According to an anonymous source at Ars Technica, long-running Power Magazine is ceasing publication. Now-deleted Tweets from members of the Power staff seem to confirm this, though no official statement from the magazine has been posted. Published by Future Publishing, which also publishes GamesRadar and CVG, the magazine has been in circulation since 1988. From the […]
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Google’s Nexus 7 is a tempting alternative to expensive smartphones.
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“A PC running a single AMD Radeon HD7970 GPU, for instance, can try on average an astounding 8.2 billion password combinations each second, depending on the algorithm used to scramble them. Only a decade ago, such speeds were possible only when using pricey supercomputers.” ~ From an article in Ars Technica that will make you want to change […]
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IGN missed out on some great PS3 exclusives when it put together its Top 25 PlayStation 3 Games list.
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It’s impressive to watch Blizzard implement changes to its still-fledgling Diablo III. Has any developer so rapidly evolved its game in response to fan backlash before? Has any game so rapidly evolved in response to fan feedback? While the company hasn’t fixed the number one problem with the game – its always-online requirement – they […]
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By and large, I enjoyed Diablo III. Probably the most disappointing part of the game, to me, was Act IV, the High Heavens, and the final boss fight. While each Act preceding the final battle is reasonably long, the final Act feels rushed. I liked the High Heavens, too – the look and feel of […]
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At 4.88 inches, the top screen of the larger portable 3DS XL makes ‘s vanilla 3DS seem rather puny, clocking in at just 3.53 inches. The 3DS XL has a bottom display of 4.18 inches compared to the 3DS bottom screen which is just 3.02 inches. The 3DS XL also features twice the capacity of […]
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The creators of violent video games have a responsibility to the message their work conveys, even if video games play by different rules than the real world.
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Spoilers through Sunday night’s episode of Breaking Bad, Buyout, the sixth episode of Season 5. Five thousand dollars. That’s the magic number. For Walter White, it’s a much more magical number than the $737,000 he needed to raise in the first place to fight his cancer. It’s even more magical than the $5 million he […]
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In Joe Abercrombie’s ‘The Heroes’ the fantasy author paints a difficult portrait of war. Unfortunately, he leans too heavily on his debut trilogy.
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