Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Developer Overview

Claptrap as a playable character? Yes...here's a video by the developers talking about Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.

Can't wait!

New Borderlands Revealed. Set on the moon?

It appears that there will be a new Borderlands game, a pre-sequel and will be out for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Which has got me all excited because I'm a pretty big fan of the Borderlands franchise. There will also be 4 new playable characters, all of which have appeared in previous Borderlands games. And finally, most of the game will be set on the moon, which means low gravity, no oxygen...oh, and jetpacks! Sounds so awesome already.

Anyway, the guys over at rockpapershotgun have a lot more detail about this game.

Game of Thrones intro recreated with Skyrim.

This is just pure awesome, especially for the fans of both Game of Thrones and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. Basically, someone has recreated the the Game of Thrones intro but used Skyrim's map/buildings and I think it is just brilliant. 

Thrones from Brady Wold on Vimeo.

Dead Island Helper. Tool to improve the graphics.

I'm really enjoying the game Dead Island, I find it very satisfying whacking off heads with a hammer that has been electrified. Visually it's not bad, a little too much bloom and the shadows aren't that great either.

So I did a quick search and found this neat little tool called Dead Island Helper. It automatically improves performance and applies tweaks without having to edit files and risk messing something up.

Also, don't worry about VAC banning you because they won't, I, and many others use this and have not received a ban. There's a thread here on Steam forums with a little more detail.

Techy stuff: Oculus Rift and How about a $3000 graphics card.

Lets start with Oculus Rift, as pretty much everyone on the internet knows by now, Oculus Rift has been sold to Facebook for $2 Billion dollars and internet has erupted because of it. There are posts, threads, blogs, tweets, you name it, people aren't exactly too pleased by this and many have even cancelled their preorder and wrote of Oculus all together.


I personally haven't really made up my mind just yet, I think in a way it's good for Oculus to really get their name out there and use the resources and the power of Facebook to really evolve. I am for now going to wait and see what happens.

Thinking of upgrading your graphics card? How about a GeForce FTX TITAN Z for just $3000? Sounds crazy but it's real and it features a pair of Kelpler GK110 chips, it offers 5,760 CUDA processing cores and each has 6GB of GDDR5 which is a total of 12GB. You could buy a high-end gaming PC for that price.

Stressful times.

Moving house is stressful as a lot of you may know and one of the biggest stresses that sits on your mind more than ever is money. This is stressful in many ways with the main weight on my mind is bills, these have to be paid or you won't have a place for much longer.

Just recently my other half accidentally missed an appointment at the jobcentre, they said to her your next appointment will be on your next sign on day which is every 2 weeks but the appointment was actually put down as a week later. This resulted in our benefits being stopped completely, I wouldn't to be angry but that won't get us far, we just had to stay cool and get it sorted asap which is what we did.

We had to go through a rapid reclaim which basically reboots your claim and luckily they accepted and we should be back on track in the coming days.

Also the cops keep coming round asking for some guy who lived here before. We keep telling them he don't live here no more.

New house!

The time had finally come, after many months and waiting. We got offered a house and we took it in a heartbeat.

What's it been like the last couple of months of being here?

To start with we were very busy, a lot of the first week was spent getting up early, leaving the previous flat to get on a busy bus in the freezing cold to then finally get to the house which we were preparing for decorating. The council were round almost everyday fixing things up like the back door, fitting windows and a few other minor tasks here and there. While me and the other half were stripping wallpaper and cleaning the place up. Seemed like an endless task.

Second week came along and we mostly did more preperations and a bit of decorating. We finally started to crack on with the painting of downstairs towards the end of the week which was a bit of relief. A lot had to be done and with money being tight, we managed to get a lot of help from the Mother who provided us with some paints and tools to get us going and also helped us a fair bit by doing some cleaning and painting herself.

As the weeks went on progress was being made painting was done, carpets were in and basically most of the downstairs was complete with furnishings and kitchen appliances, most of which were brought for us by my other half's Mother who has been very helpful too.

