Four hours with the Battlefield 3 beta I managed to sneak into the Battlefield 3 beta on Wednesday afternoon. Right off the bat, I wasn't impressed. First, I had to download and install... |
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![]() We set out to introduce some new game benchmarking methods, and those new tools promptly helped us uncover an intriguing problem: multi-GPU micro-stuttering. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Gaming |
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Just one more mission: impressions of the new Deus Ex It's now 9PM. My plan was to start writing this post three hours ago, but that didn't pan out. Instead of writing, I found myself... |
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![]() We discover the world's greatest virtual concrete slab. Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming |
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Lost in Limbo As much as I love big-budget video games that take armies of developers and artists years to produce, I still have a lot of fun... |
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The ol' ball and chain |
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Riding DiRTy My love for driving games is well documented here at TR. Lately, I've been playing a rather good one: DiRT 3. This third... |
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Lipstick on a pigcop: My take on Duke Nukem Forever I remember the first time I played Duke Nukem 3D. I was 11 and three quarters, and I had convinced my parents to hook us... |
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The 10 commandments of PC games Picture this for a second: you just unpacked the latest PlayBox 720-X blockbuster game, Gran Gears of Duty Fantasy XVIII. It's a game so juicy... |
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Breeding addiction with the Frozen Synapse beta I've never quite understood the numeric rating schemes applied to things like video games. Distilling a wholly subjective experience down to a single digit... |
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Cheating on my CDs and DVDs with Steam I'm sorry, discs. It's not you, it's me. You've treated me well all these years, and perhaps we can still be friends, but... |
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Portal 2: My take At this point, I think it's pretty clear that nobody makes games quite like Valve Software. Where many studios seem to be slaves to their... |
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First impressions of Shift 2 Unleashed I have console envy. That's difficult to admit as a PC gamer. In my defense, this envy has nothing to do with hardware. ... |
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Beaten down by Bit.Trip Runner I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at playing video games. However, every so often I'm handed a beatdown that makes me question... |
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Bulletstorm: Bringing the fun back to single-player FPSes If I've seemed a tad out of it lately, it's because I've been spending much of my free time over the past few days viciously... |
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Hot Pursuit channels classic Need for Speed formula My relationship with the Need for Speed franchise has been a rocky one. In the mid-90s, I was introduced to the series by the... |
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Shanked! This blog post was all laid out. I even spent some time yesterday gathering my thoughts on what was to be the subject: the... |
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Beat trippin' Pong wasn't the first video game, but it might be the earliest one that really mattered. The black-and-white, two-dimensional take on table tennis made... |
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Samsung 970 Pro NVMe SSDs are ready to take a licking | 7 |
Gaming bench status update: I'm collecting a whole new set of numbers out of caution because of some weird deltas I'm observing upon retesting some co... | +38 |