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...
Game Review: Squids (iOS)
Squids, the first title from The Game Bakers, is the best type of game to discover on the iPhone: addictive, charming, and accessible yet not lacking in depth. It...
6 by Craig Getting on 11/8/2011
Batman: Arkham City for PC Delayed Again
PC stalwarts will have to wait a little bit longer to guide the Dark Knight through Batman: Arkham City. Warner has confirmed to VG247 that Arkham City will release...
5 by Craig Getting on 11/8/2011
Free Platformer Stealth Bastard Now Available
Curve Studios, the indie developer behind Fluidity and the newly-on-PC action-platformer Explodemon, have just released their retro stealth game Stealth Bastard for free. Described as a mashup between Metal Gear...
20 by Craig Getting on 11/5/2011Call of Duty Elite Delayed on PC
Activision’s grand plan to create a Call of Duty social network, Call of Duty Elite, just ended its beta and will be up and running for consoles when Modern...
11 by Craig Getting on 11/4/2011
Dota 2 Requires More Beta Testers
With the Dota 2 coming in the near (yet unannounced) future, Valve’s decided to expand the current beta. Last night, Valve sent emails to many who’d expressed interest, asking...
12 by Craig Getting on 11/2/2011Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Released
Last week, Rockstar Games added a Grand Theft Auto V (Five) banner to their website. The banner didn't really tell much, other than that GTA V exists and a...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 11/2/2011
New MechWarrior Coming in 2012, Will Be Free-to-Play and PC-Exclusive
In 2009, Piranha Games released a trailer intimating that they were working on a new MechWarrior title. Recently, the company announced MechWarrior Online, a free-to-play multiplayer mech simulator set...
26 by Craig Getting on 11/1/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 Driver Package
AMD today released the final version of the Catalyst 11.10 driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops. In addition to...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/31/2011
Indie Royale Offers Yet Another Bundle of Indie Games
Pay-what-you-can indie game bundles are all the rage these days. By joining together, indie game developers can help to raise the profile of their titles and encourage customers to...
3 by Craig Getting on 10/27/2011
Grand Theft Auto V Exists
Looking for information on Rockstar Games? Good luck. As I write this, the company’s website is dominated by a single splash page announcing the existence of Grand Theft Auto...
13 by Craig Getting on 10/25/2011
Get Diablo III Free with Annual WoW Subscription
In an effort to hold on to players whose interest in their seven-year-old MMO might finally be waning, Blizzard’s promising a free digital copy of Diablo III to anyone...
24 by Craig Getting on 10/22/2011
The 2012 IGF Pirate Kart: Over 300 Free Games from 100 Indie Devs
Submissions are in for the 2012 Independent Games Festival, and one entry in particular already stands out: the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart. For the Pirate Kart, over 100 developers...
1 by Craig Getting on 10/19/2011
Rage Against the (Benchmark) Machine
Rage came out a little over a week ago, and in the aftermath we’ve discovered some interesting pieces of information. We thought we’d chime in with some thoughts on...
81 by Jarred Walton on 10/14/2011
Final Fantasy XIV To Finally Charge Money, New Version Next Year
After thirteen months of an extended free trial, Square-Enix’s MMO Final Fantasy XIV will begin charging a subscription fee. The subscription-based billing system will go into effect sometime between...
14 by Craig Getting on 10/14/2011
Mass Effect 3 To Include Cooperative Multiplayer
The third and final leg of Commander Shepard’s journey won’t be a lonely one. BioWare confirmed today that Mass Effect 3 will include four-player co-op gameplay via Mass Effect...
10 by Craig Getting on 10/10/2011
Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Will Continue Sending DVDs by Mail
In a terse blog post this morning, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that Netflix no longer planned to split its streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two companies with two...
15 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/10/2011
Indie Platformer VVVVVV to Appear on Nintendo 3DS
Terry Cavanagh’s gravity-bending platformer VVVVVV will be coming to Nintendo’s 3D handheld, thanks to a recent publishing deal with Nicalis. VVVVVV was released last September and quickly garnered attention...
7 by Craig Getting on 10/7/2011
L.A. Noire Developer Team Bondi Shuttered
Should a sequel to Rockstar Games’ latest offering ever appear, it won’t come from the original developer. Team Bondi, the studio that labored on L.A. Noire since 2005, has...
11 by Craig Getting on 10/5/2011
Unreal Engine 3 Supports Flash 11
Not long after Epic announced OS X support for its Unreal Engine game middleware, the company has another announcement to make: Using the just-released Flash Player 11, UE3 is...
30 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/5/2011
Shadowgun Tegra Zone Game Preview
Everytime NVIDIA asks me what type of games I'd like to see running on Android I always seem to answer the same way: I want good FPSes. I want...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2011
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