Must be good right?
The visuals and overall aesthetic are fantastic:
If there is one thing Supergiant should be known for, it is their art department. It's vibrant, colorful and most importantly atmospheric. The soundtrack is alright. It's up on soundcloud somewhere should you wish to here it.
The game begins with Red (you) pulling that sword known as Transistor out of some dead guy. You've had your voice stolen but still make vocal noises so I assume its a metaphorical vo
Kaveri is about 30 hours away from launching as of time of writing and some people such as myself are just itching for official benchies. This is pretty much AMD's Hail Marry to stay relevant on the x86 CPU coin. I understand the shit storm that will come with that statement but I have good things to say about it I swear.
I don't think Kaveri will change much on the desktop as GloFo's 28 nm process isn't able to clock as high in the same power envelope. That kinda sucks because I like my d
After a 14 year hiatus from the series in its entirety, I got Pokemon Y. The last game I played was red so the jump from gen 1 to 6 is not so much large as more or less consisting of "WTF is this thing?" I've made it a bit past the 3rd gym thus far so I'd like to put my thoughts in you.
First, the negatives as this for once is going to be the shortest. There's a bit too much carry over from ye olden days. I understand it may be due to balance but there's no reason to only have 4 moves availa
Who's down for some good ol' fashion OS bashing? I know I sure am. This pertains to NT 6.3 shipped straight from Redmund, WA to a warehouse and then to my domicile. Yes, I'm using Windows 8. No, it isn't a fresh pile of dung, more like a rehashed and repacked pile with a fancy ribbin on. I can't really comment on the not-metro UI as shockingly, I've only used it a few times and two times was to pin the control panel to my task bar. As such we'll gloss over the elephant in the room for the most p
Well after a month and a half of Intel's Haswell CPU hitting the streets, I finally splurged on an i7 4770k to replace my 4 year old Phenom II. The difference is phenominal. It really is. My framerates in TF2 alone are far better. The lowest I've seen was ~70 FPS on a 32 man 2fort server which certainly beats ~40 or at least it would. See a long time ago when I bought my Phenom II, microsoft had a deal on windows 7 for college students where you could buy Windows 7 Pro for $30. It was great, pro
Back in the really olden days of PCs, it was common to buy a $600 "breadbox" computer (Commodore 64 anyone?), hook it up to the TV and away you go. More fancy computers like Apple 2s and IBM PCs had their own monitor. Now the separate PC were usually progressive scan. That means that the whole frame is drawn on the screen rather than opposing alternating lines (or interlace). Fast forward to the HD craze and now people who I can only hope do know better, state that their computer monitor is 1080
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A long, long time ago (aka a few months ago) my much beloved square box COWON D2 met its fate after I got angry and punched the screen because of metadata malarkey. I'd show you a picture but I either lost it or threw it away and don't remember doing it, so just imagine someone threw a wiimote at it. Shortly after I picked up a Sansa Clip Zip after doing a whole 3 minutes of comparing it to the Clip+. The reasoning behind this is while its not as big as my D2, n
I've been reading AT forums for a while now because I want to know every fuzzing detail there is to know about Intel's upcoming archecture codenamed "Haswell". In one of the threads, there was something about a show called Computer Chronicles and as I'm easily amused by watching fast screens, I watched the episode where they were comparing Intel's Pentium CPU to that of a 486. I had a good amount of laughs as they're talking about motherboards with 256K of cache and having to use a heatsink beca
Both companies unveiled new gaming devices at CES this year. Nvidia unveiled a mobile handheld called Project shield: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3845282/nvidia-announces-project-shield-handheld-gaming-system It is essentially a controller with a 5 inch flip screen on it. The most important aspect of this is the new Tegra 4 CPU which is a quad core ARM A15 based chip with what I'm assuming 72 Kepler based CUDA cores (the next nexus 7 should be pretty awesome should they use it). The device
Mini rant ahead...
As the title suggests, there is a new MLP game for Android and iOS devices by Gameloft. It's like a pony version of Cityville. I'd love to tell you that this is a first hand experience but as it turns out I haven't played either. I'm not interested in cityville and this new game:
Does not support Gingerbread
Does not support BlueStacks but thats not exactly shocking
and lastly does not support Android 4.0 on an x86 platform, confuzzling as android is linux kernel pla
I find it quite astonishing that display technology went from a high voltage electron gun fired at Phosphorus on the back of a think glass vacuum tube to independant crystals moving in front of polarized film to individual lights on what is a glorified potentiometer. Yet, the humble speaker hasn't funademtally changed since its inception. It's still a piece of material connected to a coil of copper wire with current passing through it around a stationary magnet. The materials that make a speaker
I've known this for quite some time but I've gotten pretty good at repressing things. Sometime in December or whatever my brother's GF is pumping out another unit. I can't really describe it in any other way except with a sarcastic great... Now I have another germ bucket to deal with. Another, yelling, whining, snot bubbling, incoherent, dim witted, bug eyed, downright dirty "thing" to deal with and I know I'll have to deal with it. After all, its family. Can't exactly exile them (for the most p
Cell Phones have been toting cameras for nearly a decade now if not longer. The technology gets smaller and better and so we see an increase in the uber awesomezorz mega pixels and yet not one cell camera that I've seen has handled any lighting condition outside of flouresent or natural with any form of quality. Every picture is rather dark, a bit washed out (or sepia toned) and usually grainy. Why? Digital cameras aren't new. I understand that the actual sensor in a cellphone camera isn't big b
