We are pleased to announce that we now have user badges (AMD Eyefinity, NVIDIA Surround, S-3D, 21:9, and more) in the WSGF forum, which you can assign to yourself. This has been a long time coming, and something that we've wanted since the last time we were on phpBB. Problem is that phpBB doesn't natively support this behavior.
Luckily our faithful admin Delphium has kicked phpBB in bollocks and made it do what we wanted (and what it should have done in the first place). Read on for more details and to see how to add your badges.
Recently our friends at PC Gaming Wiki asked us if we would like to be interviewed. We were thrilled and honored, and jumped at the chance. You can read the whole thing here. Feel free to comment there, or here. And feel free to jump over to the Reddit post, so you can comment there.
Papo & Yo is a fantasy adventure video game, The game takes place in an unspecified Brazilian favela which the player has to navigate. The player takes on the role of Quico, a young kid who has run away from his home to escape his abusive and alcoholic father. Quico has the ability to turn the environment into a magical and dream-like world.
Lead developer Julian Barnoin came to say thanks for WSGF being a great resource while porting Papo & Yo from PS3 to PC. Read his blog post here
Worms Forts: Under Siege is an artillery strategy game. It was designed by Team17. Like the most recent Worms game, it is in complete 3D and showcases new features, such as buildings. While the primary method of victory is to destroy the opposing team, an alternative method is to destroy the opposing Stronghold, the most important building in the game.
Today AMD lifted the embargo on information regarding the Radeon HD 7990 launch. Unfortunately we weren't able to secure a review sample prior to the launch, but have been assured that we will receive one shortly.
The card is basically 2x Radeon HD 7970 GHz Editions smooshed into one package. The card is clocked at base 950Hz, with a boost of 1GHz. It boasts 6GB of VRAM and five outputs (4x Mini-DP + 1DL-DVI). The card was also designed to be virtually silent, and clocks in quieter than a library. The card also comes with seven high-profile AAA games in the box, which can help reduce the pain of its $999 price tag.
Included are slides from the press deck that AMD shares with us on their recent conference call. Click them to embiggen.
Don't Starve is a isometric survival game, it throws you into an unknown landscape with no other instruction other then not to Starve. As for multi-monitor support, it's pretty good, the game is horizontal plus and the UI is scaled correctly, it does however suffer from the common issue that elements bound to the side of the display area get pushed off to the edges of your side screens. This is a little annoying as the world time, health and hunger meter are all the way off to one side of the right monitor, and all the crafting options are on the far left of the left monitor, where as your character and your focus is on the centre monitor. Still the UI is perfectly functional so after a while you'll get used to the positioning, inspite of it's inconvenient placement on a multi-monitor setup.
The video itself is my first attempt at trying not to starve, feel free to like or dislike my video and comment are always welcome too.
While this video can be watched on any screen it has been encoded to look best on a multi-monitor system, so if your running such a system, then select original quality from the drop down box and watch in fullscreen.
AMD recently announced that they have added Ubsisoft's upcoming title "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" to their Never Settle Reloaded game bundle. The game will be offered for all GPUs offered in the existing bundle, from the HD 7970 all the way down to the HD 7770 GHz Edition.
They are also offered the title retroactively for anyone who has previously redeemed a Never Settle Reloaded code.
A while ago I posted in the forum regarding a bezel-less rear projected display we've been working on for museum installations. We’ve since started actively developing a smaller curved display for the home gamer and simulator enthusiast. We’re calling it the Infinitx D. Infinitx as in “infinite in the x-axis” with a D for desktop edition..
We would like to invite all WSGF members to contribute, in the form of comments, criticisms and wishes to help create a truly crowdsourced product that meets the needs of gamers and simulator constructors.
ShootMania Storm is a first-person shooter video game by Ubisoft and Nadeo. It is based on the TrackMania games by Nadeo.
Just like its sister games TrackMania 2 and the yet-unreleased QuestMania, it will feature 3 different environments, of which two have so far been revealed; a snow-based environment called Cryo, and another called Storm. Storm is set to be released first, with Cryo released approximately a year later.
