E3 is almost always an exciting time for gamers, and this year has brought an especially healthy amount of good news for the PC. So, we made a list of our favorite things! Let’s get straight to it.
tl;drIf you want turn-based tactics, this is one of the best!
Intro
Now that the aliens have invaded the earth and started abducting and terrorizing its people, a task force has been set up to defend humanity, to study these aliens, and maybe even to fight back!XCOM: Enemy Unknownputs you in charge of an elite squad of soldiers, and expects you to lead them into battle against impossible odds. Good luck, Commander!
Some of the silliest myths in gaming are related to framerate, or frames per second (FPS). Some people will tell you that the human eye can only detect a certain number of frames per second, or that an FPS of 24-30 will produce a more “cinematic” gaming experience, as the standard framerate for movies has been set at 24 FPS for nearly 100 years, and television often displays at 30 FPS.
On the other end of the spectrum, some gamers will claim that you need a certain FPS to truly enjoy your gaming experience. They’ll say that running below a certain FPS is like a “slideshow” because of how few images are being rendered each second.
In reality, the only framerate that really matters is the one that is acceptable to you. Generally speaking, however, a higher framerate is better for gaming. And as PC gamers, we have the power to adjust our game settings or build our computers to achieve a desired framerate.
tl;drGood gameplay, bad graphics.
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If you have never heard of theYsgames, I do not blame you. The name is weird, the artistic style is “anime-like”, and the games are not (yet) mainstream. Wikipedia says that there are 7 or 8Ysgames, but only 3 of them are available on Steam. From those 3, we take a look atYs Origin, the first game in the series (chronologically). InYs Origin, you are part of a search party that is looking for a pair of goddesses who are missing/hiding in a tower.
nVidia’s big Maxwell launch of the GeForce GTX 980 and 970 has gone very well for the company, giving gamers great performance at reasonable prices. The release of those two graphics cards made AMD’s flagship cards (290 and 290X) overpriced, and so we removed those two cards from thebeplay软件hardware guides. (We also removed the GTX 770 and 780, since those cards had been replaced at their price points.)
由于游戏流媒体服务,我们可以看到不太和谐le do amazing things with gaming. We can watch professionals from around the world battle it out for a million dollar prize pool in Dota 2. We can learn how to build a Miracle Rogue deck in Hearthstone. Or we can just watch people mess around in Watch_Dogs. No matter how it is consumed, the streaming of video games has become a huge (and in my opinion, brilliant) development in the gaming industry.
Last week we revealed the winners to our first everShow Us Your PC contest. Our top 3 picks won Amazon gift cards and the honorable mentions got some sweet, sweet Steam games. And we got to ogle some awesome custom PCs, which happens to be our favorite thing to do.
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Here’s a breakdown of the winners. Click on any winner to see more!
First Place:AFANtastic Build
We loved Skye’s superpowered PC and the way he tastefully added Noctua fanseverywhere. Seriously,go look at all those fans.
And finally, the grand winner of our Show Us Your PC contest. (If you’re catching up, yesterday we revealed ourSecond Placewinner, Wednesday featured ourThird Placewinner, and on Tuesday we showed off our twoHonorable Mentions.)
Ladyfolk and mentlegen, our first place winner:AFANtastic Build
Skye recently built this beauty after 6 years with an Intel Core 2 Duo running Windows XP. We’d say it’s a heck of a successor!
We’d like to introduce the second of three winners in Logical Increments’ Show Us Your PC Contest! (If you’re catching up, yesterday we revealed ourThird Placewinner, and on Tuesday we showed off our twoHonorable Mentions.)
Gentlemen and ladies, our second place winner:The Desk Monster