Once all the decorating and stuff like that was done we could finally move in and get my stuff moved down. The sleeping arrangements were just a air bed that didn't last long until it got a puncture but not for long thankfully as we finally got a bed.

From then it's been pretty steady, we still need to get the gardens sorted as soon as we get some garden tools. Which I wish we had now because the weather has been great the past week or so, perfect for gardening. But with bills and other expenses it has to get put on hold for now.

Rest in Peace Paul Walker.

It's a sad day with the loss of a great man, who's probably best known for his roles in the Fast and Furious franchise. Top actor, top bloke and still had a lot to offer.

R.I.P Paul Walker.

Dead Rising 3 Co-op Video.

Dead Rising 3 is starting look like an extremely fun game which is a good thing because I didn't quite enjoy the first one, not for longer than 30 minutes anyway. Dead Rising 3 however, looks like it could be fun for a long time.

Ryse Developer Flythrough: York

Here's another video showing us York in the game Ryse. Looks awesome doesn't it?

Xbox One All-in-One Demo.

Today, Microsoft have released a video showing of their dashboard functionality like instant switching, biometric sign-in, Live TV, Skype, game DVR, OneGuide and more. I find it very interesting, especially with the Kinect implementation which looks easy enough and could prove quite useful. It's stuff like you see in the video that 'next-gen' should be about.

Ryse Developer Flythrough: Rome

Ryse, the Xbox One exclusive by Crytek looks gorgeous and I hope the gameplay/story can live up to these stunning visuals.

Humble Bundle. WB Games.

Humble Bundle have 6 top games that you can grab for a very reasonable price, a price where you pay what you want and if you pay more than the average you get all 6 games. These games are Scribblenauts Unlimited, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Asylum, F.E.A.R 2, F.E.A.R 3 and Lord of the Rings: War in the North.


https://www.humblebundle.com/

Forza Motorsport 5 Launch Trailer

This looks absolutely fantastic, my god the visuals are so impressive, photo-realistic in fact. Finally a game that really shows what 'next-gen' has in store for us.

Steam Machine Picture.

A few pictures of Valve's Steam machine. More details about the machine can be found here.

Battlefield 4: Current-gen Vs Next-gen

In this video they compare current-gen to the next-gen and there's not a huge difference in all honesty. You see the obvious differences such as the lighting, higher-res textures, higher quality shadows amongst other things but the current-gen still looks rather impressive considering how old it is.

Live Action Dead Island Short [Trailer]

Remember that really cool trailer of Dead Island where the zombies invade that hotel room. There's now going to be a live action short of it. Looks interesting!

Team Fortress 2 Halloween Event 2013

As usual each year, Valve do something for halloween in TF2. This year it takes place on the hightower map. If you haven't tried it you should give it a go it's a lot of fun.

ARMA 3 Campaign 'Survive' Out Now!

The long awaited campaign for ARMA 3 has finally arrived as a free download, your game will just update automatically like it would if it is patching on Steam.

Synopsis:

'Tensions rise as NATO peacekeeping forces begin to leave The Republic of Altis: a strategic fault-line between crumbling European influence and a powerful, resurgent East. But when a key radar facility drops off the grid, a Mediterranean flashpoint risks escalating into global conflict.

Caught up in a situation beyond their control, a botched withdrawal traps the men of Task Force Aegis and a clandestine group of UKSF operators in a fight for survival. With only a crippled local resistance to turn to, they must rapidly adapt to overcome an unforgiving environment and defeat a brutal enemy.'

From what I've played so far the campaign is very difficult, expect to die a LOT. It's not like COD where you can run in to a room with 5 enemies pointing guns at you and you simply mow them down single handedly. You will get punished for doing that in this game. It requires thinking, a bit of luck and patience.

A side from that it is still an enjoyable experience especially for the more hardcore players and it runs rather well as well, even on my old system where I had stable 30fps which to me is playable for a game like this.

Official Website

Battlefield 4: PS4 Vs Xbox One Graphics Comparison.

Here we go again, comparisons between the 2 console giants, in this video they compare the PS4 to the Xbox One with Battlefield 4 and in my opinion, I can't see any obvious differences.