Valve, the company once known for Half-Life and Portal, is preparing to launch a streaming service that seems poised to compete with Amazon's super-dominant Twitch.TV service. The company revealed the service this past Friday when it accidentally made it live for a few hours. While it streamed, it had a pretty limited lineup: Valve's own Dota 2 tournament, called "The International."...
If you walk into the trailer below totally cold, you’d be excused for thinking it’s a pretty boring trailer. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a game about descending into deep tombs, stalking soldiers, and uncovering hidden truths. So why is Lara just walking around a town square? This trailer is all about Nvidia’s RTX Ray-Tracing technology, and a chill evening in a small town is the...
Valkyria Chronicles 4, the latest in SEGA’s universally loved strategy RPG series, has secured a release date on Sept. 25 for the PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Naturally, those who pre-order or buy from the first wave of physical products will be receiving a free controller skin for the console of their choice. And it features an adorable puppy on it named Ragnarok...
There are all kinds of games at E3 and some of them are just absolutely unplayable. By which I mean, they’re not available to be played, so we just look at them and hear about them. But they’re still real games, and they’re really coming. And some of them look absolutely incredible. These are our favorite games from E3 2018 that weren’t yet in playable condition. There were other games...
Based on the number of people I know who wait for the Switch version of games to come out, it seems that Nintendo crafted something like the perfect gaming console. How could you improve on it? Boutique PC house MAINGEAR figured it out: build a high-end gaming PC around it. If the dock that comes with the Switch isn’t enough, look to the custom PC MAINGEAR built for Intel’s 2018...
Those among us that have complained about Call of Duty games being too similar from year to year got our wish during this week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal. Activision had a host of changes to announce, including dropping the single-player campaign and the addition of a Battle Royale mode. One of the changes Activision will change the way PC gamers will play the game when it...
When it comes to getting sound out of your computer, Logitech is a beast. Logitech is one of the biggest players in the game. Ironically, though, the company has never released a set of gaming speakers – until now. This spring, Logitech finally put out the G560 2.1 Lightsync speakers, the first speaker system in its Logitech G line of gaming peripherals. With headsets, mice, keyboards...
You would think that Chrono Trigger on Steam should be a no-brainer. Take one of the most beloved video games in history, put it on the most accessible gaming platform in history, and the fans should droll in by the thousands to play their longtime favorite classic. Well, as it goes with Super Nintendo games and Square Enix, the exact opposite happened. When Chrono Trigger launched on...
Admit it! You've bought SEGA Genesis compilations more times than you care to admit. I know I have, and each time I get one, a game I want to play is missing or something is just outside of my reach that keeps me on the lookout for the next. Well, not anymore. Thanks to a leaked Twitter post and a batch of screenshots, we now know that SEGA Genesis Classics will be released for the...
Remember way back when Valve used to be a video game company instead of a hardware producer, storefront, and e-sports curator? Pepperidge Farms remembers. It seems so long ago that that meme almost works. But it seems time is circular, not linear, and Valve is getting back into game development. Valve boss Gabe Newell spoke this week at a presentation for the company's upcoming Dota 2 ...