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Tech.Games S01E06: E3 popularity contests, missing games, and the curious case of video game hardware With the hype of E3 2017 behind us, we can take a calm and calculated look back at the games and hardware announcements as we meticulously prepare our spreadsheets to budget for the several thousand rupees we plan to spend on games this coming fiscal. It’s hard to look at everything objectively, of course, so let’s simply look at some statistics from YouTube and social media. The popular vote As we all know, democracy is an imperfect process, but we can confirm 100% that everything video games is quite literally a popularity contest (except in the case of Infinite Warfare or Mass Effect Andromeda, where any publicity ended up being bad publicity). So, which were this year’s most popular E3 trailers on YouTube? Coming in at #1 is Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s gameplay trailer, which at the time of writing has 8.9 million views. Battlefront 2 is followed by Super Mario Odyssey’...

Call of Duty – Infinite Warfare Review: Excellent single-player marred by lackluster multiplayer The announcement of the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare remaster, and its subsequent inclusion in the “Legacy” edition of Infinity Ward’s latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, Infinite Warfare sent mixed signals. Sure, it was an obvious choice of game to remaster — Modern Warfare contributed greatly to the establishment and popularization of the franchise. However, it also seemed to hint that publisher Activation wasn’t completely confident about the 2016 iteration. Did Infinite Warfare need Modern Warfare to reach its ambitious sales targets? Or is the strategy merely to milk more out of the franchise than Activision has been doing already? The answer could be either or both. I can say for certain, however, that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare isn’t without its faults, but is a good enough game on its own. Infinite Warfare’s sin...

The Microsoft Xbox One X vs Sony PS4 Pro debate: There’s more than raw horsepower at play here Gaming season is upon us. We are, after all, partway through E3 2017, the world’s largest annual gaming expo. Every year, the biggest names in gaming show gamers their wares and every year, we have a debate on who won E3. This year is a little different because Microsoft finally unveiled its latest console, officially, and confirmed its price and hardware. As promised, the Xbox One X from Microsoft certainly seems like the most powerful console to date. Raw numbers place the console’s power in the 6 TFLOP range – a TFLOP is a measure of computing power – which is 50 percent higher than Sony’s PS4 Pro, which manages a mere 4.2 TFLOPS. Just take a look at the table below:   Xbox One X ($499) Xbox One S ($299) PS4 Pro ($399) PS4 ($299) CPU 8 custom cores @ 2.3 GHz 8 Jaguar cores @ 1.75 GHz 8 Jaguar cores @ 2.1 GHz 8 Jaguar cores @ 1.6 GHz ...