How to Know Which Component is Bottlenecking Your Gaming PC
Intro One of the most frustrating experiences when upgrading a gaming computer is figuring out what parts actually need upgrading. While you can post on message boards and seek out advice, many times...
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Amazon’s Free ‘Lumberyard’ Engine Helps Indie Developers Create MMORPGs
Creating An MMORPG is a very long and difficult process. It is arguably one of the most expensive types of games to create, as it requires developing a client, a back end server, and writing the proper...
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Riot Games Is Shutting Down League of Legends’ Alternative Game Mode “Dominion”
Citing that less than 0.5% of League of Legends players actively play Dominion, Riot games has decided to announce its removal. Dominion is a fast paced 5 vs 5 game mode that involves capturing control...
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NCSoft Releases Q4 2015 Earnings Report
NCSoft has just released its earnings report for Q4 2015. All of NCSoft’s games have seen an increase in sales from the previous quarter. It is important to consider that consumer sales tend to be...
View ArticleLeague of Legends’“Hextech Crafting” Is Being Tested on Turkey’s Servers.
Hextech Crafting, a upcoming system in League of Legends that provides new ways for players to unlock champions and skins by playing the game, has been released in Turkey. This tactic is used quite...
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Steam’s Automated Refund System Is Far From Perfect
Last June, Valve released its automated refunds system, which utilizes a strict criteria for determining if you’re eligible for a refund. The basic criteria is as follows: You must refund within 14...
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Why Some Games Cause the Graphics Card to Run Hotter Than Others
You may notice that certain games of yours cause your GPU to run hotter than others, even when all your games seem to push it to 100% usage, according to GPU monitoring tools. For this reason, it’s...
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Black Desert Online is Changing the Refresh Rate Settings of 144 hz monitors...
Black Desert Online, currently in closed beta, contains a critical bug that changes 144 hz monitors to run at 60 hz and 60 hz monitors to run at 30 hz if dedicated fullscreen is selected. This...
View ArticleSource Engine Vulnerability Allows Third Party Servers to Compromise User’s PCs
A user on Reddit has discovered an exploit that allows third party servers to write files of any type, including executable files, to any location on a client’s computer. The exploit also allows them...
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IBM Sponsors “Sword Art Online” Virtual Reality MMO, Alpha Test Coming in March
IBM has played a key role in the development of an upcoming VRMMO(virtual reality massively multiplayer online game) called Sword Art Online. Based on the popular anime series, the game attempts to...
View ArticleHow Many Cores Does a Game Really Use?
If you’ve discussed game optimization on message boards or forums before, you’ve probably seen people say thing like “this game only uses 2 cores”, this game only makes use of 4 cores”, etc. This is...
View ArticleGuild Wars 2’s Next Expansion May Have Been Leaked
A user claiming to have information on the upcoming Guild Wars 2 expansion has leaked possible details regarding the expansion on Reddit. Here is a brief summary of what the upcoming expansion may...
View ArticleBlack Desert Project Manager Provides Updated Release Information(Including...
In a recent post on the Black Desert forums, Project Manager “Belsazar” has provided additional information regarding the upcoming headstart tonight, and the official launch on the 3rd of March. Here’s...
View ArticleRise of the Tomb Raider Adds Directx12 Support, and NVIDIA-Exclusive Graphics...
A recent patch to rise of the Tomb Raider has included support for DirectX12, a newer graphics API with additional functionality over DirectX11, and better threading of certain aspects such as draw...
View ArticleAMD Will Provide a Sneak Peek of Their New Polaris GPUs Tonight at 4 PM PDT
EDIT: If you missed the show, here is our summary of what was announced at the event. AMD will be providing a sneak peek of their revolutionary new Polaris GPU architecture tonight on a stream at 4...
View ArticleSummary of AMD’s Bizarre “Capsaicin” Event at GDC
AMD’s ‘Capsaicin’ show was quite a unique experience. The entire theme of the event revolved around alcohol, hot peppers, and having fun. Weeks prior to the show, AMD employees even tweeted about...
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The Oculus Rift Will Have 30 Launch Titles, Over 100 Titles Launching in 2016
In an announcement today by Oculus, they provided a list of 30 games that will be in the Oculus Rift store for the March 28 Launch: List of Oculus Rift launch titles The company also expects over 100...
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Sony’s PlayStation VR Revealed
Sony has recently announced the PlayStation VR, which is launching in October 2016. It features a 5.7″ OLED display, at a resolution of 1920×1080, which results in 960×1080 per eye. The device...
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Planetside 2’s Construction Update Creates a Sandbox Experience
An entirely player-built base Planetside 2, released on PC in 2012 and PS4 in 2015, is an open world Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter(MMOFPS). Players fight over large continents...
View ArticleBlack Desert Launches Mediah Part 2 Expansion in North America & Europe
Black Desert has launched it’s Mediah part 2 expansion, which adds new locations the map and provides new features. New content includes, but is not limited to: 12 new islands located in the ocean to...
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