Category: Gaming

  • 3DMark Ice Storm overview

    3DMark Ice Storm overview

    I’ve recently added a benchmark page with scores from various device scores on Antutu and 3DMark Ice Storm.

    3DMark is perhaps the oldest well known graphics test company and have been around as the graphics power standard test for a good 10+ years. The mobile version tests both physics based rendering and standard graphics processing power.2015042614372000

    There are a couple of points to love about 3DMark Ice Storm:

    • ability to run 720P, 1080P and PC version of the test. This allows us to test how your device truly matches up against other devices regardless of your device’s resolution
    • updates do not cause significant differences in scores from one version to the next. The test and result calculations are always the same

    3DMark Icestorm doesn’t completely overshadow Antutu because Ice Storm only tests your system in regards to graphics processing power. Of course the entire system affects Ice Storm scores, but there aren’t specific tests to give scores in areas such as CPU float, CPU integer, database IO, storage IO and RAM speed.

    Head over to the results post to see the ever-growing comparison of various SoCs.

  • Torment: Tides of Numenera Review, inXile Entertainment Raises $4.7 Million

    Torment: Tides of Numenera Review, inXile Entertainment Raises $4.7 Million

    inXile Entertainment who rebooted Bard’s Tale and Wasteland is now working on a new Torment reboot.

    A bit of game legend history

    For those of you born after 1990, let me bring you up to speed. The first Torment game, Planescape: Torment, was released in 1999 and is built on BioWare’s Infinity Engine. Infinity Engine is the engine which games such as Baldur’s Gate and the Icewind Dale series are built on. The engine uses a three quarters perspective with pre-rendered 2D backgrounds.111273-icewind-dale-ii-windows-screenshot-civilized-place-in-far (more…)