Category: News
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report Released
The developers behind the popular open source GameCube/Wii emulator Dolphin have released a progress report as they head towards the release of version 5.0. They have instituted what is known as a “feature freeze” – meaning that no new features will be added to the emulator until the next major revision and only bug fixes […]
Major League Gaming Purchased By Activision Blizzard
It looks like Major League Gaming, commonly known as MLG, the e-sports pioneer and tournament organizer has been sold to publisher Activision Blizzard according to esports observer. In a December 21st meeting MLG’s Board of Directors approved an asset sale worth $46 million USD essentially gutting the one time e-sports king. Individual stock holders were […]
Rumor: Distribution Agreement The Reason PSO2 Has Yet To Reach Western Shores
Could a single contract be responsible for Phantasy Star Online 2 not seeing a western release despite the huge success of Free-to-Play MMORPGs? According to a source speaking anonymously to SEGA fan site TSSZ Beyond Blue, this is indeed the case. This particular agreement is speculated to be between SEGA of Japan and Gamania Digital […]
AMDs Next Generation GPU Architecture Codenamed “Polaris”
AMD’s next round of graphics cards, presumably to be released under the Radeon 400 series moniker, will be powered by the company’s next generation architecture codenamed “Polaris”. Currently AMD’s graphics cards, as well as the graphics processors used in the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, are powered by the GCN framework (graphics card next) originally […]
Here Are The PlayStation Plus Games You Can Download This Tuesday
Welcome to a brand new year, 2016, and with a brand new year comes a whole slate of new free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. PS4 owners can start off 2016 with either a remastered classic adventure game from the late 90s Grim Fandango or a modern take on vehicular combat with Hardware: Rivals. PS3 […]
Paladins Game Guide: Evie the Blink Destroyer
Our own Fionna Fox is up to making game guides again, this time for Paladins: Champions of the Realm. Her latest guide is for the fast blinking Evie who loves to jump in to the back line and do damage. Paladins is the new FPS MOBA from studio Hi-Rez who also currently run SMITE and […]
Final Fantasy IX Heading To Phones & Windows
Square Enix announced via their official website today that the classic ninth entry in the Final Fantasy series will be getting a mobile port as well as a version for Windows PC thru valve’s steam service. Final Fantasy IX is the last of the classic PlayStatjon 1 era FF RPGs to receive a port to […]