Category Archives: Gaming

Pulling an SD: Brink Delayed

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on December 1, 2009

Anyone who anticipated the release of ET:QW will know that this bit of news from developers Splash Damage is par for the course. Fall it is, then! Like many titles as of late, Splash Damage apparently needs additional time to polish this title prior to release. Oh, & I guess in an attempt to make [...]

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. DirectX compare-o

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on November 25, 2009

The ExpReview crew have run the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark on a rig in both DirectX modes to point out that differences do indeed exist. The shadows look a bit more realistic, and the tessellation in DX11 brings a bit more details to some of the textures. There’s a slight performance hit for the [...]

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MW2 hack available; good thing they went with IWNet

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on November 12, 2009

Looks like Infinity Ward’s move away from dedicated servers hasn’t helped much in the realm of cheating; the, ahem, main goal of the move. The Call of Duty hacking website has published a video that shows their latest hack in action. The hack appears when activated, shows the position of all players, reduces recoil on [...]

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Shattered Horizon in-game trailer online

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on October 20, 2009

I must be living under a rock or something, because I wasn’t even aware that Futuremark (makers of the popular PC benchmarking suite) was in the games biz. Futuremark studios has just released their first in-game trailer for their game, Shattered Horizon, which is an FPS set in space with full range of movement via [...]

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Infinity Ward breaks with convention; ditches dedicated servers for MW2

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on October 19, 2009

IW developers have declared that online games of the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will not use dedicated game servers, but rather their own “IWNet” matchmaking service. DICE, developer of the Battlefield series of PC games, has already stated that there will be no such movement on their end of things. I definitely foresee [...]

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Kotaku Takes a Peek at L4D2′s New Scavenge Mode

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on October 8, 2009

Faster than versus mode, three rounds of play per match, and watch out for the Spitter. Left 4 Dead 2′s new mode requires survivors to pickup a specified number of gas cans and fill a generator before the time runs out. Their only complaint was that it was too easy to camp the generator. You’re [...]

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