AMD has announced a host of new additions to its Gaming Evolved program.

• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow; published by Konami, developed by MercurySteam
• Final Fantasy XIV; published by Square Enix, developed by Square Enix
• Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded; published by Replay Games, developed by N-Fusion Interactive
• Murdered: Soul Suspect; published by Square Enix, developed by Airtight Games
• Pirate 101; published and developed by KingsIsle Entertainment
• Shadow of the Eternals; published and developed by Precursor Games
• Thief; published by Square Enix, developed by Eidos Montreal

AMD’s Gaming Evolved program aims to boost PC gaming by partnering with game developers. Titles listed as part of the Gaming Evolved Program are akin to those that launch with Nvidia’s The Way It’s Meant To Be Played logo. The Gaming Evolved stamp represents AMD’s collaboration with game developers to help deliver the best possible experience for gamers and ensure the newest titles run smoothly on AMD hardware.

Via Tom’s Hardware and AMD Unprocessed

An image started floating at internet forums today showing some new titles that are supposedly gonna be added to AMD Never Settle Bundle program. The new titles include AAA games like Battlefield 4, Lost Planet 3, Company of Heroes 2, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Total War Rome II, GRID 2 and Raven’s Cry. Very impressive if turns out to be true!

Take this with a pinch of salt as it has to be confirmed yet.

The year is 2007. It is the future. Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war and new paths for peace must be found. A U.S. cyborg army may have found a solution: a powerful bioweapon on a distant island. A Mark IV Cyber Commando, Sergeant Rex Power Colt has been sent over to gather information and figure out what the hell is going on…

If you already got Far Cry 3 from Never Settle Reloaded program, you may be entitled for a free UPlay key for the just announced Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. All video cards participating in Never Settle Reloaded are eligible, just make sure you buy it in a participating retailer.

The Never Settle Reloaded promotion in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand & South Korea.

Learn more about Never Settle Reloaded promotion at AMD website.

Source: @AMDRadeon / AMD Game Blog

The third patch for Crysis 3 is alive! The new patch 1.3 fixes a bunch of issues and adds support for AMD Eyefinity and HD3D.

To download the 33.7 MB patch, just open your Origin client and the update should start automatically.

To see the full list of changes, see MyCrysis.com forum post and the patch Q&A here.

Updated 04/06 14:45

There is another patch with 26.6 MB to address some issues found on previous patch released a few days ago.

To address some performance issues that arose with the release of Patch 1.3, a small update has been released. Please update your game by downloading when prompted, or by right-clicking on the Crysis 3 icon and selecting “Check for Update” in Origin.

The mix shows scenes from several games like Dishonored, DmC Devil May Cry, Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution among other recent titles. Hit the play button to watch the 2m 23s video in Youtube.

Rage3D attended AMD’s GDC 2013 press event and spoke with key figures to find out more about their Gaming Unified program and where Radeon graphics powered by GCN – Graphics Core Next – are going in 2013.

AMD announced new products like AMD Radeon HD 7990, a dual-GPU video card – the fastest video card on AMD’s Radeon lineup and perhaps the world’s fastest too, this time with a cooling solution newer to Radeon series (but already seen on FirePro series) that’s expected to give whisper quiet operation, accordingly to AMD words.

To heat up competition in cloud gaming market, they showcased the new AMD FirePro Sky Series engineered to bring high fidelity games to the cloud, where a single Tahiti GCN GPU can provide up to six 720p streams at 30 FPS altogether with a newer technology called AMD RapidFire, an open API designed to deliver HD visual quality, low latency and optimal network usage, key factors to the cloud gaming success.

AMD also revealed Project Phoenix featuring Ruby in a great comeback using Crytek’s CryEngine 3 and all new graphics effects, optimized for use with GCN features.

Hit the source to learn more.

Source: Rage3D

The video available on Youtube shows improved lightning and very welcome environment destruction with realistic physics, and of course, lots and lots of war drama and action!

Battlefield 4 can be pre-ordered at its official website, which by the way shows an AMD Gaming Evolved badge

Looks like TressFX can be used for other rendering tasks besides hair and physics simulation as well, like vegetation. No information about other titles using the technology was disclosed, though (I guess) AMD might be offering TressFX to game devs through its AMD Gaming Evolved program.

Here is some screenshots showing the difference between normal hair rendering and with TressFX. Sadly there’s no videos showing the effect of her hair moving through the wind.

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I guess it’s something related to physics calculated on GPU. Anyway, is nice to see new features coming up, there’s also another top secret DirectX 11 feature going to make its debut on upcoming Tomb Raider game, which is an AMD Gaming Evolved title. Maybe they’re related? We’ll see…

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