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adidas Football + EA SPORTS Reveal Limited Edition Jerseys!

adidas Football and EA SPORTS just revealed limited edition jerseys for 4 of the biggest clubs in the world! Feast your eyes on these amazing jerseys for your favourite clubs!


adidas Football and EA SPORTS Reveal Limited Edition Jerseys!

adidas Football and EA Sports revealed limited-edition jerseys for 4 of the biggest clubs in the world – Real Madrid, FC Bayern, Juventus and Manchester United.

This year’s jerseys were designed in collaboration with EA SPORTS and will also be made available in digital form on electronic games!

All limited-edition jerseys are made from soft, moisture-wicking fabric that is comfortable even while playing on the football field or when playing a game of FIFA 19.

Only 7,000 shirts will be available for purchase to the public in this limited run.

 

Designs Of The adidas Football and EA SPORTS Limited Edition Jerseys

Real Madrid

The UEFA Champions League holders Real Madrid’s adidas Football and EA SPORTS jersey takes on a non-traditional design. It celebrates the many famous stars who have worn the team shirt before. The kit is a dark blue with light sprays of white to reflect the Madrid night sky.

FC Bayern

The latest FC Bayern jersey is a celebration of FC Bayern’s team of stars and their status as ‘Stern des Südens’. The starry graphics placed on the kit represent the anthem that fills the Allianz Arena on match day. The graphic brings more focus on the famous FC Bayern crest at the centre of the shirt.

Juventus

The new Juventus jersey gives the club a digital make-over. The limited-edition design breaks ground with an iridescent look, a reflection of a club known for the unexpected.

Manchester United

The Manchester United jersey features a bold design. It was inspired by street trends right from the heart of Manchester with its leopard print design.

The adidas Football and EA SPORTS Limited Edition Jerseys Availability

The jerseys will be available in EA SPORTS FIFA 19 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch versions (14 December 2018). Fans can also obtain them through FIFA 19 Ultimate Team (FUT) packs and weekly objectives.

Physical jerseys can be purchased at stores, adidas official website and selected club shops.

The stores include:

  • Football Republic KLCC
  • Football Republic Sunway Pyramid
  • adidas Sports Performance Store Pavilion
  • adidas Sports Performance Store KLCC
  • adidas Sports Performance Store Sunway Pyramid
  • adidas Sports Performance Store One Utama

 

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Unreal Gold is FREE for a Limited Time! Get it NOW!

Unreal Gold is FREE for a limited time from GOG.com! Yes, the classic FPS game! Grab it while it’s FREE for the next 32 hours! And don’t forget to SHARE this news!

 

Unreal Gold

Unreal Gold is the 1998 classic first-person shooter game from Epic Games! Go down memory lane with Unreal Gold!

  • Over 47 eye-popping single player missions.
  • 20 multiplayer levels with 5 different game types.
  • An arsenal of over 13 deadly weapons…all guaranteed giblet action.
  • Includes the original Unreal game and its expansion – Return to Na Pali
  • Includes all of the latest Unreal enhancements and technical improvements.
  • Special graphical and performance enhancements for the latest 3D cards.

 

Free?! What’s The Catch?

It is yours to download and play, forever and ever, and you need not pay GOG a single cent.

The only catch is that you must register a GOG.com account. Unlike Origin though, you don’t have to use their GOG Galaxy client to install and play the game. This is because GOG games are DRM-free! GOG Galaxy is still a very useful client to install, because it helps keep your games updated.

Other than that – there is really no catch. It’s a great deal.

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How Long Will You Own The Game?

Once you add MDK to your GOG account, it belongs to you forever and ever. You can download it whenever you want and play.

 

Why Is GOG Doing This?

Simple – to get you to register with them, and check out the DRM-free games they are offering in their store. They will also get to send you notifications on new games or promotions, and who knows – you might buy an extra game or two from them? 😀

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LEVEL UP KL 2017 Ends With More Collaborations!

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 November 2017 – The games community in Malaysia and the Southeast Asia will benefit from closer regional collaborations and support from corporate partners including Google, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity Technologies and Media Prima Labs. Announced by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) at its third annual LEVEL UP KL 2017 Conference on Wednesday, the agency said that the collaborations are part of Malaysia’s effort in building a vibrant ecosystem for the regional games development industry in Kuala Lumpur.

These cross-border collaborations with games associations and corporate partners from Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia will see the countries working together to drive the content creation business through talent development, ecosystem funding, community acceleration and global outreach.

