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1,000 World of Warplanes Beta Keys Up for Grabs!

Posted 05/01/2013 at 10:17am | by Paul Lilly

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Come get your free game key (first come, first serve).

Looking for a new flight combat MMO action game? Hoping you can find one set in the Golden Age of military aviation? Are you reading this right now? Well you lucky dog, we just so happen to have a whopping 1,000 beta keys for World of Warplanes to give away courtesy of developers Ukraine Persha Sutdia and Belarus Wargaming.net. World of Warplanes is a free-to-play game, but it's currently in closed beta, meaning you need a key to have early access.

Hit the jump to learn more about this game and to claim your key!

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AMD Catalyst 13.4 Update Addresses Latency Performance in Several Games

Posted 04/26/2013 at 11:43am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD promises a significant reduction in latency in titles like Skyrim and Tomb Raider.

A new driver package is available for AMD Radeon, Mobility Radeon, and PowerXpress GPUs. It's AMD's Catalyst 13.4 update and it's supposed to "significantly" improve latency performance in Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider, and Hitman Absolution, according to the release notes. it also offers performance gains in several titles across the entire range of Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics cards.

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Smartphones, Tablets Will Account for 64 Billion Game Downloads by 2017

Posted 04/25/2013 at 12:36pm | by Paul Lilly

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Free-to-play games proving popular on mobile devices.

Mobile gaming is already popular, but if new data from Juniper Research proves accurate, the number of game app downloads will steadily rise to more than 64.1 billion over the next four years. That would mark a greater than three-fold increase over the 21 billion game downloads that occurred in 2012, and it's thanks to a combination of free-to-play games, more capable devices, and a growing number of smartphones around the world.

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Helm's Deep Expansion for Lord of the Rings Online Pushes Level Cap to 95

Posted 04/24/2013 at 11:39am | by Paul Lilly

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The fifth expansion is set to debut in Fall 2013.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced that a fifth expansion to its Lord of the Rings Online free-to-play MMORPG, Helm's Deep, is slated for release this Fall. The new expansion stretches the story into the western plans of Rohan where players will battle for direct control of Helm's Deep, introducing 10 new levels and advancing the level cap from 85 to 95 in the process.

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Nvidia GeForce 320.00 Beta Drivers Increases Performance Up to 20 Percent

Posted 04/23/2013 at 12:17pm | by Paul Lilly

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Free performance gain, if you don't mind beta software.

If you like to live on the edge by installing pre-release software, risks be damned, and own an Nvidia-based graphics card, today's your lucky today. Nvidia just released new 320.00 beta drivers for GeForce graphics cards, and if you install them, the GPU maker says you can enjoy performance gains up to 20 percent. Most of the gains won't be quite as high, though several titles receive a shot in the arm from the new drivers.

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AMD Adds Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon to Never Settle Game Bundle

Posted 04/12/2013 at 10:27am | by Paul Lilly

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A sweet deal just got a little sweeter.

AMD's series of Never Settle bundles are proving popular among gamers in need of a GPU upgrade, and to keep the good times rolling, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is now part of the Reloaded package. It's actually the only title in the Never Settle Reloaded bundle that's offered across the board among the Sunnyvale chip designer's lineup of Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics cards.

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Electronic Arts Trims Staff in "Streamlining" Effort

Posted 04/12/2013 at 9:46am | by Paul Lilly

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Rough times continue for EA.

Games publisher Electronic Arts has started handing out pink slips in another round of job cuts. It's unclear how many people EA plans to let go, though it appears most of the layoffs are being focused on the publisher's Montreal-based mobile development studio, which had been rumored to be in the process of shutting down. EA said it doesn't plan to close the studio, though it did confirm the layoffs.

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Thief Developer Promises PC Version Won't Be a Crappy Console Port

Posted 04/10/2013 at 8:59am | by Paul Lilly

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PC gamers deserve better than a straight-up console ports.

There exists lists on the web of the worst console to PC game ports (and vice versa, to be fair), which is frightening in and of itself. It's a disturbing trend that underscores how PC players are sometimes treated like second class gamers, and it's a real shame when you consider how much flexibility the PC platform offers in terms of controls, mods, graphics, and everything else. In light of this, it's refreshing to hear Thief developer Stephane Roy promise something better for PC gamers.

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Richard Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar Raises $1.9 Million on Kickstarter

Posted 04/08/2013 at 11:29am | by Paul Lilly

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From the shadows, a voice whispered in Lord British's ear. It said, "If you build it, they will come."

Good news, Ultima fans! The spiritual successor to the franchise you invested so much of your time has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Not that there was any doubt whatsoever that Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues (SotA) would receive the necessary funding to move forward, the only question being how much money would Lord British and company have to work with. The answer? Nearly twice as much as they were seeking.

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Snarky Microsoft Director Tweets Support for Always-On Consoles

Posted 04/05/2013 at 12:27pm | by Paul Lilly

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Uh Redmond, you have a problem, and his name is Adam Orth...

Microsoft has some damage control to take care of, and if any of the decision makers in Redmond have an ounce of sense, they'll issue an official statement, and perhaps an apology, STAT. For what, you ask? Well, it's never good when your games director takes to Twitter to argue with fans over sensitive subjects like always-on digital rights management (DRM), and it's even worse when he cops a condescending attitude the way Adam Orth did. Here's what happened.

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