Tomb Raider (2011), Gameplay Movie (with freaking great graphics, too!)

The new Tomb Raider game is looking amazing! I can't wait until we get to see Lara Croft again, except completely renewed (and far more awesome than she ever was before). The graphics in this new installment are freaking amazing and I, alongside many other people, am very surprised by this announcement. I'd heard they were rebooting the series, but this is just way more than I expected!

Tomb Raider (2011) NEW Trailer - E3

Here is an awesome new trailer for the upcoming remake of an old and successful series - Tomb Raider. This shows a younger Lara Croft starting her adventures...

Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, 17 Screenshots

Here are seventeen AMAZING looking screenshots from Witcher 2; this game seriously look like it could very well have the best graphics in any game that I've ever seen. Crysis looks nice... but this game definitely beats that easily! The designers of this game paid a lot of attention to detail when making the environments.

Source: http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/

Nvidia, Announces SLI for AMD chipsets

Nvidia has announced that SLI has been licensed out to the major motherboard companies to support AMD cards on the upcoming chipsets - 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets.

Read at Nvidia.com for more:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-sli-for-amd/?sf1380441=1

Conduit 2, Screenshots

Here is a compilation of screenshots from the Wii game, Conduit 2; it is a sequel to a game that was considered to have great potential, even if it wasn't the greatest game out there. I guess it would be pretty hard to make a good shooter for the Wii - it has terrible graphics capabilities.

Minecraft ripoff?, Fortresscraft for the 360, more like Ripoffcraft...

Here is a game that many people are calling a ripoff of Minecraft for the PC - simply, it's the same game as Minecraft... but it's called Fortresscraft, has slightly better graphics and it's on the 360.

So, you get to decide what you think yourself.. but I think it's copying off of Minecraft. It seriously has almost the exact same objects, blocks, NAME and everything else of Minecraft... So, even if its concept was before Minecraft, EVERYTHING except for the concept is copied off of Minecraft...

Rage, Gameplay and Graphics Preview

Rage is a new game made by one of the most awesome companies in the world: Id. They've been innovating games for years now. They really made FPS what it is; without them, FPS games would have evolved very differently. They created Doom and its sequels, among other popular and amazing games.

Now, Rage is coming soon and its graphics will push everything to the edge. The AI in the new game seems to be truly spectacular and the game mechanics look very fun. I may be one of the few that hated Borderlands, but this game looks super amazing and far superior to that hunk of trash. While Borderlands wasn't great - at all - to me, I still think it has potential and hope to see more of it in the future.

As for Rage, Id is now owned by Bethesda; they created games like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas - they are now working on TESV: Skyrim, as well. Id being under this company will really help them push everything forward - they are under a company of great designers that don't make bad games just to make money (Good thing EA didn't buy them... EA would have ruined Rage and everything Id has ever created).

Anyway, here is a video of Rage's gameplay and graphics; this was on IGN's YouTube channel.

The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim - New Screenshots

The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim is coming on November 11, 2011 - or 11/11/11. Minecraft is also coming out on this same date; however, Minecraft is already able to be played during its whole beta stage, so there isn't much wonder surrounding that date. It's not going to change much, because things will still be added to Minecraft regularly, like during the beta.

Now, Skyrim has a few new screenshots that were released around the net, and I've compiled a few of them here:

Dual wielding with a mace and a magic fireball!

A screenshot of some beautiful mountains, littered with awesome looking trees, just above a lake. The graphics in this game are rendered in completely new ways; on PC, you'll be able to get the ultimate graphical experience, with the higher resolution textures - however, if your computer is old, you can still scale down the graphics settings to run the game.

This is a screenshot of this Dragonborn absorbing a dragon's essence; this is something that isn't explained very much, yet.

That's gotta hurt! The new kills look awesome in this game!

Minecraft has a RELEASE DATE!

Minecraft's release date is the same as Skyrim's - 11-11-11, or November 11, 2011!

Source: http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1160573p1.html

  

Battlefield 3 - $100,000,000 dollar marketing campaign!

$100 million dollars have been set aside for marketing by EA, for the Battlefield 3 game alone. They plan to rock the boat of the FPS games in the game industry from Call of Duty to at least remind players that there are other FPS games, namely Battlefield 3. The game looks better than any CoD game, previous Battlefield game and any other FPS I've seen in the past few years.

The last good FPS I played was Left 4 Dead 2, and that was a couple years ago now. I really can't wait to see how Battlefield 3 does, and finally be able to play it :D - I don't play CoD games, but I'm sure they're amazing since millions play them, but I really think the graphics in Battlefield 3 will help me get into the game more. Most games, I don't care about graphics, but FPS games really need great graphics to get truly immersed into them.

Source: http://bf3blog.com/2011/04/battlefield-3-launching-this-november-with-a-100-million-ad-campaign/

  

Video Games - Outlawed for kids?

It seems that the supreme court is going to decide something that could effect a huge industry in the United States: video games. They are going to decide whether or not it's legal for kids to play violent video games.

It's okay for them to watch violent movies, which are far more realistic, so why not video games? Well, maybe it's the interaction with the video games that changes everything; kids can decide whether or not to beat up an old woman - they could decide to attack people for no reason.

Here is a news story, telling about how the Supreme Court is split on the decision...


http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/03/business/la-fi-court-videos-20101103-6