Speaking at the event, Kellie Liu, Project Manager, Taipei Computer Association said “It is a great honour for us to be here, participating in LEVEL UP KL 2017. Thanks to MDEC, Taipei Game Show has been partnering LEVEL UP since 2016. With this partnership, we hope to enhance the games industry communication between Taiwan and Malaysia, and help them to find more business opportunities.”

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The LEVEL UP Inc

At the event, MDEC also spoke of LEVEL UP Inc, an incubator space for starting game makers, indie developers and small to medium game start-ups, that will provide comprehensive support for talent development and business enhancements, complete with a customised brainstorming room, and high-end games lab. LEVEL UP Inc is a joint initiative with UOA Group, located on the same floor with the company’s newly opened co-working space, Komune.

The facility will see technology and games partners like Google, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity Technologies and Media Prima Labs coming in to provide resources and platforms for cutting-edge games development.

Sharing on their involvement with LEVEL UP Inc, Arata Naito, Head of Product Management, Sony Interactive Entertainment Hong Kong Limited Singapore Branch (SIES) said that the company sees high potential in Malaysia, having contributed to the development of several AAA games including Uncharted 4, Street Fighter V, Monsters of the Deep and Final Fantasy XV. The company will be providing LEVEL UP Inc with PlayStation 4 development kits to encourage Malaysia developers to create more games for the PlayStation 4.

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The AMD Ryzen 7 Gaming Performance Examined

We have already showed you how fast the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X is in 3D rendering and video transcoding. It incinerated the Intel Core i7-6700K in multi-core processing, but proved to be slightly slower in single core processing. Today, we will examine the AMD Ryzen 7 gaming performance in this article!

 

3DMark – Time Spy (DirectX 12)

In the Time Spy DirectX 12 benchmark, the Ryzen 7 1800X was 60% faster than the Core i7-6700K in the CPU test. Obviously, not all of its 8 cores were being used.

But when it came to the two graphics tests, all that extra boost in CPU performance only gave it a small 0.6% to 1.25% boost in frame rates. The overall DirectX 12 performance improved by 5.7%.

 

3DMark – Fire Strike (1080p)

We ran the Fire Strike benchmark in the 1080p resolution, because this is the most common resolution gamers use today. The CPU is used exclusively to process Physics, and the Ryzen 7 1800X was 48% faster than the Core i7-6700K.

Surprisingly, the Graphics Score was 1.5% lower with the Ryzen 7 1800X, than it was for the Core i7-6700K. The Overall Score though was 3% better with the Ryzen 7 1800X.

Next Page > The AMD Ryzen 7 Gaming Performance In AOTS & Warhammer

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Ashes of the Singularity (1080p)

In the RTS game, Ashes of the Singularity, we can see that the frame rates were consistently lower with the Ryzen 7 1800X, albeit only by by 2-7% (4% on average).

 

Ashes of the Singularity (4K)

When we bumped up the resolution to 4K, the results were flipped. The Ryzen 7 1800X was slightly faster in the Normal and Medium batches. Overall, the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X was identical in performance to the Intel Core i7-6700K.

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Total War: Warhammer (1080p)

When we tested Warhammer at 1080p, it ran about 5% slower with the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X.

 

Total War: Warhammer (4K)

But when we increased the resolution to 4K, the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X was identical in performance to the Intel Core i7-6700K.

Next Page > The AMD Ryzen 7 Gaming Performance In The Witcher 3, Summary

 

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The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt (1080p)

At 1080p, The Witcher 3 was about 1.5% slower with the Ryzen 7 1800X on average.

 

The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt (4K)

When we bumped up the resolution to 4K though, the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X was identical in performance to the Intel Core i7-6700K.

 

Summary

The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X is definitely a far more powerful processor than the Intel Core i7-6700K. It has twice as many cores, and far more memory bandwidth. But it is obvious that most games are unable to make use of all that.

Games that run in the lower, mainstream resolution of 1920 x 1080 will be slightly slower with the Ryzen 7 1800X. It’s not much slower though – about 5% on average.

But that performance deficit is completely erased at the higher resolution of 3840 x 2160. The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X is virtually identical in performance to the Intel Core i7-6700K.

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Obviously, at the 4K resolution, the graphics card is far, far more important than the CPU. But as the Warhammer and The Witcher 3 results show, the Ryzen 7 1800X actually helped to push up the minimum frame rate.

What is our takeaway from this? Simple. The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X is more or less equivalent to the Intel Core i7-6700K in performance.

If you are going to buy the Ryzen 7 1800X for gaming, you are not going to worry about the small 5% deficit in 1080p frame rates, because you will most likely be playing in 1440p or 2160p resolutions.

 

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AMD GDC Capsaicin – Vega, Bethesda & Forward Rendering!

