Tag: PC
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Efficient Gaming: Blizzard Games
Blizzard plays the hits again, and again, and again. Starcraft 2 came out on July 27, 2010 and I am still logging 2-6 hours in game per week. That was seven years ago. Seven years ago I had just met my future wife. Seven years ago the Xbox 360 and PS3 were in full swing.…
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LawBreakers has fallen into the abyss between markets
LawBreakers is a tiny slice of an already small pie. This is going to be a short one because there isn’t a lot to say. Unfortunately, for what is probably a great group of developers, LawBreakers is falling very short of expectations. Not every game on the market needs to be the next Overwatch or Counter-Strike,…
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Efficient Gaming Spotlight: Everspace
Space is big. Everspace is right-sized. I don’t like “roguelikes”. I’ve never been able to get into the start-over game loop that has seemingly taken over a large portion of indie development. Call me cynical, but I’ve always felt that style of game was low effort and overly punishing (the developer ran out of ideas…
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I might be potato league, but today I made a save…
Here at GO30, we love Rocket League. It hits all the right efficient gaming notes: easy to pick up, fun to play, and great with friends. There are a lot of good players out there that can do some amazing things. Reddit is full of videos & gifs of people sky dribbling, wall jumping, and…
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Efficient Gaming: Adult LAN Party Edition
The adult LAN party. No, not that kind…the other kind. I had the pleasure of attending a LAN party over the weekend. A good time was certainly had by all. We almost have the formula perfected but getting to this point took some trial and error. Nothing says “I love gaming with friends” like packing…
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Dear Microsoft, The Xbox is an x86 PC (stop pretending it’s not)
Microsoft’s Ken Lobb (think Goldeneye) did an interview with Game Informer (linked from Gamespot) and danced around the fact that the Xbox family of consoles are small form x86 computers (thus they are going to upgrade them like a standard PC instead of releasing an entirely new device). Here is what he said: “What’s new is…