MSI Announces Their Geforce 1080 GTX Graphics Cards

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Today hardware manufacturer MSI announced their version of the Geforce 1080 – based upon Nvidia’s brand new Pascal architecture. The card’s full name is the “Geforce GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G” and while that is a mouthful it is befitting for a card that boasts an architecture that by all available benchmarks will set a new standard for high-end cards. In terms of technical features here is a quick rundown of what MSI’s GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G has to offer: Base clock speed of 1700MHZ in OC mode boostable up to 1847 MHZ. 8192 MB of GDDR5X memory with

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BlazBlue: Central Fiction Releases this Winter on PS4/PS3

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Jason Nason

Aksys Games and Arc System Works announced on Friday that BlazBlue: Central Fiction will be released this Winter in North America physically and digitally on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. BlazBlue: Central Fiction is the newest installment in the BlazBlue franchise in the 2D fighting series. The game will feature a brand new story, new characters, levels, modes, and system mechanics, and there will be over 33 fighters to choose from.

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SEGA Adventure Fan Resurrects Long Lost In-Game Dreamcast Website

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Prepare to surf like it’s 9.9.1999 all over again!  One dedicated Sonic Adventure fan hasn’t given up the dream of built-in 56k modems and 640×480 official websites rendered in HTML4. Load up your favorite PC browser, or for the full experience plug in a Dreamcast console to a CRT television and surf on over to sonic-adventure.com to relive Sonic Team’s official site for the original Sonic Adventure as it existed from 09.09.99 thru late 2000. The site was originally accessible through the Sonic Adventure GD-Rom, when the game was running on a Dreancast players could launch a built-in browser that would load up

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AMD’s $199 Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card is VR-Ready

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Welp, its a good year for graphics cards. First we have the whole set of NVida 10xx cards which are more powerful than the current hi end 1000$ cards that with a price point of about half. Now it seems that AMD is not going to die quietly and from their skunkworks comes the announcement of the new RX480 at just the tiny tiny price of $199USD. Stop, wait a minute, 200USD?! for a VR ready GPU? The Radeon RX 480 is scheduled to launch on June 29, with a model that is certified to power the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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Rigged Up: Steel Series M500 and Sibera 350 Review

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Broken Joysticks

Review by: j.c. campbell The SteelSeries Apex M500 mechanical keyboard is a good mechanical keyboard at an excellent price. $99 buys you a full-size backlit mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX red switches. Unfortunately, there aren’t many options: you can have any keyboard you like as long as you like blue blacklighting and Cherry MX red switches. The Cherry MX reds are mechanical key switches with zero tactile feedback and zero audible feedback, unless you count the feeling and sound of the key hitting the end of its travel, or “bottoming out.” There is zero feedback when the keys actuate or make

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Overwatch myths are just too cool

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

So if your alive, and awake at all, you probably have been playing Overwatch, Blizzards huge new shooter. I my self have spent about 40 hours playing since the games release just over a week ago. I often found my self wondering if some of the more prevalent “myths” about the game are real or fake. Well DefendTheHouse (of mythbusters halo fame) is here to answer your questions. With this second volume they are covering many popular myths like can you block a Hanzo ultimate with a D.iVa shield? and can Bastion kill people by landing on them. Take a gander at

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Law Breakers releases Killer Verticality trailers

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

These last two weeks Boss Key productions have released two new trailers for their upcoming first person shooter headed by Cliff Blizinsky, Law Breakers. Each of the one minute videos feature about a minute of one of the developers talking about so far two of the games classes. First the Enforcer, then the Vanguard. Ill let the videos speak for them selves, but they look pretty awesome so far. Be sure to sign up for the alpha  for a chance to get in on the action! I saw this game at PAX East and really had fun with it. I was playing the

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Intel’s New High Performance 10 Core i7 Processor Promises To Chew Through 4K Content

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Intel i7
Intel has unveiled their first 10 core processor – The Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition not only boasts an impressive number of cores but it is aimed squarely at the creative & enthusiast market segments. The top end i7 6950x promises to chew through 4K video, provide an additional 15% single thread efficiency rating when compared to the previous generation chipset. When it comes to editing 4K video editing it is 65% faster than Intel’s last generation quad-core processors. The 6950x isn’t the only processor in Intel’s arsenal to get an upgrade – the entire i7 product line has been

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Xbox Live Gold Deals For May 31st 2016

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Every week Microsoft posts new deals for Xbox Live Gold Members, with discounts on AAA & Indie titles, as well as DLC there is lot of savings if you subscribe to Microsoft’s online service. A lot of AAA games are featured in the deals that will take us into June 2016. 2K Game’s NBA 2K16 is on sale along side its’ virtual currency. Also available at a deep discount is the recently released FPS by Gearbox Software, Battleborn.  The next-gen version of Rockstar Game’s Grand Theft Auto V is available at a discount with or without a Great White In-Game Currency Card.

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June 2016’s PS Plus Games: Hitting The Court Or Heading Home

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

With just one day to go until the calendar rolls over to June, Sony has announced the full line-up of PlayStation plus titles for next month. PS Plus subscribers will be able to hit the court in time for the NBA finals with NBA 2K16 for PlayStation 4. PS4 owners are also in for a treat, with one of the most emotional games I’ve ever played, Fullbright’s Gone Home. PS3 owners will be able to scare up some classic screams with the PS3 version of Siren: Blood Curse, the episodic horror game from 2008. PS Vita owners will receive God of War:

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Starbreeze Buys Rights To Payday Franchise From 505 Games, Ends Microtransactions

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Starbreeze Studios the developers behind the popular Payday series have announced a deal with former publisher 505 games that would see Starbreeze acquire the full rights of the Payday franchise in exchange for $30 Million USD of stock. The next game in the franchise Payday 3 is currently under development as the terms of this  deal will see 505 & Starbreeze split revenue from the console versions of Payday 2: Crimwave Edition until their [505’s] marketing / promotion costs have been recouped and Payday 3 released. Revenue generated from the Steam release of Payday 2 will be in the hands

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ESA, Major Publishers, Hardware Vendors Bring A Slice of E3 To The Public

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

E3 Logo
The Entertainment Software Association in partnership with major hardware vendors like Alienware, Oculus and HTC and with support from major developers like Nintendo, Ubisoft and Warner Bros Interactive will bring a slice of the E3 excitement to the public with the recently announced E3 Live event. Attendees can purchase tickets on the E3 Live official website. This public event will be open the evenings of Tuesday June 14th and will run through the evening of the 16th – which are the same dates that the E3 industry only show floor is open. Attractions include the Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions experience (separate tickets required) , a

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Nintendo eShop Sales for May 26th, 2016

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Jason Nason

I’ve decided to split this off from the regular weekly Nintendo Download to give a little more of a deep dive into each newly added item to the eShop sales list. So what’s been on sale previously will have the same list you remember, but new entries will also have more detail at the top of the page. Please note that all of the below prices are shown in USD unless otherwise stated. Prices are higher in the Canadian eShop. Enjoy!

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Is Xbox one VR real?

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

ArsTechnica is reporting that they have a source who is telling them that a major publisher currently planning to release a new virtual reality game on the Xbox One in 2017 and that game will be shown at e3. This is a pretty big report. Unless MS is branding an Oculus (they  have a previous relationship with Oculus) this can only really mean that the previous reports of an Xbox VR are probably accurate. here is the exact quote from the Ars article “Ars can confirm that at least one major developer is currently planning to release a new virtual reality

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