1 March 2017 – AMD held its GDC Capsaicin livestream event, a celebration of PC gaming, the technology steering its future, and the developers who work tirelessly to transform their imaginations into tomorrow’s blockbuster games.

 

What’s New @ AMD GDC Capsaicin

The one-hour AMD GDC Capsaicin live event offered PC gaming enthusiasts and developers around the world a preview of AMD’s latest graphics and processor technologies, revealed exciting new details surrounding Vega, and showcased the summer’s most anticipated PC and VR games from visionary game developers.

AMD and Bethesda Softworks Partner to Propel PC Gaming Forward

  • AMD and Bethesda have announced a long-term, multi-title partnership to rapidly advance game technology development, fuel new PC game experiences, and reshape the gaming landscape.
  • This brings together two titans of the gaming industry: Bethesda Softworks, which has sold more than 80 million copies of legendary games series like FalloutDOOM and Dishonored, and AMD, whose CPU and GPU technologies power the experiences of 400 million gamers worldwide.
  • The two companies will work together to develop and accelerate the implementation of new technologies, including:
    • Harnessing the full potential of low-level APIs such as Vulkan
    • Maximizing the capabilities of the computing and graphics power of AMD’s multicore AMD Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs and AMD server solutions across Bethesda’s existing Bethesda franchises

AMD’s Vega GPU to Power LiquidSky Platform

  • AMD announced that its upcoming Vega architecture-based GPUs have been selected to power LiquidSky, enabling gamers around the world to enjoy the extraordinary power of Vega from anywhere.
  • LiquidSky already lets their 1.4 million beta users play any PC video game as it was meant to be enjoyed on Android phone or tablet, low-spec Windows, Mac, and even Linux devices.
  • With Vega’s powerful Radeon Virtualized Encode feature, subscribers will relish a high-quality gaming experience on par with enthusiast gaming PCs, but at a much lower cost through LiquidSky’s low-cost and free subscription models.
  • Gamers across the world can benefit from the exceptional GPU performance by connecting to any of the 13 LiquidSky global data centers.

Be sure to read our AMD Vega articles – The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Tech Report, Watch AMD Vega Run DOOM On Vulkan!, The AMD Vega Memory Architecture Q&A.

AMD and Developer Partners Embrace Forward Rendering in Unreal Engine 4

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  • VR developers today are constantly challenged to strike the right mix of technical features and computational power for the best balance of performance and visual fidelity.
  • Deferred rendering, used by many of today’s big game engines, does all of the geometry work first and then shades pixels last to save work but it’s not a great fit for VR.
  • AMD is working to enable a forward rendering path in Unreal Engine 4.15, giving developers more choice in how they develop VR games and helping to achieve a stunning looking game while delivering the high frame rates necessary for a good experience.
  • AMD is also working with leading game developers to explore the benefits of forward rendering in VR games, including Survios, First Contact Entertainment and Limitless Studios.

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SpecialEffect – Helping Disabled Kids Have Fun With Games!

In the middle of Ian Livingstone’s talk on the game industry, he shared a video that brought tears to many eyes in the hall. The video showcased the amazing work that a charity called SpecialEffect has accomplished – enabling children with severe disabilities to play computer games like the rest of us!

Warning : The video is emotionally charged, and very addictive. Just be sure prepare some tissues first, because someone’s always cutting those damn onions when the video is playing!

Ian Livingstone CBE is an ambassador for SpecialEffect, and he is visibly proud of the work they have done. It’s obvious to see why. Even I keep playing the video over and over again just to see the joy in their faces!

Their unbridled joy is why I’m writing this special. More children (and adults) with disabilities deserve to enjoy games as well!

 

The SpecialEffect Mission

SpecialEffect is a UK-based charity that focuses on enabling children (and even adults) with severe disabilities to enjoy computer games. Their team of game technologists and occupational therapists customise equipment to help children and adults with different disabilities access the computer games that they want to play.

But it is not just for the entertainment value. Playing computer games allow them to reconnect with the world, and feel a greater sense of inclusion that will rebuild their confidence. It will also help kickstart or enhance their rehabilitation.

 

Some Of Those They Have Helped

 

What Can You Do?

If you are in the United Kingdom, you can help SpecialEffect by donating your services or your money.

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If you are outside the United Kingdom, I’m highlighting their work so that you may be inspired to start similar programs in your country, state or district.

Their success in using games to improve the lives of people with severe disabilities may also inspire therapists to consider using them as therapeutic tools.

While SpecialEffect does not provide their free services outside of the United Kingdom, they can offer advice to any person or organisation who are interested in emulating the work they have done. You can call them at 01608-810055 or email them at info@specialeffect.org.uk.

