Tuesday, May 5th 2015
NVIDIA Announces "Two Times The Adventure" Game Bundle
NVIDIA announced its latest game bundle for buyers of its GeForce GTX 900 series graphics products. Called "Two Times the Adventure" bundle, it includes two of the year's most anticipated PC titles - "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt," and "Batman: Arkham Knight." New buyers of GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards, from participating retailers, will receive game coupons to both the games, which can be redeemed on Steam. New buyers of GeForce GTX 960, and notebooks with GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M, will receive game codes to just "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt."
Codes for both games, if activated on Steam before their launch dates, will count as pre-orders, so you can pre-load and start playing on the launch dates. Both games come with NVIDIA's GameWorks varnish, which enables a few GeForce-exclusive eye-candy, such as HairWorks (GPU-accelerated hair effects) in The Witcher 3, PhysX-accelerated destruction and cloth effects, and HBAO+ in both games. The Witcher 3 releases on May 19, and Batman: Arkham Knight on June 23.
Codes for both games, if activated on Steam before their launch dates, will count as pre-orders, so you can pre-load and start playing on the launch dates. Both games come with NVIDIA's GameWorks varnish, which enables a few GeForce-exclusive eye-candy, such as HairWorks (GPU-accelerated hair effects) in The Witcher 3, PhysX-accelerated destruction and cloth effects, and HBAO+ in both games. The Witcher 3 releases on May 19, and Batman: Arkham Knight on June 23.
22 Comments on NVIDIA Announces "Two Times The Adventure" Game Bundle
I wonder if they still have moles at AMD (notice nothing happened to nvidia when they were caught).
Nvidia works with devs and wants to reward (lure) buyers of the top tier money spinners by offering said games for free. That's just marketing and seeing as you get the Witcher 3 with a lowly 960, I'd say it's spread across the 900 range well enough. I don't think they're scared of the 390 sales prospects, just doing the standard PR gimmick of buy card, get game. But as it's Nvidia let's not say anything positive.... :rolleyes:
That being said, I wont touch a Nvidia card until I've seen the 390X performance. And then if it's not as good as I hope, I can't buy that knowing a 980ti might be in the wings. It's never ending.
All I know is that at £900, I wont touch a Titan X. Unless the 390X is the same price (and not as good) :laugh:
Oooh, interesting Summer ahead.
It's not that big of a deal really, but I was just trying to see what's what.
"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt," Release Date: 19th May 2015 (that's like next week)
"Batman: Arkham Knight." Release date: 23 June 2015 (that's like next month)You must be still living in 2011 eh?
I'm trying to imagine jen hsun huang waking form a guilt ridden nightmare because all the early adopters now need to actually buy witcher and batman to play it ... nngh, can't really do it
That said, with this new deal, this close to release, they could be releasing thru Steam also just for added goodwill, especially since it is Nvidia footing the bill and they feel it is easier for customers to redeem two games at one place. There are quite a few games that GOG publishes on GOG with no DRM that are also available thru Steam with the Steam DRM .dll. So it's conceivable tha to reach the widest audience possible, the game will be sold on both platforms.
To answer your last point, all the games you purchase from GOG show up in a library, so they have a permanent record you purchased the game from them.
If you grab a GTX 970 Strix from Dabs you get a free copy of GTA V too! :eek:
www.dabs.com/products/asus-geforce-gtx-970-4gb-pci-express-3-0-directcu-ii-oc-strix-9RXD.html?src=3