HITMAN will launch with DirectX 12 support

HITMAN

The new HITMAN will launch with support for DirectX 12.If you have DirectX 12,you can probably expect better game performance,letting you crank up the settings to better appreciate Agent 47's minimalist bonce and trademark scowl.

• better multithreading
• increased performance where CPU bound
• better experiences for laptop gamers
• asynchronous compute on AMD cards for significant performance gains
• early days but we will continue expanding and improving on the Dx12 experience in future releases

That last one making it sound like future Square Enix or IO games will make the most of DirectX 12 as well.
If you don't know what all the fuss is about, Peter 'Durante' Thoman wrote this detail run down of what DirectX 12 means, and what benefits we can expect from it when it comes to games.

Mirror Edge:Catalyst will be launch on May 24

MIRROR EDGE : CATALYST

Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is only a matter of months away, so the trailers and details are starting to come thick and fast. Most recently, DICE and publisher Electronic Arts released two videos demonstrating the game's movement and combat. As you can see, it looks very fluid and beautiful in action, but you'll be able to judge for yourself soon (if you're lucky), cause there's a beta happening at some unspecified time between now and May.

Phil Savage saw an extended demo of Mirror's Edge last year, and his assessment is pretty positive. After a minor delay, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst will officially launch on May 24.

Check out the trailers :

Mass Effect:Andromeda will not come until 2017

MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA

Yet another piece of evidence has appeared indicating that BioWare's space epic RPG Mass Effect: Andromeda won't be out until sometime in early 2017. This one comes from Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen, who said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference yesterday that it's slated for the fourth quarter of EA's fiscal year.

“We've got our Battlefield first-person shooter game coming in the third quarter, and our third-party title that Respawn, our partner, built, called Titanfall, it's the second title that they brought into that brand. Both of those are first-person shooters and will be targeted around both the fast, action-driven shooter market, as well as the strategy-driven market in the quarter,” he said. “We have all our sports games. We have our Mirror's Edge runner game, it's first quarter. and then we have Mass Effect, which is a sci-fi action game, in our fourth quarter. So big year ahead and we're pretty excited."

EA's fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31, so while the fourth quarter of the calendar year would mean a release sometime between October 1 and December 31 of 2016, which is when it was expected to be out, in this case it indicates January 1 to March 31 of 2017. It's possible that it could be moved up, but come on, when is the last time that happened?

(It was about a year and a half ago, actually.)

So it's a delay, but it's not necessarily an indication of anything problematic. It's quite possible that EA simply doesn't want to put all its eggs into the very crowded holiday-season basket, especially since, to mix metaphors, it's already got two big dogs—Battlefield 5 and Titanfall 2—in that fight. I've emailed EA to confirm the new launch window, but it's probably safe to assume that if EA's CFO says 2017, then 2017 is what it is. credit:pcgamer