wide·screen gam·ing fo·rum (wsgf):
[-noun] Web community dedicated to ensuring PC games run properly on your tablet, netbook, personal computer, HDTV and multi-monitor gaming rig.
DETOUR is an exciting construction-based war game in which players pit their minds and their might against one another in order to safely guide a hapless delivery truck across a deadly battlefield! With DETOUR, Sandswept Studios puts a colorful twist on the RTS genre, creating a game that is both simple to learn, and complex to master — like a chess game with bombs! DETOUR sports endless amounts of unique strategies, a built-in map editor, AI opponents, 5 distinct modes of play, 27 singleplayer challenges, unlockables, online play, an epic soundtrack, and much, much more!
Submitted by skipclarke on 8 December, 2012 - 14:04
Retro City Rampage is a downloadable action-adventure video game. It is a parody of retro games and pop culture as well as the popular Grand Theft Auto series and the games that followed it. In Retro City Rampage, players take control of a henchman of a major crime syndicate known as the Jester. The game is inspired by Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games, in that the player can complete a variety of missions within an enormous city that is open to explore.
Submitted by skipclarke on 4 December, 2012 - 15:39
Remake of the classic role-playing video game Baldur's Gate and its expansion Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast. Developer Overhaul Games stated that the games are more than just remakes of the classic RPG and that there are many differences between the two versions. Downloadable content will be made available, as well as the ability to mod the game. Overhaul Games decided to add an autoupdate function to the game and also to modify it based on suggestions made by users. Beamdog stated that the Overhaul team had added over 400 improvements to the original game.
Remember to install Cap 2 for Far Cry 3 as well as the drivers.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA11 DRIVER
AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11 is now available, and includes the following updates:
(Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta)
Improves performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
Submitted by skipclarke on 3 December, 2012 - 18:29
Forge is a PVP team-combat game, basically the end-state of many MMOs without the level grind to make it to that end-state content. It uses many similar character/class/skill tropes found in MMO games. The combat is action oriented, more like Team Fortress 2. It doesn't rely on "tab targeting" as many other MMOs do. The player must stay active and engaged in the combat to be successful.
Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter, which also features role-playing game elements including experience points, skill tree, and crafting system. The player has the ability to shoot enemies behind objects in crouch mode based on experience points. The player will also have the ability to perform "takedowns" by performing melee attacks from above or in crouch mode. The game's narrative director, Jason Vandenberghe, said that the story mode map will be around ten times larger than in the game's previous installments, indicating that it is still an open world sandbox game.
Submitted by skipclarke on 30 November, 2012 - 19:54
The WSGF recently posted a site survey, to help direct us as we move the site forward in our 10th year. We followed that up with a few additional questions, and we've collected those responses here. With just a week of being live, the second survey collected 125 completions.
Thanks to everyone who took time for this second survey.
Submitted by skipclarke on 30 November, 2012 - 15:51
Assassin's Creed III is a historical action-adventure open world stealth video game developed by Ubisoft. It is the fifth major installment and the third numbered title in the Assassin's Creed series, and a direct sequel to 2011's Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
Submitted by Anonymous on 29 November, 2012 - 10:30
Race the Sun is a indie racing game of sorts from a company called Flippfly, the game is a little hard to classify, the basic goal is to race as far as you can before you hit something, the sun goes down, or your solar powered ship runs out of power. The current version of the game is locked to a 16:10 aspect ratio, but they will be unlocking all aspect ratios and resolutions before its final release, they also indicated they would look into removing the pillerboxing they are currently using so. If they do that then the only real issue this game should have left in terms of multi-monitor support will be the HUD.
But there is good news about that as well, similar to what Amplitude Studios are doing, anyone that pre-purchases the game gets votes they can use to help the developers choose what to work on, and they have said "there’s no reason we can’t put a votable item in next month for proper multi-screen setups, and let you guys decide if that’s important to you", so we can probably get them to implement it with enough support.
My conversation with the developer can be over on their forums here: Remove The Resolution and Aspect Ratio Limit
The video itself is just pure gameplay this time, I originally only made it to show the developers what their game cool do is they removed the limit, but since they've now published it on their social channels I'm putting it up publicly as well. To get this to work I did a sledgehammer to a walnut kind of hack to force the resolutions and aspect ratio change, the rest was automatically handled by Unity, the games engine.
While this video can be watched on any screen it has been encoded to look best on a multi-monitor system, so if your running such a system, then select original quality from the drop down box and watch in fullscreen.
You can find a demo of this game over on Kongregate, and if you wish to support the developers and pre-purchase and help with the multi-monitor vote when it comes around you can do that over on Flippfly's website. They are currently selling pre-purchases for 50% off, so only $5.
Submitted by skipclarke on 26 November, 2012 - 20:46
I am happy to announce a couple of new accessories that we have available in the store, to make your WSGF Edition or HD Triple XL Stand even more enjoyable. If you spring for the ICE Cube, we now offer a Short Cable Kit with two 2' cables, and two 3' cables. This will leave you with far less cable mess behind your monitors, and make good cable management easier. We've also added an Alignment Kit to help you properly align your multi-monitor setup. The alignment kit includes a spirit level and protractor, to help you align your monitors to each other and set the angle.
For a holiday sale we are offering the ICE Cube at half off, with the purchase of a WSGF Edition Stand, HD Triple XL Stand, or the 1+3 Upgrade Kit. Enter the code "COOLIO" at checkout, and it will take $25 off the total. We've also launching the new kits free for this week, for users purchasing one of the above stands/kits and an ICE Cube. This deal will run through the entire month of December. The two new option kits will cost $10 each, starting next week. Purchase before the end of the year and you'll save almost $50 on your total purchase.
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