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Originally Posted by wraggster

Bethesda has released a patch for id's latest shooter, RAGE, fixing a number of bugs and adding graphics engine settings "due to popular demand."
Legendary gaming pioneer John Carmack enraged a number of PC gaming faithful by saying: "We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games" and describing problems with video drivers "a real cluster !@#$."
"We knew that all older AMD drivers, and some Nvidia drivers would have problems with the game,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Silent Hill: Downpour has been officially delayed and will not now be released until Q1 2012.
The game had previously been down for a November release on both PS3 and Xbox 360.
It will now be released some time in Q1 2012.
Furthermore, Konami has retorted to claims of a delay to Metal Gear Solid HD Collection by insisting that the game was never given a concrete release date in the first place.
However, rightly or wrongly the SKU had been pegged for a Q4 2011 release – not

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The biggest 20 games operators on Facebook are combating a steady drop in daily user retention, an analyst group has said.
IHS Screen Digest claims that, during the first three quarters of 2011, the likes of Zynga and PopCap noticed a downward trend in user engagement.
User engagement is a specific metric that measures the ratio of daily active users versus monthly active users.
If the ratio is in decline, as the new data suggests, it means that those who log on to Facebook games

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Wargaming.net’s online multiplayer war shooter World of Tanks is heading to UK retail next month, courtesy of publisher Deep Silver.
MCV can reveal that the PC title’s UK release date is November 11th.
The Russian version of World of Tanks arrived first in 2010 and the European and North American releases followed earlier this year. Today it has over 5m registered users worldwide.
It’s a previously download-only game that uses a free-to-play payment model, where users can spend

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Mass Effect 3 will indeed have an online multiplayer component - a feature that has been rumoured for some time now - according to Australian magazine PC PowerPlay.
The game was initially revealed at the VGA awards in December last year, while Kinect support was announced at E3 in June.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/mass-ef...ayer-confirmed