Far Cry 4 arrives today on PS4 and PS3

From the treacherous peaks of the Himalayas to the surreal temples of Shangri-La, every moment spent in Far Cry 4‘s Kyrat is a story, and now you can experience it for yourself on PS4 and PS3. You play as Ajay Ghale, returning to your place of birth to scatter your mother’s ashes.

Poor Ajay has no idea what he’s walking into. The country of Kyrat is under the rule of Pagan Min, a charming psychopath who has made himself the King. Now stuck in the middle of a civil war, every choice you make will determine the future of Kyrat and its people.



But you don’t have to go it alone. Guns for Hire (Far Cry 4′s co-op mode) allows you to join up with a friend to explore Kyrat. Take to the sky in the gyrocopter to rain destruction from above, or charge through the world together on the backs of elephants. You can even punch a tiger in the face, if that’s what you’re into.

If you’re feeling competitive, hop into the multiplayer. Play one round as the Golden Path rebels and the next round as the mysterious and mystical Rakshasa. As a Golden Path soldier you’ll have the full force of modern weaponry at your disposal. Lay waste to your opponents with machine guns and heavy artillery. The Rakshasa are a bit less grounded in reality. As a Rakshasa warrior you can summon wild animals to come to your aid and make use of the swarm and blink arrows to gain the upper hand. Should you get overwhelmed, you can simply vanish into thin air and give the Golden Path the slip.



Players who pick up Far Cry 4 on PS4 or PS3 will get 10 exclusive Keys to Kyrat. Send a key to your friend on PlayStation Network and enjoy a free, two-hour co-op trial in the game’s wide open world. So even if your buddy doesn’t have a copy of the game, they can still hop in and help you liberate some outposts or go big-game hunting in the valleys of Kyrat. Create your own one-of-a-kind adventures in the living world. You’ll never run out of things to do and see in Far Cry 4.

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Destiny Xur Location and Items for November 14, 2014 Revealed, Have the Last Word

11/14/2014 5:37:16 AM




PlayStation LifeStyle is here once again for our weekly Friday Destiny Xur location and items post for all of you Destiny nuts out there.
For this week, Xur – Agent of the Nine is in north park of the Tower situated right across The Speaker. As for his items, the usual lineup of Exotic equipment for each class is once again for sale, with this week’s weapon being The Last Word revolver — which is a good or crappy weapon depending on whom you ask.
Check out the full list of items as well as Xur’s exact location below.

What Exotic items are you buying from Xur this weekend? More importantly, are you still excited to farm for materials in order to level these Exotic items up?
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In other Destiny news, Bungie has confirmed that another update will roll out soon, which will see changes to Exotic items as well. So now might be a good idea to stock on up them just in case. Speaking of Exotic weapons, Bungie gave a super-exclusive Scout Rifle to a recovering brain surgery patient.

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Nvidia's cloud gaming service takes on Sony's PlayStation Now

Nvidia's online game-streaming service will launch next week after a year-long beta testing period, but it will only be available to owners of the company's Shield tablet and handheld gaming console.

Nvidia's service will compete with Sony's PlayStation Now game-streaming service, which is still in beta and works with Sony's TVs and gaming consoles. But Nvidia is promising a better gaming experience, with titles streaming out at 720p resolution and 60 frames per second.

The Nvidia GRID cloud gaming service will first be available in the U.S. as a free preview and the company is not saying whether it will become a paid service. It could launch in Europe as early as next month

The service will start with 20 streaming games, including "Batman: Arkham City" and "Borderlands 2,", with more titles added later. Nvidia hopes the service will attract more buyers to the Shield tablet, which starts at US$299 with 16GB of storage. The tablet will be upgraded to Android 5.0 in coming weeks.

There's technically nothing stopping it from working on any device," Fear said.

The service initially won't work on PCs either. But Nvidia could extend the service to desktops and laptops with its GeForce graphics cards.

The streaming service takes advantage of specific hardware and graphics features in Shield devices. It won't work on mobile devices from other companies, though that could change in the future, said Andrew Fear, senior product manager for GRID cloud computing at Nvidia.

 

Streaming games will load in a matter of seconds and the service runs off servers powered by Amazon's cloud infrastructure. Fear said the infrastructure is already in place to deploy the service in the Asia-Pacific region, but he did not share specific launch dates.
"We've been working to deploy thousands of servers in Amazon's cloud," Fear said. "We're leveraging that infrastructure to deploy this."
The online gaming service was in beta for more than a year through servers in California, with users connected worldwide. After it was clear that users far away from California experienced no latency, Nvidia decided the servers were ready to take on more gamers and that there was sufficient bandwidth to handle the service.

 Cloud, remote graphics is an entirely different mind set than local gaming," Fear said.

Delivering games over the cloud is also different than playing games locally. On PCs, the GPUs can be adjusted to change the frames per second. But on cloud servers, the GPUs are running at a consistent frame rate, which if disturbed, could hurt the quality of visuals.
"For us in the cloud, we have to be able to stream and render the game always at 60 frames per second. If we go below it, we're going to get a visual stutter because we weren't able to render a frame at the time the encoder was trying to encode it at 60 frames per second," Fear said.
Nvidia is recommending that the service not be used over LTE connections. It runs best over Wi-Fi routers that support the 5GHz spectrum.

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