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January 12th, 2016, 22:18 Posted By: wraggster
EA has announced - and launched - Origin Access for PC. It costs £3.99 a month.
Origin Access is a similar offering to EA Access on Xbox One. Subscribers can download games from EA's Vault, play EA's PC games for a limited time before they're released, and save 10 per cent on Origin purchases.
15 games are available now (unfortunately no Star Wars: Battlefront). EA will add more games over time, it said:
Here are the launch games:
- Battlefield 3
- Battlefield 4
- Battlefield Hardline
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Dragon Age 2
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Sim City
- The Sims 3
- FIFA 15
- Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare
- Need for Speed Rivals
- Dead Space
- Dead Space 2
- Dead Space 3
- This War of Mine
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-access-for-pc
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January 12th, 2016, 22:02 Posted By: wraggster
Intel has confirmed an in-the-wild bug that can freeze its Skylake processors. The company is pushing out a BIOS fix. Ars reports: "No reason has been given as to why the bug occurs, but it's confirmed to affect both Linux and Windows-based systems. Prime95, which has historically been used to benchmark and stress-test computers, uses Fast Fourier Transforms to multiply extremely large numbers. A particular exponent size, 14,942,209, has been found to cause the system crashes. While the bug was discovered using Prime95, it could affect other industries that rely on complex computational workloads, such as scientific and financial institutions. GIMPS noted that its Prime95 software "works perfectly normal" on all other Intel processors of past generations."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...plex-workloads
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January 11th, 2016, 22:25 Posted By: wraggster
The various privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 have received a lot of coverage in the media, but it seems that there are ever more secrets coming to light. The Threshold 2 Update did nothing to curtail privacy invasion, and the latest Windows 10 installation figures show that Microsoft is also monitoring how long people are using the operating system. This might seem like a slightly strange statistic for Microsoft to keep track of, but the company knows how long, collectively, Windows 10 has been running on computers around the world. To have reached this figure (11 billion hours in December, apparently) Microsoft must have been logging individuals' usage times. Intrigued, we contacted Microsoft to find out what on earth is going on.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/01/...use-windows-10
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January 11th, 2016, 22:20 Posted By: wraggster
Games sold over Steam generated over $3.5bn last year, according to analytics site Steam Spy.
The outlet – run by one Sergey Galyonkin – claims that 3,000 new games were released on the platform (up from 1,900 in 2014), and the number of concurrent users reached a whopping 12 million people.
That figure of $3.5bn is also purely game sales and does not include revenue from free-to-play titles or any downloadable content for games.
As well as some impressive topline figures, Galyonkin goes into some detail about how 2015 was for Steam.
Unsurprisingly, December was the biggest month for Steam in no short part thanks to the Winter Sale. $436,138,345 was generated in revenue for that month.
The second best month in 2015 was April, due to the launch of the long-awaited PC SKU of Grand Theft Auto V. $411,360,280 was generated in that month.
Rockstar’s crime title and Fallout 4 were the biggest titles of the year in terms of the year in terms of sales and revenue.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/steam...report/0160898
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January 11th, 2016, 22:04 Posted By: wraggster
As you may recall, Microsoft has delivered KB3035583 as a 'recommended update' to users of Windows 7 and 8.1. What this update does is install GWX ("Get Windows 10"), a program which diagnoses the system to see if it is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10, and if so, asks the user if they would like to upgrade (though recently, the option to decline has been removed). Some users have gotten around this by editing Windows Registry values for "AllowOSUpgrade", "DisableOSUpgrade", "DisableGWX", and "ReservationsAllowed" in order to disable the prompt altogether. This advice wasendorsed by Microsoft on their support forums.
According to a report by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the newest version of the KB3035583 update includes a background process which scans the system's Windows Registry twice a day to see if the values for the four aforementioned registry inputs were manually edited to disable the upgrade prompt. If they were, the process will alter the values, silently re-download the Windows 10 installation files (about 6 GB in total), and prompt the user to upgrade.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/01...rs-twice-a-day
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January 11th, 2016, 21:30 Posted By: wraggster
Pirates at the infamous Chinese hacking forum 3DM are complaining that recent PC games are simply too darn hard to crack, according to Torrent Freak. The problem is apparently Denuvo, a copy protection scheme that prevents tampering of the underlying DRM. Two recent games that use the scheme, FIFA 16 and Just Cause 3, have still not been cracked, despite appearing in early December. Based on the current pace of encryption tech, "in two years time I'm afraid there will be no free games to play in the world," said one forlorn pirate.
While hackers from 3DM did break an early Denuvo-locked title, Dragon Age: Inquisition, the tech has been improved over the intervening year. It's nearly unheard of for PC games to remain uncracked for more than a few weeks -- often, they're broken before they even go on sale. If the recent Denuvo games remain locked for much longer, pirates may give up and either buy them on Steam or Origin or move on to something else. Suffice to say, the gaming industry will be keeping a close eye on what happens.
http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/07/p...-new-pc-games/
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December 16th, 2015, 23:01 Posted By: wraggster
Unlike the other gaming platforms we’ve been evaluating here at the end of the year, the PC’s been around for decades. Recently, the PC’s long legacy of openness and customisation has come into conflict with a mainstream that’s finally—finally—realised just how big of a deal PC gaming actually is.
