14 DAY TRIAL // The other day we mentioned that Advanced Micro Devices had decided what its latest Never Settle game bundle would comprise, but we didn't know for certain what the exact game list would be.
Now, however, after compiling previous reports, rumors and, among other things, an interview (that AMD Vice President of Channel Sales Roy Taylor held with VR-Zone), we do.
In addition to Battlefield 4, the set is composed of Total War: Rome II, Watch Dogs, Lost Planet 3, Raven’s Cry, Grid 2 and Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
Radeon HD 7000 video adapters bundled with one or more of these titles will ship from this month onwards (August 2013).
They will be worth around $100 all on their own, which is why Advanced Micro Devices is making so much noise. It's not every day that people can get the games for free.
Then again, only the highest-end cards will get all of them, notably the Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU, so there won't be much impact on the market in the end.
After all, whoever has enough money to buy that beast of a card, price cut or no price cut, would be able to easily throw another $100 / €100 for the games if they weren't free perks.
“It is coming in August, and it will be called Never Settle Forever. I cannot yet tell you what the games are. […] Well, the obvious one is Battlefield 4. We are doing some stunning things with that,” said Roy Taylor in that interview with VR-Zone.
The name of the game bundle will be Never Settle Forever. An odd choice of words, but not that surprising. Now we can only wonder what name the next bundle will have, since the Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, APU and GPU maker has made it clear that the Never Settle program will be a long-term fixture of its marketing stance.
No doubt the next will debut before the year is out, perhaps as soon as the Volcanic Islands and Pirate Islands arrive.