Ultimate HD Resident Evil 4 coming to PC

Capcom announced today that nearly everyone’s favourite in the series, Resident Evil 4, will be re-released next month as a PC exclusive Ultimate HD Edition.

The previous 2007 PC edition was maligned for many different reasons, including native mouse support. On their press release, Capcom stated that a “complete visual overhaul has been performed to bring this revered title to the highest graphical quality ever. Fully optimized for the wide screen, texts have been sharpened and textures have been upgraded on characters, backgrounds and in-game objects.” 

The game will run at 60 frames per second for the first time and offers everything from previous releases. It will be available across Europe at retail and on Steam globally. You can pre-order on Steam now, and if you do you’ll get a digital soundtrack and digital art book thrown in as well.

Resident Evil 4 : Ultimate HD Edition will be available on February 28.

 

Source: Gamespot

Assassin’s Creed IV new DLC revealed

The latest DLC pack for Assassin’s Creed IV, Black Flag’s Illustrious Pirates has been revealed. The DLC adds single-player missions, costumes and Jackdaw upgrades.

On their blog, Ubisoft announced that the DLC will be available on PS3 and PS4, Xbox 360 & Xbox One, and PC. If you’re a Season Pass holder you’ll be able to get it for free, otherwise it will be $7.

There are three single-player missions: Black Island, Mystery Island and Sacrifice Island. As well as the missions, new items have been added that players can use including new weapons and outfits, Discoverer, Watch and Cartographer picture and titles for multiplayer, and ship upgrades.

Black Flag’s Illustrious Pirates is the third DLC pack for Assassin’s Creed IV and is available now in the US and tomorrow elsewhere.

 

Source: Ubisoft

South Park: Stick of Truth editions & release date confirmed

Ubisoft has announced that South Park: The Stick of Truth will launch on December 12th across Europe and December 10th in North America – just in time for Christmas.

If you pre-order the game, you’ll receive the Ultimate Fellowship pack, boasting four “exclusive Stick of Truth costumes that come equipped with special abilities.”

There’s the Rogue Assassin which lets players earn extra gold,  the Holy Defender which ups defense, The Necromancer Sorcerer that increases fire damage and the Ranger Elf costume that gives extra weapon damage.

If you’d rather something a bit more, then there’s also the Grand Wizard Edition available for $79.99 which also includes:

• 6” Kidrobot Cartman Grand Wizard figure
• Kingdom of South Park map
• Ultimate Fellowship Pack

South Park: The Stick of Truth will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Wolfenstein: The New Order delayed until 2014

Bethesda VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines confirmed that Wolfenstein: The New Order will be delayed until 2014. Originally the game was meant to be released on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PC later this year, but has been pushed back on all platforms.

Speaking on Twitter earlier, Hines stated that the team “felt it deserved some additional time for polish.”

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/01/wolfenstein-the-new-order-delayed-to-2014

Steam may soon allow you to share your games with friends

As Steam users will know you can’t share your downloaded games with friends, not in the way the console users can by simply lending them a disc. But this may be about to change, after three lines of code were discovered in the latest Steam client beta.

The lines of code in question are:

• “SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicense_Title” “Shared game library”
• “SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_OwnerText” “Just so you know, your games are currently in use by %borrower%. Playing now will send %borrower% a notice that it’s time to quit.”
• “SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_BorrowerText” “This shared game is currently unavailable. Please try again later or buy this game for your own library.”

From that it appears that you will be able to let other Steam players borrow your games, and then take them back when you fancy.

What this means for publishers we don’t know, or whether if Steam will go ahead with it. But there is the possibility that Steam users will be able to share their games with other users, just like you can do with console games.

Source: http://kotaku.com/steam-might-soon-let-you-share-your-games-with-your-fri-514219133