About: John Papadopoulos

Website: DSOGaming : https://www.dsogaming.com
Bio: John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved - and still does - the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the "The Evolution of PC graphics cards." Contact: Email

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Half-Life: Raise the Bar Is A Great Fan-Made Fan Film Based On Valve’s Classic FPS

Posted on: 12 Oct 2013

Machinima has shared a new fan short film, based on Valve’s classic FPS title. As its description reads, this is intended to celebrate the game franchise and is in no way affiliated with Half-Life and Valve official works. The film focuses on the game’s iconic weapon, the crowbar. When an experiment goes wrong, it unleashes … Continue reading Half-Life: Raise the Bar Is A Great Fan-Made Fan Film Based On Valve’s Classic FPS

PlanetSide 2 – New video focuses on PhysX and its incoming physics optimizations

Posted on: 12 Oct 2013

Sony Online Entertainment has released a new video for PlanetSide 2. In this fourth episode of Operation: Make Faster game, the development team introduces us to Rob Elam and Julio Jerez, programmers for PlanetSide 2. Rob and Julio are charged with optimizing aka “wrangling” the system interactions with the game physics engine to make PlanetSide … Continue reading PlanetSide 2 – New video focuses on PhysX and its incoming physics optimizations

Valve Demonstrates The Steam Controller

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Valve has released a new video that gives us a quick look at some games being played with the prototype version of the Steam Controller. The Controller showcased here is the same version with the one that Valve will be shipping to 300 Steam users later this year. The team has promised to release more … Continue reading Valve Demonstrates The Steam Controller

Frictional Games’ SOMA Officially Revealed – Coming To PC & PS4 In 2015

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Frictional Games has officially unveiled its new project that will be called SOMA. SOMA will be a sci-fi horror game, and will be released to PC and PS4 in 2015. In addition, Frictional Games has released a gameplay trailer for this new horror title that can be viewed below. SOMA seems to be using a … Continue reading Frictional Games’ SOMA Officially Revealed – Coming To PC & PS4 In 2015

DSOGaming – Ethan Meteor Hunter – First 15 Minutes Walkthrough

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Seaven Studio was kind enough to provide us with a review code for its upcoming platform puzzler, Ethan Meteor Hunter, thus you can enjoy a walkthrough its first 15 minutes. In this game, players take the role of Ethan; a rat with an attitude, who was hit on the head by a meteorite giving him supernatural … Continue reading DSOGaming – Ethan Meteor Hunter – First 15 Minutes Walkthrough

Blood Bowl 2 Looks Surprisingly Good – First Screenshots Released

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Focus Home Interactive has released the first screenshots for Blood Bowl 2 and surprisingly enough, this unique sports title seems to be packed with great visuals. As the press release reads, the following two screenshots show the human, Blitzer, one of the most versatile players on the human teams, in action and ready to face … Continue reading Blood Bowl 2 Looks Surprisingly Good – First Screenshots Released

This Video Shows 21 Ways To Die In Grand Theft Auto V

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Our reader ‘Jonathan Gustafsson’ has shared with us a new video, showcasing 21 ways to die in GTA V. It’s a pretty funny video, so make sure to give it a go. In related news, the GTA V PC petition campaign is nearing 600K signatures. Okay okay, this won’t change anything and GTA V will … Continue reading This Video Shows 21 Ways To Die In Grand Theft Auto V

The Dark Eye – Demonicon Goes Gold, Releases On October 25th

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Kalypso Media announced that the Windows PC version of The Dark Eye – Demonicon, its dark fantasy action-RPG, has gone gold. The game will be out on October 25th for Windows PC, Steam and other digital portals. Moreover, Kalypso Media revealed that the PS3 and X360 versions of The Dark Eye – Demonicon will follow in … Continue reading The Dark Eye – Demonicon Goes Gold, Releases On October 25th

Space Hulk – First Expansion Announced

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

Full Control today revealed the first chapter expansion for Space Hulk, the 3D digital turn based strategy game based on the best-selling board game set in theWarhammer 40,000 universe. Scheduled to launch in late 2013, the Space Wolves chapter expansion will includes a three missions based on the classic “Fangs of Fenris” campaign, that first introduced the ferocious … Continue reading Space Hulk – First Expansion Announced

Ubisoft Talks AC4 Tech – AnvilNext Engine Features, Global Illumination, DX11.2, AMD’s Mantle

Posted on: 11 Oct 2013

A couple of days ago, we had the pleasure to interview Ubisoft’s Luc Poirier, team lead for the rendering team for AC4 at Ubisoft Montreal. Luc shared some interesting tech information about Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and detailed some of the features that have been implemented in the next iteration of the AnvilNext engine. Luc … Continue reading Ubisoft Talks AC4 Tech – AnvilNext Engine Features, Global Illumination, DX11.2, AMD’s Mantle