With ARK Park, players may take their first steps into a virtual Jurassic park. Since we all experienced Jurassic Park back in 1993, dinosaurs have been an even larger topic of interest than they already are. Many people hope to see the day they can actually step foot in a park like that. The movies and other dinosaur-based games have shown us the downfalls of such an idea, but that didn't stop anyone from being glued to the screen. The hype is still just…

The Steam Winter Sale is always the largest sale they have all year. We may know when to prepare for it! There are several Steam sales throughout each year, but every one of them pales in comparison to the Winter Sale. The one we all look forward to. It's approaching, as we all know, but this time we may have received some insider information as to when we can expect the sale to start and end. Typically, all Steam sale dates are kept private for obvious re…

Two modders have developed quite the game-changing modification for CS:GO - a dynamic weather system that changes from round to round, intended to alter how each map should be played depending on the particular weather system present. For four years, players have been competing on the maps of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. These maps have been very tightly regulated for the eSports scene for fairness. Some modders wanted to break the monotony of these m…

Ubisoft is providing us all with some fun little gifts in an "Advent Calendar" of sorts, to celebrate 30 years of success! Ubisoft is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and in return, anyone with an Ubisoft account can collect some gifts starting November 24 until December 23! Ubisoft has recently been giving away some older games for anyone who logged in and redeemed the gift, and apparently they want to continue this trend. Who are we to complain?! For th…

Those of you who play Minecraft on Windows 10 or Pocket Edition have some early gifts to look forward to: cartoon textures to revamp the appearance of our beloved game! Mojang is giving us Windows 10 and Pocket Edition players an aesthetic update in the form of cartoon textures. This is much less functional than it is a quality of life improvement, for our eyeballs. You can change the faces on animals and your characters! The once treacherous environment c…

Cross ARK Travel updates, a sterner stance on cheaters, and some tweaks to Primitive+ are making their way to the ARK. All intended to make the game more enjoyable. Did any of you even see a problem? ARK: Survival Evolved is a rapidly evolving game, with large updates almost weekly. With this recent update, the developers were addressing a few problems that have popped up over time. Keep reading, and you'll discover one of the newest features to the Nitrad…

EA (Blake Jorgensen) has come out at the UBS Global Technology Conference saying their studios develop first for high-end PCs, and scale the game back for consoles, a method long lost since the rise of consoles. Most developers/studios develop their games with the console in mind and scale the graphics up for PCs in the later stages. This is driven by console gamers being a larger market, but it means that PC gamers are getting a product not made for them,…

Just in time for the release of Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft has released a new trailer. This "Live Video" is a fun little watch. Armed with a cellphone, some well-written code, and some novel ideas: not much else is needed for some mayhem in San Francisco. As of yesterday (for consoles, Nov. 29 for PC), you too can join the hacker ranks and control the city. In the video, DedSec sits down to check out the new trailer for the Open World title from Ubisoft. Sitara…

In Empyrion's recent patch 4.3, which was released this morning, has been declared as the final update with bug fixes and general improvement before Eleon begins the development cycle for Alpha 5.0. It seems as though development for Empyrion never stops. Soon after getting acclimated to the changes in the last patch, another rolls out right after. According to the announcement accompanied with the changelog, patch 4.3 marks the last of bug fixes and impro…

Content for the Minecraft 1.11 patch has been tested for bugs and errors for quite some time. The developers are pretty sure they've ironed everything out and have scheduled a release date! The developers over at Mojang have reached a point in their development with 1.11 that they have finally prepared a 1.11pre1 snapshot, which, with a good reception and no large problems, will lead to the full rollout of 1.11pre1 to all vanilla servers across the globe.…

ARK: Survival Evolved patch 250.0 is live. Come check out what it brings, and what the future of ARK has for us! Studio Wildcard is certainly not joking around when it comes to their game ARK: Survival Evolved. We receive patches almost daily it seems, with many bringing lots of cool new features, or must-have fixes. Patch 250.0 is no exception. Here is the list of changes: Conclusion of Fear Evolved event: the Fear Evolved Structures will be removed, but…

CFO Blake Jorgensen hinted that the sequel will arrive near the end of 2017. EA had hinted previously that the title would be released at the end of 2017, but the CFO got a bit more precise about the release, saying: "the next Battlefront [is] coming a year from now," and added that EA is "working very hard on making sure that is an extremely deep and engaging offering." There's no concrete release date, but this shouldn't really come as a surprise, consid…