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Sony Delays PS5 Reveal For Unclear Future Date

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Time Stamp: June 6, 2020 10:58 AM - Modified On: June 6, 2020 - Published By:
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Update: Sony has postponed the planned PlayStation 5 event indefinitely. Although it did not cite ongoing Black Lives Matter protests as the reason, it did suggest the delay is to "stand back and allow more important voices to be heard." It follows statements issued by Sony and PlayStation, among those from many other companies, in response to the protests. The original story follows. Sony has announced plans to host an event focused on PlayStation 5 on June 4 at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. The PlayStation 5 presentation

The Best SSDs That Are In Stock Right Now (June 2020)

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If you're building a gaming PC, then one thing that you can't be without is a solid-state drive. SSDs deliver the fastest speeds, and in addition to moving files and performing tasks, they also load games and stream open worlds at a much faster rate than disk-based hard drives. This results in quick loading times and stutter-free open-world gameplay, something that's harder for your PC to handle with an HDD. However, selecting a solid-state drive for your PC isn't as easy as just buying the first one you see. There

Terraform: The Making of Doom 64

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JOHN ROMERO'S EYES FOLLOWED THE engineer as he placed his cargo on the pool table. Their visitor hailed from Sega, and the item he placed on id Software's pool table was a motherboard, still in prototype stage. When completed, it would power the 32X, Sega's add-on hardware that would evolve the Genesis console from a 16-bit dinosaur into a 32-bit giant. Romero and the rest of id Software's small team gathered 'round as the engineer set a monitor on the felt surface, plugged the prototype into it, and powered it

Half-Life: Alyx VR Analysis — How The Game Plays On Every Major VR Headset

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Time Stamp: March 28, 2020 11:01 AM - Modified On: March 28, 2020 - Published By:
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VR headsets aren't all created equally. We at GameSpot have tested out the newly released Half-Life: Alyx on the four biggest VR headsets: Valve Index, HTC Vive Pro, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest.From a top view, it's no surprise that the Index is the ideal platform to play Alyx on, considering they're both made by Valve. But it's also the most expensive and currently in short supply. The Vive is the next best opinion; it's designed for steam VR, which makes setup with Alyx easy, and you can swap out

How Animal Crossing Was Born From One Of Nintendo’s Biggest Flops

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Time Stamp: March 28, 2020 9:01 AM - Modified On: March 28, 2020 - Published By:
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Nintendo's charmingly offbeat life-sim series Animal Crossing made its long-awaited debut on Switch this month with the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The game arrives nearly 20 years after the franchise first premiered on the world stage, and in that time it has grown into one of Nintendo's marquee properties, appearing on almost all of the company's modern consoles and shifting millions of copies worldwide. But while Western fans were introduced to the series with 2002's eponymous Animal Crossing for GameCube, the franchise actually originated on Nintendo's previous home

Best VR Headset For Half-Life Alex And More (March 2020)

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Time Stamp: March 23, 2020 4:06 PM - Modified On: March 23, 2020 - Published By:
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Half-Life: Alyx is out now on Steam, making it a particularly exciting time to shop for the best VR headset. The fact that this is Valve's first big VR game is only eclipsed by the fact that Alyx is the first entry in the Half-Life series since 2007. Because of that, interest in VR gaming has spiked considerably. Valve's own Index headset was restocked a little while ago, but if you place a new order now, you'll need to wait about eight weeks before your headset ships. Unfortunately, that's the

Best VR Headset For Half-Life Alyx And More (March 2020)

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Half-Life: Alyx is out now on Steam, making it a particularly exciting time to shop for the best VR headset. The fact that this is Valve's first big VR game is only eclipsed by the fact that Alyx is the first entry in the Half-Life series since 2007. Because of that, interest in VR gaming has spiked considerably. Valve's own Index headset was restocked a little while ago, but if you place a new order now, you'll need to wait about eight weeks before your headset ships. Unfortunately, that's the

Super Doom: How id Software’s Opus Made the Jump to Super NES

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Time Stamp: March 19, 2020 12:00 AM - Modified On: March 19, 2020 - Published By:
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ON DECEMBER 10, 1993, ID Software's developers uploaded Doom to a high-speed file-sharing server maintained by an IT administrator who oversaw University of Wisconsin's network. The shareware episode arrived to great fanfare. So great, in fact, that the admin had to ask hundreds of users eager to download Doom to log off so id could transfer the game. Instantly the chat rooms became ghost towns. At midnight on the dot, the gamers at id uploaded their game, and all hell broke loose. Grown adults in businesses suits clogged office networks

Apollo 11 Situations: John Romero on Porting Doom and Wolfenstein 3D

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Time Stamp: March 18, 2020 7:01 PM - Modified On: March 18, 2020 - Published By:
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id Software's co-founder recounts converting Wolfenstein 3D to Super NES in three weeks, how the studio viewed ports of its games, and more. Working at id Software in the 1990s was like working inside a bunker, only with more pizza, soda, and video games. The studio started small and remained small through development of Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom. After Doom's release in December 1993, John Romero turned his attention to scouting for opportunities to collaborate on external projects related to id's games, namely strategy guides and ports. Romero