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Article: Shootmania: Storm Review & Gameplay Videos
Twitch shooters have been a long-time staple in the somewhat volatile PC gaming market. Since its early days in the Quake and Unreal series, the clutch genre rooted itself with its fast-paced, drop-in/drop-out, competitive and entirely skill-based gameplay; without weapon balance to fall back on, games like Shootmania force players to be committed to their plan-of-attack and quick on the keys. It all comes down to the ability to dodge and...
Article: Logitech G500s Gaming Mouse Review & Specs
Hot on the heels of Steve's review of Logitech's high-end G700s, we're regrouping to bring you another Logitech mouse review -- this time, it's the Logitech G500s gaming mouse. The mouse uses a chassis that brings back memories of the MX518, G5, and G500 (non-s) mice by Logitech, using a similar chassis/frame layout, a powerful sensor, quality hardware, and a mid-range...
Article: Logitech G700s Review - Wireless Gaming Mouse Tear-Down
Gaming peripherals are currently spearheading our efforts to deconstruct the underlying components within gaming hardware and, following our Genius Gila review, today we look at Logitech's new G700s mouse. We first spoiled Logitech's new gaming peripherals right before PAX East, where we covered hard specs and talked a bit about...
Article: Genius GX-Gaming Gila MMO/RTS Mouse Review & Tear-Down
Following-up with our Genius DeathTaker and Logitech G600 reviews, and our Logitech pre-PAX round-up, we're now looking to Genius' Gila (pronounced hee-la), a high-end gaming mouse. This review looks at the Genius GX-Gaming Gila...
Article: Genius GX DeathTaker MMO/RTS Gaming Mouse Review
We've been busy with PAX here at GamersNexus for the past weeks, but now the team is back and it's time to catch up on some peripheral reviews. First in line is a mouse—and it isn't Logitech this time (but you should also check out our Logitech roundup)—no, this time it's the Genius DeathTaker. Just let that name sink in for a...
Article: New Logitech Peripherals - G700s, G500s mice; G510s, G19s keyboards
Logitech's made our job of titling a post difficult this time. With impeccable timing, the company is unveiling eight new products (two headsets, two keyboards, four mice), and has effectively renewed its dedication to PC gaming. This launch sees marketing material surrounding their G-Series branding—a letter that is clearly superior to its 25 competitors, all vying for power—with the...
Article: $1126 High-End Crysis 3 Gaming PC Build - February, 2013
The legacy left by the original Crysis is one of worldwide renown: Shipping at just around the same time as nVidia's 8800-series GPUs—which were ground-breaking in their own right—the game promised to push PC gaming to new heights. It delivered. Well, graphically, at least; Crytek's CryEngine has famously pushed multi-FPU (floating-point-unit) support to better accommodate multi-core chips, and that trend continues with CryEngine...
Article: Holiday / Xmas Game Sale Round-Up - Games Worth Buying
As all the digital distributors try to finish off the year with a high-yield sale, we're seeing fierce competition between competing game distribution outlets. Contrary to popular belief, Steam is not the only digital distributor -- there are several other excellent game download services (Good Old Games, Amazon, and Desura, to name a few), so we've done the hard work and...
Article: Star Citizen Technology Interview: Gaming for HW Enthusiasts
When left uncorrupted by the technologically-crippling nature of consoles, PC gaming's propensity for visual and mechanical immersion provides an unrivaled entertainment medium for gamers. Even the cheapest, most stripped-down budget gaming PC has technology that far-and-away surpasses the capabilities of the current-gen consoles. Transistor count alone is indicative of the vast leaps made in the last 7 years: the...
Article: Level Design 101 for Mapping & Modding
Level Design is probably the most important production stage of any game: The environment of a level is what the player directly interacts with -- visually and physically -- and determines what, how, when, and why all of the different elements come together. This design can hopefully provide the player with an...
Article: Raining Hellfire in Ravaged: Q&A Dev Play Session
2Dawn's hellish, chaotic amalgamation of cannon-equipped muscle cars, slapdash choppers, and makeshift outposts - mostly crafted of tin sidepanel - all come together in the lawless hellscape that is Ravaged. And that's really...
Article: $522 Budget Borderlands 2 Gaming Build - October, 2012
Building an affordable gaming PC is always a good investment: Not only is it useful for every day tasks, it can also be utilized for professional applications (like video editing) and, of course, gaming. With the GTX 650 and GTX 660 being so readily available at a budget, there's no reason a $500-$600 gaming PC build couldn't play most modern games at respectable graphics...
Article: Insurgency 2: Everything We Know So Far (Interview)
Realistic shooters are something else -- they require a level of patience and dedication that, unsurprisingly, can make for brutal inch-by-inch firefights. It's a nice break from twitch-shooters, and while both have their place, realism-focused environments are much more rare in their success and have a tendency to scare newer players off.
Article: What Peripherals Say About Gaming Style
There are a lot of ways to measure a gamer's personal style: Kill-to-Death ratios, class choices, progression, the ability to endure 60 hours of clicking, and -- naturally -- gaming peripherals. Nothing speaks more to gaming finesse than arming oneself with the latest, most expensive keyboard, a 7.1, nay, 19.5 surround-sound headset, a 17-button mouse, and a comfortable chair. The...
Article: On Mobile Game Longevity and Detachment - M3CH Interview
Talking to ambitious, talented, indie developers is always a humbling experience: It takes a lot of love, skill, luck, and other impossibly complex factors to complete and produce a successful game – whether that’s defined as “millions in sales,” or, in the case of M3CH developer Small Impact, “just enough to eat.”
Article: Chivalry - Medieval Warfare vs. War of the Roses - PAX East 2012
Slicing opponents into slivers of what could be misconstrued as delicious bacon has to be one of the most rewarding multiplayer experiences achievable. Due to technical blockades and, perhaps, a heavily-saturated singleplayer/MMORPG market, medieval-style slashers rarely hit the multiplayer scene with enough force to make an impact; Age of Chivalry and
Article: Borderlands 2 Hands-on - A Wubbable Game - PAX East 2012
Gearbox gives the Borderlands franchise, best known for its unique mix of FPS and RPG elements, a fresh look in the upcoming sequel; in five years since the first game, Handsome Jack has moved in with his Hyperion Corporation and taken over Pandora. It’s his goal to awaken an ancient power, known only as "The Warrior," hidden away somewhere on Pandora. Only the four new vault hunters (Maya, Zero, Axton, and Salvador) can use their special...
Article: Firefall “not a pay-to-win model - fun comes first” PAX East 2012
You know someone’s a gamer when their first instinct is to start jumping on things: Lampposts, fences, buildings, NPCs – and, in the case of Firefall, roaming packs of enemy players in a cataclysmic arena. The last one, unlike its preceding brethren, resulted in the death of many a red-armor-wearing opponent. None survive the death-from-aboves performed by my beastly character, Mr. Cotton, wearer of fearsome pink...
Article: Saturday Heat Signature: Chivalry - Medieval Warfare Preview
It's been a while since we reviewed Age of Chivalry - one of the first articles I wrote for the site - and now Team Chivalry has announced their commercial venture: Chivalry - Medieval Warfare, a multiplayer, medieval frag-fest in first-person! And for once, something with the acronym "MW" doesn't involve guns. Just lots of blood. And decapitation.
Article: Thinking of getting Mass Effect 3? Help GN out in the process!
We've written about them before for their innovative PC game renting system (in our Steam alternatives article), and we're writing about them again: Green Man Gaming is currently offering Mass Effect 3 for 20% off for anyone who buys the title before March 11th. Remember that article we wrote complaining about "the $60 game" being
