DDR4 and DDR3 duke it out One of the nice things about Intel’s Skylake microarchitecture is that it supports both DDR3 and DDR4 memory standards. That means you can dive into Skylake without having to buy new RAM, assuming you already own DDR3 memory. However, just because you can doesn’t necessarily mean you should. The…
Before you suit up and dive into Anthem‘s more advanced and challenging content, we’ve got some tips that will help prepare you to take on just about anything the game can throw at you. We’ll be covering why your gear and loadouts can mean the difference between success and failure, why crafting is vital, and…
Operation Wolf, T2 Arcade Game, Mad Dog McCree, House of the Dead As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s, arcade games were not a hard thing to find. Whether it was in a NAMCO GUNCON (PS1 & ARCADE) grocery store, at a pizza parlor, or at a dedicated arcade, there was always…
X/10. Recently, we crossed one of the last remaining Wii U winners off our Switch port list thanks to the arrival of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. We’d waited a long time to extol the virtues of this excellent entry to people who never picked up a Wii U, and the wait, thankfully, was worth…
The first trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter film is out, and I’ll tell you this: It looks very Street Fighter. It seems that the friendship between Ryu and Ken has gone a little off the rails, as have the men themselves: Neither of them are looking especially sharp as the trailer begins. Fortunately for…
It’s very likely that this wasn’t the Direct presentation that you were expecting to be announced this week, but Nintendo has announced that a Pokemon Direct will be occurring on January 9th at 9:30am Eastern Time. The Direct will be “roughly 20 minutes long” and contain “new Pokemon information”. Obviously, Nintendo tweeted the Direct announcement,…
A dream or a nightmare? Nintendo’s next big release, and perhaps-penultimate Switch 1 title, is almost here. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream lands on Nintendo’s older hybrid tomorrow, 16th April, and critic reviews have dropped ahead of the game’s launch. That includes our own, written by the very person putting together this article. The Nintendo…
31 years ago, Edge magazine’s review of the original Doom plaintively asked why you couldn’t talk to the monsters, in a moment that has become enshrined alongside ‘guy is bad at Cuphead’ and ‘man cheats at Sekiro’ in games journalism history. Thing is, though, Edge had a point. Actually, it didn’t go far enough. Not…
It’s the 30th anniversary of the release of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, the very first game in one of the biggest and best RPG series of all time, and to mark the big birthday Bethesda Softworks has shared a message looking back on that long history and teasing what’s ahead—that, of course, being The Elder…
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