EA began its Online Pass program several years ago; I first encountered it inÂ*Dragon Age 2Â*on the PC in 2011. The purpose of it was to obtain a small measure of profit from the trade-in market, which is insanely popular with console games. Anyone who has played a modern PC game knows that we...

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We reported earlier this week that pre-orders for NVIDIA’s upcoming handheld gaming platform SHIELD would kick-off on May 20th, but thanks to the sheer level of excitement for the product that the company has witnessed since then, it’s decided to push the date ahead to today. Whether...

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Contrary to what some folks think, most of us here at Techgage have day jobs so we don’t have to live in our parent’s basement eating ramen while we tinker with our tech. This news item is a little late thanks to said day job, but it’s one that’s truly better...

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When Logitech unveiled its “G” lineup back in March, it became clear that the company was beginning to get serious about gaming. It’s not that Logitech had ignored gamers all these years – because that’s hardly the case. Instead, the company began to dig deeper into...

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When Apple launched its App Store in the summer of 2008, it took a mere 9 months for 1 billion apps to be downloaded. Five months later, that number became 2 billion. That kind ofÂ*accelerationÂ*is far from modest, but it was just the beginning. Momentum picked up, and in March of 2012, Apple...

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