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  1. L

    500 BYOC Gamer Reunion

    Tickets are ON SALE NOW!!! For over 17 years, LANFest has been hosting events across the US. We are a community of passionate gamers raising money for local charities. Get ready for 3 days of ultimate gaming LANFest-style. You are personally invited to attend LFG (LANFest Gaming). The family...
  2. Etherton

    (Reduced) MSI Stealth Pro GS73 7RE - 17.3" Gaming Laptop

    References: Heatware and FM. SOLD @ $599 shipped lower 48. No offers or trades at this time. Thanks! Going to go ahead and list this one too. No issues with it and will have a fresh install of Windows 10. It just comes with the laptop and PSU (power brick). I just want something smaller. Might...
  3. V

    Looking to get a RTX 2080 Super - which would be best...?

    Looking to upgrade from my GTX 980 to do better 4k gaming (currently using a Samsung 4K 48" JS9000) Amazon has a couple cards that are looking to be in stock shortly: Gigabyte GV-N208SGAMING Zotac ZT-T20820D-10P It's been a while since I've gotten a new video card and I'm looking forward to...
  4. S

    [MassiveLAN Party] Summer 2019 - Jul 12-14 - Hamburg, NY - 400 BYOC Seats

    MassiveLAN will be supporting WNY Heroes as their charity. When you buy a seat, you get a whole weekend of gaming with friends, tournaments, chances to win prizes, and all proceeds go to charity. PC, console and board games will be available. There is not a better way to do it all! LANFest is...
  5. D

    Thoughts on Better Monitor than 2015 55" JS9000

    Would love to hear peoples thoughts as to what is better than the Samsung JS9000 55" I have been doing a lot more FPS and it would be great to have lower input lag, better colors and be able to take advantage of my 2080ti to its maximum potential. For me 55" seems to be the sweetspot. I do not...
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    Looking to price my gaming rig to sell

    What do you guys think a fair price for this rig would be? CASE: NZXT H500 MOBO: Asus TUF Z370-Plus PROC: 8600K MEM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP VC: Evga 1070 PSU: Corsair 650W SSD1: OCZ 120GB SSD2: Samsung Evo 1TB SSD3: Samsung Evo 1TB
  7. DooKey

    Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday

    There have been rumors flying all around about Apple moving towards services to expand their pocket books even more and the folks over at Bloomberg are saying all of the official announcements are coming Monday. If you think about it this move makes sense because iPhones are starting to reach a...
  8. AlphaAtlas

    PlayStation Introduces State of Play Broadcast

    Last year, Sony dropped out of E3 for fairly nebulous reasons, and canceled their annual Playstation Experience event. The announcement left many wondering what Sony would replace the events with, and today, it seems that the company took some notes from their competition. Mirroring the periodic...
  9. AlphaAtlas

    Unreal Engine is Getting Destructable Environment Support

    High-quality destructible environments seem like something that should be standard in 2019, but even today, it's a relatively rare thing to find in a game. It was a headlining feature Red Faction: Guerilla back in 2009, and a prominent feature in the recently released Crackdown 3, but detailed...
  10. AlphaAtlas

    CD Projekt Red Reiterates Plan to Release 2 Games by 2021

    In post by an official CD PROJEKT Moderator on their forums, the company re-iterated its promise to "release a second AAA game by 2021." The Polish company started teasing Cyberpunk 2077 way back in 2012, and the game still doesn't have a release window, but just what else the company is working...
  11. AlphaAtlas

    All Digital Xbox One S Could Launch May 7

    Following up on previous reports claiming that Microsoft could unveil a disc-less Xbox One in April, Windows Central allegedly got their hands on some photographs of the upcoming console, and recreated them in Photoshop to protect their source. "Additional documents" they obtained suggest that...
  12. cageymaru

    Linux Gaming Across 9 Distros [Review in Progress]

    Jason Evangelho of Forbes has started a Linux series where he reviews various Linux distributions (distros) for ease of use and performance in regards to Linux gaming. Jason's series isn't about just running benchmarks as he asks questions that everyday users would need to find out. Where am I...
  13. AlphaAtlas

    Digital Foundry Analyzes Google's Stadia Platform

    Following Google's "Stadia" game streaming service announcement yesterday, Digital Foundry decided to take a closer look at the hardware behind the platform. Google says they use a "Custom 2.7GHz hyper-threaded x86 CPU with AVX2 SIMD and 9.5MB L2+L3 cache," and while they didn't mention the...
  14. AlphaAtlas

