Yooka-Laylee’s Kickstarter campaign was a rousing success. Surpassing its initial funding goal of £175,000 in a matter of mere 40 minutes, the game promised to bring the classic 3D platforming of the Nintendo 64 era back to life. Developer Playtonic has stood by their promises, with cute cartoon-ish visuals, quirky characters and a vibrant, colourful world. At its best, the game is a testame...
Remember when we were kids, we used to connect two cups with a string and talked over it? Well, that was an actual means of communication back in the day in the mid 1600s until 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone. An archaic device that did it’s job. Over the years, technology has evolved and now we have if not the best, one of the best smartphones of 2017, the Samsung Ga...
Gaming on a PC has its pros and cons, and one major con is that it lacks portability, as the desktop can be heavy and cumbersome. The Vortex MSI tries to deal with that problem, fitting an entire gaming rig inside a console-like chassis, which is both compact and lightweight. But does it end up compromising on the performance? Let’s find out. Tech Specs CPU Intel i7-7700K Chipset Z170 GPU Ge...
From the very moment you wake up as a little girl clad in yellow, you feel a profound sense of helplessness. Making your way through vents and climbing up stairs with nothing but a lighter, you realise how small you are. Five minutes into the game, you’re greeted by a really tall man’s limp body hanging from above the ceiling. This is how Little Nightmares introduces you to its insidio...
Gone are the days when Titan X was the daddy of all GPUs. NVIDIA recently released the GTX 1080Ti, which boasts to be “the ultimate GeForce card”, leaving the GTX 1080 in dust and smoke. But does it live up to the hype, and more importantly, the claim? Let’s dive in. Tech Specs NVIDIA CUDA Cores 3584 Base Clock 1480 Boost Clock 1582 Memory Speed 11 Gbps VRAM 11 GB GDDR5X Memory B...
Mass Effect – These two words are enough to make thousands of people smile. The original trilogy brought to us a wonderful and engaging world of interplanetary and interspecies sociopolitical strife, where each choice felt like a tough decision. It mattered how you interacted with the people around you, and it influenced how they would react to you. Mass Effect 2, especially, was storytellin...
At the heart of Torment: Tides Of Numenera is a singular question, “What does one life matter?” Backed by Kickstarter, with an initial goal of $900K, which was met in under 6 hours, and then went on to reach over 4 million dollars, Torment: Tides Of Numenera is the spiritual successor to 1999’s cult classic isometric RPG, Planescape: Torment, which is widely regarded as one of th...
The GTX 1060 is NVIDIA’s response to AMD’s RX 480. Built on the 16nm GP106 Pascal architecture, it offers better performance compared to the previous gen $300 GPUs at a price point of close to $250. GIGABYTE has their own versions of the card, the G1 Gaming Edition and the Xtreme Gaming Edition, the latter being the company’s most powerful rendition with 6 GB VRAM and factory ov...
Logitech’s gaming mice range is a bit mind-boggling, and so is making a decision when it comes to buying that perfect mouse that suits your needs. However, one thing that’s for sure is that the G502 Proteus Spectrum is Logitech’s absolutely high-end wired gaming mouse, and boasts of a wide range of features which attract gamers of all genres. Before getting started with the revie...
ASUS has successfully carved a niche for themselves in the gaming sector under the ROG banner, and provide a whole range of products catering specifically to gaming. Today, we take a look at the ROG Strix GL502VS, their budget range laptop with a GTX 1070 GPU and G-Sync. Specifications CPU Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz GPU NVIDIA GTX 1070 8 GB Memory 32 GB DDR4 Display 15.6″ 1920×1080 IP...
Furi’s short blurb is also the entire premise of the game. A mysterious, silent dude is set free by an equally mysterious dude wearing a bunny head. Your task is simple, take on a series of Bosses (Jailers) and shoot and slice your way to freedom. Fast and Furious Furi is brutal and unforgiving, which makes it immensely satisfying to play through. It blends seemingly immiscible genres of Twin stic...
Logitech has a horde of gaming accessories, and among them is the simple, yet impressive Daedalus Prime, the mouse for MOBA lovers. It has been designed for a specific group of people with a specific aim, which means it does a lot of things incredibly well that other mice don’t. It also means that the mouse lacks in a lot of places, which might be a hassle. Connection: full-speed USB corded...