Personal Computer Game News

[king3pj]

Well this is big news..

PlayStation Now is coming to PC, along with a new, enhanced USB dongle to allow for better PS4 connectivity.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016...pc-dualshock-4-usb-wireless-adaptor-unveiled/

I still have my problems with Playstation Now, mainly having to pay to rent games I already own digitally on PSN, but this is still cool to see. The wireless adapter will be nice for PC gamers who don't have Bluetooth built in to their PC too. I'm going to stick to my Xbox One controller because that's what I prefer but it's nice to have options.

 

[yourbeliefs]

FYI, these are all the games available on PS Now


Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations
Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom
Air Conflicts - Secret Wars
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers
Air Conflicts: Vietnam
Alien Spidy
All Zombies Must Die!
Alone in the Dark: Inferno
Alpha Protocol
Anarchy: Rush Hour
Anna Extended Edition
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Aqua Panic!
Arcana Heart 3
Arcana Heart 3: Love Max!!!
ArcaniA - The Complete Tale
Armageddon Riders
Assassin’s Creed®
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed® II
Assassin’s Creed® III
Assassin’s Creed® Revelations
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue
Asura's Wrath
Atelier Ayesha
Atelier Escha & Logy
Atelier Rorona Plus
Back to Bed
Back to the Future™: Episode 1 - It's About Time
Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue
Batman: Arkam Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
Battle Fantasia
BATTLE OF TILES EX
Battle Princess of Arcadias
Bellator MMA Onslaught
Ben 10 Omniverse
Ben 10 Omniverse 2
Bentley's Hackpack
Big Sky: Infinity
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2
Bioshock
BioShock 2
BioShock Infinite
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma
BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma EXTEND
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
Blood Knights
BloodRayne: Betryal
Bodycount
Bomberman Ultra
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands The Pre-sequel
Bound by Flame
Braid
Capcom Arcade Cabinet: All-in-One-Pack
Cel Damage HD
Child of Light
Chime Super Deluxe
Choplifter HD
Class of Heroes 2G
Comet Crash Bionic Bundle
Contrast
Costume Quest 2
Counter Spy
Crash Commando
Crazy Taxi
Critter Crunch
Cuboid Ultimate Bundle
Damnation
Dark Void
Darksiders
Darksiders II
Darkstalkers Resurrection
de Blob 2
Dead Island
Dead Island Riptide
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Deadliest Warrior: Legends
Deadliest Warrior: The Game
Death Track: Resurrection
Deception IV: Blood Ties
Derrick the Deathfin
detuned
Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry HD Collection
DiRT 3
DiRT Showdown
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness
Divekick
Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time
Dogfight 1942
Doki-Doki Universe
Double Dragon Neon
Dragon Fin Soup
Dragon's Lair
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
Duke Nukem Forever
Dynasty Warriors 7
Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires
Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends
Dynasty Warriors 8
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Earth Defense Force 2025
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armaggedon
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Eat Them!
echochrome
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Elefunk
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Entwined
Escape Dead Island
Eternal Sonata
Ethan: Meteor Hunter
Eufloria
Everyday Shooter
F.E.A.R. (Campaign Mode)
F1 2013
F1 2014
F1 RACE STARS
Faery: Legends of Avalon
Falling Skies
Farming Simulator
Farming Simulator 15
Fat Princess
Final Exam
Final Fight: Double Impact
fLOW
Flower
Frogger Returns
Fuel Overdose
Galaga Legions DX
Game of Thrones Ep 1 & Ep 2 Bundle
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Go! Puzzle
God of War HD
God of War II
God of War III
God of War: Ascension
God of War: Chains of Olympus
God of War: Ghosts of Sparta
Gravity Crash
Grid 2
Grid Autosport
Guacamelee!
Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator
Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Hamsterball
Heavenly Sword
Heavy Fire: Afghanistan
Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear
Hoard
Hohokum
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Hunter’s Trophy 2: America
Hustle Kings
ibb & obb
ICO
inFAMOUS
inFAMOUS 2
inFAMOUS: Festival Of Blood
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos
Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom
Jeopardy
Jeremy McGrath's Offroad
Jetpack Joyride Deluxe
Jimmie Johnson’s Anything with an Engine
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
Journey
Judge Dee - The City God Case
Jurassic Park: The Game
Karateka
Katamari Forever
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
Killzone HD
King Oddball
Knytt Underground
Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends
Kung Fu Rabbit
Le Tour de France™ - Season 2014
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West
Legasista
Legend of Kay Anniversary
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman: The Videogame
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Lemmings
Linger in Shadows
LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Lost Planet 2
Lost Planet 3
Lost Planet: Extreme Edition
LUMINES Supernova
Machinarium
Magic Orbz
Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Magus
Mahjong Tales™: Ancient Wisdom
Mamorukun Curse!
Mars: War Logs
Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond
Mega Man 10
Mega Man 9