By and large, the PC is in a great place. More PC games are coming out than ever, and most of them are even coming out at the same time as their console counterparts. As a result, the PC offers a front row seat to the industry’s heaviest hitters and cleverest indies. On top of that, the PC’s back catalogue is a formidable beast, a leviathan that even the most voracious players will never truly slay. New companies are polishing up and re-releasing classics like System Shock 2 and Baldur’s Gate as well, so incompatibility issues—while still present—are becoming less of a problem. (However, nobody’s been able to do that for No One Lives Forever yet, so actually I changed my mind; PC gaming is garbage.) You’ve also got more options than ever as to where you buy your games digitally, though Steam is pretty much a must.
“More,” as a concept, is among the sharpest double-edged swords. This year saw more games released on Steam—the biggest PC gaming service by a mile—than ever, many of which were… not super great. It’s a reflection of PC’s renewed relevance in the eyes of game-makers: everybody wants their game on services like Steam. While Valve has worked to improve tools that help people discover new games, plenty of high-quality stuff is still slipping through the cracks.
Moreover, programs like Steam Early Access see unfinished games make their way onto the service. Some, like dinosaur survival hit Ark: Survival Evolved, are great, but others launch in shoddy states and end up abandoned.
A handful of smaller games have still managed to rise to the top and become marquee PC attractions. In 2015, PC-first games like Ark: Survival Evolved, Cities: Skylines,Besiege, Undertale, and Darkest Dungeon go from relative obscurity to the top of the charts. They’re all must-plays, and many of them continue to grow and evolve thanks to updates and dedicated communities.
The PC modding scene both flourished and faltered in 2015. User-created additionstransformed big releases like Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto V, The Witcher 3, andeven Star Wars Battlefront. They also added fascinating flavour to smaller games like Cities: Skylines, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Besiege. Oh, and they continued to keep all-but-abandoned games like Left 4 Dead 2 from completely going under.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/12/16/t...gaming-in-2015
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December 16th, 2015, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Fallout 4 is back on top of Steam's weekly top ten sellers chart, with Rainbow Six Siege hot on its heels.
The pair finished first and second respectively, ahead of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. New releases Just Cause 3 and Hurtworld rounded out the top five.
A pair of titles out of Japan made the top ten as well, with Guilty gear Xrd – Sign finishing in seventh, one spot ahead of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.
Here's the top ten:
- Fallout 4
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Just Cause 3
- Hurtworld
- Helldivers Digital Deluxe Edition
- Guilty Gear Xrd – Sign
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Ark: Survival Evolved
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/steam...r-6-12/0160418
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December 16th, 2015, 22:28 Posted By: wraggster
When reviews of the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 hit, it seemed like Microsoft would be riding a wave of positive publicity into the holiday season. We liked both devices, and while the Surface Book wasn't everyone's cup of tea, most reviews were also fairly positive. But things changed once they actually reached consumers. Some early buyers reported a variety of issues, including screen flickering, system instability and power problems. Those concerns prompted Microsoft to release several firmware and software updates within weeks (on top of a launch day fix), which helped with some issues. But they came too late to erase the idea that something was up with Microsoft's new hardware.
And one big issue remains for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 owners: erratic power management. Some users are reporting that the devices simply don't go to sleep properly when you close their lids or put them into standby. Instead, they continue to drain power, which could be a nasty surprise if you don't bring your charger along. That's a particularly surprising issue for flagship devices in 2015 — it's something that's mostly been fixed by laptop makers over the past decade. Making things even worse, a Surface engineering manager noted earlier this month that the issue might not be fixed until 2016.
"We are focused on delivering a great experience to every Surface customer," a Microsoft spokesperson told Engadget. "We know a small set of Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 customers are experiencing issues and addressing that is a top priority for us. We have dedicated engineering teams working to get updates and fixes out as quickly as possible and we will continue to use our Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 support forums to share new information directly with our customers as it becomes available."
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/15/m...-pro-4-issues/
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December 16th, 2015, 22:25 Posted By: wraggster
Believe it or not, Firefox on Windows has been a 32-bit affair until now -- while Google and Microsoft made the leap to 64-bit web browsing a while back, Mozilla hasn't been quite so quick off the mark. All's well after today, though, as Mozilla has released a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows. So long as you're running at least Windows 7, the browser can take better advantage of processors from recent years. The software won't necessarily run faster, but you should get improved security, greater app compatibility (some intensive web apps won't run otherwise) and other upgrades that come with the added headroom.
There's more, regardless of what platform you're running. You can now use Private Browsing to block a wider range of web trackers, and you can choose search suggestions right from the address bar. It's also better about supporting Windows touchscreen devices by bringing up the keyboard when you need it. If you ditched Firefox a while back, it might be worth a second look.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/15/f...4-bit-windows/
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