Eleven Minutes of Final Fantasy Type-0

quare Enix has released a massive eleven minute gameplay trailer for Final Fantasy Type-0


via vg247

Square’s New Engine: Luminous Revolution

Square Enix has been experimenting with a brand new, proprietary graphics engine, which it calls Luminous.  this is DirectX 11 tech, it seems more than likely it’s coming to future PC games – so let’s take a look at the thing below. The idea is it’s that much closer to photo-realism, at least in terms of environments – while I’d rather spend my games in a crazy, impossible, fantastical environment than a faithfully-recreated multistorey carpark, there’s no denying that this tech looks mighty impressive.

So, they reckon the following shot shows what Luminous is capable of:

Not the most thrilling footage in and of itself, but cor blimey that’s some fancy, realistic lighting there. I wouldn’t grumble about playing a Deus Ex game that looked like that. But is it really possible? I’m not a believer until I’ve seen it running on a real, contemporay PC in real time.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Redemption Single Player Trailer

The all-new single player trailer for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3. In the world's darkest hour, are you willing to do what is necessary?



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Next Unreal Engine In 2014 And Supports 20 Cores

The next version of Unreal Engine won’t be out before 2014 but it will be worth the wait, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney claimed.

“I spend about 60 percent of my time every day doing research work that's aimed at our next generation engine and the next generation of consoles,” he said.

“This is technology that won't see the light of day until probably around 2014, but focusing on that horizon enables me to do some really cool things that just aren't practical today, but soon will be.”

Sweeney then explained his belief that the biggest challenge and opportunity facing graphics engines in the near future is dealing with multiple CPUs.

“Once you have 20 cores, you can't easily say this one is going to be for animation and this one is going to be for details on the face of the character, because all these parameters change dynamically as different things come on screen and load as you shift from scene to scene,” he explained.

“The big challenge will be redesigning our engine and our workload so that we scale more of these different computer tasks between CPU cores seamlessly in real-time and dynamically so that you're always getting the maximum computing power out with the engine, regardless of what sort of work you're doing.”

LA Noire PC release date

Rockstar has just announced the LA Noire PC release date as November 8, 2011.

Labelled 'The Complete Edition', the PC version of LA Noire will receive a multi-use code to access all downloadable add-ons and cases. This includes all previously released DLC from the console versions, including the Nicholson Electroplating Arson case, Reefer Madness Vice case, The Consul's Car Traffic case, The Naked City Vice case and A Slip of the Tongue Traffic case.

It's priced at £39.99 and the recommended PC set-up is below:

• Operating System: Windows 7 / Windows Vista Service Pack 1 / Windows XP Service Pack 3 / OnLive for PC or Mac;
  
• Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.2GHz to Quad Core 3.2GHz / AMD Dual Core 2.4Ghz to Quad Core 3.2Ghz;
  
• RAM: 2GB to 8GB;
  
• Hard drive space: 16GB;
  
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB / Radeon HD 3000 512MB to Radeon HD 6850 1024MB;
  
• Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9 Compatible;
  
• DVD Drive.

LA Noire Devs Team Bondi In Administration

Some sad news, I’m afraid. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that Team Bondi, developers of LA Noire, have gone into administration. It’s not long since stories of the troubled and prolonged development hit the airwaves and Rockstar had already stated they would not publish the team’s next title. Rockstar do own the rights to LA Noire though and the PC version is in the hands of their Leeds studio. This shouldn’t change anything on that front, though we shall keep an eye on the situation. As for Team Bondi, judging from what conditions were apparently like in the studio, it’s amazing to see the ambition that still made it into LA Noire. Sad times indeed for those hardworking people who may undeservedly lose their jobs. The PC version of the game (handled by Rockstar Leeds) is arriving later this year

3D headset is actually coming out

Sony have officially slapped a November 11 Japan release date on the futuristic-looking visor, called 'HMZ- T1', and it's set to keep the same specs seen earlier in the year.

While the exterior design has changed slightly (it's not so slick now), the headset still boasts a pair of 1280x720 0.7-inch OLED panels mounted in front of each eye (apparently offering an experience similar to viewing a 750-inch screen from 20m away), as well as 5.1 surround sound from integrated headphones.

The HMZ-T1 includes HDMI input and output (so you can take off the headset and continue on a TV) and is set to retail for 60,000 yen (£481).

Sony's exec deputy president Hiroshi Yoshioka said of the device in January, "As a big gamer myself, I couldn't be excited more than when I first played Gran Turismo 5 with this head-mounted display because nobody, not even my wife, could interrupt me so that I could get a higher score."

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Colonial Marines Trailer

There’s nothing official from SEGA, but it looks like this might be the new trailer for Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines, below. It has come skittering out of the darkness on YouTube, but there’s a good chance SEGA will set the flamethrowers on it if this is a leak.

Serious Sam 3 Release Date

Croteam have revealed the release date for Serious Sam 3: BFE. 18th October, and you can pre-order it  on Steam and so on.

They’re selling the pre-orders at 10% off the release price. And if you already own a copy of any previous Serious Sam game on Steam, you get a further 10% discount.

Should you ? Well, take a look at the new in-game trailer below

Corner Of The Sky: Gemini Wars

Gemini Wars developer Bruno Cesteiro has done a new video for his space strategy game,. The video explains a bit more about how the game will play, with Cesteiro explaining how the game will handle.

