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Payday 2 Crimewave Edition Review
Payday 2 makes an entry to next gen consoles with Payday 2 Crimewave Edition. Inclusive of the Crimewave DLC and some major visual upgrades to match those on PC, this is the best edition of the game. With the added heists, the game is an absolute blast, or an incredibly stealthy experience, specially when played with friends. The long trodden path of cops versus robbers is making some highlights in video games, with GTA V and Battlefield Hardline getting the most attention. However, Payday 2 is a must play since it features some deeper and more intricate heists, involving a lot of unpredictable factors like a suspicious passerby calling the cops in early, the loot you expect to find not being there, and the end-of-heist reward you’re hoping for might never arrive. Civilians might try...
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT Review
Gigabyte has been at the forefront of high end PC components, and their latest motherboard, the Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT, based on the latest Intel Z97 Express Chipset, is an exceptional gaming motherboard. As the name suggests, it is aimed at gaming enthusiasts. This high end motherboard is built with features that are basically geared towards PC gamers and audio lovers as well. In a gist, the GA-Z97X Gaming GT is all about audio performance, multiple graphics card capability and ultra durable components. Let’s take a closer look at the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming GT. The Hardware The Gigabyte GA-Z97X Gaming GT has lots of features; for starters, it supports the latest 4th Generation Intel Core Haswell, Haswell Refresh and Devil’s Canyon, and the upcoming 5th Gen. Broadwell processors. The im...
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review
After countless hours of Witchering, our journey (or Geralt’s journey) finally comes to an end, and what a journey it was!! Expanding over 200 hours, across a huge landscape, riddled with monsters both human and beast-like, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an immensely satisfying game. Imagine a richly detailed, alive and inhabited open world like GTA 5. Combat and monster design akin to Dragon’s Dogma. Difficulty levels to satisfy any Dark Souls veteran. Deep RPG elements similar to Dragon Age and Diablo. Story surpassing that of Game of Thrones, in terms of complexity, depth and quality! Now, bring all of that together, and you have the finest RPG ever made-The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. CD Projekt Red have completely outdone themselves, and refined this game to near perfection. The wo...
GC Recommends: Budget Gaming RAMs
We got to try a few new budget RAMs and these are our favorites. They give blazing performance while not burning a hole through your pockets. 1. Kingston HyperX Fury- Rs. 4.5k (approx) The HyperX Fury series offers a range of capacities, a range of speeds, a range of colours and competitive pricing. I think Kingston could have benefited from maybe offering an additional speed such as 2000MHz or 2133MHz but I think 1866MHz is a fairly good sweet spot offering and most people would be happy with it. 2. Zion Xtreme- Rs. 4.5k (approx) Zion’s 8 GB 1600 MHz module tries to address users who need more memory for different purposes including gaming. If you want a snippy fast system that can handle many programs at the same time and provide a great gaming experience, we recommend Zion’s 8 GB 1600 ...
Mortal Kombat X Review
The game is in many ways an evolution of 2011’s Mortal Kombat. The gruesome fatalities and x-ray attacks that Mortal Kombat is famous for are more disgusting/gut wrenching than ever. These fatalities are made much more convincing due to improved special effects. It is very easy to get caught up with the visuals and forget there is a deep and meaningful game underneath. And we don’t blame you; cause almost each and every move in the game shows you yet another way to torture someone. But that doesn’t divert the focus away from its original motive, “K”ombat. The last Mortal Kombat delivers a robust story mode. The fight for the out world realm has stirred up great turmoil causing fallen elder gods and demons alike to contend for the seat by any means necessary. It remains a similar tale but a...
MSI GT72 Dominator review
The last time I saw an MSI Gaming laptop, I was mesmerised. This time we have the GT72 Dominator: a powerhouse gaming machine that has evolved much since its introduction in 2012. I love the machine’s heavy chassis, superb keyboard and excellent. The GT72, is a new Dominator with a whole new design. The current ones have been re-launched the machine with NVIDIA’s latest graphics architecture. So let’s see what’s in store J Getting Started The new Dominator features a large 17-inch display and a wide, heavy chassis, plus enough power to make the average gaming laptop blush. The design is upbeat too with matte black aluminum with. The front edge (and the top of the screen lid) comes to a wide-pointed peak with red accents and a subtle crimson paint peers out from behind th...
