Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 at the start of this year and has been running it in a limited beta ever since, swapping 1-2 maps at a time, adding isolated features, and generally withholding the full package that it unveiled yesterday. That limited rollout made it hard to get a handle on just how different it’s…
Nier: Automata is less than a month away, coming out on March 7 in the US. What better way to compliment the excitement than by showing off more of what awaits you in game! PlatinumGames is adding to its pedigree of action games with Nier: Automata, but let’s not forget that there are also elements…
Spunky laptop lasts up to 15 hours per charge Intel’s been talking a big game about its 5th Generation Core processors based on 14nm Broadwell, which offers better performance and battery life compared to Haswell. Hardware partner Dell wasted no time putting the new chips to use. At the Consumer Electronics Show, we had Online…
Knot the best port. Gordian Quest, like many games of its ilk, is bogged down by dense, cumbersome menus and volumes of small text. But unlike a lot of other games in the strategy and deckbuilding genre, it’s much easier to wrap your mind around and isn’t mired in frustratingly long tutorials and steep learning…
We now have the full Famitsu video game software and hardware chart data from Japan. As we previously reported, Animal Crossing: New Horizons had an incredible debut shifting a staggering 1.88 million copies in just three days. Nintendo Switch hardware sales also saw a huge boost with 392K units sold. There’s currently nine Nintendo Switch…
Preview build lacks key drivers So you just received the Surface 3 tablet you had pre-ordered a while back and are now planning to install Windows 10 on it? Not so fast. That’s not what Microsoft would like you to do — and it has strong reasons for it. The Surface 3 is, for the…
Hello Guardians! I’m Elliot Yun from the RyseUp team, community manager and game designer for Roboquest and I’m here to give you our five beginner tips for a successful run! Note that these tips have been validated by the Confrérie du Croissant here in France. Let’s dive right in. Tip #1 – Always Stay in…
Hey everybody! Some people are getting tired of hearing this, but back in 2002 I was the technical director on the Spider-Man 2 game, and I was the one who originally prototyped its ground-breaking swinging mechanic. Fast forward several years and I decided to revisit swinging gameplay as an indie dev, creating an all-new swinging…
Koho-ly moly. If you played the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Switch and found yourself itching to experience something just a touch more authentic to the original, then this unofficial PC port might be just what you’re looking for. Available to download via itch.io, Link’s Awakening DX HD takes the Game…
Ah, Microsoft Edge. When the topic of which browser to use rears its ugly head, the room tends to quickly devolve into two main camps: Chrome or Firefox, with an occasional incursion from a group of Safari enthusiasts in the corner. However, when the debate dies down and there’s a lull in the conversation, a…