A convention about gaming isn’t complete if it focuses just on the games and not the hardware they can run on. And that brings to light the tangible side of our fine industry – the gaming rig. And those rigs…
PAX East 2018: Liquid-cooled RAM coming soon from ADATA
Gamers and PC enthusiasts alike are all about 2 things when it comes to their gaming rigs – customization and optimization. The former is a show of aesthetic style, touting lighting and case mods to make it a visual masterpiece.…
PAX East 2018: VR, Guns, and The American Dream
With the advent of the Rift and the Vive and other consoles, virtual reality has become the new playground for games, jumping us from 2D worlds to 3D immersive experiences. The greatest part is the breadth of genres the platform…
PAX East 2018: Soul Calibur VI Impressions
The Soul Calibur franchise and I have an interesting relationship. The first entry dominated the evenings of my roommates and I in college, where we ran “first to 99” head to head rounds using Edge Master on our Dreamcast. It was…
Technical Fowl’s 2018 April Fool’s Roundup
Everyone loves a good joke, and over the years April Fool’s Day has brought us some great jokes and bits from a number of sites around the web. It’s come to be something we all expect on April 1st, especially…
The Geek’s Guide to Power Outages
I live up in the Philadelphia area, and these last few weeks have plagued us with nor’easters. For those playing the home game that aren’t from the US northeast or atlantic coast, a nor’easter is a cyclone of cold frozen…
Net neutrality in a nutshell? Forget the tech giants, ask Burger King
Words about net neutrality have been bandied about in mainstream America over the last year since FCC Chairman Ajit “no really guys, i’m just a geek like you, look at my oversized and not at all pandering Reese’s mug” Pai…
Diablo III’s Darkening of Tristram Event Back for More
This old man remembers playing the first Diablo back in high school (yes, this is literally old school for me), when choices were relatively simple and technology was relatively basic. You had 3 classes, 6 equipment slots, a small inventory, and…
The 2017 Bit Awards
This past December, the indie gaming scene got to end the year in New York with the second annual Bit Awards presented by Playcrafting. Fans and developers filled the Tishman Auditorium at Parsons for more than just awards being handed…