Category: NEWS

Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 will stick to a 256-bit bus and 4GB of DDR5

Nvidia’s long awaited Geforce GTX 960 graphics card will soon join the high-end duo of the Maxwell 900 series and intends to do so in impressive fashion. Although it was originally believed that the GTX 960 will feature a 192-bit memory interface, recent shipping data shows that the upcoming Maxwell card will employ a 256-bit ...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets campaigns thanks to the Operation Vanguard Access Pass

Earlier today, Valve introduced Operation Vanguard, an expansion of sorts to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that features new maps, missions and even campaigns. That’s right, Valve is finally adding campaigns to the game, although they will be a bit different that those usually found in RPGs for example. Operation Campaigns consist of a series of missions ...

Gigabyte is readying its Geforce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI System

Gigabyte has revealed its ultimate gaming solution, the Geforce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI system, which will be launching by the end of this year. The high-end WaterForce system is part of Gigabyte’s latest AIO liquid cooled system bundle which was announced six months back. The first one featured a 3-way SLI setup of three Geforce ...

Derek “desi” Branchen is now a permanent member for team iBUYPOWER

Derek “desi” Branchen, former member of Team eLevate is now on the official roster of iBUYPOWER, the number one Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team in North America. Brachen was already playing for the team after he stepped in for Joshua “steel” Nissan and Sam “DaZeD” in preparation for the upcoming Dreamhack Winter tournament, which is scheduled to ...

Assassin’s Creed Unity suffers from serious performance issues, incredibly low frame rates reported

Assassin’s Creed Unity launched yesterday and unfortunately Ubisoft has not managed to deliver the flawless game everybody was expecting. If you’re looking to buy Assassin’s Creed Unity, you should have a little bit more patience, simply because the graphics experience of Unity is surprisingly poor. Numerous player reports indicate incredibly low frame rates, glitches, lag ...

ROCCAT is the new main peripheral partner for Intel Extreme Masters

ROCCAT is well known in the world of competitive gaming as one of the most popular providers of quality peripherals. It is for this very reason that Intel Extreme Masters announced a partnership with the company and signed it up as a major sponsor for the remaining of the Season 9 eSports tournament series. This includes ...

Hearthstone is more complex than Magic The Gathering according to MTG champion

Digital card games – whether collectible or trading – have generally speaking not been very popular with the masses. Sure, Magic The Gathering achieved a pretty large fanbase over the years but it’s still far from being among the most popular games around. This is a genre that comes with a lot of complexity, which is ...

Maokai, Tristana, and Poppy are the next League of Legends champions schduled for a visual update

Riot is currently working on a number of preseason changes for League of Legends, but that doesn’t mean they forgot about the champion updates. The developer announced a while back that it plans to improve the game from a visual standpoint and that includes new textures for most of the champions. Riot recently posted an ...

Overwatch will not feature a single-player campaign, but there will be a plot according to Blizzard

This year’s edition of Blizzcon was a very special one because after nearly two decades Blizzard finally announced a new IP. Overwatch has been the subject of speculation for many months after it was revealed back in April that the company trademarked that name. We didn’t actually know what it was until recently but the name ...

Leaked Specs of the Radeon R9 390X reveal 4GB of 3D Stacked HBM and 4096 Stream Processors

After Nvidia was in the spotlight yesterday with an alleged future launch of the Big Daddy Maxwell GM200 GPU, today its eternal AMD rival will be enjoying some attention thanks to a major leak which emerged on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database. It seems that AMD is pulling out its premium guns for the future ...