TEKKEN 7 – PC and Console Release Date! Early 2017! Thats right, confirmed this morning at the Microsoft XBOX E3 Conference, Tekken 7 will be released early 2017 on the PC via Steam, Xbox One, and the Playstation 4. They showed off a snippet of the new story mode which shows seamless transitions between cutscene animations and gameplay. They also showed quicktime events in the cutscenes and in the gameplay. Additionally, it mentions “WHO WILL SURVIVE – FATHER OR SON?” implying that either Heihachi or Kazuya will die! Check it out and my live reactions to it below! UPDATE: BandaiNamco site notes 3-31-17 as the release date (March 31, 2017). That may be a placeholder date though
The AverMedia Live Gamer HD is different from other HD capture cards on the market for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it has a built in H264 hardware encoder. Second, it comes with all necessary software to stream your gameplay to TwitchTV. Third, it is a PCI-Express add in card for a desktop computer, not a USB/Thunderbolt solution. When looking at PCI-Express add-in cards for capturing or streaming your gameplay your options narrow down to the BlackMagic Intensity Pro, Hauppauge Colossus, and now the AverMedia Live Gamer HD. The Colossus is great for capturing gameplay, but has many seconds of lag making it inappropriate for streaming. The BlackMagic Intensity Pro is what I’ve been using the past few months and it works well for streaming, but is limited for capturing gameplay as it requires enormous amounts of hard drive space for its uncompressed capture. When streaming PC games the Intensity Pro is of no help to the encoding process as it does not have a hardware encoder, thereby using your already burdened CPU to do the encoding.
From reading the box, the AverMedia Live Gamer HD looks to be the middle ground – good for streaming, better performance when PC gaming, smaller file sizes with good quality when capturing. For people with slower computers that can barely handle streaming, this may be the ideal card for them. I put the card to the test and see if it lives up to the hype. NOTE -the Youtube clip is a summary, so read on through the full review for the full benchmarks
