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| Posted: 24 May 2013 08:03 AM PDT Recently our team had the opportunity to try out Panzar, a free-to-play fantasy title with an action combat system and it was a pretty unique experience if compared to the usual MOBA style games like League of Legends, DOTA or Heroes of Newerth. And now we want to let you know the impressions we gathered [...] The post Exclusive Review: Panzar appeared first on MMORPG Reviews. |
| Today we present our selection of the Best FREE MMOFPS of April 2013 Posted: 24 May 2013 06:16 AM PDT Today we offer our selection of the Best FREE MMOFPS of May 2013. Here you can take a look to the 10 free MMOFPS that most caught our attention this month. Feel free to leave comments or share experiences about these games! 10 Set in the year 3049 during the early stages of a massive [...] The post Today we present our selection of the Best FREE MMOFPS of April 2013 appeared first on MMORPG Reviews. |
| Episode 18 of our Neverwinter playthrough series Posted: 24 May 2013 05:46 AM PDT Today our Trickster Rogue continues her journey through the lands of Neverwinter. In this new episode she reaches level 25, and explores some keeps of Neverwinter Online. Neverwinter playthrough series Episode #18 Level 23 to level 25. Blackdagger Keep, Grimstorm Keep, Doomguide’s Watch, Neverdeath, The rift. The post Episode 18 of our Neverwinter playthrough series appeared first on MMORPG Reviews. |
| MapleStory has released a new mini-game named Monster Life Posted: 24 May 2013 03:18 AM PDT MapleStory has released a new mini-game named Monster Life, which offers an alternate gameplay to players. With a social game-style farming play mechanics, this mini-game allows players to relax and socialize while creating and personalizing their own farms, and raising various monsters. Players can interact with each other by visiting neighboring farms and monsters, and earn [...] The post MapleStory has released a new mini-game named Monster Life appeared first on MMORPG Reviews. |
| We are giving away 2000 Storm Starter Packs for La Tale Posted: 24 May 2013 01:55 AM PDT OGPlanet is partening with FREE MMORPG and MMO Reviews to giveaway 2000 Storm Starter Packs for La Tale to celebrate the launch of its second Season: STORM. La Tale features beautiful 2D worlds, simple and intuitive gameplay, lots of character customization options, pets and accessories, as well as a guild system. All these make La Tale [...] The post We are giving away 2000 Storm Starter Packs for La Tale appeared first on MMORPG Reviews. |
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| Posted: 24 May 2013 11:52 AM PDT 3D notebook offers hefty power for a hefty costThe Eurocom Scorpius lives a dual life. On one hand, it's a dull-looking workstation; on the other, this highly configurable laptop can also be outfitted with a 3D monitor and killer gaming specs. We opted for the latter.
The Scorpius has a backlit keyboard that can change to seven different colors. Along with a 120Hz refresh rate, the 17.3-inch monitor features a built-in 3D emitter that syncs up to a pair of bundled Nvidia 3D Vision 2 glasses. To test the 3D experience, we played the 3D Vision Ready–title Batman: Arkham City and sampled some 3D movie trailers from 3DVisionLive.com. Nvidia's stereoscopic technology rivals the best that movie theaters have to offer in terms of depth, and never bothered our eyes, but the experience wasn't perfect. Even though Nvidia purports to have solved the dimming issue with its Vision 2 glasses, you're still essentially wearing sunglasses, so the experience is going to be darker than viewing content in 2D without glasses. We also feel that wearing glasses in and of itself is cumbersome. The most vexing problem is that when 3D is enabled, performance suffers greatly. Our frame rate dropped by half, from 50s to mid-20s, when playing Batman in 3D as opposed to 2D. In our opinion, these various issues detract too much from the experience; we'd rather play in 2D mode. As for the TN panel in 2D mode, while some sing the praises of 120Hz's ability to improve even 2D image quality, we didn't see any noticeable improvement over 60Hz performance when surfing the web, watching videos, or playing games. We had