Category: Gaming

5 most addictive iPhone games of 2016

Karan S

If you’re the phone hugger types, these 10 most addictive games on iPhone would definitely not let you put your iPhone down: 5. Crossy Road An all time favourite which holds to be good companion whenever you’re getting bored. More often while you are waiting for your bus, train or friend at a mall. 4. Ridiculous Fishing A good wrist exercise, Tilt your phone w=and lower your fishing hook, catch as many fish as possible. Avoid predators like jelly fish, they suck your prize catch away. Use hilarious items on your…

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Google Pixel: Long-term Verdict

Karan S

We’ve been using the Google Pixel phone since the day of its launch. We’ve been in a delima since than - Write a review about the Pixel or not write it. In the meantime we were using the phone in our everyday life and grew more and more appreciative about it, to the point that now we are going to make an attempt to review it. The Google Pixel XL differs only in terms of screen size from its smaller cousin. Me being an ergonomics lover, preffered the Pixel. For…

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Study: Video games help people relax

Karan S

Apart from having a comfortable pillow to help make you sleep better, did you know that video games can actually help you feel more relaxed? Video games are often frowned upon as something that lends to an unhealthy lifestyle. Most parents tell their kids that Nintendo or PlayStations are bad because these consoles make people anti-social and can offer up violent content. Of course, several scientific studies have debunked these beliefs, and now, it would seem that they actually do more good than initially thought by most. Howard Markman, a…

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Niantic Labs : A Google Startup

Karan S

Niantic? Heard the name a lot lately? For the uninitiated it is the name of company which gave the World Pokemon Go. The company had its humble beginnings as an internal startup at Google in 2010, founded by John Hanke (founder of Keyhole, Inc.). The company is focused on Augmented Realty products. Their first product “Field Trip” was launched in 2012 and later in the year during November, 2012 they introduced Android only app “Ingress”. Both games/apps are based on Google Maps allowing oneself to discover things in their local…

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E3 PS4 2014 Live Announcements [Video Stream, Predictions]

Tarandeep Singh

The yearly game developer conference would be live on 9PM EST, on 9th June 2014. The event would be broadcasted live to all the states in United states and also can be watched online. New Games announcements / rumors for PS4 at E3 2014 Uncharted 4 Project Morpheus: VR headset from sony PS Vita TV PS Plus for EU and more Many new Indie games. Last of us remastered for PS4 Driveclub demo, release in october Gran Turismo 7 - a remastered Gran Turismo 6 with 1080p @60FPS God of War…

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Xbox One vs. PS4: GPU Performance Comparison

Tarandeep Singh

The two gaming console Giants Microsft and Sony had lined up their Xbox One and PS4 for the year end release. Both of these gaming consoles have been closely speced, and very near-identical features. Read: Xbox One vs. PS4 – Choosing The Right Gaming Console. Ultimately, these are gaming consoles. Bigger, better titles along with better Graphics hardware will make the platform lose or win over the other. Even though both of the gaming consoles use AMD Jaguar 8-core processor, they use a very different GPU. Xbox One vs. PS4…

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Xbox One vs. PS4 - Choosing The Right Gaming Console

Tarandeep Singh

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were both announced earlier this year and complete details were unveiled at the yearly Gaming conference: E3. Both of the Gaming consoles look very promising, and they are so close to each other in terms of specs and features, that you can easily get confused over which one is right for you. VERDICT Ultimately, its hard to say which one console is the winner. One console might be the right console for you, other may not. You’ve to choose what you prefer. In favor of…

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Xbox One Features, Details, Specs

Tarandeep Singh

Xbox One is the Next generation of Xbox 360 console, which comes as an upgrade after more 8 years long wait. Xbox One sports an inbuilt Kinect camera which is upgraded to 1080 FullHD wide-angle, to capture more around it with greater detail and faster motion 60fps capture. The new Xbox One reads depth, orientation, motions, better than before. Not just the Kinect camera, even the new controller has received a condemnable facelift. The new motion controller processes a stunning 2GB of data per-second to accurately read your environment. Xbox One Specs The…

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Watch Xbox One 720 Launch Event Live Video Stream

