Anno 2070

It is set in the year 2070. Global warming has melted the Arctic ice cap, which has raised the global sea level so high that what used to be mountains are all that remains of land.

The game has two factions: Ecos and Tycoons. Ecos are environmental and build sustainable cities but are inefficient and slow to expand. Tycoons are industrious and expand quickly but have problems with pollution and dwindling resources.

Lost Horizon

A point-and-click cartoon-type adventure game where the player tries to locate a friend that has gone missing while attempting to stop the Third Reich German soldiers from finding a key artifact for their plans. The journey spans across several continents and the player often ends up in amusing situations with similarly funny solutions.

F1 2010

Very late DR of Codies' previous Formula One racing game. With renewed thanks to GeneralAdmission.

WSGF IRC, AMD Fusion E3-350 APU Review, YT Video on Stripping Monitor Bezels + More

Good day to everyone. We've got some good updates since the last newsletter two weeks ago. Also, as a regular part of the newsletter I am going to start highlighting one area or section of the site. First up is the WSGF IRC Channel.

Connecting with the WSGF Chat/IRC

Many people aren't aware that we have a WSGF IRC Channel. Delphium hosts it on a private server that allows us customize bots and scripts. If you don't run an IRC client, we host a Java client on the WSGF. You can find it at http://widescreengamingforum.com/irc. If you're logged into the site, it will automatically use your forum name as your IRC nickname.

We've been getting about a dozen people idling, with guests dropping in to ask questions. Come idle as well, and help us make this a vibrant community forum. If you are running an IRC client, connect with the following details:

Host: wsgf.mine.nu
Port: 32256
Or combined: wsgf.mine.nu:32256
Channel: #WSGF
Or with the following link: irc://wsgf.mine.nu:32256/wsgf (in Firefox this opens the IRC channel directly, using Mibbit)

AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 w/ Big Eyefinity Updates

After a drought of Catalyst releases with no real Eyefinity updates (beyond performance updates), AMD comes in with a trifecta of Eyefinity updates. The updates of particular importance to Eyefinity users are:

  • Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations
  • Maximum supported resolution has been increased to 16000 x 16000 pixels on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series. (limited to DX11 applications only)
  • Bezel compensation is now possible when using sets of displays that have mismatched pixel densities.

Battlefield 3 (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]

Well better a little late then never, this is actually a shorter version of the video, the full length video is 30 minutes long and includes the first full mission, that video is still uploading. Anyway, Battlefield 3 is a FPS game that has a heavy focus on its multi player side, it natively supports multi monitor resolutions but a couple of bugs make it less then a perfect solution, but its nothing the Devs can't fix if they wanted to. Once again if your monitors width is larger than 1920 pixels and you have lots of bandwidth, set the quality to original and play the video in full screen for a much higher quality.

Video Link: Battlefield 3 (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Extended Version: Battlefield 3 Extended (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Forum Thread: [#18066]

Renegade Ops

DX-10 only, gamepad-friendly top-down vehicular shooter from the makers of Just Cause 2. Features 2-player splitscreen and 4-player online co-op.