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  • 24 April 2013

  • News: AMD unleashes Radeon HD 7990: A dual-GPU graphics card beast

    One thousand dollars. That's how much AMD anticipates it will cost you to acquire a video card packing two of its most powerful GPUs on a single dual-slot PCB. AMD has provided us with reference design hardware, with retail cards expected to follow by the end of the month. So consider this a hands-on preview of the Radeon HD 7990. We'll follow up with an official review as soon as we get a card that people can actually buy.

  • News: Nintendo misses profit goal as Wii U, 3DS sales sag

    Sales of Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS fell short of the company's targets last fiscal year, pulling its profits down to half of what it expected.

  • 23 April 2013

  • News: New Pizza Hut app for Xbox 360 lets your order delivery from the comfort of your couch

    Dedicated gamers now have even less incentive to pry themselves up from the Red Bull-stained couch, thanks to a newly announced Pizza Hut app for the Xbox 360. You read that right: Starting Tuesday, you'll be able to place a delivery order directly from your gaming console.

  • News: What the 'console-ification' of PCs means for gamers

    Traditionally, gamers have voluntary segregated themselves into two camps: console gamers and PC gamers. Hostility between the two runs irrationally deep, and rare is the gamer who's willing to proclaim allegiance to both sides. Either you're part of the Alliance, or you're part of the Horde.

  • News: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger riding into Australia on May 22

    Ubisoft has set the local release date for Techland's Call of Juarez: Gunslinger for May 22.

  • News: Have you ever seen Pong played on a skyscraper? Now you have

    If you cast your minds back, you may remember a project at MIT that transformed a typical campus building into a big game of Tetris. But it looks like Drexel University has its own classic game project to challenge MITris, only this one is much bigger.

  • 22 April 2013

  • News: What I'm Playing: Ninjas that farm, and fish that skip

    Ninja Village

  • 21 April 2013

  • News: The Macalope Weekly: Talk is cheap

    Our fine friends in Redmond (disclosure: not fine, not friends) are back spreading what they spread best. Joy? Jam? Nope: manure, of course. Dan Lyons then tells us exactly why everything he wrote was eye-pokingly bad (no spoilers, read on for the exciting reveal!) and last, but possibly least, CNN shows us how to sift bad Apple news out of anything!

  • 19 April 2013

  • News: How DisplayPort multi-streaming delivers new levels of multi-monitor madness

    When a vendor sends us a demo system, it typically take great care to ensure that we experience the system exactly as the maker intends us to. So when VESA, the trade group responsible for the DisplayPort standard, said that it was sending PCWorld a multiple-monitor demo system similar to the one it exhibited at CES in January, I expected it to arrive bundled with a detailed guide and all the software needed to present DisplayPort in its best light.

  • News: Why Ubisoft is bringing Flashback back in HD

    There was no shortage of platformers during the 16-bit generation, but very few were any good and even less hold up when played nowadays.

  • News: In defense of Nintendo's obsession with memory lane

    Yesterday's Nintendo Direct presentation was a love letter to the faithful, largely eschewing "new" intellectual properties (hereafter, IPs) in favor of re-visiting classic franchises or simply remaking old games. This year--dubbed "The Year of Luigi"--we'll see new Mario Party and Mario Golf Games, a 3DS re-make of the Nintendo Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns, a new entry in the Yoshi's Island series, remakes of GameBoy Color Zelda games as well as a successor to 1992's Zelda: A Link to the Past.

  • News: Razer honours unauthorised 90 percent discount code

    Razer has confirmed that it will go ahead with orders placed with an unauthorised 90 percent discount code.

  • 18 April 2013

  • News: Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles unveil video game design badge

    The Girl and Boy Scouts foster values in kids by helping them master basic tasks. Over the decades, these organizations have wisely updated the skills they teach to reflect the needs of the modern world. While starting a fire with a couple of sticks or engaging in community work are all great things for kids, learning how to get into the multi-billion dollar video game industry might prove to be very valuable as well.

  • News: Ubisoft talks about 80s nostalgia with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon

    Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is the most refreshing and oddball game to come out in recent memory.

  • 17 April 2013

  • News: Nintendo game purchased at Goodwill for eight bucks is a $15,000 collectors' find

    It's a nice thought. That hidden within every small town second hand store, there lies a hidden collectable that can be purchased for pocket change and sold on eBay for thousands. And it appears that a North Carolina woman was able to do just that. The unnamed woman picked up a copy of the 1987 NES collectable Stadium Games at a local Goodwill for $7.99, a find that may prove to be worth upwards of $15k.

  • 16 April 2013

  • News: Black Annex is the best QBASIC game you've ever seen

    What's the most difficult thing you did in the last year? Now stop. Before you answer, can it compare to creating a full-fledged indie game--slated to be approved on Steam--created entirely with QBASIC? Probably not.

  • News: How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time

    According to urban legend, a landfill somewhere in the small city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, bulges with millions of copies of the worst game ever made--a game that many observers blamed for the North American video-game sales crash of 1983. Atari's bubble burst because of a little alien.

  • News: SimCity coming to Mac on June 12

    With the PC version of SimCity having cleared its first month anniversary since launch, EA has announced a June 12 release for the Mac version of the game.

  • 15 April 2013

  • News: EA's shuttered Facebook games a cautionary tale for online-only play

    As Electronic Arts prepares to shut down several Facebook games, there's a message that gamers should take too heart: Don't get too attached to anything that's online-only.

  • News: The best tower defense games on Android

    Tower defense games are what many in the industry would call an acquired taste. At the most basic level, they operate on the same concept: The gamer has a central point to defend, a bunch of turrets to construct, and waves upon waves of enemies to defeat. Though often criticized as repetitive and overtly brutal, fans of the genre know that tower defense games are an addictive, soul-sucking diversion. Whether you're a stoic fan or you're just curious, read on through our round-up of some of the most interesting tower defense games in the Google Play store today.

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