Gaming
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...
Minecraft Creator Explains Game’s Absence on Steam
In a recent entry on his blog, Markus “notch” Persson explained why Minecraft has yet to appear on Valve’s Steam platform, citing an “ inherent incompatibility” between his company...
14 by Craig Getting on 8/30/2011
New Tetris Coming To The 3DS This October
If the dearth of world-famous puzzlers was keeping you from picking up a Nintendo 3DS, it’s about time you started saving up: the Hudson Soft-developed Tetris: Axis will be...
6 by Craig Getting on 8/29/2011
GameStop Apologizes for Deus Ex Controversy, Offers $50 Gift Cards
GameStop is attempting to make up for the Deus Ex: Human Revolution debacle by offering a $50 gift card and a “Buy 2 Get 1 Free Pre-owned Purchase” to...
29 by Craig Getting on 8/26/2011
Razer Announces Blade Gaming Laptop
Razer, a gaming-centric company known primarily for its mice and keyboards, today announced that they would be introducing a gaming laptop, the Blade, in Q4 2011. The $2799.99 laptop is...
21 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/26/2011
New Counter-Strike to Include PS3-PC/Mac Cross-Platform Play
Valve’s doubling down on the PlayStation 3. In a preview published late Thursday, Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo reported that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the newest iteration of the popular Counter-Strike franchise...
33 by Craig Getting on 8/25/2011
Freemium Sequel to Monday Night Combat Arriving In ‘Next Few Months’
With its upcoming sequel to its Defense of the Ancients-inspired shooter Monday Night Combat, Uber Entertainment is embracing another hallmark of the hero arena genre: a free-to-play business model. Instead...
3 by Craig Getting on 8/25/2011
GameStop Opening Boxed Copies of Deus Ex, Removing Free Game Coupons
PC gamers hoping to snag a free OnLive copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution with their boxed copy should steer clear of GameStop. The retailing giant recently instructed its...
21 by Craig Getting on 8/24/2011
Ubisoft Removing DRM from PC Version of From Dust
From Dust, the much-hyped “God game” from Out of this World developer Eric Chahi, hasn’t had the smoothest launch on PC. It currently lacks graphics options, has an...
11 by Craig Getting on 8/23/2011
Penny Arcade Team to Debut "Pandora for games" App at PAX
The webcomic mavens over at Penny Arcade are teaming up with EEDAR, a games industry consultancy created by former game designer Geoff Zatkin, to create the Decide-o-tron app for...
7 by Craig Getting on 8/23/2011
The Sims Social Brings Storied Sims Franchise To Facebook
The Sims, the award-winning game from Will Wright and Maxis, has entered the world of social gaming with The Sims Social. "Officially" in open beta as of today, The...
5 by Craig Getting on 8/18/2011
Nintendo and Sony Announce Low-Cost Wii and PSP for Europe
Two strikingly similar announcements came out of Gamescom over the past two days. During a press conference yesterday, Sony unveiled the PSP-E1000, a discounted PlayStation Portable that can still...
3 by Craig Getting on 8/17/2011
All PS3 Models Receive $50 Price Cut
Sony's PS3 console is getting a price cut: in the US, the 160 GB model will now cost $249 instead of $299 and the 320GB model will now cost...
17 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/16/2011
Minecraft Now Available for Sony's Xperia Play
The first exclusive for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has arrived. Indie gaming sensation Minecraft, from Mojang, hit the Android Market today in the form of Minecraft: Pocket Edition...
16 by Craig Getting on 8/16/2011
Indie Space-Shooter Space Pirates and Zombies Now On Steam
Top-down shooting, upgradeable fleets, a galaxy-wide zombie infestation: MinMax Games’ Space Pirates and Zombies (officially abbreviated S.P.A.Z.) has it all for just $15. Released yesterday on Steam, S.P.A.Z. is...
0 by Craig Getting on 8/16/2011
Google Bringing Games to Google+
It was inevitable. Like Facebook before it, Google+ will have games. The online search leader recently announced their plans to “gradually roll out” gaming on their social network, which launched...
3 by Craig Getting on 8/12/2011
New Game from Super Meat Boy Dev Hits Steam Later This Month
Just a few weeks after its official announcement, The Binding of Isaac has taken up residence on Steam. Despite the store page saying September, its creator Edmund McMillen (one...
3 by Craig Getting on 8/11/2011
GameFly To Offer Downloadable Game Rentals This Fall
GameFly continues to impersonate Netflix. The videogame rental service, which has long followed the Netflix disc-by-mail delivery model, recently announced plans to emulate Netflix’s Instant Streaming service by offering...
11 by Craig Getting on 8/10/2011
Sony Announces PSN PLAY Program: Buy Four Select Games, Get One Free
With Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion becoming an annual success, Sony’s prepared an answer: the PlayStation Network PLAY program. Pre-orders for the program begin today (August 9), and the...
2 by Craig Getting on 8/9/2011
Xbox Live Arcade Favorite Bastion Coming to PC Aug. 16
Supergiant Games’ Bastion, which kicked off Microsoft’s exclusive Summer of Arcade promotion on July 20th, will get its PC release on August 16th. It will cost $14.99 and is...
7 by Craig Getting on 8/9/2011
Electronic Arts Promotes EA Sports President Peter Moore to COO
Electronic Arts is “shifting from defense to offense,” says CEO John Riccitiello, and one integral part of that shift is the promotion of Peter Moore to Chief Operating Officer...
6 by Craig Getting on 8/5/2011
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