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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 ...

E3 2017 :  Activision unveils Call of Duty WWII multiplayer gameplay trailer Activision at E3 2017 unveiled a multiplayer gameplay trailer of the upcoming Call of Duty WWII squad based tactical first person shooter. Those who attended the expo were among the first to actually play the game, at two PlayStation booths. There are classes in the game, which has to be decided before starting off on a career. Each of these “Divisions” have their own unique abilities and weapons. The divisions are Airborne, Mountain, Infantry, Armoured and Expeditionary Forces. The Airborne division focuses on being silent and stealthy. The Mountain division does damage from a distance, and is a ranged sharpshooter class. The Infantry is the “tip of the spear”, and will occupy the frontlines. The Armoured division brings the heaviest firepower, and can tank in tough situations. The Expeditionary Forces use incendiary shells. Raven software has come on board for a brand new mode called a War Mode. ...

E3 2017: The Darwin Project is a survival game that will let players experience the thrill of hunting men The Darwin Project is a post apocalyptic survival action game introduced at Microsoft’s E3 conference. The game is the first title by the independent Scavengers Studio established in 2015. In preparation for an impending ice age, the humans of the future initiate a project that is partially entertainment and partially a science experiment. The Darwin Project is a competitive third person multiplayer experience, and promises to reinvent the battle royale genre. Players have to battle it out with other players in a treacherous arena. Everyone else on the arena has to be killed, before players are plonked into the next arena to repeat the process. During the process of tracking the other players, and through the combat, there is a commentary on the actions, presumably meant for a broadcast audience that is watching in. Players have to navigate extreme environmental conditions a...

Elder Scrolls Online to max out at 30 fps at 4K on the Xbox One X, confirm makers Bethesda, which launched Elder Scrolls Online a while ago, announced that the game will run maxed out at 30 fps at 4K, natively, on the Xbox One X Game Director Matt Firor, speaking to WCCFTech at E3 confirmed that the Morrowind expansion that the MMORPG title received will still be playable at the same framerates as on Sony’s PS4 Pro. Fans who recently received the update, which brought an additional 30 hours plus of gameplay, were hoping that new console release from Microsoft will see a bump in framerate. Players on the PS4 Pro have the choice of playing the game at 4K and 30fps or scaled down to Full HD with better detail and textures. The Xbox One X which is, however, 50 percent more powerful than the PlayStation 4 Pro, will have to wait as Firor and his team look to take things up a notch for the One X. PC fans will rejoice as the only platform where the game is playable at higher framerates....