The first-person survival horror game from Red Barrel Games, Outlast 2, has been delayed to the first quarter of 2017.
The news was announced on the game’s official Facebook page just now. The title was initially slated for a release in the fall of 2016, but the developer wants to test the limits of the game to the extreme.
We had to make a difficult decision recently. After weighing our options we’ve decided to postpone Outlast 2’s release until Q1 of 2017.
We want you to know that we listen to your feedback, we see your excitement and we know you care about our work. Our mission as an indie studio is to deliver to you the best, most terrifying, most fulfilling experiences possible. That’s why we’re taking just a little bit more time to make sure our vision for Outlast 2 is in no way compromised and is the experience you deserve.
This is not the type of news we ever want to deliver, but we are so fully committed to the world we’ve built and to our awesome community that we could not, in good conscience, release a game who’s limits haven’t been tested to the extreme.
Thank you for understanding. We promise Outlast 2 will scare the crap out of you.
Outlast 2 will be released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. For more info, check out the game’s Steam page.
Outlast 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed survival horror game Outlast. Set in the same universe as the first game, but with different characters and a different setting, Outlast 2 is a twisted new journey into the depths of the human mind and its dark secrets.
No conflict is ever black and white. But once the dust has settled, the victors get to decide who was right and who was wrong. Who is good and who is evil. Human nature pushes us to extremes of violence and depravity, which we then justify by divine inspiration and a promise of paradise to come. Horror rises from desperation and blind faith. OUTLAST 2 will test your faith, pushing players to a place where going mad is the only sane thing to do.
The original Outlast was released back in 2013, and can be considered quite a success with 3.5 million players having played it.
Today, NVIDIA launches their $1200 US, Titan X graphics card aiming the enthusiast and professional market. Do not mistake this card with last year’s GeForce GTX Titan X which featured the Maxwell GPU as the latest Titan X adopts the Pascal GPU architecture. Already having the fastest gaming product in the market, the Titan X would further strengthen NVIDIA’s lead in the high-end GPU sector.
NVIDIA Titan X has been launched, the fastest Pascal graphics card now available at $1200 US.
NVIDIA Titan X Unleashed – Features Brand New Pascal GP102 GPU With 12 GB G5X Memory and 11 TFLOPs of Compute Crunching Power
The NVIDIA Titan X is one of many things, NVIDIA calls it the ultimate graphics card but it’s not just any Ultimate graphics card. The Titan X is the fastest gaming card available, its the fastest deep learning card and its also the fastest professional card available at its price. The NVIDIA Titan series is mostly branded as a prosumer series as they are targeted at consumers and professionals. This is one of the reasons NVIDIA has dropped the GeForce GTX branding from the Titan X.
Recently, AMD had also announced their own take at the prosumer market with the Radeon Pro Duo, a dual Fiji based, $1500 US solution. While Pro Duo is meant for enthusiast gamers and content creators, the NVIDIA Titan X aims the enthusiast gaming, deep learning and professional content creation markets. The latest Pascal chip significantly helps deep learning instructions throughput with its multiple TFLOPs of compute processing power.
NVIDIA Titan X Specifications in Detail – The First GP102 Card
The Pascal GP102 GPU features 12 Billion transistors, a massive increase over 7.2 Billion transistors on GP104 and lower than the 15.4 Billion transistors on GP100 die. The chip housing a lower transistor count comes with a smaller die size of 471mm2 compared to 610mm2 on the GP100 die. The GP102 rids of the dual precision FP 64 hardware featured on the GP100. The GPU does get the same 3584 CUDA cores as featured on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU which are clocked 1.41 GHz core and 1.53 GHz boost clocks.
The compute numbers of these cards are a leap beyond what we have seen on any consumer card with the GPU touching 11 TFLOPs of single precision and 44 TOPs INT8 calculations (new deep learning instructions). NVIDIA’s GP104 GPU comes very close to the Titan X with its 9 TFLOPs of compute power and around 10 TFLOPs with OC. The Titan X is said to boost around 1.8 GHz in majority of workloads so 12 TFLOPs on this card wouldn’t be hard to hit at stock configs.
The NVIDIA Titan X features 12 GB of GDDR5X which is clocked at 10 GB/s and delivers 480 GB/s which is just about the same amount that HBM1 delivered (512 GB/s). We can see that HBM2 is still not that widely available for use in consumer grade cards but GDDR5X can cover it up with enough bandwidth to feed the GPU. NVIDIA is using G5X memory on all of their GP102 GPUs with the Quadro P6000 featuring up to 24 GB G5X memory. The Tesla P100 on the other hand houses 16 GB of HBM2 memory.
NVIDIA Titan X PCB – Premium Components and Design For Fastest Pascal GPU
The NVIDIA Titan X PCB has the highest quality components with 7+1 Phase Dual-FET design that deliver unprecedented power to the GPU core. The GP102 GPU is surrounded by 12 GDDR5X memory chips that deliver 480 GB/s bandwidth. The side of the card has two SLI-HB gold fingers that allow up to Quad-Way interface.
NVIDIA Titan X Performance Metrics and Efficiency Numbers – Going Through The Sky!
When it comes to efficiency, the GP104 architecture was already leaps ahead of anything that came before it. Maxwell was great when it came to efficiency but Pascal is a whole new level for NVIDIA. NVIDIA also claimed up to 70% better performance than the GTX Titan X on the latest GP102 card. That seems to be accurate as the card is up to 35% faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 (30% faster Than Titan X) which utilizes the GP104 core.
