Items tagged with Gaming
At Gamescon 2013 in Germany, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled the next chapter in Diablo 3, dubbed Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. The expansion picks up where the original game left off, in what should have been a time of peace and...
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EA’s The Sims social gaming franchise is launching a new chapter with The Sims 4, and the company put out a gameplay trailer showing off all the new features, including increased sophistication across the board, new ways to interact with other characters, and more. First, creating a Sim is more powerful and offers impressive fine-tuning...
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Sony's PlayStation 4 may well have won the next-generation console wars before they've officially begun, with the base model selling for $399 -- $100 less than Microsoft's impending Xbox One. Pricing aside, there's something that gamers...
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According to a now-pulled update pushed to Age of Empires Online, Microsoft's Games for Windows Live will shut down altogether by July 1, 2014. That unofficial announcement follows official word that the Games for Windows Live marketplace...
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Much like mobile devices, game consoles live and die based on the software that's created for them. Or, in a worst-case scenario, the software that isn't created for them. Microsoft has a lot riding on the launch of the Xbox One, with a...
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While the PlayStation 4 is just around the corner, Sony's still milking its existing console a bit. Granted, the PS2 lived a very, very long life, so this is nothing new in the home console universe. If the existing PS3 units are still too...
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Jason Holtman, the fellow who served as the Director of Business Development for Valve’s Steam business from 2005 until earlier this year when he was laid off along with a number of other high-profile employees, has landed a new gig...
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It's been several years since Microsoft or Sony launched a major new version of their respective consoles, but lest you've forgotten what that's like, it usually entails a frenzy of sales followed by a shortage of units, which then leads...
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There's been a lot of back-and-forth when it comes to the Xbox One, and honestly, Microsoft has taken a fairly huge amount of flack for things like consumer-unfriendly DRM policies. That said, there's a bit of good news coming from the...
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Want to know everything there is to know about the new Call of Duty? Bang it here for the live stream of the full reveal of Call of Duty: Ghosts. Call of Duty: Ghosts will be available for the PC as well as the Xbox One, Xbox 360...
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Although it’s not going to be available in Iran, military shooter Arma III will be out for everyone else on September 12th. The game, which offers military gameplay in a giant sandbox, has exited beta and is now ready for primetime...
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When it comes to first person shooters (FPSes) and real-time strategy (RTS) games, there's nothing quite like a keyboard and mouse combination, especially if you own a sweet gaming plank with macros and a rodent with a ton of easily...
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Microsoft has made an art out of reversing course on everything people thought the Xbox One was going to do (largely for smart reasons), but up till today, the company has been firm on two points. You will be buying a Kinect at launch, though you could turn off its voice-activation feature...
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Gaming is climbing to new heights thanks to emerging virtual reality technology, and a virtual reality treadmill is now up for preorder. The Virtuix Omni’s Kickstarter campaign has ended, and Virtuix achieved its goal of over $1.1...
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A mere week after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' acquisition of Washington Post comes one of the tastier rumors that has surrounded the company. According to a source close to Game Informer, Amazon is currently knees-deep in the production of...
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The Xbox One is coming, and amid the many, many details we know about it already, one thing we haven’t seen is what’s actually inside the box when you buy one at retail. Microsoft’s Major Nelson (Larry Hryb) remedied that by unboxing the retail bundle on camera. The Kinect...
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Nvidia posted its earnings for the second quarter of 2013 (Q2 of fiscal year 2014 by the company's reckoning) and the results are relatively great. The company posted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.16, beating analyst expectations by three...
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Microsoft has announced yet another difference between the original version of the Xbox One console and the version you'll be able to buy on store shelves come late November. When it announced the console, the company stated that the Xbox One would not ship with a headset. The reason for this...
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NVIDIA's Shield is a very, very bold move. It's a company that has historically dabbled in GPUs, introducing a gaming product that's essentially creating a new product segment. There's a lot riding on the success or failure of the Shield...
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MSI is apparently on a mission to shatter stereotypes in the PC gaming world starting with the size and weight of its newest laptop. Announced today by MSI, the GS70 is supposedly the world's thinnest and lightest 17-inch portable gaming "powerhouse" designed to give gamers plenty of pixel...
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The Elder Scrolls Online got a pair of new videos this week and a lengthy multiplayer demonstration at Quakecon.Buzz around the new MMO has been building steadily for months. Much of what the two trailers show indicates a game that hews...
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OUYA was a rousing success on Kickstarter, and in a very short time, the project developed into an actual commercial offering with a real product on store shelves and a host of developers working on games for the $99 gaming console. OUYA even raised enough money to fund a million-dollar...
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