerry Paxton
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Konami has announced that their upcoming Neverdead will be released on January 31, 2012 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. Neverdead is an actioner where the player is an immortal hero named Bryce who can get dismembered by enemies and keep on tickin’, even using his discarded limbs as weapons!

New Syndicate Screenshots

2011/12/01
Jerry Paxton
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Electronic Arts has released some new sceenshots from the upcoming Syndicate, the FPS revival of the classic PC tactical-action game series.

Screenshots