Responding to a fan on Twitter, Xbox division boss Phil Spencer admitted Ensemble Studios’ Halo Wars was an “under-appreciated” title, specifically praising its cinematics and real-time strategy controls. “I agree, under-appreciated. Cinematics in Halo Wars were great for the time and controller RTS worked,” he said. “Reminded me of StarCraft on N64.” Unfortunately, Halo Wars was developer Ensemble’s last game ...

The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro  was recently launched by the South Korean company and quickly became a popular convertible tablet, thanks to its style, design and powerhouse specs. The successor of the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro wasn’t bad either, but the new iteration of the convertible aims to make the genre even more popular. The flexible nature of the Lenovo ...

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is one of the most appreciated and raved about Samsung phones of the year, mainly because the company has finally introduced something new in its design: metal. The Galaxy Alpha is the first Samsung phone with a metal frame and many have praised the fact that the company finally decided to listen to its customers who ...

Nvidia will be launching an upgraded 8GB version of its Geforce GTX 980 GM204 Maxwell card this late November or early December. This information comes from Hermitage Akihabara, a highly reliable source which has proved very accurate in the past when speculating on future Nvidia releases. Nvidia’s GTX 980 8GB will be expected to further increase the market demand for ...

A new age of Call of Duty will begin tomorrow with the launch of Advanced Warfare. The latest title in the series is very different than its predecessors thanks to its very futuristic vibe. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be focused on storytelling and the single player campaign, but what about the multiplayer? CoD has become very popular on ...

Oppo has just launched the Oppo R5 which has been officially named the thinnest smartphone in the world, dethroning the previous champion, the Gionee Elife S5.1. The Oppo R5 was launched alongside the new Oppo N3, a smartphone with a rotating camera that has a 16 MP sensor and a motorized bed. While the Oppo R5 has become the talk ...

Lords of the Fallen is without question a core RPG title which has a lot to offer in terms of gameplay and graphics features. Employing the Fledge engine, the Deck13 team focused their efforts on combining complex gameplay with advanced visuals such as high-quality volumetric lighting, GPU-accelerated physics and a series of custom Nvidia GameWorks features. Starting off as a ...

A career in professional gaming may sound like a dream come true to many of us, but it’s much harder to accomplish than many people would believe. This is especially true if you’re part of a pro team and are competing in various eSports competitions just to earn a living. For these people training takes up most of their time ...

Dreamhack Bucharest 2014 is over and the winners of the various tournaments have been decided. The event held in Romania’s capital hosted a number of eSports tournaments for League of Legends, Hearthstone, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. While most of these competitions mainly saw local players going up against each other, the latter stood out as it featured some of the ...

With the release of the high-end Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Maxwell cards, numerous giant manufacturers have developed their own custom versions of these powerful Maxwell GPU cards. MSI has a history of building state of the art gaming cards, and we were expecting to see some of their craftsmanship in Nvidia’s top of the line models. Well, ...