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What to Watch Out For We all know of these scam school horror stories.  They can generally be some sort of how to obtain a useless diploma in five days or less. But, if you ask yourself these questions, you can find that there are some genuinely fantastic programs offered for game development out there! Not necessarily the ones online though. Linda.com and YouTube are great complementary resources, but it will take A LOT of personal commitment and accountability to break into the game industry in that way. Don't get me wrong, there are some great indie success stories--but success is just that and I'm going to use that cliche "when preparation meets opportunity." You need to know how you work. If you do well teaching yourself code you autodidact you, then by all means go for it! But if you feel that for a job like in game art and design, it's better to collaborate with other artists, then I suggest going to art school. If you're in the mi...

Get much for an extra $50? Take the NVidia GTX 960, for example. This mid-range card offers 2 GB and 4 GB versions, respectively -- at about a $50 discrepancy between the two cards. That being what the cost of a whole new game, for some, this makes the world of difference.     GTA V A memory-hungry game to the fullest; where the more vRAM, the better. That is, the 970's 3.5 GB is just about the bare minimum, to run this game at max, 60 FPS. The 960's 4 GB are not fully taken advantage of on the lower GM206 Maxwell architecture. Therefore any additional vRAM here would be best for a more constant frame rate, with less dips and stutters between lowest and highest framerate. While this can be easily rectified with vSync enabled - you do get about 3-5 FPS higher on the four GB model of the GTX 960. You can enable far more advanced graphics options in GTA V with 4 or more GB of vRAM - namely ancillary settings like higher population density, depth of view,...

3 years of waiting - 3 months of Xbox jealousy Many of you on PC will know our first AAA game of the year is Square Enix's Rise of the Tomb Raider -- and let me just say this game is gorgeous . I preordered it a few days ago (for those wondering if that was a good idea, I have a post on that), preloaded it and played it at the strike of noon. Maxed-out the settings immediately -- which you can very well do on am Nvidia 960 or 970. If you have a 980, 980 ti or Titan X -- then beast; but definitely play this on the Nvidia 9-series if you're team green. For those on ATI AMD, I feel sorry for you. Even though Lara's hair will look just as good. When I launched the first level -- a snowy disaster zone -- I felt like taking a plunge off the cliff for fun, just like the original -- and Halo of course. The physics are fantastic, by the way. The flurries fell so naturally and the footprint tracks in the crisp, white snow are better than Arkham Origins and Battlefro...

A Daring Expedition - no. A Dangerous Endeavour. Tired of my drama? In layman's terms, it's a risk. Why can't we play God of War or Uncharted on Xbox; and of course, what about Halo? How about Heavy Rain? The most recent example is Rise of the Tomb Raider's for the Xbox One - released on the same day as Fallout 4 actually. Hmm. Choosing game release dates. I could write a whole post about that, but the gist of it is do not have two games scheduled for the same release date! It did not do Tomb Raider justice; we've been waiting for some 5 years for Fallout 4. I'm not sure if they thought people would happily bundle the two when they line up outside Gamestop at 12 midnight, to sort of ride off Bethesda. In short, it apparently didn't work. Now they have to bundle it with an Xbox to make up for it. Which brings back to the topic at hand. 2013's Tomb Raider is hands-down my favourite game reboot, ever. Where would games...

 You're going to read this year at some point May as well get an answer.  The eBook craze  They've been going strong for the past 10 years - just in the past 5 years becoming accessible in your pocket, not just through pirating or spam chain mail only. eBook readers read about 25 books a year - and look like they. Having access to all the bestsellers in history, is enticing enough to put out that bookshelf you forgot was in the corner of your office. But what about the feel of flipping just one more page, a few more pages, before you set the paperback aside for the night, because you have to work in five hours. iPads can try to emulate page-turning and it looks cool. But for some, it's not as satisfying. They say they really like the smell of compressed dead trees - for the sake of authenticity. Which is another thing! It costs publishers almost zero, nil, to produce eBooks, after formatting. They're giving everyone the book file ready-to-download. ...