Mercury HG
Metro: Last Light – Complete Edition
Monster High: New Ghoul in School
Mortal Kombat
Moto GP 13
Motorcycle Club
Motorstorm RC
MotorStorm: Apocalypse
MouseCraft
MX vs. ATV Alive
MX vs. ATV Reflex
MX vs. ATV Supercross
MX vs. ATV: Untamed
Narco Terror
NBA 2K14
Nights Into Dreams
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
Numblast
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Of Orcs and Men™
Okabu
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Order Up!!
Overlord 2
Overlord: Raising Hell
PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation
Papo & Yo
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 2
PID (Peculiar Destination)
PixelJunk Eden
PixelJunk Eden Encore
PixelJunk Monsters
PixelJunk Monsters Encore
PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap
PixelJunk Shooter
PixelJunk Shooter 2
PixelJunk Sidescroller
Piyotama
Planet Minigolf
Planets Under Attack
Poker Night 2
Port Royale 3: Gold
Proteus
Puppeteer
Pure Chess
Puzzle Agent
Q*Bert: Rebooted
R-Type Dimensions
Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic (Single Player Only)
Ragnarok Odyssey Ace
Raiden IV Overkill
Rain
Rainbow Moon
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty
Rayman 3 HD
Rayman Origins
Realms of Ancient War
Record of Agarest War
Record of Agarest War 2
Record of Agarest War Zero
Red Faction Battlegrounds
Red Faction: Armageddon
Red Faction: Guerilla
Red Johnson’s Chronicles: One Against All
Red Johson's Chronicles
Renegade Ops
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil Code Veronica X HD
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles HD
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles HD
Resistance 3
Retrograde
Ricochet HD
Rio
Rise of the Argonauts
Risen 3: Titan Lords – Complete Edition
Rocket Knight
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Rotastic
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
Sacred 3: Gold Edition
Sacred Citadel
Saints Row 2
Saints Row IV
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell
Saints Row: The Third The Full Package
Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Samurai Showdown
Savage Moon
Shadow of the Colossus
Shatter
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Siren: Blood Curse Episodes 1-12
Skullgirls Encore
Sky Dive: Proximity Flight
Sky Fighter
Slender: The Arrival
Sly Cooper Collection
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Snakeball
Sniper Elite V2
Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Soldner-X 2: Final Prototype
Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer
Sonic CD
Sonic Generations
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode I
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II
Sound Shapes
Space Ace
Sparkle 2
Spec Ops: The Line
Spelunker HD
Spelunky
StarDrone
Starhawk
Starwhal
Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark
Stick it to the Man
Street Fighter 3 Third-Strike Online Edition
Strider
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Super Mega Baseball
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Super Stacker Party
Super Stardust HD
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Swarm
Syberia
Syberia II
Tales from Space: About a Blob
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Tales from the Borderlands: Episodes 1 & 2
Tales Of Monkey Island
The Awakened Fate Ultimatum
THE BACONING
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
The Darkness 2
The Guided Fate Paradox
The King of Fighters XIII
The Last Guy
The Last of Us
The Last of Us: Left Behind
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
The LEGO Movie Videogame
The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
The Swapper
The UnderGarden™
The Unfinished Swan
The Walking Dead: Season Two: Episodes 1 & 2
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season
The Wolf Among Us
Thomas was Alone
Titan Attacks!
Tokyo Jungle
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters
Toy Home
Toybox Turbos
Trash Panic
Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll
Truck Racer
Twisted Metal
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Game of the Year Edition
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late
Urban Trial FreeStyle
Vessel
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown
Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign
Wakeboarding HD
Warhawk
Way of the Samurai 3
Way of the Samurai 4
Wheel of Fortune
When Vikings Attack
White Knight Chronicles
Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
WRC 4: FIA World Rally Championship
WWE 2K15 (Single Player Only)
XBLAZE Code: Embryo
XCOM: Enemy Within
Zack Zero
Zen Pinball 2: Zen Pinball Classics
Zeno Clash II
Zombie Tycoon II: Brainhov's Revenge

 

[king3pj]

That's a pretty impressive list. I can see how a subscription would be worth it to a gamer on a tight budget or someone just getting into games who doesn't care about playing the newest stuff. Hopefully they start adding PS4 games to the list soon. They are probably worried that would hurt their current sales though.

