TERA: Rising is going to release alliance update this month. Gameforge is introducing a new political system and is catering for thrilling battles that will determine the fate of Arborea with a continent-comprehensive PvP mode. The alliance update offers a radically changed gaming experience in the world of TERA: players have the opportunity to ally themselves with the Velika, Allemantheia or Kaiator and to influence the political strength of their alliance.
Square Enix has announced the final beta test and early access dates for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. New users will be able to participate in the final beta test on August 17th through the 19th, giving players the opportunity to dive in to the massive-scale RPG's final testing phase.
This is going to be a mega post with a lot of info and videos. I have a bunch of things to cover so look forward to this being constantly updated. Today's Guild Wars 2 patch was, by far, one of the best patches ever.
Despicable Me: Minion Rush is one of the rare iOS and Android running games to feature boss battles. Here below will show you how to defeat all the bosses in the game
If you are a single indoorsman, this game will definitely be attractive and help to you. In Japan, a company developed an iPad interactive game, which is to kiss the beauty through iPad.
With Legends of Mount Hua goes live in Age of Wushu, a wave of Chinese wuxia craze is also coming. Here is a series of fan-made artwork of the characters in Age of Wushu, they are of the different factions, which one do you think is the best? If you are interested in Age of Wushu, join the wuxia world right now!
Nexon's action MMO Vindictus has been updated with extra Season 2 Episode 2 content: Pantheum the Executioner. Pantheum is the new added boss and is one of the toughest bosses in the games. You can challenge Pantheum in Shadow of Death, a new 8-player raid, which is available through the Malina Docks Twilight Desert battle mission board.
Anyway, the reason why we're bringing this up today is because Blizzard has posted a new dev blog about the free-to-play CCG, confirming that it's basically feature complete and might go into beta within the next few weeks. This pertains to the PC version, mind, but progress on that build can only mean good things for the iPad version.
LoL patch 3.11 is coming soon but there is still no further information about Lucian release date. Some anxious players questioned that on official forum and Riot's Morello responded to it.
This guide will go over everything that you should know about advancing in Real Racing 3 by managing your assets (cars) and money properly. With these tips, you should achieve your goals faster in the game
First announced in 2011, Bella Online is a 3D MMORPG developed by Taiwanese game company OMG using the in-house 3D Chameleon Engine. The game has just launched its official teaser website and will soon kick off open beta in Taiwan, IAHGames will publish the game in Southeast Asia later this year.
Today, Riot's Morello talks on official forum about reworked Master Yi. He thinks that Master Yi needs more serious tuning to make it so he doesn't tear through people who can't deal with him
GREE and Marvel Entertainment have released the first details concerning X-Men: Battle of the Atom, an upcoming mobile card battle game on iOS and Android. The game has been developed as part of the X-Men 50th anniversary celebration, and it will be released alongside the Battle of the Atom comic book event later this fall.
Civilization Online is developed by South Korea-based XL Games in partnership with 2K, and will be available first in Korea. No release date has been set. There are no plans for a North American release at this time.
Webzen now is celebrating the Second Beta for MU Rebirth: The Official PvP Server! Starting today, players will be able experience this new action-packed RPG without having to worry about activity being wiped after beta ends. To celebrate the thrilling return of MU REBIRTH, WEBZEN also kicks off a series of free giveaways and special in-game events for players to enjoy during second beta.
Fans of Dragon Nest Europe can enjoy a huge variety of game improvements and new features which also eliminate the community's most important points of criticism.
Kiritika KR revealed a CG trailer for the last update of this summer (detailed summer update schedule) . In previous update, it added class awakening skills and 12 powerful monsters. This time, the PvP system will be available on August 14th.
The long anticipated first expansion Legends of Mount Hua has finally arrives in Age of Wushu. Bringing eight new features to the martial arts sandbox, the Legends of Mount Hua expansion introduces an original story and instance, an 80-player battle arena and a PvP competition.
To be more specific, you have to get an insanely high score. To do this, you have to get high multipliers, as well. Read on for tips and tricks on how to get high scores and high multipliers
Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn‘s early access and final beta test dates. The final Beta Test is going to run from August 17th until August 19th and the players have pre-ordered the game will receive early access and be among the first to play the game beginning August 24th (the game is [...]
eFusion has released a major content update for Dragon Nest Europe, that brings a huge variety of improvements and new features and also promises to eliminate some of the most criticized points of the game. These improvements are the first part of a series of updates, which will update the Academic class and that will [...]
