Frontier Developments originally announced that Elite: Dangerous will be released in Q4 of 2014 and many people were not expecting the game to arrive by then, but developers have kept their word and silenced all doubters. It’s now official, Elite: Dangerous is coming this December 16th worldwide on Windows PCs and OS X. The space trading/combat MMO has been available ...
Read More »Asus prepares its ROG Poseidon GTX 980 Hybrid Air/Water Cooled graphics card
Asus is looking to add a new member to their custom high-end Republic of Gamers graphics card lineup, the ROG Poseidon GTX 980 – a card that will feature a Hybrid DirectCU H2O cooler and a 1279Mhz boost clock speed. Asus’ upcoming ROG GTX 980 graphics powerhouse will keep the reference technical specifications of the Geforce GTX 980 and will ...
Read More »Dota 2 is now being studied in schools
There are now millions of people around the world who play Valve’s highly successful Massive Online Battle Arena, Dota 2. Although most of them play just for fun, there are also some who play it competitively and actually make a living from this game. A large portion of these players live in China, a country that has been at the forefront of ...
Read More »New Far Cry 4 leak reveals the map of Kyrat and in-game animal species
Ubisoft’s upcoming action-adventure blockbuster, Far Cry 4 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and now a recent leak reveals the game’s map and a whole bunch of in-game animal species. By the looks of it, the map of Kyrat looks very similar to what we’ve seen in the previous installment. Just a few weeks to go now and ...
Read More »Next GM200 Big Daddy Maxwell GPU inbound
As I’ve written in a previous article, Nvidia recently had a major earnings call in which company officials answered direct questions and offered some tightly wrapped hints which may be pointing to future moves the company has in place. This of course implies the future release of a 20nm GM200 GPU for both giant card manufacturers such as MSI and ...
Read More »The first Hearthstone World Champion has been crowned, check out his decklists here
Blizzcon 2014 hosted a number of important eSports tournaments this past weekend, including the first Hearthstone World Championship. Sixteen players from all regions competed for the grand prize of $10,000 but as always, only one of them was able to claim the glory associated with being a champion. In this case it was James “Firebat” Kostesich, a relatively unknown player that ...
Read More »Nvidia says that the Glory Days of Consoles are over, PC is king
Nvidia recently had an earnings call event in which the company boasted some record numbers and officials shared their thoughts on future prospects. One of them happened to be the CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsung. The Nvidia head talked about different gaming platforms and said that the “glory days of consoles are now over.” According to Hsung, the PC is now ...
Read More »Stealth-focused Clandestine preview | rough shadows
After first witnessing Clandestine’s Early Access trailer and screenshots, this first game coming to mind was Ubisoft’s third-person stealth-focused Splinter Cell series. Being a fan of Sam Fisher’s adventures, I thought about giving developer Logic Artists’ latest a spin. After a few hours getting accustomed to its Early Access build, I’ve realised Clandestine could very well be an excellent title; ...
Read More »GTA San Andreas’ latest Steam update deletes save files
Developer Rockstar Games has recently issued an update for the Steam version of GTA San Andreas, and while this newest addition adds native support for X-input controllers such as the Xbox 360, it takes away much more. As noted by RockstarNexus, a number of songs have gone missing, these being the same 17 tracks which have also disappeared from the ...
Read More »Resident Evil Revelations 2 ESRB rating reveals Barry Burton
The ESRB has recently published its rating on publisher Capcom’s latest entry in the Resident Evil series – Resident Evil Revelations 2 – and while warnings of blood and gore, intense violence, and strong language aren’t anything new to said franchise, the addition of a playable “father searching for his daughter” is quite intriguing, as it more than likely references ...
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