PC Gaming
Microsoft Alters Description For XBOX PLAY ANYWHERE
Microsoft won quite a lot of hearts when they announced the “Xbox Play Anywhere” feature coming to future titles, which would allow the user to play a Microsoft Studio title on both the Xbox One and their Windows 10 PC, while purchasing the game only on one platform. They would get access to the game on the other platform for free. Now, as the original announcement said, “Every upcoming Microsoft Studio title will have the Xbox Play Anywhere feature”. But recently, Microsoft made a stealthy edit to their announcement post, which now says,”Every new title published from Microsoft Studios that we showed onstage at E3 this year will support Xbox Play Anywhere.” Way to be subtle, Microsoft. Now this may some sense from the company’s point of view. If t...
Fallout Shelter To Hit PC, Update 1.6 Coming Soon
Fallout Shelter was released as a pre-buzz for Fallout 4, Bethesda’s much awaited post-apocalyptic action RPG. And indeed, it did cause a lot of buzz. The free-to-play mobile simulation game because a huge sensation soon after its release on iOS and Android, having more than 50 million downloads till date. The game tasks the player with building and managing their own Vault, a fallout shelter. Players guide and direct the citizens of the Vault, and need to keep them happy through meeting their needs such as power, food, and water. Balancing resources is an important aspect of the game. Many different rooms can be built in the vault, providing different items or stat bonuses. Players are sometimes rewarded with lunchboxes that contain rewards, such as items or resources, which can pur...
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 Revealed
NVIDIA has finally revealed their response to the RX 480, AMD’s high performance budget GPU – the GTX 1060. The card promises huge improvements, claimed by NVIDIA to be faster than the GTX 980 which comes at a price tag of about $400, while the GTX 1060 is said to cost only around $250. The GPU will have 1280 CUDA Cores, a base clock speed of 1.5 GHz with about 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8 Gbits/s. It will have about 4.4 Teraflops of computing power and is said to be VR ready with a TDP of only about 120 W. If the card delivers on what it promises, you can have a great GPU to run all your games in high settings without them straining your wallet. But while these specifications sound impressive on paper, we still need to find out how the card performs in real life and wheth...
Five Indie Games You Must Try This Month (July 2016)
Indie games are seeing a lot of action these days, with dedicated time during Microsoft’s E3 conference, numerous titles already out and more coming in near future. So here is our list of 5 must-try indie games for the month of July. Asemblance Or in other words, PT meets the Stanley Parable. Asemblance is a first person psychological horror game with multiple endings. I think that’s enough information for make anyone curious. The game is available on the PS 4 and the PC for about $10. Inside Inside is the much awaited title from Playdead, the developers behind the critically acclaimed Limbo. The game is a puzzle platformer adventure, thematically and visually similar to Limbo, where the player controls a young boy in an eerie, nearly monochromatic landscape, solving environmen...
Review: NVIDIA GTX 1070 Founder’s Edition
The wait is over. NVIDIA’s little brother to the GTX 1080 is out and we couldn’t wait to try it out. The GTX 1070 is a little toned down version of the 1080, and hence more affordable as well. More and more people want to know about it as the GTX 1080 might shoot their budget out of the comfort zone, so here we are with a quick review for the GTX 1070. Streaming Multiprocessors 15 CUDA Cores 1920 Base Clock 1506 MHz GPU Boost Clock 1683 MHz Total Video Memory 8 GB Texture Units 120 Memory Clock 4006 MHz Memory Bandwidth 256 GBit/s Bus Width 256 Bit ROP 64 Manufacturing Process 16 nm TDP 150 W Like it’s elder counterpart, the GTX 1070 is based on the new Pascal architecture. But instead of 2560 CUDA cores, it has about 1920 cores. Add to that 6.5 teraflops of computing pow...
Bioshock: The Collection Announcement
Three BioShock games. All of the single-player DLC. Remastered for modern machines. One value packed bundle. It’s been nine years since Irrational Games and 2K took you on a terrifying journey to the depths of the underwater city of Rapture with BioShock. Five years since you returned to Rapture in BioShock 2. Three years since you grabbed a skyhook and sailed across the floating city of Columbia in BioShock Infinite. And on September 13, 2016 in Asia (excluding Japan) and September 15, 2016 in Japan, you can relive these award-winning adventures or experience them for the very first time remastered for current-gen consoles and digital PC with BioShock: The Collection. Countless fans have asked for this since the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One arrived – and we listened! Working with Blind Squ...
