Freemode Events in Grand Theft Auto Online are a new advancement in open world gameplay, giving players access to a range of seamlessly integrated games and challenges in GTA Online’s Freemode. Taking full advantage of PS4, there are no menus, lobbies, or load times — just an open Freemode session filled with Friends, Crewmates, rivals,…
Opening a new Office In a blog post today, Microsoft’s general manager of Office 365 Technical Product Management, Julia White, confirmed earlier rumors that Office 2016 would release to the public on September 22, 2015 (two Tuesdays from now). “You may have heard the rumors, but today I’m happy to confirm that Office 2016 will…
Good day, fellow video game enthusiasts. I’m Alex Neuse, Project Lead on Laserlife. I’m here today to talk to you about our latest project, which has been a long time coming. That’s right, we finally got off our keisterbunnies and decided to make that high-concept-dead-astronaut-music-biography-game that we announced at IndieCade in 2010! Laserlife is finally…
Hello everyone. I’m really happy to be back on PlayStation.Blog to tell you that Laughing Jackal’s firefighting action Roguelike, Flame Over, is finally making the jump to PS4 and will be available on Tuesday next week. Yay! So, for those who haven’t tried, or don’t remember the PS Vita version, Flame Over is a top-down…
Hi everyone! My name’s Dan, and I’m here today to tell you about a new upcoming game — Hardware: Rivals, coming exclusively to PS4 via PlayStation Store! As some of our veteran readers may recognize, this new game builds upon the legacy of a PS2 title, “Hardware: Online Arena”, a vehicle-based combat game that was…
Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma Volume 1 storms onto PS4 on September 22nd before any other console! And only PlayStation gamers will be able to get a special discounted Trilogy bundle containing all 3 volumes of the game for 20% off the regular retail price, and PlayStation Plus members will get the bundle for…
SOMA, our new sci-fi horror game, will be released at the end of September. That’s pretty soon, so I think I’d like to talk a bit about our monsters up front. When creating SOMA we wanted to make our encounters disturbing. To do this our goal has been to trigger the player’s imagination in the…
At a Glance (+) Condensed Milk: Compact; quiet; tiny; efficient; did we say small? (-) Sour Milk: Expensive; not as fast as larger GPUs; 4GB VRAM; niche. Meet the AMD R9 Nano: World’s Tiniest High-End GPU If the name didn’t give it away, and you haven’t been paying much attention to AMD’s marketing for the…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Demystifying Processor Power Consumption My recent column on AMD’s advanced voltage/frequency scaling confused some readers. It’s worth tackling this subject again, because power consumption is the most challenging problem for chip designers. It’s also…
Following the release of its cube-shaped PC chassis last week, Lian Li has introduced a new mini tower case called the PC-Q21. The company boasts that PC builders can cram a “full-powered” mini-ITX system within the case’s aluminum walls with a little planning and “finger flexibility” on the builder’s part. “The small size of the…