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  • 18 October 2013

  • News: Xbox 360's Games with Gold service gets gold-starred for the foreseeable future

    Microsoft announced Friday its Games with Gold promotion, which gives Xbox Live Gold subscribers two free video games per month, is now a permanent fixture of the service--kind of.

  • News: Double Fine's Spacebase DF-9 is a snazzy, pricey prototype

    The base- or city-building genre hasn't been doing too hot lately. The latest incarnation of SimCity was something of a bust, and while we've got intriguing options like Prison Architect and Godus coming down the pipe, the days where all and sundry were weaned on Dungeon Keeper or Black and White are long behind us. So Spacebase DF-9 puts a smile on my face: you're building bases--in space--by indirectly managing teams of colonists, assigning chores and designing layouts and what not. And it's made by Double Fine, undisputed heralds of good things gaming. Unfortunately, as a $25 Early Access alpha, this game is actually something of a

  • News: Nvidia expands PC game streaming, announces monster GTX 780 Ti card

    With in-home streaming technology, Nvidia wants to give PC gamers the freedom to leave their computing caves.

  • News: AMD hints at faster, more power-efficient Xbox, PS4 chips

    Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 are due for release next month, but chip supplier Advanced Micro Devices is already teasing chip upgrades that could make the game consoles faster and more power-efficient.

  • News: PlayStation 3 beats Xbox 360's U.S. sales for the first time in years

    Sony fans can finally celebrate a triumphant month in the United States, with the PlayStation 3 landing on top of the sales charts.

  • News: Nvidia's 2013 Holiday Gaming Bundle pairs GeForce graphics cards with free games

    Barely a week has passed since AMD announced that it isn't bringing the popular "Never Settle" free gaming bundles to its new(ish) R7 and R9-series graphics cards--at least not yet--and Nvidia is already seizing the opportunity. At an event in Montreal Thursday, Nvidia announced the details of its 2013 Holiday Gaming Bundle, which gives you free triple-A games and discounts on Nvidia's Shield gaming handheld when you buy GeForce-brand graphics cards.

  • News: Pixar and VR: Developers discuss the future of games at the Gaming Insiders Summit

    Like a good episode of The Wonder Years, growing up gracefully was an overarching theme of the first annual Gaming Insiders Summit in San Francisco. While the Gaming Insiders organization has been hosting private dinners and other events for four years, this is the first time they've invited members (as well as media riffraff) to a day-long conference to discuss the future of the games industry..

  • Opinion: How to build a killer Windows 8.1 gaming PC for under $1000

    Finally: Windows 8.1 is a major update that brings many improvements and new features to Windows 8. In addition to a bevy of new apps and meaningful interface changes such as a resurrected Start button and a new boot-to-desktop option, Windows 8.1 will also be the only desktop OS to support DirectX 11.2. Couple that with the streamlined characteristics of the OS, and many people--game enthusiasts in particular--may now be interested in making the switch to the cutting edge of Windows.

  • News: Myst studio Cyan announces first substantial gaming project in nearly a decade

    Myst fans, celebrations are in order. Earlier this month at the IndieCade conference in Los Angeles, Myst co-creator Rand Miller confirmed that his development studio Cyan hoped to launch a Kickstarter for a " larger project."

  • 17 October 2013

  • Opinion: Save your saved games: What files upgrading from Windows 8.1 preview will kill

    If you installed the preview edition of Windows 8.1, then a game, stop. Do not upgrade to the final version of Windows 8.1 until you manually back up your saved games.

  • 15 October 2013

  • Opinion: The future of video games will be in your browser

    I've had it with interminable game downloads--and you can keep your fancy new Xbox, PlayStation, and Wii consoles. The future of PC gaming is in the browser, and it'll be here sooner than you expect.

  • News: Just one killer exclusive could make Linux gaming take off, says Battlefield 4 boss

    Ever since Linus Torvalds released the first Linux kernel more than two decades ago, advocates of the platform have said the Linux revolution was just around the corner. All it needed was that killer app/interface/feature! It's an old refrain, but in recent months we've seen a fresh new angle to this old chestnut: gaming.

  • Opinion: First thoughts on F!rst, the new social network for gamers

    I've got a Twitter account, though I don't get much use out of it. Truth be told, I've always treated it as a sort of interactive RSS feed: a stream of websites and journos advertising their latest pieces, interspersed with the occasional witty repartee from roustabouts. Ditto for Facebook. Back in college it was my social calendar, a place to organize events and then post pictures afterwards--a few years down the road I'm loathe to start mass-defriending folks, but I can't imagine those guys and gals I chatted up between keg stands are keen on discussing the minutiae of GPUs or Pokémon training.

  • 12 October 2013

  • News: Three award-winning IndieCade games you should only play in public

    If you didn't make it to the IndieCade festival in Culver City last weekend, you missed something special.

  • 11 October 2013

  • Opinion: Experimental game [Code] instantiates love of programming

    I'm walking through the firehouse in Culver City where a good portion of the games at IndieCade are set up, and then I see what looks like "not a game." And I don't mean that in the disparaging, "Your game doesn't have guns so it's not a game," way that the Internet sometimes means.

  • Feature: The best maths apps for children

    We’ve picked the best maths games apps (iPhone, iPad and Android) aimed at primary/elementary school children, aged 5-12.

  • News: EVE Online debuts New Player Training Sessions

    Do you like spaceships? Just kidding, everyone loves spaceships. If you're also a fan of MMORPGs, for time immemorial there's only been one real contender: EVE Online. And in EVE, spaceships are serious business--the game's player base is infamous for its brutality, space lanes choked with pirates and scammers and miscellaneous curmudgeons looking to visit harm upon their neighbors. But it's also a wonderful place, a massive galaxy chock full of systems to explore, resources to harvest, war machines to build and shoot at. All good fun, but not the friendliest place for someone getting their feet wet.

  • 10 October 2013

  • News: Report: Microsoft cookies would share data between desktop, mobile, Xbox

    Microsoft is baking a replacement cookie technology that would share content between mobile and desktop PC browsers, and even the Xbox, in an effort to take the growing market for mobile ads and target them even more effectively at the end user.

  • News: NZXT aims for simplicity with Source 530 chassis

    Designed for gamers, modders, and other enthusiasts, NZXT's new Source 530 chassis has been launched with the promise of "all the essentials with a focus on affordability and simplicity."

  • News: Valve: AMD-based Steam Machines are also en route

    Valve Software finally confirmed that the Steam Machine game consoles built by its hardware partners will include AMD graphics chips.

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