Tag: PC Gaming

Origin enables gifting along with other features

Deep Mukherjee

Everyone can agree that, Steam is the most used and popular game distribution platform on the pc. EA for years has tried to make their own Distribution platform , Origin be on the same level as Steam . They are finally taking some right steps towards that goal. EA added 2 new features to the Origin store. You can now add items to your wishlist , as well as gift games and DLC to other users. Both of these went live earlier alongside a store-wide Black Friday sale. Though saying that…

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Evolution of Terraria, From a Simple Game to a Brand Name

Aritra Bhattacharya
Terraria

Game development isn’t easy. The whole notion of having an idea on paper then bringing it to a working state is something. It takes hard work. But making a game to compete with the top games on steam is something else. Getting to that level isn’t straight forward. Certainly not easy for independent developers. Yet the people of Re Logic managed to make their small project Terraria into a genre of its own. Being  one of my favorite games, I take a look at the history and evolution of Terraria. Terraria is an action-adventure sandbox…

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ASUS ROG GX800 – World’s Most Powerful Gaming Laptop with Liquid-Cooled Solution

Aritra Bhattacharya

ASUS ROG GX800 is an upgraded version of the company’s GX700, featuring even more powerful specifications and of course that removable watercooling solution that will help you get the most of your overclocking activities.   ASUS ROG GX800 Sports A Dual-GPU Setup And A Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Making It The Fastest Gaming Laptop In The World Unveiling powerful gaming laptops is definitely a Computex thing, and with ASUS ROG GX800, you will finally be able to bring desktop level performance to gaming notebooks, but that will require some serious cash.…

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AMD Announces Radeon Pro Duo: Dual GPU Fiji Video Card

Tanmay Upadhyay

At AMD’s GDC 2016 “Capsaicin” event, the company  announced their long-awaited dual Fiji video card, ‘Radeon Duo Pro’. The main focus of the card is VR content creation along with high-end gaming. Information regarding a dual Fiji video card being under development was teased by AMD last year in June at the Fiji launch event. The Capsaicin event was mainly focused on VR content rather than the consumer market (against the speculations which were previously made), which led to the launch of a workstation class Gpu which you can game…

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ASUS Announce TUF Sabertooth X99 at CeBIT

Sumon Pathak

Till Now the asus X99 platform was pretty slim. It had the creme de la creme Rampage V Extreme, Mainstream flagship X99 Deluxe,The WS specific X99 WS and  two more mid and entry level X99 Pro and X99 A; quite a small lineup compared to its competitors. With full intention to break the norm Asus today announced the X99 Sabretooth, The TUF treatment that was needed for X99. The notable new features are  TUF Detective : a new software solution which enables you to monitor the system even if the…

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ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 980 Platinum Review part 2 : Gaming Performance

Sumon Pathak

Hello All, Welcome to the second part of the ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 980 Platinum Review . In this part we will cover the gaming performance of the ROG Matrix GTX 980 Platinum under stock and overclocked conditions. Since this is a part of a bigger series I suggest you check out Unboxing and overclocking review . TestBench Processor Core i7 4790K ES Motherboard Asus Maximus VII Formula Memory Kingston Hyper X Fury 1866C10 Graphics Card Asus ROG Matrix Platinum GTX 980 running Forceware 347.25 Power Supply Cooler Master V1000…

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AMD FreeSYNC Driver releasing on 19th March

Sumon Pathak

AMD just released some more info about the FreeSYNC drivers earlier today. According to sources a publicly available FreeSynce driver will be avaliable in AMD’s site by March 19th, so who all are waiting for the Free sync the wait is nearly over. However for Indian users the wait will be a bit longer since the FreeSYNC enabled displays are only available in select EMEA countries as of now. As of now the following monitors are known to be FreeSync enabled. FreeSync Capable Monitors Manufacturer Model # Size Resolution Refresh…

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Asus announces Z97 Pro Gamer in India

Sumon Pathak

The flagship Asus boards offers the bets in motherboard RnD and as such they are the always among the top consideration for a motherboard in an enthusiast build. These features are something which the mainstream motherboards don’t have, like GameFirst, SupremeFX or Sonic Radar. Asus have brought some of these features to the lower end ROG boards like the Gene or Ranger or the Hero for more budget oriented builds. However if any one wants to pair a really budget oriented cpu like the overclockable Pentium G3258 the cost of…

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Assassins Creed Unity : vast and gorgeous but hollow

Debjit Banerjee

“Next gen starts here”,that was the tagline when Ubisoft launched their first teaser of the next gen only Assassin’s Creed Unity.It was gorgeous,magnificently crafted and created a new hope among ac fans that finally the franchisee will be treated with justice and emerge with its own glory.Well Assassin’s Creed Unity is finally here and its still gorgeous and beautiful,but the experience for the gamer is just same as reliving a nightmare.Technical issues made the grand launch a disaster.In next few columns we will try to dig in to the fact…

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