Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Coming to PS4

Grab your gym shorts and hang onto your headbands! Our hard-hitting sports brawler Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure is coming to PlayStation 4! Stikbold is a quirky, over-the-top action sports game described best as a mix of dodgeball and a fighting game. Make use of everything from dodgeballs to jellyfish in order to eliminate your competitors…

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HP Spectre x2 Review

At a glance X2 (+) Good value; quiet; decent battery life. X-Men: The Last Stand (-) No integrated USB type-A port; performance not great; kickstand solution needs work. For those that want a Surface Pro, but can’t afford one Now that Microsoft’s Surface Pro line of computers is catching some hype, HP is jumping on…

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Rise of the Tomb Raider Optimization Guide

If you think of archaeology in pop culture, two big names come to mind: Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. If someone were to make a game about archaeology—real archaeology—it would be boring as hell. There’d be a lot of reading, fundraising, and cataloging tiny bits of pottery called sherds that often measure around a centimeter…

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PlayStation Blogcast 194: Firewatch the Skies

Welcome back! Ryan’s out this week, so I’M RUNNIN’ THE SHOW! Just kidding, Sid hosted this one. On today’s episode, we ever-so-briefly discuss our spoiler-free impressions of The Witness, Ryan talks to Ubisoft Montreal about Far Cry Primal (okay, we couldn’t go a whole week without the Powerhouse), and we top off the show with…

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Synology Releases New Two-Bay DiskStation NAS

Synology has released a new NAS server aimed at the small office and home user, the DiskStation DS216+. This backup solution offers on-the-fly H.264 4K to 1080p video transcoding for video streaming, two drive bays for up to 16TB of storage, and the intuitive DiskStation Manager (DSM) interface that should make data management a breeze…

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Amazon Wants to Take on Spotify, Apple Music

Unnamed sources have informed the New York Post that Amazon has set out to create a full-blown streaming music subscription service to take on Apple Music and Spotify. Rumor has it that the plan is in an early stage, but that the company has been conversing with music publishers over the last several weeks to…

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Hands-on with Far Cry Primal on PS4

I’ve only played it for a couple of hours, but Primal is shaping up to be one of my favorite entries in the Far Cry series. In our new episode of PlayStation Underground, PlayStation Powerhouse Ryan Clements and I go spears-on with Ubisoft Montreal’s bold new open-world epic. By now, you surely know the Far…

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