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Xbox One Follow-up: Always-on, Achievements & Used Games

Rob Williams — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:52 +0000

With the dust having settled from yesterday’s launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One, I thought I’d follow up on our initial post to talk about a couple of other things that didn’t immediately catch our eye; three in particular. These include some findings regarding persistent connection, how achievements work, and also whether or not selling used games [...]

EA Drops Online Pass Like a Bad Habit

Brandon Mietzner — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:08:52 +0000

EA began its Online Pass program several years ago; I first encountered it in Dragon Age 2 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 are [...]

Watch Dogs: A Virtual World with Real World Hacking Tips

Brandon Mietzner — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:04 +0000

Watch Dogs, it first graced us with a phenomenal demo at E3 last year and to say the expectations are high would be an understatement. The game is best described as Assassins Creed combined with Grand Theft Auto, but the hero isn’t a thug or a chosen one – he is a hacker. According to [...]

CM Storm QuickFire Rapid with Cherry MX Green Switch Review

J.D. Kane — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:55 +0000

Since the release of its QuickFire Rapid in late 2011, Cooler Master has done well to capture a good portion of the mechanical keyboard market. Its models are built-well, cater to gamer and traditional user alike, and look good. What's next? Introducing a keyswitch that no other company in North America can: Cherry MX Green.

Monthly Subscriptions Now Available Through Steam

Brandon Mietzner — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:40:33 +0000

The traditional subscription-based MMO developers have not had any opportunities to bring its games to the largest digital PC distributor on the internet, Steam. Yesterday is when everything changed. In a statement made by Valve on its own Steam News feed, it announced: “With Subscription Plans, Steam offers gamers the ability to sign up and [...]

ROCCAT Isku FX – The FX Stands for ‘Features in eXcess’

J.D. Kane — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:00:03 +0000

At the time of writing, the Isku FX is ROCCAT's range-topping keyboard. Appropriately it's packed to the gills with features and capabilities lesser keyboards tend to eschew. No, it's not a mechanical keyboard, but despite this is it still worth your hard-earned dollars? Read on and find out!

EA’s Origin Player Appreciation Sale: Most Games Up to 70% Off

J.D. Kane — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:00:18 +0000

Electronic Arts has apparently stepped its efforts at image rehabilitation up to the next gear. For one week only, starting March 20, 2013 until March 26, 2013 at 10:00AM PDT, EA is slashing prices on most of its games available on its Origin service up to an impressive 70% off. EA calls this its “Player [...]

Google Reader Alternatives for Android & iOS

Rob Williams — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:00:03 +0000

Google Reader is dead, and you're bummed. Trust me, I feel you. However, there's no reason to be upset, because there are a number of alternatives that have what it takes to help you forget all about Google's ROI failure. We singled out the four best-of-the-best for Android and iOS, so let's check them out.

Google to Shutter Reader on July 1st

Rob Williams — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:15:23 +0000

It’s not uncommon for large companies like Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft to shut down certain services that are not delivering the return-of-investment that they require, but never does such a closure affect me directly. But with the forth-coming closure of Google Reader, I can no longer claim that. While still a popular option for many, [...]

Due to an Influx of Poor Customer Feedback, Amazon Temporarily Halted SimCity Sales

Rob Williams — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:00:03 +0000

Whew, EA sure can’t catch a break lately – although by this point, many would agree that it doesn’t deserve one. Earlier this week, we learned that the company would be developing all of its future titles with microtransaction capabilities, and then we saw a back-tracking to state that games would merely have the “ability”. Then [...]