Fortnite Introduces “Performance Mode” For Older Computers
What’s the matter, friend? Is Fortnite chugging along on your Commodore 64? There’s good news…Epic has decided to lift the burden off older computers with a new graphics mode that increases the framerate by reducing graphical elements. The mode lowers visual quality to take the load off the CPU and GPU. “For players already on […]
Overkill’s The Walking Dead Launches Second Season
What’s new in the second season of Overkill’s The Walking Dead? And how soon could we be seeing all this on consoles? Content in Overkill’s The Walking Dead is being released in “seasons,” the first of which was released earlier this month, in one bundle. The second season brings with it nine promised episodes which […]
Overkill’s The Walking Dead Launches On PC
Will Overkill’s The Walking Dead become the most popular TWD game of them all? Only time and sales will tell, but today’s the day we start finding out. What’s so special about this long-in-development game? It’s by far the most ambitious video game to bear the Walking Dead label: a AAA co-op multiplayer shooter full […]
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Released For PS4, XBox One, PC
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now out all over the world! What’s new and what’s improved? And what’s missing entirely (the single player mode)? The fourth Black Ops consists of three separate modes: multiplayer (the main attraction), Zombies (a longstanding tradition), and the newcomer, Blackout. The new mode is the Battle Royale mode […]
Closed Beta For Overkill’s The Walking Dead Begins October 9
How soon could some people out there be playing Overkill’s The Walking Dead? Sooner than we thought! When we last heard from Overkill on the status of their ambitious high-budgeted AAA co-op action game, they announced a delay would move the release date from November 2018 into February 2019. But now it turns out the […]
Soon, SCUM Will Scum Up Steam
What is SCUM? And could it turn into the next battle royale craze? During the first few years of the existence of the first-person shooter, new FPSes were often referred to as “Doom Clones” — the implication being any FPS in existence had to be ripping off Doom. It sounds crazy today, but it still […]
Horde: Zombie Outbreak Coming To Steam Early Access
There are too many zombie-shooting games out there to count, but how many are there that let you play from the zombies’ end? We can only think of Stubbs the Zombie on the original XBox, and…that’s about it. Is Horde: Zombie Outbreak in a class by itself? The biggest problem is that zombies aren’t easy […]
Call Of Duty Black Ops 4: Trailers, New Modes And More
Activision and developer Treyarch blew the doors off Call of Duty Black Ops 4 this afternoon…what’s the result of their hard work over the last few years? Show of hands….who called the Battle Royale mode? Blackout is its name, and as you’d expect, it pits 100 players against each other in a large environment until […]
60 FPS Framerate And Other Improvements Coming To Fortnite
What did Epic Games say in their latest State of Development press release? What additions and improvements are on their way to Fortnite: Battle Royale? The first thing Epic addresses is the recent server problems — like PUBG, they’ve become a victim of their own success. “We were not able to stay ahead of our […]
PUBG Patched On XBox And PC
What’s in the patch notes for the latest PUBG update? Both existing versions (PC and XBox) were patched over the last few days. What’s been improved over the previous versions? The PC PUBG patch is rather light. The one main issue the patch was sent to fix was the fact that as all the players […]