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Review
It’s becoming a familiar tale of late: a much loved game from the previous generation shows up on your new and shiny gaming apparatus, dressed up, and strutting its stuff in an attempt to lure you away from newer releases. The latest title to enter this ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ category is Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, a title which, while clearly jumping on the PlayStation 4 re-mastering bandwagon, is actually offering up a significant serving of Borderlands, in the hope that it’ll turn the heads of both series newcomers and vault hunting veterans alike. So, what does this compilation contain? Well, not only does it sport Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, but it also has every piece of downloadable content released for both games to date. If yo...
Battlefield Hardline Review
Battlefield is a game that has been around for a decent amount of time now and has been giving the Call of Duty franchise a run for its money. With Call of Duty coming out with Advanced Warfare, did Hardline do enough to win the hearts of FPS enthusiasts? Let’s find out. Hardline stars a young and honest detective, Nick Mendoza, a Cuban immigrant who grew up in a lower income area in Miami. New developer Visceral abandoned the old generic military vide and went with a cops vs robbers sort of theme, that honestly does give a different feel to it and helps segregate it from the Call of Duty titles. Has Hardline made the right choice with this new approach or should it have stuck with the established franchise? New Approach Going with the cops vs robbers approach could have proved both a risk...
Corsair Sabre RGB Optical Mouse Review
Corsair is well renowned in the consumer electronics field, with it’s excellent, competition-decimating Dominator line of products, and the Corsair Gaming sub-brand is already becoming a stiff competitor in the crowded gaming peripherals section, with the excellent M65 mouse and the K-series mechanical keyboards. And now they have gained an edge on the other manufacturers with it’s Chroma line of products which feature 16.8 million colour lighting which can be configured to show a plethora of what is known in the scientific community as “wicked awesome” lighting effects, which takes gamers in specific and mankind in general one step closer to impersonating a fabulous chameleon. Don’t take our word for it, see for yourselves: Design and Build Quality The first thing you notice when you take...
Antec Neo Eco 620c Power Supply Unit Review
Antec has a line of power supplies known as Neo Eco, which keeps getting new additions to the series. One of their more recent releases is the Neo Eco C series which has three models with capacities of 450, 520 and 620 watts. Overview We’ve got the most powerful one of the lot–the 620, which is 80Plus Bronze certified and according to Antec should be at least 87% efficient. The PSU’s aren’t modular, but are decently priced at about 6 Grand on Amazon The 620C is a single-rail PSU. The 12V cables can supply a maximum of 48A or 576 watts. There is a 120mm fan with double ball bearings for silent functioning. This unit has six molex connectors and two 6/8-pin PEG connectors. Other units in this category seem to gave another PEG connector, but running two high-end graphi...
Antec Kuhler H2O 650 Review
If you are looking for a CPU cooler these days you’ll be spoilt for choice. There is just such a wide variety of coolers to choose from. You’ve got the air and liquid coolers that will fit into your average enthusiasts case too. And one doesn’t narrow down their choice on a cooler solely based on its cooling capabilities but also on the noise a device like this can make, in some cases also the colours too may affect ones choice. And right now the all-in-one coolers are dominating the market as they cost a whole lot less than some of the large premium air coolers out in the market. Antec won awards for its Kuhler H20 950 for great cooling, excellent software control and easy mounting. This might not be within your budget to get something of this caliber, but Antec has a sl...
ASUS Strix Edition GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card Review
Last year the GeForce GTX 980 was revealed and with the power of four Xbox Ones worth of shader processing power on offer. While that’s pretty good it’s also quite heavy on the pocket. For gamers who want to pack the punch on a Gaming Rig for under INR 50K, the GTX 960 gives you half the power of a GeForce GTX 980. Better yet, because it’s based on Nvidia’s ultra-efficient Maxwell architecture, the GTX 960 ought to perform much better than its specs would seem to indicate. Can the GTX 960 live up to the standards set by its older siblings? Let’s have a look. The GTX 960 is a pretty significant product in the line for Nvidia. The GeForce GTX 970 and 980 have been a runaway success. But most people or say gamers as well don’t buy high-end graphics cards. E...