    Anthem Was Bioware's Second Best Launch

    Following their trouble with Mass Effect: Andromeda, Bioware has a lot riding on their last big release: Anthem. Recent reports of low physical sales, as well as mixed feedback from the players in the game, suggested that the title might not be doing particularly well. However, a recent report...
  15. cageymaru

    Google GDC 2019 Gaming Announcement

    Here is the Google GDC gaming announcement. Gather around as we unveil Google's vision for the future of gaming at #GDC19.
  16. AlphaAtlas

    Otherside Teases System Shock 3

    We haven't heard much about Otherside's upcoming System Shock sequel recently. They teased the game back in 2016, and have released a few other screenshots and some concept art, but the devs just made a bigger reveal. At Unity's GDC's keynote this year, Otherside Entertainment showed off some...
  17. AlphaAtlas

    MSI Expected to Overtake Samsung in the Curved Monitor Market

    A recent report from Digitimes claims that MSI could soon steal the rather specific title of "world's largest supplier of curved gaming monitors" from Samsung in 2019. While flat monitors have dominated "gaming monitor" sales in the past, MSI claims that curved monitors accounted for about 60%...
  18. AlphaAtlas

    JPMorgan Chase Uses AI Powered Video Game as a Recruitment Tool

    Recent reports claim that JPMorgan Chase are trialing "neuroscience-based video games" from pymetrics as a intern recruiting tool. The games supposedly assess applicants' "social, cognitive and behavioral features, such as attention, memory and altruism," and attempt to identify what job the...
  19. nicklemarr

    FS/FT: Acer Aspire 7 Gaming Laptop

    My Heat. Shipping with insurance to 48 contiguous. Local discount, of course. Anything outside of that just PM me. Payment method flexible, though I'd like to save us both fees so idk. Laptop manufacture date is 09/06/2018 as seen in one of the following pictures. Stock Retail...
  20. AlphaAtlas

    Supernova Buys Shadow Warrior Developer

    Flying Wild Hog released Shadow Warrior 2 back in 2016, but we haven't heard much from the series' developer since then. However, the studio just announced that they were acquired by an investment firm. Game studios don't always fare well once they're bought out, but Supernova Capital was...
  21. AlphaAtlas

    Hunt Showdown is On Sale at The Humble Store

    As we've noted before, Hunt Showdown is one of the best looking, and best playing, multiplayer shooters around, and it gets better with every update. While it normally goes for $30 (and will likely be even more expensive once it leaves early access), the Humble Store has the Cryengine-based...
  22. AlphaAtlas

    Epic Games Denies Client Spying Accusations

    This week, users on Reddit accused Epic Games of spying on their customers through the Epic Games Store software. Among other things, the thread accuses the Epic client of making a copy of Steam's localconfig.vdf, sending hardware information and a list of running processes to Epic, and...
  23. AlphaAtlas

    No Mans Sky "Beyond" Update Will Feature Multiplayer

    No Man's Sky had a rough launch, to say the least, and most people expected the developers to distance themselves from it as much as they could. Instead, Hello Games has been steadily working No Man's Sky over the years, and the game managed to make a big comeback in 2018. Today, the developers...
  24. AlphaAtlas

    Study Claims 39% of Counter-Strike Servers are Infected With Malware

    In spite of the battle royale craze and a more modern sequel, the original Counter-Strike is still a massively popular game. The FPS had nearly 15,000 concurrent players at the time of this writing, and there are still thousands of registered 3rd party servers. However, a recent study from Dr...
  25. AlphaAtlas

    Lady Gaga Could Appear in Cyberpunk 2077

    According to Actugaming.net's anonymous sources, Lady Gaga could show up as a character in Cyberpunk 2077. The star was reportedly seen entering CD Projekt Red's studios, and some sources claimed that she went there for some kind of motion capture performance. Lady Gaga is no stranger to motion...
  26. AlphaAtlas

    Gaming Display Prices are Dropping

    As anyone who recently built or updated a PC probably noticed, memory and GPU prices were conspicuously high throughout most of 2018 and late 2017. But, as we've said before, memory prices are dropping like a rock, while GPU prices are starting to level out thanks to the crypto mining bust...
  27. AlphaAtlas

    PlayerUnknown Leaves PUBG Development Team

    On Twitter, Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene announced that he's leaving the the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds development team to head up a new division of PUBG corp called "PUBG Special Projects." While he will still be a "creative consultant" for PubG's development, Brendan Green says he's...
  28. AlphaAtlas

