Those of you who’ve been browsing the net in the last day or so might have noticed people talking about Assassin’s Creed 2 a bit. Usually accompanied by a shot of this poor fellow here:

Assassin’s Creed 2 has been remastered for the Xbox One and frankly, it seems like the game was either a nightmare to remaster or the people on it were rushed, given that the NPC above isn’t the only thing people have pointed out is a little… odd with the game.

Polygon did a nice little comparison video on the original verses the remastered version, but let me sum it up by saying this. The remaster has shed a little more light on a lot of the game, but seems to have taken that NPC’s face and a lot of the movement fluidity to make up for it. What’s more the leap to the hay bale is no longer a dive but a backwards flop. The game has still gotten many improvements, just some things haven’t quite made that leap across so fluidly. It seems that unlike Skyrim, a remaster isn’t for every game that we once loved…

People have been referring that famous incident a few years back where a women ‘retouched’ a priceless painting of Jesus Christ. I can see why.

Dishonored 2 released at last, after a long journey of teasers and trailers that all started with its premature announcement by accident on a livestream the day before it was due to be announced publicly. Unfortunately, quite a few people have found that the game has some major performance issues. Our station manager Digmbot did, and identified why as well – a CPU priority issue that couldn’t be changed.

Arkane did their best to help people get past these issues, but this still left a lot of people unable to play because all the suggested fixes weren’t relevant to them or they had tried them already. Fortunately, it seems Bethesda and Arkane are going to give the game a performance patch this week and finally free gamers to enjoy their time in Dunwall.

Speaking via the Bethesda news wire, Arkane Studios wrote: “We have been monitoring the PC forums and social channels and while we’re excited to hear that many of you are enjoying the game, we are disheartened that some of you are experiencing PC performance issues on some systems. We are actively working to provide an update to address your concerns. The patch and its release notes will be available in the coming days.”

The problem have mainly been reported in mid-range systems, although some higher-range systems (like our own Digm’s) are also finding themselves missing a lot of frames. Some console gamers have also been having problems. Hopefully we should have some word on the patch and when it’ll be available soon for those of you holding off until you can play with the amount of frames you expected from the new game.

Until then, some kind souls over on the Steam community forums are busy putting together a set of tips in how you can eke as many frames out of the unpatched version as possible. Give it a check if you’re up for giving the game another chance before Arkane patch it and (hopefully) solve a great deal of these problems.

In celebration of Halo’s 15th anniversary, 343 Industries announced on their Halo Waypoint site that a stream was going to be held to commemorate the occasion. And the Internet being the Internet are already talking over possible news, taking cues from the teaser that was put out for the stream:

Those familiar with the soundtracks of the past games have noticed some familiar piano chords towards the end, pinpointing them as being part of the Halo 3 OST. This obviously has fuelled speculation that the stream will be used to reveal a remaster of that game. Either way, you can expect to hear something about Halo Wars 2 and probably Halo 5 as well during the stream.

The stream will occur on Tuesday, November 15th at 3:43PT and will celebrate both the birthday of the original Halo: Combat Evolved game and Halo 2 which released 12 years ago on November 9th.

“The studio is working on a number of cool things to help celebrate this huge milestone which also happens to coincide with the 15^th anniversary of Xbox itself. Mark your calendars now and please plan to join us throughout the day as we collectively celebrate and offer a huge thanks to our community for supporting Halo for 15 years!”

Dishonored 2 is a hotly anticipated game, thats for sure. A handful of gamers have been able to play it a day early, including myself. I am sad to say however, that the PC version of the game has excessively bad performance issues. While I could detail them all in text, video speaks louder than words. 

Titanfall 2 may have been out for a while now, but it takes a while to get an accurate impression of a game that has such a huge multiplayer component. Fortuantely for you, instead of writing a 50,000 word review, I’ve decided to make it a video instead. So you can watch giant robots punch shit AND get educated about the game!