Call of Duty Advanced Warfare was supposed to be a step forward. Instead it takes little risks and does nothing substantial to push the series further. The campaign is forgettable fodder of predictable twists, and takes control away from the player often. Multiplayer contradicts itself by giving you more vertical mobility, but punishes you for utilizing it. Everything meshes together ...
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Rogue – first impressions | a worthy templar
Because Assassin’s Creed Rogue is a last generation title and because it has launched right beside his “big brother,” Assassin’s Creed Unity, you might dismiss it as just another cash-grab; a quick buck made off Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s excellent naval combat. If these are your current thoughts, I’m here to tell you couldn’t be more wrong. I have ...
Read More »The Witcher 2 and the original Mount & Blade free for as part of GOG’s Big Fall Sale
Fancy a couple of free games? Of course you do, especially since we’re talking about some really great titles here. The good folks over at GOG just launched their “2014 DRM-Free big Fall Sale” and you can find some really great deals there, including plenty of games discounted up to 90%. As for the free games, you can grab a ...
Read More »Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 will stick to a 256-bit bus and 4GB of DDR5
Nvidia’s long awaited Geforce GTX 960 graphics card will soon join the high-end duo of the Maxwell 900 series and intends to do so in impressive fashion. Although it was originally believed that the GTX 960 will feature a 192-bit memory interface, recent shipping data shows that the upcoming Maxwell card will employ a 256-bit bus and 4GB of DDR5. ...
Read More »Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets campaigns thanks to the Operation Vanguard Access Pass
Earlier today, Valve introduced Operation Vanguard, an expansion of sorts to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that features new maps, missions and even campaigns. That’s right, Valve is finally adding campaigns to the game, although they will be a bit different that those usually found in RPGs for example. Operation Campaigns consist of a series of missions that reward players with Operation ...
Read More »Gigabyte is readying its Geforce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI System
Gigabyte has revealed its ultimate gaming solution, the Geforce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI system, which will be launching by the end of this year. The high-end WaterForce system is part of Gigabyte’s latest AIO liquid cooled system bundle which was announced six months back. The first one featured a 3-way SLI setup of three Geforce GTX 780Ti GPUs, and this ...
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Unity suffers from serious performance issues, incredibly low frame rates reported
Assassin’s Creed Unity launched yesterday and unfortunately Ubisoft has not managed to deliver the flawless game everybody was expecting. If you’re looking to buy Assassin’s Creed Unity, you should have a little bit more patience, simply because the graphics experience of Unity is surprisingly poor. Numerous player reports indicate incredibly low frame rates, glitches, lag and texture pop-in bugs, which ...
Read More »Maokai, Tristana, and Poppy are the next League of Legends champions schduled for a visual update
Riot is currently working on a number of preseason changes for League of Legends, but that doesn’t mean they forgot about the champion updates. The developer announced a while back that it plans to improve the game from a visual standpoint and that includes new textures for most of the champions. Riot recently posted an update regarding the matter in ...
Read More »Overwatch will not feature a single-player campaign, but there will be a plot according to Blizzard
This year’s edition of Blizzcon was a very special one because after nearly two decades Blizzard finally announced a new IP. Overwatch has been the subject of speculation for many months after it was revealed back in April that the company trademarked that name. We didn’t actually know what it was until recently but the name did sounded fitting for a ...
Read More »Leaked Specs of the Radeon R9 390X reveal 4GB of 3D Stacked HBM and 4096 Stream Processors
After Nvidia was in the spotlight yesterday with an alleged future launch of the Big Daddy Maxwell GM200 GPU, today its eternal AMD rival will be enjoying some attention thanks to a major leak which emerged on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database. It seems that AMD is pulling out its premium guns for the future battles with Nvidia, as the ...
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