One area that I think needs some attention – AMD’s lack of competition on the high end is starting to get ridiculous. In every game we tested, except Hitman, the Titan X is 70-120% faster than the fastest single GPU AMD graphics card, the AMD Fury X. Obviously, there is a process technology gap, a cost gap, and a timing gap – but AMD is falling not just slightly behind, but PAINFULLY behind NVIDIA when it comes to flagship performance. The Radeon RX 480 is a great card and gives AMD a competitive option at the $250 price point but there are plenty of gamers buying at higher prices, where margins are fattening NVIDIA up to do this battle again in 12-18 months.
At the end of the day (and I am 9 minutes from that as I type this), the new NVIDIA Titan X based on the Pascal GP102 GPU is the fastest graphics card on the market, period. If you want the best, and have the wallet to support your addiction, you can’t get anything better than this.
Most people don’t “get” the point of a $189,000 car or a tin of caviar that costs more than a dinner for four, and well, most people probably won’t “get” the point of a pair of powerful new Titan X cards either—unless they’re data scientists. When it comes to gaming, a glorious pair of SLI’d new-look Titan X cards are made for high rollers with bleeding-edge displays alone.
With all of this being said, I am going to sit back and look at the TITAN X for what it is: an expensive technological tour de force which thumbs its nose at withholding performance for the sake of price. It simply says “I’m doing it my way”, then drops the mic and walks away.
NVIDIA Titan X Official Renders:
NVIDIA Titan X Founders Edition – Black Die-Cast Aluminum Shroud With Premium Design
The NVIDIA Titan X is a beautiful card that features the same NVTTM cooler found on other Pascal based cards. The NVIDIA Titan X comes with a die-cast aluminum shroud with a metallic black finish. Housed beneath this shroud is a large vapor chamber cooler and additional heatsink based cooling fins that are provided air through a blower fan that pushes heat out of the card. The card bears the Titan X logo on the front and surprisingly has no GeForce GTX logo on the sides which was the case with previous Titan cards.
The card features a high-end PCB design that should allow the card to reach clock speeds close to 2 GHz. The power is provided through an 8+6 Pin configuration and NVIDIA officially lists the TDP at 250W. Display output include three DP 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b and a single DVI-D connector.
The NVIDIA Titan X is currently the fastest single-chip graphics card that solidifies NVIDIA’s lead in the high-end and professional graphics department. Based on their GP102 GPU, the card offers insane amount of graphics performance but as with all enthusiast cards, it comes with a high price of $1200 US. We can expect NVIDIA to launch a more consumer and gamer focused GP102 GPU later this year for a reasonable price.
Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2, both published by EA, are among the biggest titles launching in the next few months, and the publisher has high expectations for both games, as revealed during its Q1 earnings conference call.
During the conference call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson noted how there’s tremendous excitement for both Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2, two games that have the chance to bring vitality and innovation to the huge first person shooter audience.
Looking ahead, there is tremendous excitement for both Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2, a combination that we believe will bring vitality and innovation to the huge first-person shooter audience. The community has been electrified by Battlefield 1’s modern take on World War I, delivering strategy, team play, and epic scale in a completely new setting.
Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen further elaborated on how the publisher expects both games to perform on the market. Battlefield 1’s numbers are expected to be close to other Battlefield titles, with the publisher currently expecting to sell less than 15 million units in a year.
So, on the guidance, we talked rough numbers with people. We told people that typically a Battlefield title is about [15 million] in a year. Our guidance is slightly under that. And we hope that that excitement builds and it will clearly go through that number, but for right now, it’s slightly under that number.
Expectations for Titanfall 2 are slightly higher than the results obtained by its predecessor, most likely due to the fact that the game is also launching on PlayStation 4, something that didn’t happen with the original Titanfall.
And Titanfall did a little more than 7 million units last time. It was early in the cycle and one of the few titles out there. We think it will do more than that, but it’s probably closer to 10 million than it is to 15 million is built into our guidance. So closer to 9 million to 10 million on Titanfall and just under 15 million on Battlefield 1.
Battlefield 1 and Tintanfall 2 will both launch during October on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Previously, there was a huge design flaw with the arrival of Galaxy Note 5 as far as its S-Pen was concerned. However, Samsung has managed to keep this little issue in mind and has tackled it quite elegantly with the announcement of its Galaxy Note 7.
You Cannot Insert The S-Pen In Galaxy Note 7 Incorrectly, Even If You Tried
We have provided a video for you below on what would happen if you inserted the S-Pen accessory incorrectly inside the opening of a Galaxy Note 5. Turns out that if you did, you would initially hear the clicking sound of the accessory slipping into position but when you decided to take it out again, it just wouldn’t budge. For those of you who managed to find out the hard way by yanking the S-Pen out, the instructions from the accessory would not get registered if you used it to tap on the screen of the smartphone.
However, the same issue is not plaguing the Galaxy Note 7, and there’s even a video provided for you below showing that even if you tried, you could not get the S-Pen to fit in the smartphone incorrectly. To be honest, we had completely forgotten about the issue plaguing Galaxy Note 5 users, and we are thrilled to see that Samsung’s design experts and engineers managed to keep this little dark memory retained.
The official release date of Galaxy Note 7 is August 19, but pre-orders of the smartphone have already started to take place.
