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    Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets a new patch on Steam

    Despite only having been out for a few days, Valve has already updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam with a new patch tweaking the mechanics and fixing various bugs.

    The full list of changes (as listed by Valve) include:

    Gameplay
    • Exposed a classic dynamic crosshair style in the options that represents the weapons spread accurately.
    • Implemented first-person client flinching. Now a player gets aim punched a bit when shot. The amount is based on the damage.
    • Increased amount of tagging that results from hits.
    Bugs
    • Fixed the scoreboard turning toggleable in the end match state.
    • Fixed not being able to bring up the pause menu without dismissing the scoreboard in the end match state.
    • Parallelised matchmaking results analysis process and reduced time game takes to perform matchmaking.
    • Improved matchmaking algorithm giving more weight to dedicated servers ping during matchmaking results analysis.
    Community
    • Removed the implicit dependency on round-limited matches so servers that want to use mp_timelimit instead can. Mp_timelimit is used only if mp_maxrounds is set to 0.
    • Exposed mp_forcecamera convar.
    • Exposed set of server hibernate convars.
    • Fixed code that was preventing mapper-placed weapons.
     

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    Ubisoft has endured a 93-95% piracy rate on PC


    Ubisoft has endured a 93 to 95 per cent piracy rate on PC. That's why it's investing in free-to-play on PC - to guarantee revenue, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot told GamesIndustry International. "We want to develop the PC market quite a lot and F2P is really the way to do it," he said.

    "The advantage of F2P is that we can get revenue from countries where we couldn't previously - places where our products were played but not bought. Now with F2P we gain revenue, which helps brands last longer.

    "It's a way to get closer to your customers, to make sure you have a revenue. On PC it's only around five to seven per cent of the players who pay for F2P, but normally on PC it's only about five to seven per cent who pay anyway, the rest is pirated. It's around a 93 to 95 per cent piracy rate, so it ends up at about the same percentage. The revenue we get from the people who play is more long term, so we can continue to bring content."

    Ubisoft has had a troubled history with PC gamers. It's come in for criticism for its DRM efforts and releasing PC versions of multiplatform games after the console versions. It'll do it again this year with the launch of Assassins' Creed 3, which launches on PC two weeks after console.

    At Gamescom last week Ubisoft announced a raft of PC exclusive F2P titles, including Silent Hunter Online, Anno Online, The Settlers Online and Heroes of Might Heroes Online. It's also got Shootmania Storm and Ghost Recon Online in the works.

    In March this year Ubisoft's digital boss Chris Early told Eurogamer that Ubisoft wanted to offer PC gamers so much value with its franchises that the need for its controversial DRM "goes away".

    It hopes strategies including companion gaming, which sees spin-off experiences on mobile devices and social platforms feed into their related core games, and constant game updates, will discourage piracy. In short, it wants to create systems similar to those used by MMO makers for its games.

    "Will some people still pirate? Yeah, they will. Will the person who really wants that broad experience pirate? We hope not," he said. Ubisoft attracted gamers' ire when it announced that the PC versions of both Driver: San Francisco and From Dust required users to log on to the internet every time they played the game.

    Such was the outcry that Ubisoft changed its mind, tweaking Driver's DRM so that players would no longer require always-on internet to enjoy it.

    But that didn't prevent a number of Ubisoft PC games, including Driver and Anno 2070, from being completely unplayable online and offline when the company moved its gaming servers over to a third-party.

    The publisher then claimed its DRM policy was a success, insisting it had seen "a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection".
     

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    GeForce GTX 660 specs released

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    Graphics chip maker NVIDIA has detailed the specs for a forthcoming GeForce GTX 660 card over on its website, surprising some of us with the news that the follow up to the GTX 660Ti will be OEM only. That means you won’t be able to branded versions in the shops as upgrades, you’ll only be able to grab one as part of a new PCs.Looking at the specs, the question is whether or not you’d want to.

    While some of us were holding out hope that GTX 660 would be a nifty sub-£200 card based on the rumoured GK107 processor, the reality is that it’s yet another variant on the GK104 that powered the GTX 670 and GTX 680. This time, another batch of stream shaders has been turned off, leaving the GTX 660 running 1156 cores at 823MHz, compared to the GTX 660 Ti’s 1344 cores at 915MHz. It retains the same 192bit memory bus.Whether this extra performance drop is bearable will depend on how much systems equipped with a GTX 660 will cost.

    The card’s appearance means that NVIDIA still has a hole in its Kepler line up for a £200-ish set of cards to fill. My guess now would be that you’ll see a GT 660 – minus the X – alongside GT 650s and so on some time soon.
     

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    Fan-Made Super Mario Galaxy 2.5 In The Works

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    A group of Super Mario Galaxy fans discontent with the existence of only two Galaxy titles, has decided to take matters into their own hands.

    You can find out more about the project, and even download a demo for its work in progress title by heading to this website. Apparently the project still has a ways to go. In the trailer below, they put out a call for all manner of game designer that can help with the project.

     

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    Borderlands 2 Comparison Video Shows The Advantage Of GeForce GTX

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    Along with getting a healthy dose of gameplay footage from Borderlands 2, this video also offers a compelling argument as to why you might want to play Borderlands 2 on PC.

    The game looks great regardless of where you are playing it, but with GeForce GTX, fabric and water physics become much more impressive. Take a look at the video below.

    Borderlands to is heading to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC September 18.

     

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    GeForce GTX 660 specs released

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    Graphics chip maker NVIDIA has detailed the specs for a forthcoming GeForce GTX 660 card over on its website, surprising some of us with the news that the follow up to the GTX 660Ti will be OEM only. That means you won’t be able to branded versions in the shops as upgrades, you’ll only be able to grab one as part of a new PCs.Looking at the specs, the question is whether or not you’d want to.

    While some of us were holding out hope that GTX 660 would be a nifty sub-£200 card based on the rumoured GK107 processor, the reality is that it’s yet another variant on the GK104 that powered the GTX 670 and GTX 680. This time, another batch of stream shaders has been turned off, leaving the GTX 660 running 1156 cores at 823MHz, compared to the GTX 660 Ti’s 1344 cores at 915MHz. It retains the same 192bit memory bus.Whether this extra performance drop is bearable will depend on how much systems equipped with a GTX 660 will cost.

    The card’s appearance means that NVIDIA still has a hole in its Kepler line up for a £200-ish set of cards to fill. My guess now would be that you’ll see a GT 660 – minus the X – alongside GT 650s and so on some time soon.

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    Battlefield 3: Armored Kill DLC dated for September

    Battlefield 3's Armored Kill DLC is coming to PS3 on 4th September for Battlefield Premium members, and the following week for Xbox 360 and PC players, EA has announced.

    Non-members will be able to access the content on 18th September on PS3 and 25th September for Xbox 360 and PC. The add-on will feature new tanks, ATVs, mobile artillery and four new maps, one of which is being touted as the largest in the series' history.

    Also new is Tank Superiority Mode - a variant of King of the Hill, only with tanks.
    No price point has been announced, but ostensibly it will be the same as the previous Close Quarters DLC pack at £11.99 / €14.99 / $14.99 / 1200 Microsoft Points.
     

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