May 22
The Taiwanese company’s new video card, based on Nvidia’s latest GPU design, boasts sizable factory-overclocking and a large cooler. It also undergoes “server level” durability testing before arriving in your hands.
May 20
The beta program for PlayStation Now is finally going next-gen. The games streaming service -which allows users to play PS3 games like they already stream movies on services such as Netflix – went live on the PlayStation 4 today; those who’ve registered should receive a voucher in short order.
May 18
Superhot Is A First Person Shooter That Only Moves When You Do – And That’s Awesome
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Remember how, in The Matrix, Neo was able to basically stop time, stepping easily around his foe’s bullets? Remember thinking about how awesome that was if you could do the same? Apparently, the folks who developed Superhot did – it’s a shooter where time stands still until the moment you move.
Apr 21
Good news, everyone! The Games for Change Festival today announced a partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival. Seen by many as the Sundance of gaming, the festival this year is both narrowing its focus and broadening its context in hopes of showing just how important games culture has become.
Apr 14
For anyone who doubted that the Oculus Rift has some awesome
applications outside video games, it gives me great pleasure to present
to you "Conquest of the Skies," a nature documentary being developed by
Sir David Attenborough. It’ll be the first of
its kind – and hopefully first of many.
Apr 10
One of my favorite things about video games is definitely the music.There’s actually a great deal of talent, passion, and variety in gaming’s music scene. Not surprisingly, there’s a host of radio stations dedicated to the music – here’s just a few of my favorites.
Apr 07
Gaming’s foes have long held that there’s a direct link between video games and aggressive behavior. They were at least half right – scientists have just linked aggression to games with an interesting bridge: incompetence. Apparently, being bad at something – especially games – makes us angry.
Apr 02
Researchers at Washingon State University have touched on a very fascinating
way to improve machine learning and artificial intelligence: by having said
machines teach each other to play video games. No, that isn’t an April Fools’ Joke: it’s a legitimate scientific study.
Mar 31
One of the biggest criticisms I frequently see leveled at gaming is that it’s an inherently antisocial activity; that it promotes introversion, inactivity, and generally poor behavior. Turns out, none of that is necessarily true – video games may actually form the foundation of modern youth culture.
Mar 28
Project Morpheus – Sony’s upcoming virtual reality headset – won’t just change AAA gaming on the PlayStation 4. Sony today revealed that it intends to provide Morpheus headsets to pretty much any independent developer who’s the desire to work with the platform. There’s a very good reason for that.
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