It’s sometimes tough to see it as its happening, when when we look back on the most recent year, some trends start to emerge, whether we’re looking at tech, movies, world news, or whatever else. It’s no different for video games. We trolled through the last year of news stories and game releases and came out with some of the common threads we saw woven throughout the year; some good,...
Adding a new graphics card to your Alienware notebook to enjoy the latest games can be difficult and costly, but Alienware’s new Graphics Amplifier lets you pair your laptop with a standard desktop-class GPU for a spectacular gaming experience. The Graphics Amplifier is a little like an external hard drive dock, only instead of sticking an HDD inside it, you throw in a graphics card...
Here's a look at how Nvidia's next batch of graphics cards might perform How about we kick off the work week with some rumors, speculation, and purportedly leaked info, shall we? Sure, why not! What we have tumbling out of the rumor mill today is the notion that Nvidia is going to launch its GeForce 900 Series cards based on its Maxwell architecture on September 19. Specifications are...
Gaming laptop brings the bling Gold seems to be the ‘in’ thing among mobile devices these days, so why not extend the color option over to laptops? That must have been what MSI was thinking when it conceived limited edition versions of its GS60 Ghost Pro 3K and GS60 Ghost gaming notebooks. Each one packs high end hardware inside a “luxurious golden chassis” measuring 15.35 inches by 10....
Finding middle ground between Full HD and 4K gaming MSI today announced what it claims is the world’s first 3K gaming notebook, which hits the market just in time to be added onto your holiday wishlist. The GT60 2OD-261US is a 15.6-inch laptop with a WQHD+ display (2880×1620) that kicks things up a notch over Full HD 1080p without going all the way up to 4K, which would be both more...
While I certainly have not owned every game system ever released, I have at least played just about all of them. Seeing as I can actually remember when the Atari 2600 first came out, I figure I’m in a good position to name what I view as the five best game systems ever released. These are most definitely my personal choices – just to be completely clear on that – and I am sure there...
Grand Theft Auto V set a first day sales record on Tuesday racking up a staggering $800 million in sales. Call of What? Take-Two Interactive announced today that Grand Theft Auto V is now the proud holder of the first day sales record. Previous record holder Call of Duty: Black Ops II did $500 million in sales its first day in Nov. of last year, but that number couldn’t withstand the...
Before The Matrix was even a movie trailer, and before I'd ever heard of William Gibson's Neuromancer, I was a Shadowrun fan. First I played the 1994 Sega Genesis game and that led me to the pen-and-paper role-playing game. When the Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter hit last year, I was excited, if a bit worried—we were still figuring out if Kickstarters were a thing or not. Shadowrun...
Oculus VR, the startup behind the renowned Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses, has snagged $16 million in investment funding. Considering the company's well-known desire to get its VR headware into the public's hands, we'll take that to mean a consumer product version is practically a lock. Only Kickstarter funders and devs have been able to get their hands on the device. Not that...
The film E.T. (1982) was historic. Not only was it a landmark piece of cinema, but it was also responsible for what many gamers consider the worst video game of all time. It was so bad, simply ending production wasn't good enough. Word has it that Atari scooped up millions of the returned cartridges, filled 10 to 20 semi-trucks with them and buried them in a landfill out in Alamogordo,...