Month: January 2016
Rise of the Tomb Raider Minimum PC Specs Announced By Square Enix
Square Enix’s sequel to 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot, Rise of the Tomb Raider will be making its way to Windows PC on January 28th 2016 the publisher announced alongside the game’s minimum specs. The minimum specs for Rise don’t seem so bad – the game only requires 25GB of install space, which is similar to […]
NVIDIA Opens Up CES Keynote With Self Driving Car Announcements
Today at their CES press event NVIDIA opened up their discussion of upcoming technologies with their recent investments in self driving cars. A special computer developed by NVIDIA called the NVIDIA Drive PX2 is powered by a 12 CPU-core system that is liquid cooled and contains the companies upcoming Pascal GPU. NVIDIA is billing their […]
AMD Officially Announces Polaris Line of GPUs Due Out Later This Year
We’ve known for a while that AMD has been working on a new iteration of the Graphics Card Next platform codenamed Polaris. Today the company made it official, with the apparent release of several slides containing information on the new architecture. As predicted the new cards will be branded under the Radeon 400 series moniker […]
Xenoblade Chronicles X Offers A Lot To Explore
Traveling across planet Mira in Nintendo’s latest Xenoblade game may seem incredibly daunting at first. You’re given a lot of missions to keep you close to home and some pretty big, scary, aliens roam the plains around the city of New LA. Are they aliens if you’re on their home planet? I guess it’s all […]
UK Sales Charts For The Week of Jan 2nd Dominated By Black Ops III
Our first games sales numbers to include the post holiday discount period have arrived thanks to the weekly UK software charts. Not surprising several AAA franchise compose the top ten including EA’s Star Wars Battlefront, Activision’s Call of Duty and Bethesda softwork’s Fallout 4. What is a little surprising is to see Just Cause 3 […]
The Legend of Dark Witch 2 | Review
It was just over a year ago that I sat here reviewing the original The Legend of Dark Witch. I enjoyed that game and it got a pretty good review as a result. The game was simple, solid, and fun to play. You’ll find more of the same in the sequel here, with a ton […]
Xbox One Exclusive Scalebound Delayed Until 2017
Platinum Games has posted an update on the development of their exclusive Xbox One roleplaying game Scalebound. The development team has decided to delay the title until an unspecified time in 2017. Platinum says that the extra time will allow them to implement new features and achieve their ambitious vision without compromise. Up until now […]
PS4 Hacked to run Linux and pokemon
Hacking things in 2016 seems to be the theme of January, a group of hackers manage to bypass the PlayStation 4 security measures and install a custom Linux OS and start playing a modded version of Pokemon Emerald. Ill get right to it here is the video. Sony has had its fare share of interesting console […]
“Please Understand”: Nintendo is failing Pokemon fans abroad
Am I mad? Probably? Why you ask? Because I was told that if I wrote an article about something I was mad about it would get published on this site. Now if you ask why I would ever feel an urge to have anything published on this site the only compelling answer anyone could possibly […]
Awesome Games Done Quick is back for 2016
The yearly charity live stream Awesome Games Done Quick where speed runners gather and try to break and speed run through games for charity is going on now! The 7 day live stream goes 24 hours a day and raises donations for Prevent Cancer charities. Hundreds of speed runners will come to AGDQ and play dozens of games […]
Check Out This Stunning 4K Star Citizen Short Film
Star Citizen is one of those games that I’ve kind of been keeping an eye on for some time. Despite not actually owning it, I’ll still find myself going to YouTube and watching footage from the latest PTU patches and additions as well as read the developer’s announcements simply because the game’s scope and aesthetic […]
Ever Wanted To Build a $30,000 Computer? Because This Guy Did It!
What is your dream computer? I bet it’s nothing like the computer that Linustech built that cost a whopping $30,000 USD. Comprised of seven individual systems housed in one giant case it is an entire LAN Party contained in one giant box. In all honesty if you wanted to build a single PC comprised of […]
Exclusive Q&A with Ty Taylor – Award Winning Game Developer
Today we have the award winning game developer, Ty Taylor, joining us for a question and answer session. Ty is a renowned game designer and developer that leads the Seattle based indie studio, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild. His first major game, The Bridge, received critical acclaim and many awards. The Bridge is a 2D puzzle game […]
New Images and Trailer for Final Fantasy Explorers
Square Enix has released a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS action role-playing adventure Final Fantasy Explorers. The action-packed video showcases different ways players can experience Final Fantasy Explorers, whether they go solo, or in a party as four friends in multiplayer mode, to battle the realm’s most powerful monsters. Not only that […]
Hackers Get Full Windows 95 To Work On New 3DS
Only one day after the new year we’re going to party like it’s… 1995? A clever hacker has gotten Microsoft’s two decade only operating system Windows 95 to run on Nintendo’s New 3DS according to a post on console modification forum GBATMP. RetroRampage37 released a rough build of the Windows 95 hack and certainly it […]