Tarandeep Singh

Xbox 360 is getting a major upgrade today, after long awaited decade of awesomeness. Sony had revealed details of PlayStation 4 back in February, and lived upto the expectations. Will Xbox ONE aka New Xbox8 would do the same? Watch Xbox Live Event Video stream #XboxReveal Event will be live streamed from Microsoft headquarters: Redmond, Washington. You can watch it here: Update: Xbox One Details, Specs Here are the timings: Seattle: 10 a.m. New York: 1 p.m. London 6 p.m. Tokyo: Wednesday 2 a.m. Chicago: 12 p.m. San Francisco: 10…

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PlayStation 4 Details, Specs, Features

Tarandeep Singh

Sony has finally announced the upgrade for the most awaited PlayStation gaming console: the PlayStation 4. The announcement was made today at a gaming event in New York City. Sony ditches the Cell processor from PS3 world and switches to x86 processor (from the PC world). The new x86 Processor has 8 Cores. Moving to x86 is a big & worthy bet for Sony. Most game developers have only access to x86 platform, this step would even enable indie-developers to contribute to PSN games, contents, thereby making everyone’s life easier.…

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Nvidia Tegra 4 Specs, Features [CPU, GPU]

Tarandeep Singh

Quad-core SoCs have been in-vogue in 2012. 2013 is the year of better performing, yet more efficient quad-core processors. We won’t see 6-core or 8-core mobile CPUs/SoCs commercializing this year. 2013 is all about improving on existing chips, essentially called tock-cycle as per Intel terminology. Tegra 4 will have 5-cores, just like Tegra 3 with 5th core dedicated towards battery optimization. However, Tegra fourth-generation chip is built on an all-new architecture. As per Nvidia’s CEO, Tegra 4 is the world’s fastest mobile processor, above and beyond everything in the market.…

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iPad 4 GPU vs Nexus 10 vs iPad 3 Graphics Performance [Benchmark]

Tarandeep Singh

iPad 3 or early 2012 New iPad was the first tablet to support a high resolution Display. The trend then shifted everywhere from aamzon Kindle HD to Google’s flagship Nexus 10, making the displays even better. iPad 4 sports the same 260dpi Retina display as iPad 3, but facelifts the graphics processing by two folds with A6X, as per Apple. The previous generation chip, the A5X, had two ARM Cortex A9 cores running at 1GHz paired with four PowerVR SGX 543 cores running at 250MHz. The entire SoC integrated 4 x…

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CryEngine 3 - Best Realistic Gaming Engine

Tarandeep Singh

Graphics for Gaming are coming to a level where you find it hard to differentiate between whats real and what’s graphics. Modern Gaming Engines are making the differences narrower than ever. If you’re an avid gamer, you probably crave for better graphics with superb Tesselation altogether. Traditionally, graphics were all designed as polygons. Even a circle is nothing but a polygon with a large number of sides. But with modern graphics like Tesselation, the world detail can be rendered upto a all new level. The Video demo outed by CryTech…

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Should You Buy OUYA Gaming Console?

Tarandeep Singh

Whether its PC, TV or Mobile devices like Android/iOS portables, Gaming is one thing you are never far from. But the best Gaming experience is still the best on the largest screen in your Home: TV. This is one reason why hardcore gamers stick with PS3 / Xbox 360 and PC. Well, OUYA is another attempt to bring Gaming back to the TV, at a very affordable price. OUYA is a startup based in California (LA) which came up with this idea of making Gaming fun, more reachable, and affordable.…

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Future of Gaming: Linux vs. Windows 8

Tarandeep Singh

For years, Windows has been the defacto platform for Gamers, thanks to the wide set of factors: Better driver support, proprietary technologies push, and Microsoft marketing. OS X has got the potential, thanks to Mac App Store and Macbooks/Mac Pros adopting powerful graphics. But would it take off, is just a matter of time. Windows 8 can have brighter future with Gaming thanks to upcoming Microsoft’s plan to bring Xbox game compatibility to Windows 8 PCs. We could see Direct X 12, Driect X 13 unifying the Gaming platform for…

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