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.

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Learn more about Never Settle Reloaded promotion at AMD website.

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To get the performance patch (118 MB), just fire up your Steam client and the update should be downloaded automatically.

The patch will change the version displayed at the launcher to 1.01.730.0

Release notes

New fixes in 730.0:

• Upgraded the save slots from three to 99
• Introduced “Last Campsite Save”, which automatically saves your progress up to the last campsite you have visited
• Added stereoscopic 3D reticle
• Fixed issues with the discovery of the Unworthy campsite.
• Fixed a problem that occurred when traveling back to the Sacred Hall Basecamp after that story has been completed
• Fixed a playthrough stopper in Chasm Bridge
• Fixed a playthrough stopper that could occur when loading a saved game created in the Coastal Forest after upgrading the axe but before opening the gate
• The active selection in the main menu no longer changes due to the rotation of the menu itself
• Fixed Mouse and Aim Sensitivity slider settings getting rounded to coarser values on save
• Fixed a crash in multiplayer that could occur while migrating hosts
• Added functionality to activate and deactivate DLC multiplayer maps during matchmaking. Maps can also be manually activated and deactivated in the new ‘Match Making’ menu in the ‘Options’ menu.
• (DX11) Fixed a few self-shadowing artifacts in the beach
• (DX11) Various performance optimizations
• (DX11) Improved sunlight shadow quality
• (DX11) Lens flares now render correctly in stereoscopic 3D
• (DX11) Improved exclusive fullscreen < -> windowed transitions
• (DX11) Fixed occasional crash on startup related to stereoscopic detection
While we expect this patch to be an improvement for everyone, if you do have trouble with this patch and prefer to stay on the old version we made a Beta available on Steam, Build722.3, that can be used to switch back to the previous version. Please note however that you can only play multiplayer with people that share your version.

We are planning further patches beyond this one to address various issues that have come out of consumer feedback since the release of the game.

Developed by Irrational Games, BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game and the 3rd installment in the BioShock series, in contrast with previous Bioshock and Bioshock 2 that occurs in underwater city “Rapture”, Bioshock Infinite takes place in air-city “Columbia”.

Reviewers of PC version seem to be in love to it, with IGN giving an amazing 9.5 of 10, and an outstanding metascore of 95 out of 100 at Metacritic, making it a serious candidate for GOTY.

The game also includes a fully configurable and nice looking benchmark timedemo you can watch below

Some fun facts about Bioshock Infinite development

AMD revealed their newest graphics card from AMD Radeon HD 7000 series, the Radeon HD 7790. Despite previous rumors the new GCN arch-based Radeon HD 7790 isn’t a new revision of Graphics Core Next, though it includes several enhancements that improve its performance up to 30% over Cape Verde-based Radeon HD 7770.

With a street price of US$ 149, the new AMD Radeon HD 7790 is also part of Never Settle Reloaded program and gives a free copy of Bioshock Infinite when bought at one of participating retailers.

Learn more about the Radeon HD 7790.

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