Asus Releases The latest ROG Gaming Desktop – ASUS ROG GT51
Introducing the ROG GT51CA Desktop – A futuristic Aerodynamic Inspired design with a colossal performance and unique bold style. It is a gamer’s dream come true, capable enough to churn out unhindered performance at a 4K resolution. It also is a VR Ready machine more than capable enough to deliver the exceptional performance. ROG GT51 is no ordinary gaming machine. It’s engineered with ROG gaming DNA to give you mind-blowing gaming experiences you won’t find elsewhere. Pump up the Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU to a full-core overclocked 4.6GHz — without rebooting! — while you enjoy the eye-popping 8-million-color dynamic 4-zone LED lighting effects. ROG GT51: be prepared for awesome! At the heart of the 2016 iF Design Award-winning beast, lies a 6th Gen. Intel Core i7 processor ove...
Play Anywhere: Xbox To Join Forces With PC?
Microsoft boldly announced the Project Scorpio during its E3 conference this year and has the gaming community on their feet to see how this beast of a console will turn out. Confirmed for release in the fall, it will operate at about six teraflops with 8 cores, memory bandwidth of over 320 Gbps and a speculated 12GB of GDDR5 memory. As a result, it is expected to be capable enough to play both 4K-native games and VR titles. Moreover, it will be backwards compatible, meaning you don’t have worry about your old library once you make the switch. But there seems to be a bigger, more ambitious approach at work. In an interview with The Verge, Phil Spencer, the Head of the Xbox division at Microsoft said, “One of the most significant initiatives doesn’t revolve around a single conso...
We Happy Few: An Upcoming Survival, Psychological, Thriller Game From The Devs Of Contrast
We happy few is an upcoming independent psychological thriller survival which is being developed and published by Compulsion Games. Set in a drug-fueled, retro futuristic city in an alternative 1960s England where the people are trying to escape from a lifetime of joy denial. You must learn to hide in plain sight among the Joy-happy citizens of Wellington Wells, using stealth and combat u must survive the world and the people in it long enough to escape. In alternate 1960’s England, you shall find a city, ravaged by war and rebuilt by delusion ally happy people thanks to the drugs they take which bring the joy in them and helps them ignore the harsh state of the city. Everything appears to be happy in Wellington Wells, including the roads, the people, and its ever-present television person...
ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Strix GeForce GTX 1070
All-new VR-ready gaming graphics card outshines the competition with leveled-up performance and Aura RGB Lighting KEY POINTS Fastest gaming performance: Up to 7.1%-faster performance in 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme and 8.5%-faster gaming performance in Doom Ultimate cooling: DirectCU III with patented wing-blade fans and ASUS FanConnect for up to 30%-cooler and 3X-quieter performance Premium quality and reliability: Industry-exclusive Auto-Extreme technology and Super Alloy Power II components Game your way: Aura RGB Lighting for system personalization and VR-friendly HDMI ports for immersive VR experiences ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Strix GeForce® GTX 1070, an all-new VR-ready gaming graphics card with ultra-fast gaming performance, advanced cooling and reliability, and p...
Hitman Adds New One Time Elusive Target Game Mode
The new Hitman reboot will be getting a new game mode, called the Elusive target, tomorrow in which the the players will be given only 48 hours to kill the unmarked NPC using the small amount of intel which will be provided. The first Elusive Target will be added today or tomorrow to the first Paris Episode. The time at which the target will be added is still to be specified. The event will run over the course till the end of the weekends. Io Interactive released some pointers which are worth checking out as they provide a lot of info on this new game mode. An Elusive Target is a once in a lifetime experience They are available for a limited time only in game – this first Elusive Target will last 48 hours Intel on the target will be limited They will not appear in instinct mode, or the min...
Just Cause 3, To Get The New Mech Land Assault Contect Pack This June
If you just finished Just Cause 3 and might be looking to cause some more chaos, well then you’re in luck. The second content pack for Just Cause 3’s Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass, the Mech Land Assault is about to come this June (June 3 for Season Pass owners and June 10 for those without the pass ) Rico Rodriques will be back on the island of Lacrima, which is a home to an abandoned eDen research facility and a prison camp which is being ran by a mysterious “Black Hand”. In Mech Land Assault Rico will have to fight off against the powerful Mechs with the new Bavarium Power Core rifle, disable their shield and hijack them. Once Rico is inside he can use their powerful cannons and new GRIP Gravity Guns to hurls and mash the enemy into paste or pieces (or whatever you see fit). The conte...