Edit: I might have to finally take them up on one of those free trial offers just to see how it works. I don't see myself paying for a monthly subscription with all the games I already have access too though.

 

[yourbeliefs]

It looks like PSNow is available.... NOW

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016...eptember-update-pc-streaming-6-greatest-hits/

 

[king3pj]

It looks like PSNow is available.... NOW

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016...eptember-update-pc-streaming-6-greatest-hits/

That article also says that Ni No Kuni was added to PS Now. I have wanted to play this for a while but since I no longer have my PS3 hooked up I never got around to it. I'll probably give PS Now a shot so I can finally play this.

The other big news in that article is that they are now offering a year of service for $99.99. This is a pretty big savings when compared to their normal $19.99 per month. When I do try it out I will likely go for just a month or two of service to play a specific game. Even though there is a lot of content I don't see myself wanting to play PS3 games often enough to justify paying $100 for a year of service.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Battlefield 1 Beta is now completely Open.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/demos-betas

 

[king3pj]

Cool. I'm going to be out of town this weekend so I'll be checking this out tonight. If you want to add me on yet another friends list so we can group up my Origin ID is king3pj.

Also, your link isn't working for me for some reason. I found a different page dedicated to the beta that has info for all platforms.

https://www.battlefield.com/beta

 

[yourbeliefs]

Cool. I'm going to be out of town this weekend so I'll be checking this out tonight. If you want to add me on yet another friends list so we can group up my Origin ID is king3pj.

Also, your link isn't working for me for some reason. I found a different page dedicated to the beta that has info for all platforms.

https://www.battlefield.com/beta

Might as well. Would help to have someone who actually KNOWS BF to play with. Feel free to play before I get on to learn some of the nuances. And luckily we now have VOICE CHAT according to Origin.

 

[king3pj]

Might as well. Would help to have someone who actually KNOWS BF to play with. Feel free to play before I get on to learn some of the nuances. And luckily we now have VOICE CHAT according to Origin.

I'm no Battlefield expert but I did play quite a bit of BF 3 and 4 as well as Star Wars Battlefront. I know enough to know what both of the modes that are playable in this beta are. I never did grasp how to properly fly the jets and helicopters without killing myself and my teammates but as long as I stick to ground vehicles or stay out of vehicles entirely I do pretty well.

 

[king3pj]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3112...e-zen-chips-will-support-only-windows-10.html

If you want one of the upcoming AMD Zen or Intel Kaby Lake CPUs you will have to upgrade to Windows 10. Apparently Microsoft worked out some sort of deal with Intel and AMD to make their new processors incompatible with older versions of Windows.

I actually like Windows 10 so this doesn't effect me but there are plenty of holdouts who complain about every Windows 10 store game not working on Windows 7 or 8.1 so I'm sure plenty of people will be upset about this. Anyone looking to play DirectX 12 games was going to be forced to upgrade in order to play them anyways.

 

[king3pj]

Might as well. Would help to have someone who actually KNOWS BF to play with. Feel free to play before I get on to learn some of the nuances. And luckily we now have VOICE CHAT according to Origin.

I just tried to get online to check out the beta but matchmaking keeps failing on both game modes. I went to Twitter to find out what was going on. Apparently the same a**holes who took down the Blizzard servers with a DDoS attack after their big wave of bans have now done the same to EA. It sounds like the beta is unplayable on all platforms right now. Hopefully EA is able to handle this as quickly as Blizzard did and we are able to play tonight.

 

[yourbeliefs]

I haven't read anything about it being a DDoS. It could just be that their servers weren't ready for the overwhelming demand of all the players on the beta. In any case the fact that we can't play yet stinks.

Edit: well they're claiming it.. http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/31/12...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

[king3pj]

I haven't read anything about it being a DDoS. It could just be that their servers weren't ready for the overwhelming demand of all the players on the beta. In any case the fact that we can't play yet stinks.

Well there is a group taking credit for this on Twitter. If you look at their Twitter account they claim credit for this attack as well as taking down Blizzard and PSN several times too. If what I'm reading on the Internet is true they also took Pornhub offline and kept them offline until they were given free premium accounts. It sounds like this is a group made up of former lizard squad people mixed with another hacker group.

