A re-release of Doom 3. The BFG Edition features enhanced graphics, better sound with more horror effects, a checkpoint save system, and support for 3D displays and VR displays. The game also includes the previous expansion Resurrection of Evil and a new single player expansion pack called The Lost Mission. Additionally, it includes copies of the original Doom ("The Ultimate Doom" edition with add-on fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed), and Doom 2 with the new episode "No Rest For The Living", previously available for Xbox 360.
I had the great fortune to sit down with the fine folks from True PC Gaming and talk about the origins and future of the WSGF. I also sound like an old man, and believe I actually said, "Get off my lawn". Also, after the second mention of using Macs at home, they threatened to throw me off the show and shut it down. If you can handle listening to me talk for the better part of an hour, then please give it a listen.
On a serious note, we do talk about creating a mature and welcoming community. We talk about how reputations are built, how they can precede you, and how they've helped us build the WSGF. Of particular note is how Paddy the Wak's (one of our first Moderators/Editors) reputation helped secure our relationships with both Matrox and scan.co.uk.
Sonic Adventure 2 is an old Dreamcast game that has seen a couple of HD re-releases, and last month it appeared on stream. It's a 3D platformer and for a port of an 11 year old console game, it has better multi-monitor support then most A, AA and AAA titles this year. Cutscreens are the correct aspect ratio and centred, menus are scaled correctly and centred, the HUD is unfortunately spanned, but the game itself is horizontal plus.
The video itself is part analysis, part walkthough and part waffle, 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.
I just wanted to take a few moments out from the Steam Sales and Christmas Coma to thank our entire volunteer staff here at the WSGF. Our Editors do a great job of policing content on the site, and moderating the forums. Thank you all.
The three folks that make up our admin staff (AussieTimmeh, CrackerJackMack and Delphium), volunteer with the never-ending task of not only keeping the WSGF up and running, but also continuing to make it better. Thanks guys for all you do. The cheques are in the mail, or more appropriately - the codes.
Hawken is a multiplayer mech combat video game developed by Adhesive Games. The game focuses on creating an intense battle experience that captures the feel of piloting a mech while keeping the action fast-paced and strategic. It has been confirmed that the game will feature two unique game modes, as well as conventional team deathmatch and free-for-all modes.
MechWarrior Online (also known as MWO) is an free to play, action simulation game developed by Piranha Games. Development of the game is being led by Russ Bullock, president of Piranha Games, and is part of a licensing agreement with Smith & Tinker for the rights to create MechWarrior for the Microsoft Windows platform.
Have you visited True PC Gaming? If not, you should. They are a great indie PC gaming site, and are friends of the WSGF. They've been pestering me to be on their podcast, and that has indeed happened. My episode will be up on Monday.
TPG has a great focus on indie games, and continually score interviews with indie devs. In fact I'm jealous of this, and I have to learn to do better at reaching out to devs. So, I thought I'd share with you a weekly set of highlights from their site. They have other content highlighting news from indie game devs, so there is even more to check out.
In our recent site survey, one thing that users wanted was monitor reviews. Unfortunately, the WSGF isn't set up to review monitors (we simply don't have the equipment). So, to help spread the word on monitor news and reviews, I thought we'd start sharing a weekly news round-up from TFT Central.
To get things kicked off, I thought I'd go ahead and share their major news from the last month:
Reviews:
No reviews so far in December. The most recent one was the HP ZR2740w v2. This review is an excellent example of what it takes to do a thorough review, and the testing equipment you would need.
In a recent news post, we told you that a call had gone out to release the source code to SoftTH as open source. We are pleased to announce that the code has indeed been released under GNU GPL v3.
Far Cry 3 is a open world first person shooter from Crytek / Ubisoft. It has good multi-monitor support, no messing with the resolutions, menus and HUD is scaled correct and centred on my system, cut screens are 16:9 aspect ratio, unfortunately however the FoV is capped on multi-monitor resolutions, this results in an incorrect FoV ingame. HaYDeN has however released a fix for the FoV, currently the fix isn't perfect but it does the job well enough, the Flawless Widescreen tool can be found in the Mods, Tweaks, Tools & Tutorials section of the forums.
The video itself is part analysis, part walkthough and part waffle, 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.
