Hi everyone! It’s Week 5 of Spring Fever, and Axiom Verge (from solo developer Tom Happ) is turning up the heat. One of the most anticipated digital titles, this 2D side-scrolling, action-adventure game debuts today on PS4, with a PS Vita launch scheduled for later this year. Pick up Axiom Verge for PS4 today through…
Top Deal: It seems like storage drives fail at the most inopportune time. Not that there’s ever a good time for things to go sour, but inevitably, it happens when you’ve been talking about implementing a backup solution, but have yet to put one in place. You promise yourself, “Never again!,” and then it happens…
Plays.tv takes a bite out of Twitch and YouTube, Instagram style Raptr today announced the official public launch of a gamer-focused service called Plays.tv, a kind of Instagram for gamers, where the idea is that everyone and every game has an epic moment of some kind. The idea though, says Raptr, is entirely different from…
Improvements to be enabled via DX12 and Vulkan APIs Graphics cards are currently “not living up to their full potential,” says AMD, and the company is adamant that the forthcoming DX12 and Vulkan APIs will change that. Specifically, the red team says that these APIs will be able to take advantage of AMD’s asynchronous compute…
More than just a Bluetooth speaker If you were to tell us three years ago that Razer was going to make a Bluetooth speaker, we would have been interested, but now that we’re inundated with Bluetooth speakers everywhere, it’s pretty hard to get excited. But while Razer’s Leviathan sound system is far from perfect, it’s…
Chrome OS without the Chromebook Google’s on a major push to advance its Chrome OS into more homes by whatever means necessary. Fancy a low-cost Chromebook? Google today announced the Haier Chromebook 11 and Hisense Chromebook, both available for pre-order at $149. Prefer an all-metal convertible? Google wants you keep your eyes peeled for the…
No quarters required This generation of kids and teens are pretty lucky when it comes to time wasters on the PC. Instead of Minesweeper or, my favorite Windows game from back in the day, Ski Free, today you can play some 900 classic arcade games right in your browser. And if you’re bored with those,…
Hello everybody! If you haven’t picked up Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines yet, now’s your chance to get a taste of an epic tale of revenge set in ancient Japan, as the demo for PS Vita and PS TV is available today on PlayStation Store. Also available today, we have additional DLC content for sale. Previously offered…
Slimmer, slower, and cheaper than a Surface Pro 3 Microsoft just expanded its Surface line with the Surface 3, a less expensive version of the Surface Pro 3 that’s also smaller and less powerful. Other than size (10.8-inch display, 8.7mm thin) and weight (1.37 pounds or 622 grams), the physical design is the same as…
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu It was about 5 years ago that I kicked off a side hobby project. At the time I was working at Petroglyph on an RTS game as a programmer during the day, and just wanted a fun side project to work…