Gaming
Let us pretend we are desktop people, thinking about building a new system. What would we look for? If we are after a gaming system, clearly we need a big GPU. A very beefy CPU is a nice touch as well if we want to keep the GPU fed. Plenty of memory, lots of storage, and maybe lots of ports for expansion. Add in a nice RGB keyboard, perhaps a high refresh display, and lots of cooling. Now let us imagine we pack that into a 2.9 kg / 6.4 lb package. That seems impossible, doesn’t it? What if we added in a 99.9 Wh UPS as well? Now that is really crazy. Let me present to you the MSI GE76 Raider, which brings...
Dota 2 Requires More Beta Testers
With the Dota 2 coming in the near (yet unannounced) future, Valve’s decided to expand the current beta. Last night, Valve sent emails to many who’d expressed interest, asking...
12 by Craig Getting on 11/2/2011Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Released
Last week, Rockstar Games added a Grand Theft Auto V (Five) banner to their website. The banner didn't really tell much, other than that GTA V exists and a...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 11/2/2011New MechWarrior Coming in 2012, Will Be Free-to-Play and PC-Exclusive
In 2009, Piranha Games released a trailer intimating that they were working on a new MechWarrior title. Recently, the company announced MechWarrior Online, a free-to-play multiplayer mech simulator set...
26 by Craig Getting on 11/1/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 Driver Package
AMD today released the final version of the Catalyst 11.10 driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops. In addition to...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/31/2011Indie Royale Offers Yet Another Bundle of Indie Games
Pay-what-you-can indie game bundles are all the rage these days. By joining together, indie game developers can help to raise the profile of their titles and encourage customers to...
3 by Craig Getting on 10/27/2011Grand Theft Auto V Exists
Looking for information on Rockstar Games? Good luck. As I write this, the company’s website is dominated by a single splash page announcing the existence of Grand Theft Auto...
13 by Craig Getting on 10/25/2011Get Diablo III Free with Annual WoW Subscription
In an effort to hold on to players whose interest in their seven-year-old MMO might finally be waning, Blizzard’s promising a free digital copy of Diablo III to anyone...
24 by Craig Getting on 10/22/2011The 2012 IGF Pirate Kart: Over 300 Free Games from 100 Indie Devs
Submissions are in for the 2012 Independent Games Festival, and one entry in particular already stands out: the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart. For the Pirate Kart, over 100 developers...
1 by Craig Getting on 10/19/2011Rage Against the (Benchmark) Machine
Rage came out a little over a week ago, and in the aftermath we’ve discovered some interesting pieces of information. We thought we’d chime in with some thoughts on...
81 by Jarred Walton on 10/14/2011Final Fantasy XIV To Finally Charge Money, New Version Next Year
After thirteen months of an extended free trial, Square-Enix’s MMO Final Fantasy XIV will begin charging a subscription fee. The subscription-based billing system will go into effect sometime between...
14 by Craig Getting on 10/14/2011Mass Effect 3 To Include Cooperative Multiplayer
The third and final leg of Commander Shepard’s journey won’t be a lonely one. BioWare confirmed today that Mass Effect 3 will include four-player co-op gameplay via Mass Effect...
10 by Craig Getting on 10/10/2011Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Will Continue Sending DVDs by Mail
In a terse blog post this morning, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that Netflix no longer planned to split its streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two companies with two...
15 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/10/2011Indie Platformer VVVVVV to Appear on Nintendo 3DS
Terry Cavanagh’s gravity-bending platformer VVVVVV will be coming to Nintendo’s 3D handheld, thanks to a recent publishing deal with Nicalis. VVVVVV was released last September and quickly garnered attention...
7 by Craig Getting on 10/7/2011L.A. Noire Developer Team Bondi Shuttered
Should a sequel to Rockstar Games’ latest offering ever appear, it won’t come from the original developer. Team Bondi, the studio that labored on L.A. Noire since 2005, has...
11 by Craig Getting on 10/5/2011Unreal Engine 3 Supports Flash 11
Not long after Epic announced OS X support for its Unreal Engine game middleware, the company has another announcement to make: Using the just-released Flash Player 11, UE3 is...
30 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/5/2011Shadowgun Tegra Zone Game Preview
Everytime NVIDIA asks me what type of games I'd like to see running on Android I always seem to answer the same way: I want good FPSes. I want...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2011Portal 2 Free “Peer Review” DLC Now Available
In case you haven’t been solving testing chambers incessantly since April, Valve’s offering a free reason to dust off your copy of Portal 2. A new DLC pack, titled...
5 by Craig Getting on 10/4/2011Modded Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Could Result in Bans
Intrepid players of the Battlefield 3 beta (which began last week) have taken to hacking servers to boost the player count from 32 up to 128. Joining such a...
18 by Craig Getting on 10/3/2011New Indie Game Storefront 'Indievania' Now In Beta
The team from Alientrap, the independent game developer responsible for Capsized and Nexuiz, decided that indies needed a better way to sell their games. So they created Indievania, a...
2 by Craig Getting on 9/30/2011Game Review: The Binding of Isaac
There is some special alchemy at the heart of The Binding of Isaac. Developer Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy) has combined biblical monsters, scatological humor, and tense twin-stick shooting...
11 by Craig Getting on 9/30/2011