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Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company initially promised variable refresh support on GeForce Now back in early January during CES, and has seemingly waited so that it could launch alongside GeForce Now Day Passes, which are also now available. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game. This synchronization prevents screen tearing, when two or more frames are present on a display at the same time. Without a VRR technology, gamers either have to tolerate the visual incongruity of screen tearing or enable V-Sync, which solves screen tearing by...
Portal 2 Free “Peer Review” DLC Now Available
In case you haven’t been solving testing chambers incessantly since April, Valve’s offering a free reason to dust off your copy of Portal 2. A new DLC pack, titled...
5 by Craig Getting on 10/4/2011
Modded Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Could Result in Bans
Intrepid players of the Battlefield 3 beta (which began last week) have taken to hacking servers to boost the player count from 32 up to 128. Joining such a...
18 by Craig Getting on 10/3/2011
New Indie Game Storefront 'Indievania' Now In Beta
The team from Alientrap, the independent game developer responsible for Capsized and Nexuiz, decided that indies needed a better way to sell their games. So they created Indievania, a...
2 by Craig Getting on 9/30/2011
Game Review: The Binding of Isaac
There is some special alchemy at the heart of The Binding of Isaac. Developer Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy) has combined biblical monsters, scatological humor, and tense twin-stick shooting...
11 by Craig Getting on 9/30/2011
L.A. Noire Coming to PCs This November
L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s gritty 1940s crime drama adventure from developer Team Bondi, is headed to PCs next month. It will release in North America on November 8 and in...
15 by Craig Getting on 9/28/2011
Minecraft Pocket Edition Coming to Android on September 29
The portable edition of Minecraft, the popular world building/sandbox/survival horror game by indie developer Mojang, is shedding its Xperia Play exclusivity and coming to other Android devices on September...
0 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/26/2011
Star Wars: The Old Republic Dated and Priced
Concrete details on the release of BioWare’s Star Wars MMO have finally surfaced. Star Wars: The Old Republic will release in North America on December 20 and Europe on...
27 by Craig Getting on 9/24/2011
Diablo III Delayed Until 'Early 2012'
Holding true to their design ethos of Ship It When It’s Ready, Blizzard just changed the launch window for Diablo III from the end of 2011 to early 2012. “While...
24 by Craig Getting on 9/23/2011
Flash Player 11 in Early October, Says Adobe
Flash Player 11, the next major version of Adobe's near-ubiquitous browser plug-in, is now officially set for release in early October, the company said in a press release today...
31 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/21/2011
Battlefield 3 Beta Opens Sept. 29
Fans of DICE’s large-scale FPS rejoice: the open beta for Battlefield 3 launches on September 29. Anyone who preordered BF3 via EA’s Origin service or purchased the Limited Edition...
26 by Craig Getting on 9/20/2011
Newest Development Kit Brings Unreal Engine To OS X
Epic Games' Unreal Engine, which powers games like Gears of War, Bioshock, and Infinity Blade among many others, is officially coming to Mac OS X in the September 2011...
8 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/20/2011
Game Review: Hard Reset
The PC-exclusive shooter Hard Reset is uncompromising in its old-school ways. There is no cover. Enemies bum rush you in disorganized hordes. Glowing green health packs and red and...
7 by Craig Getting on 9/20/2011
Portal Now Free Until Sept. 20
If you’ve yet to try Valve’s mind-bending first-person puzzler Portal, you now have no excuse. The original Portal is currently free on Steam until September 20th. Valve was inspired by...
10 by Craig Getting on 9/17/2011
Xbox Live Coming to Windows 8
Microsoft’s Major Nelson confirmed yesterday that Xbox Live will officially come to PCs with Windows 8. “Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you...
14 by Craig Getting on 9/14/2011
Demo for Indie PC Shooter Hard Reset Now Available
Dust off your old-school shooter skills: a demo for the indie cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset is now on Steam. Hard Reset comes from Flying Wild Hog, a Polish developer made...
7 by Craig Getting on 9/9/2011
Gearbox Courting PC Gamers with Borderlands 2
You too can help design Borderlands 2. Gearbox Software has invited PC gamers to weigh in on platform-specific options they’d like to see in the forthcoming Diablo-with-guns shooter. On a...
17 by Craig Getting on 9/8/2011
Developer Build of Dead Island Accidentally Released on Steam
An unfinished version of Dead Island, the tropical co-op zombie title from Techland, was mistakenly released on Steam in North America. According to Develop, the game’s publisher, Deep Silver...
5 by Craig Getting on 9/6/2011
Valve Games Available Through EA's Origin Store
In an ironic development following months of public squabbling over digital distribution practices, Electronic Arts is now offering Valve games through its Origin service. EA is running a buy-two-get-one-free special...
15 by Craig Getting on 9/3/2011
Blizzard Starting Diablo III Beta Slowly
In an investor webcast yesterday, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that Diablo III would enter a closed beta “later this month,” though it appears some friends and family...
32 by Craig Getting on 9/2/2011
OnLive Now Streaming Game Demos on GameSpot
GameSpot unveiled a new feature today: free streaming game demos courtesy of OnLive. Demos courtesy of the cloud gaming service are integrated right into GameSpot’s game profiles, alongside reviews...
7 by Craig Getting on 8/30/2011
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