    Gearbox Teases a March Borderlands Announcement

    Gearbox have been torturing fans with hints about a new Borderlands game for years, but it looks like an official announcement could be about two weeks away. Gearbox's official Twitter account recently posted a cell shaded sign with the words "March 28 Boston MA," which lines up with the...
  29. AlphaAtlas

    Update 5.0 for Hunt Showdown is Out

    Hunt Showdown's 5.0 Update is out, and among other things, it seems to make make the already visually stunning game look even better. The developers have added times of day to the Lawson Delta and Stillwater Bayou Maps, meaning you can now hunt in "Daylight, Nighttime, Golden, and Foggy"...
  30. AlphaAtlas

    Doom: Annihilation Gets a Trailer

    Following speculation and confirmation last year, Universal 1440 Entertainment has just published a trailer for the upcoming DOOM movie. As was previously reported, Doom: Annihilation will be a direct-to-video adaptation of the video games, though just how close it will stay to the source...
  31. AlphaAtlas

    Soviet Themed Tycoon Game Shows Up on Steam

    Metro: Exodus has been called one of the best AAA shooters in recent times by some, and as the developers noted in their "making of" videos, it has a distinctive Russian flair few games outside the Metro series can match. However, if you're in the mood for more, a small Slovakian developer...
  32. AlphaAtlas

    Respawn Bans Over 355,000 Apex Legends Cheaters

    Over the weekend, the developers behind the surprise battle royale hit Apex Legends claimed they've banned over 355,000 cheaters though the game's Easy-Anti-Cheat system. That's significantly more than the 16,000 cheaters they reportedly banned in February, but like the PubG devs, they reiterate...
  33. AlphaAtlas

    Battlefield V Battle Royale Footage Leaks Online

    We haven't heard much about Battlefield V's "Firestorm" battle royale mode, but footage of the new mode has allegedly leaked online. The leak comes straight from EA's own website, and appears to be a tutorial for the game's mechanics. At the time of this writing, the video was still up, but I...
  34. AlphaAtlas

    EA Will Skip the E3 2019 Press Conference

    Following in Sony's footsteps, EA just announced that they're skipping the press conference at E3 this year. In its place, they'll have multiple livestreams from game developers at their EA Play event the weekend before E3 starts ups. EA claims this is what their player base wants, and...
  35. AlphaAtlas

    YouTuber Discovers Unreleased NES WCW Wrestling Game

    YouTuber "Archon 1981" claims he just bought an unreleased, unannounced NES wrestling game from 1989. The cartridge was supposedly given to a former Nintendo employee simply because he was a wrestling fan, but "UWC" never saw the light of day again. Archon says he's going to release the ROM to...
  36. AlphaAtlas

    Frontier Gets a License for a Major Global IP

    According to a recent report from the London Stock Exchange, Frontier Developments, the studio that is perhaps best known for Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous, has signed a "major global IP licence to develop and publish a future game." Frontier mentioned that it expects the game will take...
  37. AlphaAtlas

    Researchers Create an MMO for Neural Networks

    A few AI researchers have created, and recently published, a "Neural MMO" exclusively designed for reinforcement learning agents. The MMO's structure is loosely based on Runescape, which seemingly inspired the project, and the code itself contains numerous references to the Jagex game. However...
  38. AlphaAtlas

    Nvidia Adds Metro Exodus to RTX Bundle

    In an attempt to tempt those in the market for an new GPU, Nvidia just launched the "RTX Triple Threat" game bundle with what may be the best RTX-enabled game to date. Nvidia's previous "Game On Bundle" gave buyers Battlefield V and Anthem for free, but starting today, anyone who buys a RTX 2080...
  39. K

    FS: ViewSonic XG2402 144hz Freesync (G-Sync compatible) 1080p gaming monitor

    Up for sale is my trusty gaming monitor. Going bigger, so not needed anymore. Purchased a few months ago, the monitor is in excellent condition. No dead pixels, comes with a standard 3 year warranty from ViewSonic and comes with the original box and cables. Worked great with my RX 580 and my...
  40. AlphaAtlas

    Skyrim Multiplayer Mod Accused of Stealing Code

    Skyrim's extensive modding community has added almost everything you can imagine, and more, to Bethesda's single-player RPG, but there's one particular feature they've always struggled with: multiplayer. Neither Elder Scrolls Online nor Fallout 76 quite scratches that "I want to mess around in...
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