Worth an estimated $135 billion, the gaming industry is already larger than the film and music industries, combined. Yet for huge portions of the population it’s still seen as a shameful hobby, one meant for kids that you’re meant to outgrow as you settle into adulthood. Game Academy thinks the opposite. This startup believes that […]
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Two of the top names that you’ll come across when shopping for gaming chairs are Maxnomic and DXRacer. Both companies produce a good range of products, many of which are highly rated bestsellers. Selecting the right gaming chair is not as simple as it might seem. There are many things to take into account when deciding which chair works best for you: height,
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Lero aims to work with amateur and professional e-sports players, conducting research to benefit players, managers and sponsors of e-sports teams. On Thursday (29 August), Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centre Lero opened Ireland’s first e-sports research lab. Located at Lero’s headquarters at the University of Limerick, the e-sports lab will enable Lero researchers to
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When World of Warcraft Classic launched this week, no one was quite sure what the player response would be. The amount of interest in the launch has been massive, but how many people would show up to play? The answer:
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the new features baked into DirectX 12 is support for variable-rate shading, also known as coarse-grained shading. The idea behind variable-rate shading is simple: In the vast majority of 3D games, the player doesn’t pay equal attention to
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Fans of the franchises of FromSoftware have begged for years for the Playstation exclusive titles to be ported onto PC. Now those dreams have finally been made a reality – well, only partially. Bloodborne, the horror-action classic title from 2014 is now playable on PC. Or to be more precise, it is now finally streamable
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If you’re a gamer, then you most likely know about Twitch.tv, the most popular video game streaming website on the internet today. If you’ve (somehow) never heard of Twitch before, it’s a website that allows content creators to stream their own gameplay and interact with their viewers. With over two million monthly broadcasters, there’s a
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Yesterday in a Press Conference, President and CEO of the Pokémon Company Tsunekazu Ishihara dropped some bombs on what the company is launching in the coming months. Riding the tail of the Detective Pikachu success, they are keeping the momentum going. Well kind of. They plan to take over the market with new titles
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One of the main problems that you may run into when recording gameplay videos is that the quality doesn’t live up to your expectations. In some cases it may not even look as good as it appeared while you were recording it from your screen – which can be confusing to say the least. The
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Ah, the SMACH Z. The term “vaporware” is used to refer to games that are announced, generate immense hype, then disappear (poof) into a cloud of vapor, never to be heard of for a decade or more. I have no idea what they call the hardware equivalent of that, but whatever that is, the SMACH
