For the longest time, Steam has been the biggest juggernaut in the PC gaming industry. While PC gamers have been relatively happy with their service up to this point, the PC market has lacked one benefit that the console market has thrived on: competition. For many decades now, consoles were driven by trying to constantly one-up their competitors, and the industry has ...
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Oculus Rift recommended system specs revealed
Until now team Oculus have remained coy about their VR marvel, divulging little information on the consumer model. They recently announced that the device would hit shelves by Spring of next year, and now we know what they recommend for Oculus Rift. In order to deliver a consistent user experience, a set of recommended specifications have been set. These can ...
Read More »Steam Concurrent Users Pass 8.5 Million
Steam reached 8.5 million concurrent users on January 2, 2015. At about 11:10am on that day, Steam stats page reports that 8,500,345 concurrent users were logged in. The timezone is unclear but most likely it is PST seeing as Valve is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The previous Steam record was 8 million from June 29, 2014. Previous to that Steam reported 7.5 ...
Read More »Steam’s Fall Sale is Coming
Steam’s Fall sale is upon us! Steam’s Fall Sale will begin November 26th and goes on until December 1st. While the details have yet to be confirmed, the news leak comes from PayPal, as the site accidentally sent out an email informing users to buy Steam Wallet Cards before Steam implodes upon itself due to the sales. November 18th has ...
Read More »Xbox lead man, Phil Spencer talks about Microsoft’s future plans for PC gaming
Phil Spencer, the boss of Microsoft’s Xbox division shared his thoughts on the company’s future plans of taking another shot at PC gaming. Microsoft plans on developing new titles which are set to run on the upcoming Windows based PCs scheduled to launch next year. Spencer stated that the company is still showing true potential in PC gaming as well, ...
Read More »The Evil Within locked at 30fps but can be changed manually
The horror game The Evil Within from famous gaming designer Shinji Mikami – the man best known for the Resident Evil games – is coming out next week. The game is hungry for resources for high settings: 64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8 i7 with four plus cores 4 GBs RAM 50 GB of hard drive space* GeForce GTX 670 or equivalent with ...
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