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Ardent online gamers in America spend an average of 6.5 hours per week playing games with others virtually and five hours playing with others in person, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) reports. And that’s to say nothing of the some 155 million Americans who put their money where there mouth is and play online games annually at sites such as ...

Games are like porn: some people admit they play them, the others lie about doing it. Let’s face it, we all play them. Some of us on a daily basis, other more rarely. Some people play on their computers, others on their smartphones, and the really serious gamers play on their consoles. The fact is that everyone does it. Those ...

Augmented Reality. Virtual Reality. Both terms are very popular as of late and both contain the same word, even though they are very different when it comes to achieving “reality”. With the introduction of the Oculus Rift and the HTC VIVE, not to mention PlaystationVR entering the ring soon, Virtual Reality has been a buzzword in the industry for the ...

For many people, wanting to see a show about a few horribly awkward young-adult scientists (that almost look like they are in their late 20s) who get into trouble means that you’re probably going to have to sit through something like The Big Bang Theory. Unfortunately, the show seems to be intended for an audience that is already accustomed to sitcoms, complete with dialogue ...

One of the largest (and most valid) complaints about Fallout 4 is that the game didn’t really give you many opportunities to be evil. Sure, you could go around insulting people and killing somewhat indiscriminately, but your options were rather limited when compared to the things you could do in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. With Fallout 4’s Nuka-World DLC however, this ...

With just two DLCs left for Fallout 4, it should come as no surprise that the last two are intended to be the biggest DLCs for the game. In Fallout 4’s Vault-Tec Workshop DLC, it is advertised that you can build your own Vault however you like, letting you basically create your own underground settlement from scratch but with clean looking ...

With the recent release of Overwatch’s Competitive mode, it should come as no surprise that there are some grumblings about certain features that are proving to be less than ideal. After all, no one is perfect, and some things that may have sounded like a good idea conceptually may not work as well on a practical level. However, it appears as ...

Year after year, dozens upon dozens of developers and publishers converge upon the Los Angeles Convention Center to show off their upcoming projects at E3. Naturally, this means that there are always some presentations that get everyone excited about an upcoming game or piece of hardware, and some presentations that leave the audience unimpressed. E3 2016 was no different, especially ...

From Bastion to Zenyatta, each of Overwatch’s heroes have at least one hero that is a direct counter to them. Whether it be due to other heroes exploiting their natural weakness or a more brute force approach, no hero is so good that there is no way to counter them (at least in theory). Of course, you may run into ...

At almost half the price of a full retail game, Fallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC is unquestionably one of the more expensive DLCs for any game in recent memory. Although it was advertised as the largest singular piece of DLC that Bethesda has done to date, it isn’t really much of a comparison when all of their previous games were ...