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Introduction Four online team based shooters, each vying for player attention have been in the works over the last two years. Development houses Blizzard, Gearbox, Hi-Rez, and Motiga have been hoping to add their own defining stamp on the FPS/MOBA-lite genre. They are each distinct and different, although you might not ...

This week Rise of the Tomb Raider released a DirectX 12 API update. It joins Hitman, Ashes of the Singularity, and Descent Underground as DX12 enabled games. With it’s release gamers’ reactions to performance has been varied. It has become a hot topic item for enthusiasts in discussion forums. Does ...

  The foundation has  been laid for months; 2016 will be the VR battleground year. Will it become as common as tablets and smartphones? Or go the way of 3d Televisions and HD-DVD? We won’t know the answers to those questions anytime soon. However we do have some answers in ...

Movies and games, everyone has an entertainment budget and both industries want the most of it. Decades ago there was no doubt who the king of the entertainment dollar. Movies set all major records for revenue and sales. Today, the battle-lines are blurred. Game companies rushed to recreate popular movies into ...

War… war never changes, this iconic Fallout quote rings so true in light of the real events unfolding. Everywhere humankind goes, war goes with them. It is waged in the air, land, by sea, and now with 1’s and 0’s. The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) has picked a fight with nearly ...

With 30 years of Metal Gear gaming under the belt, this month Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain released, together with the prequel chapter Ground Zeroes, Hideo Kojima ties up once again, more loose ends for Big Boss, this time in the 1980s on one of the largest stages ever set ...

Looking back I could probably break down video games into 6 or maybe 7 distinct eras of gaming. Where each era was defined by distinct takes and preferences on what I was interested in playing, on which platforms, and the social aspects that went along with each. In probably my ...

  I am almost nearing 1,000 PC games in my combined game store libraries. That number doesn’t really include every video game I’ve ever played. That game count still pales in comparison to the number of games that are out there to play, all vying for gamer attention, all made ...

Does it really matter which version of Windows you are using to send an email, work on a spreadsheet, or look at a web page? Let’s face it, since Windows 95 these features are essentially the same and Window’s incremental improvements for $100-$210 a pop really do not matter for common ...