Category: video games

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Instadoom

    Doom’s stalwart champion, Linguica, has put together Instadoom. It’s a Doom mod that, as you can see above, allows Doom Guy to take selfies and apply filters similar to those popularized by Instagram. Thanks to Ensiform for the tip.