They made the rig because they want to show what you can get out of that amount of money and hardware. It doesn't mean being a PC gamer you HAVE to buy a similar PC like this one. If you have the money and want to splurge so go ahead. If don't have that much money, be smart and pick your hardware that suits your budget and gaming needs.
My current PC's last upgrade was some ram that was on sale a year ago. It's not a beast of a PC but it played a lot of my gam...
And killer demonic babies in Doom 3.
I'm lucky that in my place retail PC games tend to be priced around or slightly lower than the US price. But that also mean I can only buy one or two games per month. The main drawback though that those prices don't get lower even after years on the shelf.
After I started buying-downloading through Steam, I've changed my buying habits. Thanks to daily sales I am now able to buy several games per month. Plus I get to buy games that interest me but their low overal...
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I'm a PC head and I want the Steam Console to succeed. Some of us just worried what it will do the the core PC gamers - those who build their machines from the ground up and uses Windows. And personally I'm just perplexed at the mere existence of the Steam Console itself.
I want to support it but it's a closed system even if it uses the open Linux. A contradiction just like traditional PC heads who have an open platform but runs on a clos...
There's so much games nowadays that being dedicated to one would make you missed a lot of other games out there. This is true when it comes to huge RPGs. Which is why I didn't by Skyrim. From what I've heard it's a great game but thanks to my experience with Morrowind, I know it will be a huge time sinker. The same goes for multiplayer games.
It's not simply because that games are getting harder but it's due to the sheer volume of games gamers yearn to...
When I first heard Nvidia Shield I was indifferent (merely reading the titles of articles). When I looked more closely at it (actually read whole articles), I was excited and thought it was exactly what I want. I have a pretty decent PC but carrying it back and forth to the living room is pretty tiring so maybe Shield might help with that.
Then after the excitement is over and I think more of Shield's capabilities...it's a little bit too late for my needs. I already b...
Just look at any media with futuristic settings and you'll bound to see sexualized women in them. Nothing to get angry about.
It would be strange playing a game where you can instal chainguns in your body but everyone (in the game world) are too shy to show any bare skin.
Of course the trailer did remind me of the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre. Allowing powerful implants that could make people go crazyis almost like giving unstable people easy acce...
If it can help get more gamers to the PC (those who really wants to join but fear the daunting task of tweaking something that they don't understand) then, why not?
A system that helps beginners while still allowing enthusiasts to pour liquid nitrogen onto their expensive cards : it's a win-win situation.
There were child soldiers in Africa (and other real life conflicts around the world) and yet we barely see them in games. The only children that we can kill I have seen are either grotesque mutants or monsters such as in the Doom 3 and Dead Space.
I'm a PC gamer and I'm here to share something I've observed: whatever you say against Sony's current action...it will be be for nothing. Look at the always-online DRM PC gamers suffered through. We thought we successfully expressed our unfiltered contempt to the system and thought we've won the war. Instead it came back as Free-to-play games and in no time at all a lot of future games, including old PC classics (Age of Empires, Silent Hunter, Sim City, Red Alert Generals ...
I've tried gaming in the living room. It wasn't that hard connecting an HDMI cable to my PC. It's great playing a game on a huge screen.
Unfortunately I couldn't play in the living room for long. That's what a family TV for : it's for the whole family. I can't utilize the 5.1 speakers since there's a newborn baby around. My mother and sister have their own shows to watch in the afternoon while at night my brother and father have the news and sp...
Why is why sometimes it made me rather angry. Not many developers wanted to optimize their games for laptops even though for years laptops have proven to be as a pretty solid sale. You need a a laptop to have a fraction of the power of a gaming desktop in order to play games at a decent performance level.
And yet these same developers are now rushing to make games for mobile devices.
I'm seeing the cycle again. I remember years ago (during the height of PC is dead era caused by current gen consoles) PC stores in my place have a hard time keeping up with sales. They had to assign half of their store to sell cellphones, their accessories and prepaid cards in order to stay afloat.
Then, several years ago things started to pick up for PCs around the time when netbooks appeared. PC stores flourished and there wasn't any need to keep selling cellphones ...
"he believes some of the gunmen"
some....
So the other gunmen trained via what? Why no studies for the missing massacre-inducing factors?
What did social workers in China do to have such a frightening reputation/public perception? I've read the story of children betraying their parents to the government during the Cultural Revolution so are current social workers are their modern day versions?
The Arma engine is woefully unoptimized at launch from the first game and yet they still attracted a lot of gamers to buy the franchise.
Personally I find Arma 2's Armoury and editor to be the true star of the game. There's a lot of surprises in store each time a challenge appears with whatever weapon you are currently trying out. Try out a sniper rifle and you are sent to a nest of soldiers. Try out a howitzer and the game sends a single enemy riding a bicycle at yo...
The majority the game developers in this year's E3 used the PC to showcase their latest game engines for their upcoming games.
"Wait for a year or two when Xbox720/PS4 launch and we'll have yet another wave of "is PC gaming dead?" articles. "
I think they (gaming sites and console fans) will be a little bit careful next time around with such grand claim.
I remembered half a decade ago how PC gamers either desperately defend the PC or just huddled in the corner taking all the crap thrown at them during the PC is Dead Era. Now, I chuckled when earlier this year...
http://news.yahoo.com/week-...
In this little article the author tried to connect Counterstrike with Adam. It said Adam "chose" the M4 which is similar to the one he's carrying that day.
CDP went all out to ensure The Witcher 2 play nicely on the PC and X Box 360. This is a small studio that only made two games and made the last one with a game engine that they built themselves with whatever money they got from the first one (a PC game with no DRM in a pirate infested water no less).
Visceral have been doing the same franchise for years with the same game engine and yet they can't even do what the smaller CDP did?