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Valve and Bethesda release official Portal 2 mod for Skyrim

Anthony Garreffa — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:18:01 PST

Well, to celebrate the release of Skyrim's new freshly-baked Creation Kit on Valve's Steam, Bethesda and the creators of Portal have joined forces and released an official mod for Skyrim. THis brings Portal 2's Space Core to Skyrim, how exciting!

To celebrate the opening of the Steam Workshop for Skyrim, Valve and Bethesda have teamed up to bring you the Portal 2 Space Core mod, which will let the aggressively space-centric little robot tag along on your adventures in Tamriel.

Also, since Skyrim was the only major release of 2011 without Nolan North in it, you should consider this mod a patch to fix that problem. You can now feel free to include Skyrim in the "Nolan North" section of your video game library, which is to say, your video game library.

This is how you keep your fans happy on both sides of the fence, Valve and Bethesda, FTW.

Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1.

Hawken to launch as free-to-play, PC beta is coming soon

Anthony Garreffa — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:22:01 PST

Hawken. If you haven't heard of it, take a look at some official gameplay videos of it below, where you can get a taste for the robot-stomping FPS title. Hawken is currently in development by indie developer Adhesive Games, a Los Angeles-based developer.

Beta signups are now open, and a release date is now known: 12-12-12. On top of this, Hawken will launch as a free-to-play model, which is even better news. If you want to strap into the beta, head on over to PlayHawken.com, and if you can get three people to themselves sign up through your referral link, you'll get access to reserve your callsign in advance.

Adhesive CEO, co-founder and creative director, Khang Le, said in an announcement:

Hawken is a passion project for myself and the whole Adhesive team; giving it away for free is icing on the cake.

DriverTT: AMD release Catalyst Application Profiles 12.1 CAP 2

Anthony Garreffa — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:22:01 PST

AMD have been hard at work this month already, releasing the latest Catalyst Application Profile update for AMD Catalyst. The new release is version 12.1 CAP 2, and adds application-specific CrossFireX optimizations to the driver, which lets the driver effectively use two or more AMD Radeon GPUs working in tandem optimally.

The new release also fixes a few bugs that existed with the current optimizations. The new version 12.1 CAP 2 includes profiles for the following games:

- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Improves CrossFire performance and resolves flickering seen on the Map
- Unigine Tropics: Resolves flashing shadow reflections with CrossFire enabled
- Wargame: European Escalation: Improves CrossFire Performance.

Download the AMD Catalyst Application Profiles 12.1 CAP 2, here.

RumorTT: Apple iPad 3 to launch in the first week of March

Anthony Garreffa — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:19:01 PST

It's not like I've ever posted a RumorTT post, or talked about the iPad 3 that much. I mean, seriously, is the iPad 3 not one of the most talked about, but still not here yet, gadgets, ever?

Now the latest news coming from AllThingsD is that Apple are planning to hold an event in March, to launch their next-generation iPad. "Sources" say the company have chosen the first week of mark to unleash to successor to the super-popular iPad 2, and will do so at one of their trademark special events. You know, the ones where the words "magical", "revolutionary", and "we've done it again", get used over and over.

There's no exact date for the iPad 3 hitting retail shelves or the Apple Store, but we should expect the previously-rumored high-res 2048x1536 Retina Display, or something that it is at least close to it. What do you think? Will the iPad 3 be good enough to push the Ice Cream Sandwich-based tablets away? Or the unreleased next-gen Samsung Galaxy tablets, which haven't gotten their ICS upgrades yet? Or the new high-res ASUS Transformer Prime?

HTC update on status of Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades

Anthony Garreffa — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:18:01 PST

We all knew it was coming, but HTC have just posted an update on their Facebook page, where they have definitely been quietly brilliant (geddit?). They've just announced they've been working hard on getting their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates ready, and they've just announced the first round of ICS-based updates will filter out by the end of March.

The first handsets to receive the delicious Ice Cream Sandwich will be the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE, followed soon there after by the HTC Sensation XL. On top of this, HTC have confirmed ICS updates will be coming later this year for other handsets: HTC Rezound, HTC Vivid, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G, HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and HTC Desire HD.

HTC have also said to stay tuned for more updates on the ICS releases in the coming weeks, and as it happens, you'll be happy to know we'll keep you informed.

Also HTC, next time don't post such a delicious looking picture of an Ice Cream Sandwich - never had one myself before, and now I'm really hungry.