Sledgehammer Games has released a new patch for the PC version of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare aiming to optimize online connectivity. Numerous player reports were pointing to a series of issues while playing the game online across all platforms: PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360. Online gameplay lag has been an ongoing issue since the game launched ...
Read More »Diablo 3 Patch 2.1.2 details revealed
Blizzard has announced a series of changes to be included in the next major patch of Diablo 3. These updates have been revealed during the game’s dedicated panel at the BlizzCon event which recently took place in California. Patch 2.1.2 will address a number of issues identified since the release of Patch 2.1 earlier this year, from a rebalancing of the ...
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare benchmarked on the Geforce GTX 650
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has just been released and it has already received a series of analyses and reviews. I’ve recently published an article analyzing the PS4 and Xbox One Multiplayer graphics performance of Sledgehammer’s massive shooter, and now I’d like to focus on an Advanced Warfare PC benchmark, courtesy of game-debate. Although the title is pretty demanding, a ...
Read More »Top 5 most popular eSports games right now
In recent years Electronic Sports have become ridiculously popular even among people who weren’t much into gaming before. I’ve dabbled in competitive gaming on more than one occasion and I can’t begin to tell you how glad I am to see that we live in a time when it’s finally being taken seriously. But things are not equal in the world ...
Read More »Elite: Dangerous gets a release date
Frontier Developments originally announced that Elite: Dangerous will be released in Q4 of 2014 and many people were not expecting the game to arrive by then, but developers have kept their word and silenced all doubters. It’s now official, Elite: Dangerous is coming this December 16th worldwide on Windows PCs and OS X. The space trading/combat MMO has been available ...
Read More »Asus prepares its ROG Poseidon GTX 980 Hybrid Air/Water Cooled graphics card
Asus is looking to add a new member to their custom high-end Republic of Gamers graphics card lineup, the ROG Poseidon GTX 980 – a card that will feature a Hybrid DirectCU H2O cooler and a 1279Mhz boost clock speed. Asus’ upcoming ROG GTX 980 graphics powerhouse will keep the reference technical specifications of the Geforce GTX 980 and will ...
Read More »Dota 2 is now being studied in schools
There are now millions of people around the world who play Valve’s highly successful Massive Online Battle Arena, Dota 2. Although most of them play just for fun, there are also some who play it competitively and actually make a living from this game. A large portion of these players live in China, a country that has been at the forefront of ...
Read More »New Far Cry 4 leak reveals the map of Kyrat and in-game animal species
Ubisoft’s upcoming action-adventure blockbuster, Far Cry 4 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and now a recent leak reveals the game’s map and a whole bunch of in-game animal species. By the looks of it, the map of Kyrat looks very similar to what we’ve seen in the previous installment. Just a few weeks to go now and ...
Read More »Next GM200 Big Daddy Maxwell GPU inbound
As I’ve written in a previous article, Nvidia recently had a major earnings call in which company officials answered direct questions and offered some tightly wrapped hints which may be pointing to future moves the company has in place. This of course implies the future release of a 20nm GM200 GPU for both giant card manufacturers such as MSI and ...
Read More »The first Hearthstone World Champion has been crowned, check out his decklists here
Blizzcon 2014 hosted a number of important eSports tournaments this past weekend, including the first Hearthstone World Championship. Sixteen players from all regions competed for the grand prize of $10,000 but as always, only one of them was able to claim the glory associated with being a champion. In this case it was James “Firebat” Kostesich, a relatively unknown player that ...
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