After offering hit games such as Watch Dogs, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Batman: Arkham Knight for free with new purchases of its GTX 980 and GTX 970 cards, Nvidia has announced that it will be offering free copies of the upcoming, highly anticipated conclusion to Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid series, The Phantom Pain.

Beginning immediately, Nvidia is giving away copies of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain with the purchase of select GeForce GTX 980 Ti, 980, 970, and 960 cards and systems, as well as select GeForce GTX 980M and 970M notebooks.

Of course,while you will technically get your copy of the game ‘now,’ you can’t actually play it till it launches- the PC version of the game is out September 15, two weeks after the launch of the game on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, and PS4.

Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage and information on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be coming to the PC next month, and as one of the evangelists for PC gaming and the inherent superiority that it presents over consoles from a technical perspective, Nvidia has gone ahead and posted comparison shots of the game as seen running on the PlayStation 4 and on the PC. (It probably also helps that all the consoles are powered by AMD, so by downplaying consoles, Nvidia also downplays AMD, its direct competitor in the GPU market).

You can check out the full range of screenshots here, but the difference is definitely noticeable, and the PC version comes out on the top every single time. It appears that the PC version of the game benefits from a lot of graphical flair and additions, including:

• 60fps
• Additional deferred lights per scene
• Additional shadows per scene
• Higher-resolution render targets
• Higher-resolution shadows
• Increased detail over distances
• NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU support
• Options to adjust seven graphics features (Effects, Lighting, Screen Filtering, Shadows, Texture Filtering, Textures)
• Resolution support up to and including 3840×2160 (4K)
• Screen Space Reflections

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes launches on PC via Steam on December 18. Stay tuned for more coverage.

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