Category: NEWS

Nintendo eShop Update for November 13, 2014

Every Thursday Nintendo publishes the eShop update for both its Wii U and 3Ds. This update includes full digital titles, Virtual Console releases and smaller indie titles. It can be a lot and while you could read the full text on Nintendo’s press site, we thought you would prefer to get the gist of the update along with ...

Mobile eSports are becoming increasingly popular, $2 million in prize money awarded this year alone

The eSports industry has been growing at a steady pace these last few years and will continue to get even bigger as more and more competitive games are being released. Big titles like Starcraft 2, League of Legends, or Call of Duty regularly have huge tournaments with lots of money on the line, but this industry ...

Battery-free electric cars may become real in 5 years

Electric cars have become all the rage lately, thanks to Elon Musk and Tesla, among others, but can you imagine battery-free electric cars? Even if you can’t, you should know that we should be driving them in about 5 years, if all goes well. According to recent research, graphene-based supercapacitors might be the solution to ...

Here are the Counter-Strike Global Offensive teams invited to participate in the ESL Pro League

About a week ago, ESL announced their new league system for Counter-Strike Global Offensive with $50,000 on the line as prize money. The system consists of three different leagues: Professional, Major, and Open. The Pro League will feature sixteen of the best CS:GO teams around, eight of which will need to qualify while the other ...

Sony celebrates the 20th anniversary of PlayStation with a great trailer

It’s hard to believe that almost 20 years have passed since Sony released its first PlayStation gaming console, on December 3rd 1994. At that time, Nintendo and Sega were the main console giants fighting for supremacy on the market. When Sony launched its PlayStation One, it was pretty clear right away that the new kid ...

Chloe Grace Moretz May Play Ellie In The Last Of Us

The Last of Us is one of those very few games that actually manages to feel like the player is actually playing his or her way through a movie, so it’s no surprise that the game is actually being adapted into one. Past reports have already confirmed that Neil Druckmann will be penning the script ...

Dark Souls 2 can be beat in under an hour

From Software’s original Dark Souls title was a great hit with speed runners and it’s no surprise that Dark Souls 2 was also going to be targeted by fans of the series attempting to beat the game as fast as possible. One of them is Allakazzaror, a speed runner who has set a world record ...

Benedict Lim “hyhy” Han Yong talks about the differences between Dota 2 and League of Legends

Former Dota 2 professional player Benedict Lim “hyhy” Han Yong went on Reddit earlier today to do an AMA with the fans. If you’re new to the game you might now know who he is, but Han Yong was pretty well known on the scene a couple of years back. “hyhy” used to play for Zenith ...

Study reveals that games like Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and Assassin’s Creed can improve our learning ability

It was suggested many times in the past that playing video games can grant us better memory, decision making, or coordination, among other things. Well, it turns out that games can actually improve our brains according to a recent study done by researchers at the University of Toronto. The researchers learned that people who play ...

World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor goes live today

Warlords of Draenor, the fifth expansion of the massive MMORPG World of Warcraft, will go live today at 2:00 a.m. PST in North America and 12 a.m. CET in Europe. UK WoW players are already enjoying Warlords of Draenor, as the expansion was released yesterday on UK servers. Warlords of Draenor is set after the events ...