The Mirror’s Edge and Bad Company franchises have lain dormant since 2008 and 2010, respectively, with developer DICE remaining coy about the future of both series. Now, DICE executive producer Patrick Bach has confirmed that it remains committed those properties.

Speaking to IGN, Bach said, “We never kill something that is great. Mirror’s Edge is a game that we of course all love. It was a great game. It had some flaws, of course, like all games. But in general, it’s an IP that we love and of course we haven’t killed it, because it’s too good to kill.”

As for a sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Bach expressed a similar level of adoration for the franchise, but did not lay out any specific plans for the series.

“The Bad Company IP is still something we love,” Bach continued. “And it’s very dear to me because I worked on both titles. We have no information with where we are to a sequel to Bad Company.”

DICE may already be at work on new entries is both franchises. In May, various LinkedIn resumes included mention of Bad Company 3 and Mirror’s Edge 2. Publisher Electronic Arts declined to comment on these rumors.

The GTX 660 Ti–the latest in Nvidia’s Kepler-based GPU range–will be available to purchase on August 16 for £249 in the UK and $299 in the US, the chip maker revealed today. The 660 Ti will be almost identical to the much pricier GTX 670, with 1344 CUDA Cores, a 915Mhz Base Clock, a Boost Clock of 980 Mhz, and a slightly lower TDP of 150 Watts. The key difference lies in its 2GB of memory, which runs on a 192 bit architecture, rather than 256 bit.

Nvidia claims there is just a 15 percent drop in performance when compared to the 670, while also realising gains of up to 80 percent when compared to older cards like the GTX 470, and GTX 260. PC builders who purchase the card will be given a free copy of Borderlands 2 via download, with the promotion running until launch stock of the card is exhausted.

The GTX 660 Ti follows on from the launch of the GTX 680, and GTX 670 earlier this year. All cards are based on Nvidia’s latest GK104 Kepler chip architecture. For more on Kepler, check out our review of the GTX 680.

Death wakes up to a new face, the face of the Maker, in this cutscene from Darksiders II, before heading out to the Tree of Life.

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007 Legends you say? But where’s legendary Bonds like Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Goerge Lazenby and if there’s any of those first ones, Sean Connery anyone? All I see is Daniel Craig, turned me off from GoldenEye remake too.

And on the grapchics. Why they look so poor and undetailed in these Bond games?

Hey Tom, do you think the combat could be more enjoyable at higher difficulty settings, or the lack of depth/progression will make it tedious anyway? I’m short of money this month, and still thinking if I should give this one a shot. (I’m a big Castlevania fan, and this game kinda resembles it for me…specially the terrible dialogue, rs)