Gameforge has introduced the new political system that will arrive to TERA: Rising with the upcoming Alliance update. This update will completely change TERA’s game experience, because it will give to the players and guilds (entry to an alliance is decided by the guild leaders, members will follow automatically) the possibility to ally themselves with [...]
Snail Games has released today Legends of Mount Hua, the first expansion for Age of Wushu. Legends of Mount Hua is the first North American expansion of Age of Wushu, and adds to the game several interesting features, including the Mount Hua Competition, Yanmen Pass, Youyun Sixteen Prefectures Battle Arena, Martial Brothers System, Jianghu Status System, [...]
SnailGames is partening with FREE MMORPG and MMOReviews to giveaway 2000 venom item packs to celebrate the launch Legends of Mount Hua, Age of Wushu's new expansion. The game is a free to play fantasy MMO set in the ancient China, the Chinese Wuxia Culture. It features no classes or levels and a very innovative combat [...]
Hopes people will pay upwards of $2,000 for laptops drenched in red
When Sony launched its Vaio Fit laptop range a few months back, we were pleasantly surprised by the uncharacteristically affordable price tags of the Ivy Bridge-powered Windows 8 ultrabooks. But lest people assume the Japanese electronics giant is abandoning the premium (read: often overpriced) laptop segment it has been long associated with, the company has announced special "red edition" models across its Vaio Fit, Duo and Pro laptop families.
These new limited edition Vaio machines are both red and expensive, so if you have a major problem with either they are definitely not for you. Beneath the multiple layers of "rich, lustrous" color that adorn their exteriors, the Vaio Pro 13, Vaio Duo 13 and Vaio Fit 15 red edition models have Intel Core i7 processors, up to 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB solid-state storage.
While each one of them sports a full HD touchscreen display, only the Vaio Fit 15 has a dedicated graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M with 2GB VRAM). However, it's worth noting here that unlike the Pro 13 and Duo 13, both of which have the latest Haswell processors, the Vaio Fit 15 features an older Ivy Bridge part.
"The sophisticated VAIO Pro 13, the world's lightest 13.3" touch Ultrabook, is also the first notebook PC on the market to include a high speed PCIe SSD drive, allowing for faster performance than traditional SSD drives," the company said in a press release announcing the new machines. "The VAIO Fit 15 offers a hybrid hard drive and an optical drive that reads and writes Blu-ray Disc media"
The Vaio Pro 13, Vaio Duo 13 and Vaio Fit 15 are available now for $2,599, $2,999 and $1,999, respectively.
Mechanical planks are usually super pricey compared to their lowly membrane counterparts which is why Thermaltake has released its Poseidon gaming keyboard geared for budget-minded mechanical keyboard buyers.
Thermaltake's Poseidon sports bright blue LED backlighting and Cherry MX blue switches rated for 50 million keystrokes. Other features the Poseidon offers include anti-ghosting software, media player keys, and a braided USB cable, and a disable Windows key button .
The keyboard features an MSRP of $80, which puts it in the entry level mechanical keyboard market with the likes of Cooler Master's Quick Fire Rapid and Corsair's K65.
Give Microsoft credit for recovering from its early bumbles related to its upcoming Xbox One console. In the beginning, Microsoft ticked off quite a few gamers by letting it be known that consoles would need to dial up the mothership every 24 hours, and the whole used games fiasco was a disaster in and of itself. A few policy changes later, Microsoft is back on track winning favor among gamers, and it's pretty cool that the company is offering up things like today's unboxing video.
Microsoft's Major Nelson gives users a first look at the contents of the Day One Edition of the Xbox One, and in the process confirmed that it will come with a mono headset. Originally Microsoft was planning to nix the headset to encourage users to interact with the bundled Kinect sensor, but wisely chose to throw gamers a bone.
You also get a closer look at the console itself, including its various ports, as well as the Day One Edition controller and its 40 design improvements, including a redesigned D-pad for accuracy.
