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Quantum Break is finally out on Steam. Though if you’re looking to play with the latest graphical enhancements, you may feel a bit left out. Reddit users noticed that the Steam version only runs in DirectX 11 mode. Meanwhile, the version on the Windows Store is still a DirectX 12 exclusive. This may or may…
No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth since the release of the critically panned game. It has now been over a month and a half since the Hello Games team and Murray have communicated with their customers. “We’re totally focused on customer support right now. Then…
Oh boy, it’s been a fun week for Microsoft gaming news. None of it particularly good. Today, we have Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney speaking out against Redmond’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) monopolizing and closing off the PC gaming eco-system. “With its new Universal Windows Platform initiative, Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10,…
If you’re hoping that Rocksteady and Warner Bros. will finally get around to fixing the broken PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, don’t hold your breath. The publisher has admitted on the game’s Steam community page that some bugs in the code that are impossible to fix. “We are going to continue to address the issues that…
Months after it was pulled from stores, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight is back on Steam. The good news? It’s not as badly broken. The bad news? It’s still broken. Gamers took to Reddit to complain that the game still had numerous performance issues. Notably high memory usage, frame rate stutters, and lag…
To say the launch of Arkham Knight on the PC was a disaster would be an understatement. Fans of the Batman were met with terrible performance even on high performance systems. Another day, another sloppy port of a console game. Except this time was different. Gamers got upset, and both Warner Bros. and Rocksteady actually…
Valve has announced they will be pulling paid mods from the Steam Workshop, and that gamers will be refunded their money. In a message to members, company representative Alden Kroll admitted that they did not know what they were getting themselves into. “We’ve been shipping many features over the years aimed at allowing community creators to…
Valve caught everybody by surprise when paid mods for Skyrim started going up on Steam last week. Of course gamers are up in arms about it. They liken the paid mods to micro-transactions. Saying it’s unfair to make people pay for something that used to be free. This might be one of the most poorly…
There’s a new piece of ransomware on the block, and it’s targeting gamers. Anti-malware company Bromium Labs says the virus encrypts game saves, mods, and other files. It then pops up with a scary red banner demanding you pay… or else. Meaning you’ll never get your level 50 battle mage back. Once again, computers are being infected…
Dead or Alive is finally coming to PC, and series producer Yosuke Hayashi is asking gamers to keep mods “good and moral”. Yep, the irony is not lost on me. The fighting game is probably better known for it’s scantly clad female characters than its combat mechanics. After decades of console exclusivity, Koei Tecmo has finally decided…