The Tiny Bang Story is set in a fictitious world that is hit by an asteroid, leaving you to literally pick up the pieces and put it back together. Over several chapters, you need to rebuild machines and solve puzzles to find all the pieces you need to rebuild the world.
Azriel Odin, ex-assassin, arrives on the rain-drenched planet of Barracus. When things go horribly wrong, he can only seek help from the very criminals he used to work for. Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a man called Delta-Six wakes up in a hospital with no memory. Without knowing where to turn or who to trust, he vows to escape before he loses his identity completely. As fate brings these two closer together, we discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought and sold, and a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a remake of the 1994 classic strategy game UFO: Enemy Unknown, also known as X-COM: UFO Defense. Unlike the previously announced XCOM by 2K Marin, this game will return to the strategic root of the X-COM series.
Just about a year ago AMD release their first flagship APU, the A8-3850. We reviewed the platform and found it a good product for gamers interested in "indie" titles or mainstream titles running at mid-range settings. Perhaps surprisingly we did find its compute capabilities on par with higher end offerings from Intel, when it game to gaming with a discrete GPU. In that time technology and game design have progressed significantly. What can we now expect from the AMD A10 APU?
I've got to be honest in going into this review, I have developed a bias out outlook/perspective. The CPU comparisons of my A8-3850 review showed me that the AMD A8 APU could keep pace with a high end Intel CPU, when paired with a discrete GPU. We (the gaming community) keep being told that we need the best of the best, in each of our components, to have the best gaming experience. The truth is that much of the power being marketed to us is simply redundant or unneeded. The sum of a gaming rig should be greater than its parts.
There should be a balance of performance where we say some component is "good enough", and additional money should be directed to another component such as a better GPU, SSD or more RAM. Based on my previous look at the A8 APU, I'm betting that the CPUs most people covet are overkill and money is wasted on power that will never been realized. Will the A10 be good enough for today's games, or will you need more? We aim to find out...
Though it's not listed in the change notes for the Oct 1st patch, NCSoft has updated support for NVIDIA Surround. They have fixed the stretched character selection/creation and the stretched cut-scenes. The HUD is also perfectly centered on the triple monitor setup, rather than half on and half off.
This is the fourth entry in my series of reviews for the Steam Indie Bundles. Each review is short and subjective, and is geared to give you a quick look at the game. Indie Bundle 4 includes: A Valley Without Wind, Atom Smasher Zombie, Blocks That Matter, Sanctum, and Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP.
In a recent article, I shared a first look at the gaming performance of the AMD A10-5800K APU. Overall the new APU performed 1/3 faster than the previous flagship chip, the A8-3850. However, the A10 doesn't provide playable framerates with our normal stress test suite (which runs each game at max settings). However, with only slight drops in image quality the A10 is able to hit an average of 30fps in many popular titles. As we did with our previous APU reviews, I wanted to take a look at how the title performs in slightly more casual/mainstream titles.
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure videogame with an emphasis on audiovisual style. Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries. Co-operate with friends via Twitter, experience a videogame world that is affected by moon phases & help a wandering warrior monk complete her woeful errand.
Blocks That Matter (also known as BTM) is a two-dimensional indie puzzle platformer developed by Swing Swing Submarine. The player takes the role of “tetrabot”, a robot which is able to collect blocks by jumping into them or drilling them, and can then construct shapes in a “puzzle mode” using four blocks at a time. BTM heavily references the games Minecraft and Tetris through the main characters, in-game mechanics and concepts such as “Pajitnovian physics”.
Atom Zombie Smasher is a real-time strategy game developed by independent developer Blendo Games. In this game, the player attempts to rescue as many citizens as possible from an oncoming zombie horde using helicopter rescue units. As the player progresses, various weapon teams are unlocked that can be deployed to slow the zombie forces while the citizens are rescued.
This game is surprisingly fun and addictive.