There's a ton of cash to be made if you can correctly predict which NFL team will win the Super Bowl, unfortunately Marty McFly burned Grays Sports Almanac in Back to the Future II, though it only listed statistics up to the year 2000 anyway. The next best thing is to look at the numbers and run a bunch of a simulations, which is exactly what a computer program called The Predictalator did.
Created by Prediction Machine, the sportscentric application simulated the NFL season 50,000 times and came up with the San Francisco 49ers as being most likely to win the Super Bowl, CBS Philly reports.
"Just as the Predictalator plays each individual NFL game 50,000 times before it's actually played, it can also play the entire NFL season 50,000 times before it's actually played. The actual 2013 regular season and playoff schedules have been played 50,000 times, allowing us to compute average records and likelihoods of each team making the playoffs, winning its division and bringing home the Super Bowl trophy," Prediction Machine reports.
So there you have it, scorned 49er fans, your team will atone for last year's loss and win the Super Bowl. Well, unless Madden 25 says otherwise. Last year's Madden 13 game correctly predicted the Ravens would defeat the 49ers in the Super Bowl in a thrilling 27-24 contest (final score was actually 34-31). Interestingly, Madden's simulation has only been wrong twice in the past ten seasons when it comes to predicting the Super Bowl winner.
The folks at Plextor are planning a special launch at the upcoming Flash Memory Summit in Santa Ana, California, next week, the company revealed to Maximum PC in an email. On tap is the unveiling of Plextor's new M6 Series solid state drive (SSD) family. It will feature the next generation of Plextor's proprietary TrueSpeed technology working in tandem with the Marvell 88SS9187 controller to deliver "enhanced performance and reliability," the company said.
Plextor's M6 Series SSDs will also feature the latest generation of A19 Toggle NAND flash memory from Toshiba and an ultra-slim 5mm casing. Unfortunately, that's all the details we have at this point, as Plextor is saving the juicy bits for its upcoming reveal.
As a point of reference, the Marvel 88SS9187 controller that will be used in the M6 Series is the same as found in Plextor's current generation M5 Pro SSDs. It's a multi-core controller that can handle extreme work loads and is suitable for use in workstations, servers, and even RAID 0 configurations.
Plextor recently rolled out new firmware for its M5 Pro SSD line, giving users a free performance boost by bumping up sequential write throughput to 470MB/s, up from 450MB/s and read/write performance to 100,000/88,000 IOPS, up from 94,000/86,000 IOPS (sequential read performance stayed the same at up to 540MB/s).
It's not clear if the M6 Series will also have a Pro designation.
Microsoft found out the hard way that it's not so easy competing in the hardware space, just as Acer warned. On the flip side, Google proved that success stories are possible by launching its own brand Nexus 7 tablet (built by Asus), which is widely considered the best Android tablet available. Now there's talk that Nvidia might jump into the hardware space with an Android tablet of its own.
According to Fudzilla, Nvidia is not only working on an affordable 7-inch slate with stylus support, but also a high-end Android tablet under its own brand. Based on what Fudzilla heard from its sources in Europe, Nvidia's potent tablet would enter the market packing some serious heat in the form of Tegra 5, otherwise known as Logan, and Kepler graphics.
We'll let that sink in for a moment. Imagine a tablet with Kepler-class graphics. It could be a game changer, figuratively and literally, though it will ultimately depend on cost and execution. Towards the latter, Nvidia is gaining experience in how to navigate the retail handheld market with its Shield console, and that experience could prove invaluable to the company when/if it decides to compete in a sea of Android slates.
CRT monitors should have died out with the dinosaurs, but believe it or not, they still exist. Heck, you might be using one yourself. If so, it's time to retire that relic from and earlier age and step up to a thin and sexy LED panel. Let us help with today's top deal for an Asus VN248H Super Narrow Bezel 23.8-inch LED panel for $170 with free shipping (normally $200, use coupon code: BTSMNR12). It has a rated 5ms response time (GTG), 80,000,000:1 constrast ratio, and great viewing angles courtesy of its IPS panel.
Hopes people will pay upwards of $2,000 for laptops drenched in red
Take a peek at what comes with the Xbox One
Can 50,000 simulations be wrong?
A new flagship SSD, perhaps?
Nvidia eyes up Android tablet market
