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How Shadow of Mordor PS4 stacks up to PC's huge textures
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a great action game, and a pretty (gruesome) one at that. Those playing on consoles will get a good sense of Monolith's interpretation of the Tolkien universe, but high-end PC players have access to an even more detailed version of Middle-earth. Players with beefy computers can download the HD content pack on Steam, which patches Shadow of Mordor with the "highest resolution textures available." The content pack requires a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Windows 8 as well as a minimum of 8 GB of system RAM and a video card with at least 6 GB of RAM. Digital Foundry put together a comparison video with the PC version's ultra textures and a PS4 copy of the game, found after the break. For more footage of Shadow of Mordor in action, check out Tuesday's hour-long archived Joystiq Streams. [Image: WBIE]
Minecraft grows a sweet tooth, turns into Candy Lan-uhh, Candycraft
If you don't celebrate Easter, you can still treat today like Candy Overload day! Once you start crashing from your sugar high, you can remain relatively immobile on the couch while crafting sweet desserts out of Minecraft's Candy Texture Pack, now available on XBLA for $1. [Image: Mojang]
Enjoy a few mind-blowing Minecraft cityscapes
Take a moment to enjoy the beauty of a man-made horizon, metal and glass glittering under the orange rays of a setting sun, pixelated blocks positioned seamlessly together at the click of a button. Minecraft maven Rikkuness builds beautiful Minecraft cityscapes to awe our senses, similar to the one shown above.A collection of Rikkuness' creations can be viewed here, as picked up by the fine denizens of Reddit. Obviously these images involve a lot of mods and texture packs, so maybe don't be so disappointed when your vanilla Minecraft version of a Philadelphia skyline looks more like a wet sandcastle.
Crysis 2 upgrades to maximum graphics on the PC, get the patch here
After establishing a reputation for cutting edge graphics with the original Crysis, many PC gamers were disappointed with the fact that Crysis 2 did not support DirectX 11. It left their high-performance rigs feeling underutilized. Well, that underutilization comes to an end today, since Crytek officially released two free upgrade packages that will push video cards to the limit and cause you to overdose on eye candy. After upgrading the game to v1.9 via automatic update, you can download and install the DX11 Ultra Upgrade, which adds features like tessellation and displacement mapping, realistic shadows and more. To amp things up even further, grab the Hi Res Texture Pack, which includes impressive graphical improvements whether you're using DX11 or DX9 (64-bit OS and at least 768 MB of video card memory required). Check out the trailer after the jump to see what's in store. Download the Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade (545 MB) Download the Crysis 2 Hi Res Texture Pack (1.65 GB) %Gallery-127228%
Crysis 2 DirectX 11 update coming June 27, some users already have it
Crytek announced a new "package" for Crysis 2 that will add compatibility with DirectX 11, which should improve the graphics significantly for people who are desperately looking for specific improvements that they know DirectX 11 can provide, and improve the graphics a little for everyone else too. A high-resolution texture pack will be available at the same time. However, it would appear that some users already have the packages. Crytek noted in an update to the announcement that "a number of users were able to download the DX11 and High res texture packages from our test environment," a leak that has since been closed. The rest of us will get to look at those textures, lit by those no-doubt improved lighting effects, on Monday, June 27. A patch will also go out the same day -- it's required for the new textures and the DX11 compatibility.
