Review: Grand Theft Auto V PC

Needless to say, this is fantastic news for everyone at Double Fine -- but it's more than that. The success of the Kickstarter demonstrates with extreme clarity that, as a group, gamers can be effectively mobilized and are willing to support the work they cherish. Where this will go next is anyone's guess, but for the moment I am extraordinarily proud of our commun

We have been working so hard to define video games as an important piece of the tapestry of global culture, and now we may have to resort to the "it's just a game" argument to keep virtual reality afloat. I have some serious concerns that we are actually going to be taking steps backwards, not forwards like I had thought, when we inevitably adopt virtual reality as a part of gaming.

I want to emphasize that I’m not afraid of this getting into children’s hands. If it does, that’s a failing of parents, not any of the companies related to the game or any of the peripherals used in the video. I am worried about what this might do to a whole era of games that support full virtual reality. What I had once envisioned as a device that would take classrooms to the surface of Mars so their teachers can explain first hand what unimaginable wonders are in our galaxy may in the future be used to simulate weapons to an unprecedented degree of precision.

A week before E3, and more than halfway through its Kickstarter campaign to raise $1.35 million, Paul Caporicci, CEO and founder of Precursor Games, canceled the Kickstarter - which hadn't even crossed the 10% mark - and posted a message starting they're postponing the Kickstarter and will relaunch later with "new developments." We don't know the real reason behind the change, but part of the reasons was that they likely weren't going to meet the funding goal and wouldn't have raised any money this way. Part of the issue is the involvement of Denis Dyack and the resulting confusion of the studio's relationship to Silicon Knights, and the lack of clarity surrounding what the game would offer. It's going to relaunch with s lower funding goal at some point, but we don't know w


Wargaming is expanding its already vast player empire to consoles with the surprise unveil during Microsoft's Xbox E3 2013 Media Briefing that World of Tanks would be coming exclusively to the Xbox 360. That of course means that, when ready, World of Warplanes and World of Warships will follow suit and all three will surely make their way to the Xbox One eventually. Leading up to E3, Wargaming released the above cinematic trailer for World of Warplanes . Can it beat the impressive and similar free-to-play WWII online flight sim/shooter, War Thund


At the Sega booth during E3 2013, we had a chance to get hands-on with Total War: ROME II . Just before the big event, the above cinematic teaser trailer was released focusing on the story of Cleopa


Drawing inspiration not from Fallout 3 , but the games which preceded it (with many of the team having worked on the cancelled Fallout 3 from Black Isle), any doubts of Obsidian being up to the task ended with the 'Old World Blues' DLC . Sending players into 'The Big Empty,' the campaign was one massive homage to retro science fiction of the 1950s. The allusions always existed on the fringes of Fallout , but 'Old World Blues' put them center st

In typical Trevor fashion, he will also mentions that he doesn’t understand the whole zombie situation and begins to question why they have such a fascination in the taste of the brain compare to other body parts. Graham then has to remind Trevor that he isn’t a real zombie, but instead just simply a cosplayer.

Graphically, Rockstar Domain leaks hasn’t reinvented the wheel for the PC version, but the bevy of settings they give allow for great alterations to the game’s beauty. Those with DirectX 11 graphic cards have access to tessellation, grass quality and depth of field sliders. Everyone else will receive the traditional lengthy lineup of options. This includes FXAA, MSAA, VSync, Post FX, Soft Shadows and Quality sliders for Textures, Shaders, Shadows, Reflections, Water, Particles and so forth. Oddly enough, only Reflection Quality, Grass Quality and Post FX have Ultra settings while the rest go as high as Very High. There’s also an Advanced Graphics options which allows for Long Shadows, High Resolution Shadows, High Detail Streaming While Flying and Distance Scaling. Suffice it to say, there’s a lot of options to choose from, so whether you have a budget machine or a high end beast, you should be able to run GTAV in some fashion. While GTAV is visually impressive, there is one final test it must go through: controls. The controls are still relatively preferable on a gamepad, but the keyboard and mouse functionality have been adapted very well in most situations. Driving and flying remain better with a gamepad, but tasks are on par for general combat, if not better with keyboard and mouse. The first person mode is also a great excuse to break out the keyboard and mouse, even though getting into cover is not ideal.