little complaint with our system's internal specs, however, which included a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-3840QM CPU, 16GB of RAM, and not one, but two GeForce GTX 680Ms in SLI. In our more CPU-intensive tests, the Scorpius scored modest wins of 6–13 percent. However, when it came to the more GPU-intensive applications, our zero-point's comparatively humble Fermi-based GeForce GTX 670M GPU got severely stung by the Scorpius's two Kepler beasts. In our STALKER: CoP benchmark, the Scorpius performed an amazing 112.5 percent better than the ZP; the performance gap only widened in our 3DMark 11 test, where it performed an astonishing 248.1 percent better. Because these benchmark stats were so amazing, we loaded up Far Cry 3 to give it a real workout. While the Scorpius wasn't able to run the super-graphically intensive game on "Ultra" (the game's highest settings), it ran at "Very High" with frame rates in the mid-40s to low-50s range, and often outperformed a 2.8GHz AMD quad-core gaming desktop armed with a GTX 590. It seems unfair to bring up the fact that the far less expensive ($1,500) GT60 zero-point laptop wasn't even able to muster a solid 30fps on FC3's "High" settings. The only performance test where the GT60 bested the Scorpius was in battery life, where Eurocom's laptop lasted a poor 103 minutes. Something's got to give when you're powering two 680Ms. In terms of storage, the laptop comes with two drives: a 128GB mSATA Micron and 512GB SSD. While the two speedy drives are appreciated, the lack of a hefty HDD really limits the overall package. Luckily, the laptop takes up to three 2.5-inch storage drives and installing an additional HDD requires the removal of just one screw from the bottom of the laptop. Users can also access the motherboard from underneath and swap out the RAM. Eurocom has made the main compartment easily removable, with only four screws holding it in place. While the laptop certainly performs well, it still has issues. Its trackpad is unresponsive and can be an exercise in frustration to use. Perhaps a bigger problem is that this thing is heavy. With a carry weight of more than 13 pounds, the Scorpius is in backbreaker territory. Finally, at almost $4,000, it's very expensive. Fortunately, most of these issues can be mitigated. You can save money by skipping out on the 3D monitor and second SSD. And you can overlook its battery, weight, and trackpad issues by understanding that the Scorpius is best used as a desktop replacement. Its performance is simply off the charts, and complaining about its other problems is like complaining about how a Ferrari is expensive, bad with fuel economy, and doesn't have enough cup holders. If those issues are enough to bother you, you're looking at the wrong machine. This laptop is all about performance and here the Scorpius is a stinger. $3,915, www.eurocom.com |
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| Gigabyte Attaches Cooling Guarantee to Tri-Fan GeForce GTX 780 OC Edition Posted: 24 May 2013 08:40 AM PDT
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| Newegg Daily Deals: Plextor M5P Xtreme 256GB SSD, AOC 23-inch Monitor, and More Posted: 24 May 2013 05:18 AM PDT
Top Deal: Before the advent of solid state drives (SSDs), storage was often the bottleneck of a typical PC. Are you letting a mechanical hard drive bog your system down? If so, check out today's top deal, which is for a Plextor M5P Xtreme Series 256GB SATA III MLC Internal SSD for $200 with free shipping (normally $230). It has 512MB of DDR3 cache, is rated for up to 540MB/s reads and up to 460MB/s writes, and is backed by a 5-year warranty. Other Deals: Seagate Backup Plus 1TB USB 3.0 Black Portable Hard Drive for $75 with free shipping (normally $120 - use coupon code:[EMCXRVT35]) Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case for $30 with free shipping (normally $50 - use coupon code:[EMCXRVT57]) Rosewill Stallion Series Power Supply for $50 with free shipping (normally $80 - use coupon code:[EMCXRVT55]; additional $10 mail-in rebate) AOC e2351F 23" 5ms Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor for $120 with free shipping (normally $170 - use coupon code:[EMCXRVT63]) |
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