Gran Turismo fans, start your engines and get ready for the fifth season of GT Academy! The 2015 competition officially starts April 21st and will be open to all entrants* through June 16th. Beginning at midnight tonight, the next gamer-to-professional-racer prospect can enter the GT Academy qualifying rounds accessible via a special Gran Turismo 6…
Top Deal: Do you happen to know Brenden M.? Niether do we, but he had some awfully nice things to say about today’s top deal. Specifically, he said “it’s quiet, stylish, and will cause nothing but envy to those who know what gaming is all about.” We’re glad you like it, Brenden, “it” being today’s…
Hello! Twenty years ago — way back in 1994 — we at Oddworld Inhabitants started working on our first video game, which originally had the name of “SoulStorm.” It was later retitled to the name Oddworld fans now know best: “Abe’s Oddysee.” A story-based atmospheric cinematic platformer, Oddysee would go on to define the Oddworld…
Mark your calendars? Microsoft’s been fairly mum when it comes to offering a release date for Windows 10, though the company has said to expect it sometime “this summer.” That’s only semi-helpful if you’re planning a new build around Windows 10 and don’t want to bother with the free upgrade. In that case, how’s end…
Out with the old and in with the new Fractal Design rightfully assumes that there’s a userbase no longer interested in optical drive bays. That’s not to say everyone falls into that category, but with Valve’s Steam platform dominating game sales and companies like Microsoft and Adobe moving services to the cloud, the need for…
Fast upgrade option for SFF PCs Patriot Memory on Monday fleshed out its solid state drive lineup with the introduction of the Ignite Series. The Ignite is a line of M.2 SATA SSDs that Patriot says is intended for portable devices such as ultrabooks, notebooks, and ultra-compact PCs, or mini PCs as they’re also called…
Hey Shovelers and Shovelettes! We’re Yacht Club Games, a new game studio dedicated to creating fun and challenging gameplay! We aspire to both tug at your heartstrings, and delight you with levity and charm. We’re very proud to announce that our debut title, Shovel Knight, will be tunneling its way to PS4, PS3, and PS…
Company feels its UDP-based QUIC network protocol is almost ready for prime time Over the last quarter, Google has been busy stress-testing its QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) network protocol, subjecting it to an ever increasing amount of traffic. At the moment, “roughly half of all requests from Chrome to Google servers” are being sent…
And a dollop of Material design The interplay between Chrome OS and Android is not just limited to the ongoing effort to get Android apps to work on the former. They are drawing close to each other in other respects as well, and the latest Chrome OS update, which began rolling out on Thursday, is…
Sorry spammers, you need to pay $5 per account to keep enjoying the service With spam on Steam getting out of hand and users becoming increasingly fed up, Valve has finally stepped in. The company has tweaked the prerequisites for lifting of limits on new user accounts. As first pointed out by Reddit user “KillahInstinct”,…