Author: Rae Michelle Richards
Brand New Doom Gameplay Details: SnapMap Game Modes & Social Features
New gameplay details regarding weapons, the ability to share maps made with SnapMap socially, new playable demons and other tidbits have found their way onto the internet thanks to a synopsis of the latest issue of Game Informer. Players will be able to customize their weapons with mods which will allow them to add things […]
X-Split Gamecaster Updates To Version 2.7
Popular game streaming software X-Split have released version 2.7 today. The latest update brings support for Intel’s bleeding edge which allows streamers to use chroma-key like effects without the need for a physical green screen. Other major updates include built-in integration with Facebook and Twitter to make communicating with fans easier, they’ve also included an […]
Humble Tom Clancy Bundle 2 Sneaks Into View
Humble Bundle’s latest tiered selection of games once again selects titles from series bearing the name of late author Tom Clancy. Whether you are going to be planning missions for Team Rainbow or sneaking down corridors as Sam Fisher there are a number of games available at a few price points. Interestingly the “beta the […]
Unravel Trailer Shows Us The Inspiration Behind Yarny
A brand new trailer for Coldwood’s Unravel has spun its way on to YouTube. This new video gives you some information on the inspiration behind protagonist Yarny , as the game’s creative director Martin Sahlin discusses how a family camping influenced the game’s creation. In his recent blog post Martin Sahlin described his vision for Yarny: […]
New Dying Light The Following Story Trailer
Techland, the developers behind Dying Light, have given fans another glimpse into the story for the upcoming expansion in a brand new trailer titled “A Prophecy Incarnated”. This trailer also gives viewers a brief glimpse at some of the new characters to be introduced in this expansion as well as its’ new environments. Dying Light: […]
Pathfinder Rusty Dragon Inn Miniature Set Now Available
Any experienced tabletop RPG player will tell you that having the proper miniatures can help the immersion of a good gaming session immensely. Sure, the orc you just slew might be represented by a left over red RISK piece but wouldn’t it look better if it was an accurate painted plastic model instead? WizKids has […]
Independent Games Festival 2016 Finalists Announced
The Independent Games Festival have announced their line-up of finalists across seven different categories for the IGF Awards which are to be announced during the 2016 Games Developer Conference in San Francisco California. It must have been a painstaking process for the 400 evaluators to select this small list of finalists from among the more […]
Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Open, Servers Crash Despite $600 USD Price Point
As expected Facebook owned Oculus opened up pre-orders for their much anticipated virtual reality headset this morning. No one knew what the price point of the fledgling technology was going to be before the pre-order page went live. Potential Oculus Rift owners were greeted with a $599 USD (849.99 CDN) price point and of course […]
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered First Trailer Released
You might have missed it over the holidays but SEGA’s official YouTube channel released a new trailer for Valkyria Chronicles Remastered for the PlayStation 4. In addition to a higher resolution (1080P versus the PS3 original’s 720P) the PS4 version includes an additional difficulty level called “Hard EX Mode” and three additional chapters that expand […]
A Boy And His Blob Heading To Xbox One and PlayStation 4
WayForward Technologies’ 2009 reimagining of A Boy and His Blob is coming to the Xbox Live Marketplace and presumably the PlayStation Network in just over two weeks time. Spotted by eagle eyed readers on the Xbox Live Marketplace this current gen port of the Wii original looks to boast impressive 2D art assets that no […]
Steel Series Announces The Rival 700 – A Mouse With A Headshot Counter
Hardware manufacturer Steel Series has announced the Rival 700 Smart Gaming Mouse, a pretty neat piece of kit that is being marketed to the hard-core Counter Strike: Global Offensive crowd. What makes this mouse worthy of your headshots over say a rival mouse? Aside from a number of pretty neat inclusions, which I’ll get to […]
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 […]
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 […]