Defense of the Ancients 2 GamesCom 2011

At last, our first glimpse at the follow-up to the game that started the DOTA craze!

Valve is hard at work on the sequel to the massively popular Warcraft III mod, Defense of the Ancients. The trailer below provides our first glimpse at Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA 2) and was released for Gamescom 2011

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive !

As rumoured, there really is a new Counter-Strike coming. And it’s not some side-project: this sounds like a major sequel-come-relaunch of Counter-Strike for a new generation of manshoot fans. Valve have just solemnly and officially declared its existence to the world – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, aka CS: GO, is indeed its war-lovin’ name. It will feature new maps, modes, weapons, characters and social gaming features such as matchmaking and leaderboards, on top of assorted updates to tried and tested stuff like de_dust.

It’s due on PC and consoles. Which, I think, means this is Valve looking Call of Duty square in the eye and telling it to step outside.


Not too many details beyond that, but here’s a quote from Valve’s Doug Lombardi:

“Counter-Strike took the gaming industry by surprise when the unlikely MOD became the most played online PC action game in the world almost immediately after its release in August 1999.
“For the past 12 years, it has continued to be one of the most-played games in the world, headline competitive gaming tournaments and selling over 25 million units worldwide across the franchise. CS: GO promises to expand on CS’ award-winning gameplay and deliver it to gamers on the PC as well as the next gen consoles and the Mac.”

Valve are recruiting Hidden Path Entertainment for CS:GO, who you’ll know from the rather good tower defence game Defense Grid: The Awakening.

It’s due in 2012, and the world will get to clap eyes on it at PAX Prime and the Eurogamer Expo later this year.

This, in essence, is Counter-Strike 3, and the first news of it this morning was a huge surprise. It is, it’s safe to say, going to be enormous – but will it be free to play as TF2 now is and Dota 2 is rumoured to be? Mysteries!

There’s a Steam store URL with, basically, this information in a different format, but keep an eye on it for updates.

New Wii U features

Spotted by the NeoGAF forum, the patent shows the controller will feature an in-built microphone and speaker, as well as flash memory. It's worth noting that the Wii controller also boasted a small amount of flash memory and so it doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to store a significant amount of data on the Wii U pad.

The patent also suggests the controller will feature a magnetometer, likely similar to that found in the PS Move, which is used for calibration, and it appears to have a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that Wii U players will only be able to use one of the new touch-screen controllers per system, although additional Wii Remotes will be supported.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said following the console's unveiling in June that the company's attempting to position the Wii U controller as "the TV remote of the future".

Id Tech: Carmack talks an awful lot

He covers Rage and the tech behind it, what he thinks of the PC as a platform now, Doom 3 code being released, and lots of tech jabber about various platforms and games (even some mentions of Doom 4 tech) that you may or may not understand or care about. Nevertheless do a brew and check it out

Oblivion: Dibella’s Watch

Dibella’s Watch is a new “continent” for Oblivion, which includes “a major city, castles, towns, villages, farms, monasteries and all the good stuff that makes up a Medieval landscape.”

It’s a pretty huge mod put together by a single person, and, while not as ludicrously full-featured as total conversions like the almighty Nehrim, it’s a really impressive piece of work, and worth a look if you just want a new landscape and some fresh quests for Oblivion itself.

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Hard Reset; PC exclusive, single-player-only, sci-fi shooter

Polish developer Flying Wild Hog have announced their game: it’s a cyberpunk  called Hard Reset.

The Flying Wild Hog team is made up from members of the team behind Bulletstorm (from People Can Fly), and also folks from CD Projekt and City Interactive. The game is apparently “hard dark sci-fi”, so that means plenty of references from the likes of Bladerunner to keep us interested.

In fact the teaser-trailer (below) might as well be a Bladerunner game, for all the darkness and flying neon hoardings. The story is a bit more later Matrix films, however.Flying Wild Hog explain: “The PC-exclusive title transports players to a haunting, dystopian future, with humanity on the verge of extinction, confined to its last standing city and under constant threat from the robotic hordes that aim to annihilate mankind. Hard Reset is scheduled for release in September 2011.”

Mass Effect 3 SDCC Demo

Bioware's Casey Hudson gives a look at the upcoming Mass Effect 3. Straight from the floors of SDCC 2011

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Purity First Trailer

A new, live action trailer for the SciFi game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This propaganda piece makes human augmentation sound pretty awesome!

Anonymous :The movement, the means and the method are summed up on Youtube

 ANONYMOUS the hactivist movement claims that it is legion, it is ubiquitous and it is here to stay, according to a video just posted at Youtube.

In the video a spokesman, wearing the V for Vendetta mask of course, welcomes viewers but cautions them against seeing the group or any individuals as heroes. This is a cause, explains the speaker, and it aims to help push the world into positive change.

The movement demands that governments and corporations start respecting the planet and natural laws, and it promises to force them to do so. So far it has been doing a very good job of exposing shortcomings at its targets.

It also cautions against believing all you read in the media about the group, so i've embedded the video below so you can make up your own minds.

Quickly, Catch 7 Minutes Of Battlefield 3

 Those keen-eyed newshawks at VG247 have spotted seven minutes of Battlefield 3 footage posted on YouTube, via BF3Blog.

It’s a leak, and EA will surely stamp on it faster than an elephant doing a do-si-do, so look below as fast as your fingers can carry you.

Battlefield 3 will be Released on Tuesday 25th October