 

[king3pj]

I tried out the BF1 beta last night. As far as I know the quickmatch feature hadn't been fixed yet by the time I went to bed. After a couple failed connections when trying to go into matchmaking this way I decided to take a look at the game's server browser. When I manually joined a server me and my cousin where able to get in and play even during the middle of this DDoS attack.

This probably would have been a lot more helpful to people trying to play last night but it looks like the attack only took down the matchmaking server and the actual game servers were still active. We ended up playing for a couple hours with no noticeable lag or other problems.

It seems like there weren't many people who knew that the manual server browser was an option even though it is on the main multiplayer screen though. When I looked both game modes only had 3 of 4 servers with people actually playing. You would definitely expect a lot more than that on the first day of an open beta if it weren't for this attack.

 

[yourbeliefs]

I tried out the BF1 beta last night. As far as I know the quickmatch feature hadn't been fixed yet by the time I went to bed. After a couple failed connections when trying to go into matchmaking this way I decided to take a look at the game's server browser. When I manually joined a server me and my cousin where able to get in and play even during the middle of this DDoS attack.

This probably would have been a lot more helpful to people trying to play last night but it looks like the attack only took down the matchmaking server and the actual game servers were still active. We ended up playing for a couple hours with no noticeable lag or other problems.

It seems like there weren't many people who knew that the manual server browser was an option even though it is on the main multiplayer screen though. When I looked both game modes only had 3 of 4 servers with people actually playing. You would definitely expect a lot more than that on the first day of an open beta if it weren't for this attack.

I think the bigger issue was that people couldn't even get that far. Last night I went to see if the beta was down and I was able to log in. I tried matchmaking and it didn't work. Then I tried Server Browser and it would "connect" but then drop off. I just gave up and did something else. Then when I came back later on I couldn't even get that far. Wouldn't let me get past the title screen.

Wasn't all bad. Beat the first end boss in Odinsphere (honestly, that may be a GOTY nominee) and went to bed about an hour earlier than normal.

 

[king3pj]

I think the bigger issue was that people couldn't even get that far. Last night I went to see if the beta was down and I was able to log in. I tried matchmaking and it didn't work. Then I tried Server Browser and it would "connect" but then drop off. I just gave up and did something else. Then when I came back later on I couldn't even get that far. Wouldn't let me get past the title screen.

Wasn't all bad. Beat the first end boss in Odinsphere (honestly, that may be a GOTY nominee) and went to bed about an hour earlier than normal.

Hmm I guess they had already cleaned things up a bit by the time I got on. Normal matchmaking was still not working when I tried though. Just make sure you get the Nvidia game ready driver that came out yesterday. The game ran fine for me without it last night but I've read that it makes a big difference in performance, especially if you are playing in DirectX 12 mode.

The game itself looks amazing. I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise considering how great Star Wars Battlefront looks. The environmental destruction is on a completely different level from the last couple Battlefield games. If someone throws a grenade or drops a bomb from a plane it actually makes a crater in the sand.

If you are trying to take a point in a tank and you see someone shooting from a window in a nearby building you can level the whole building to take them out. From what I saw last night this is very different from BF4's "levolution" (ridiculous name) where there are a couple scripted destruction events that can be triggered by shooting at specific things. Instead of a few specific destruction events it looks like you can destroy any building you want if you have the right vehicle. It also looks like realistic destruction. If you shoot a specific part of a wall with a tank that is the part that will break. It's not a scripted event where the whole building falls in the exact same way every time.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Thanks for the driver note. I'll update, but I don't think I'll run in DX12 mode. I'm not really looking for superb performance in a beta, and given the "This will likely not work well" message the game brought up to me I think I'll pass unless I get really bad in DX 11.

Hopefully we'll be able to get on. A FYI that I'm going to a good working friend's going away party and it's been declared "Hot Bloody Mary Night," so don't expect a Chris Kyle level performance from me. ;-p

 

[yourbeliefs]

Ark: Survival Evolved, a game that is still in Early Access, is now trying to sell full priced DLC. Needless to say, the community didn't take this very well.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/

 

[yourbeliefs]

Ark: Survival Evolved, a game that is still in Early Access, is now trying to sell full priced DLC. Needless to say, the community didn't take this very well.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/

In response to the fans criticism, the devs did what any smart company would do and decided to attack and bash those who dare to think that it's not right to sell DLC for an unfinished game.

 

[yourbeliefs]

A guy tried to play Battlefield 1 via voice controls. Didn't go that well.