 

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Ian Livingstone – The Past, Present & Future of the Game Industry

Level Up KL 2016 was a great opportunity for game developers in Asia to meet up, and learn from each other. Industry luminaries like Wan Hazmer and Rami Ismail gave talks on creating a triple A game title like Final Fantasy XV, and how a new developer can survive the development of their first game.

But MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation) saved the best for last – Ian Livingstone CBE. We were so fortunate to be able to meet him in person, and listen to him talk about the past, present and future of the game industry. Join us for this once-in-a-lifetime experience!

 

Ian Livingstone On The Past, Present And Future Of The Game Industry

On 11 November 2016, we were invited to a special session with Ian Livingstone CBE. You may know him as the co-founder of Games Workshop and the roleplaying gamebooks – Fighting Fantasy. He was also the Life President of Eidos, and helped bring Tomb Raider to life.

With over 40 years of experience in the game industry, his life experience is truly the stuff of legends. And he kindly shared that with us in his hour-long talk.

Ian Livingstone was not just part of the explosion of the roleplaying genre in the 70s, he was also a pioneer. With Steve Jackson, he created the White Dwarf gaming magazine and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. And both of them (with Bryan Ansell) then founded Citadel Miniatures.

Ian Livingstone now divides his time between nurturing new game developers, and the Livingstone Foundation (which he founded). He is recognised as one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry, and listed in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 of most influential people in UK. He has also won a slew of awards like the BAFTA Special Award, the British Inspiration Award and the Develop Legend Award.

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Q&A On The Game Industry In Emerging Markets

At the end of his talk, Ian Livingstone graciously sat down for a Q&A session with members of the media and students who were lucky enough to be part of the session. Joining him at the Q&A session was Hasnul Hadi Samsudin, the Director of Creative Content & Technologies, MDEC.

We hope you enjoyed the insights Ian Livingstone shared with us. We are certainly very glad we had the opportunity to meet and listen to him.

 

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Rise Of The Tomb Raider Game Bundle Announced

One of the most anticipated & exclusive game currently – Rise of the Tomb Raider is now available for PC gamers on 28th January 2016. To join the legendary Lara Croft in search of incredible experience, ASUS ROG is proud to announce the ROG & NVIDIA Game bundle – Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Step into the shoes of the legendary Lara Croft in an epic search of immortality through some of the most treacherous and remote regions of the world. Experience intense guerrilla combat featuring new weaponry, traverse mechanics, crafting, and silent kills that turn your gameplay into a cinematic experience.

Nothing brings Lara’s adventure to life like the advanced technology and exceptional performance of a GeForce GTX 900-series graphics card.

For a limited time, get Rise of the Tomb Raider FREE when you buy an ROG laptop powered by GeForce GTX 980 / 980M / 970M.

Check out the Rise of the Tomb Raider game bundle details below!

 

Rise Of The Tomb Raider Game Bundle Details

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Model: ASUS ROG G751JT / G751JY / G752VY / G752VT / GX700VO powered by 970M above GPU

Purchase Duration: Jan 7 – Feb 16, 2016, while supply lasts

Code Expiration: April 16, 2016

Actual Game Launch (PC Version): Jan 28, 2016

 

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Giants: Citizen Kabuto FREE For A Limited Time!

GOG.com is ending their Big Winter Sale with a free game – Giants: Citizen Kabuto! This is an oldie, but a goldie. Released at the end of new millennium, Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a third-person shooter with real-time strategy elements. Grab it while it’s still FREE!

 

Free?! What’s The Catch?

It is yours to download and play, forever and ever, and you need not pay GOG a single cent. Just click on this link or the picture above to get Giants: Citizen Kabuto FREE!

The only catch is that you must register a GOG.com account. Unlike Origin though, you don’t have to use their GOG Galaxy client to install and play the game. This is because GOG games are DRM-free! GOG Galaxy is still a very useful client to install, because it helps keep your games updated.

Other than that – there is really no catch. It’s a great deal.

 

It’s The FULL Version Of Giants: Citizen Kabuto

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Seriously, this isn’t the demo or trial version. This is the real deal – the FULL version of Giants: Citizen Kabuto, worth $9.99. Of course, this is not a new game. Giants: Citizen Kabuto was released in December 2000. Still, it’s worth a trip down memory lane!

 

How Long Will You Own The Game?

Once you add Giants: Citizen Kabuto to your GOG account, it belongs to you forever and ever. You can download it whenever you want and play.

 

Why Is GOG Doing This?

Simple – to get you to register with them, and check out the DRM-free games they are offering in their store. They will also get to send you notifications on new games or promotions, and who knows – you might buy an extra game or two from them? 😀

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