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Bench those Remnants – Square release Last Remnant Demo & Benchmark tools

Andrew Bryant — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:43:11 +0000

To celebrate the release of The Last Remnant on PC, Square Enix have given everyone the opportunity to see if they like it before having it locked to their Steam account for ever and a day (the game uses Steamworks for save games, possibly giving SteamCloud more too do that just store L4D & TF2 control sets) but putting out a demo that weighs in at approximately 1GB.

Alongside the demo comes a benchmarking utility to prove that the hyper-optimised Unreal 3 engine is, well, hyper-optimised. For the record, my aging Core 2 machine (going on 2 years old now) … Read More...

Steam delivers Remnant to the PC

Andrew Bryant — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:00:38 +0000

In what seems like a resurgence in love of the PC following Capcoms announcement that pretty much all their upcoming releases are coming to the PC, Square Enix are bringing their recent Unreal 3-engined Action RPG, The Last Remnant, to the PC on March the 24th via Valve’s Steam platform.

Press release (& now trailer) hiding below…

THE LAST REMNANT GAMES FOR WINDOWS VERSION SHIPS TO NORTH AMERICAN RETAILERS MARCH 24, 2009

LOS ANGELES (February 24, 2009) — Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in North America, announced today that the Games for Windows®
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