Bloody “Headshot” V8 Gaming Mouse (Ultra Core Enabled) Review
Bloody Headshot. Could a mouse possibly have a better name?
In my time as a gamer I’ve had the opportunity to use a lot of gaming mice. Logitech, Microsoft, Razer, Mionix: these are just a few names I’ve had my hands on.
During E3, the folks at Bloody dropped one of their gaming mice on me and asked me to do a no-nonsense review. Of course, I accepted and after using that mouse for the last two weeks, I’m ready to render my verdict, with a nice video of one of the main advertised features – recoil suppression.
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Why Buying A New High-End Phone Every Year Makes Sense
I constantly need the future in my hand.
When Sprint downgraded, then eliminated their Sprint Premier program, I knew it was time to move on. Other carriers had done the same thing with their rewards programs for people who paid higher rates for their plans, this much I understood, but it eliminated one of the biggest reasons I stayed with Sprint once the smartphone war began to settle in for real. In reality, I’d still pay a bit more per month so I could get a new phone every year at retail price and not have to pay an Early Termination Fee to switch. The carriers will have to cede a little, but will they bite? To the point: why would you need a new phone every year, anyway?
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PlayStation 4 Versus Xbox One: This Is What The First Year Of The War Looks Like
The Battle Has Yet To Begin
The quantities are beginning to be known, the “primaries” are over and this November frames an election that will dictate the capital of home console entertainment for longer than four years. But the fireworks don’t conclude this year, oh no, this is going to be a long-fought battle until we see the next batch of consoles arrive. Many think they know how this first year is going to roll out, but you’d be surprised. Let me tell you how this war is going to happen.
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FEZ Week In Review: Week #26, 2013 – Don Mattrick, ‘Hotline Miami 2’, More ‘Halo’
MATTRICK SLAPDOWN COMMENCES.
FEZ Week In Review is a series we prepared all of our original content from the past week for you to gaze at! On top of that, we go over the stories that mattered most to you in the past seven days, whether gaming, tech, entertainment or otherwise, and bring them together for you to view in one quick glance!
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Windows 8.1’s Marketing Is Confusing As Hell
Grumble, grumble, grumble. I hate change and updated.
Seriously. Months back, the tech media started talking about Microsoft’s Windows Blue, the next version of Windows. Didn’t Windows 8 just release? Was it that big of a flop that Microsoft needed to scramble and build the next version? Well, no. Tech ites either blew everything out of proportion or they’re still confused. Read the rest of this article…
‘Planetary Annihilation’, Or Should I Say “Monetary Annihilation”?
Burning up that bank account!
Over the last several months we have talked a lot about the price of video games. Some devs and publishers are clearly trying to push prices down while others are fine with the status quo. Somehow though, we seem to have some developers who are more than happy to drive the price of video games up. I really can’t help but wonder how they get away with it.
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Google Is Making A Video Game Console, Which Means Euuuugggghhhh
…but on your Android-powered console, hooked up to a TV, in theory.
People are freaking out today at the prospect that Google is making a video game console. Since Android is open-source, hardware would-be players like Ouya and Gamestick are already beginning to fill the field by crafting their own gaming hardware on top of Google’s mobile operating system. My thoughts are lukewarm for a variety reasons I’m about to get into, but anyone expecting some kind of market disruption out of this needs to slow down on the headlines and Facebook posts, because a Google console can create more of a mess than it creates.
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Two Big Kickstarters Concluded Today – ‘Massive Chalice’ And ‘Kickstarted’ – Did You Kick In?
The loop closes.
It’s not terribly often that two (or more) major Kickstarters conclude their campaigns within hours of each other, but that’s what happened today. Often times, we give our dollars and they just kinda go on without us until we get the e-mail that they’re done and our bank accounts were charged. While it’s too late to chip in now, let’s go over and see what you may have missed! Disclosure: I’m running my own Kickstarter campaign at the moment and I backed both of these projects.
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After Build Conference, Microsoft Says Xbox One Is(n’t) Better For Indies
One of this generation’s pivotal arguments for indie gaming.
If you’ve ever played a game on your smartphone, you understand the importance of allowing not just indie developers on a gaming platform, but allowing them to self-publish. Thousands of “garage developers” around the world make their living on platforms, whether PC, Vita or Android and in many ways, they serve as their foundation while bigger developers with massive budgets get much of the promotional space. The Xbox One, however, is somehow staunchly opposed to these developers taking root on their platform, an opinion lifted from the Xbox 360 days. With Microsoft’s Build conference ongoing for developers, you’d think they’d clear the waters and either endorse indie developers or provide a little relief. Well, they kinda did. Kinda.
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‘Downloaded’ Review: The Rise And Fall Of Napster, Just Like I Remember It
Sean and Shawn now years after the fact.
Like a lot of curious teenagers around the turn of the century, I was quickly learning everything I could about acquiring music online. Long before iTunes, even longer before Zune and Spotify’s subscriptions, downloading MP3s was a wild frontier. You’d hit up one site which had some of the songs you wanted, but some were rubbish quality, so you’d hop to the next site and so forth. In an era when a four-minute radio hit would take ten times that amount of time to acquire, Napster was grooming all these disparate communities into one place where you could eventually find everything you ever wanted. It was the beginning of one of history’s most glorious disruptions. It was also the beginning of the end for Napster.
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