Author: Jack Slater
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République Remastered
After the Peter Molyenux’s Godus fiasco, you would be forgiven for concluding that crowdfunding is just a string of failures. There are a lot of great games that have actually shipped after being funded. Originally for iOS devices, the crew at Camouflaj just put out the PC and Mac OS X version of their kickstarted…
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What Does Linux Get Out of SteamOS?
Liam Dawe on the lack of good news coming out of Valve regarding their Linux-based Steam Machines in the past year, compared to the overall state of health for Linux as a gaming platform: We haven’t had developers like Aspyr Media and Feral Interactive support us for very long, and with their commitment to our…
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Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun blogs about the GeForce GTX 970
Nvidia (and their partners) advertised last year’s Geforce GTX 970 video card as having 4 gigabytes of memory and earlier this year we found out that the memory was on a lower-speed path after the first three-and-a-half gigabytes in addition to other limitations which didn’t match their advertising. There’s now a proposed class-action lawsuit from people…
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Community Disappointment Environment
The developers behind Battlefield 4, DICE, have put out this video titled Create Your Own Battlefield 4 Map Watch it and if you haven’t had your coffee yet this morning you might miss that at no point do they mention players getting access to a map editor. Okay, well, the video description links to a…
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The Movie Theater Cyberpocalypse Has Begun
Ben Kuchera writing about turning the Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR into a portable movie theater: The rewards are great, even if the resolution is slightly lower than you may be used to on your standard HDTV. With a good set of headphones I’m completely isolated from my real environment. I look around and all…