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."
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Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [December 25th – 31st]
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
The latest UK PC Charts have just been released and as we can see, Football Manager 2012 has managed to reclaim its throne. SEGA’s football manager is once again the best selling PC retail title in England, followed by last week’s king, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Both The Sims 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 … Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [December 25th – 31st]
Super Meat Boy Is Platinum; over one million copies sold
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
Team Meat has just announced that Super Meat Boy has sold over one million copies. Yeap, that lovely indie game proved to be really successful and can be now considered as a platinum game. This is amazing news as Super Meat Boy was one of the best indie platform games of 2010. It took them … Continue reading Super Meat Boy Is Platinum; over one million copies sold
RAGE – News about the PC Level Editor coming this month
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
Ah, RAGE. A game with so potential that was never meant to be released in its current state on the PC. You’d think that iD Software would try their best to redeem themselves and fix it in due time, right? Well, apparently iD Software has other plans. Either that or they are waiting for the ‘right moment’ to release the next … Continue reading RAGE – News about the PC Level Editor coming this month
New Gorgeous Skyrim Shots; gionight is back with a punch
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
You thought that last week’s Skyrim shots were amazing, right? Well, guess again. Gionight is back with a punch and captured some new, jaw-dropping screenshots of Skyrim modded. As we’ve said in our Top 10 PC Optimized Games of 2011, Skyrim can look better than Crysis and here is the proof. These new screenshots sport … Continue reading New Gorgeous Skyrim Shots; gionight is back with a punch
Overgrowth Alpha 163 Changes
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
Wolfire Games released a new video for their upcoming indie action adventure sequel to Lugaru, Overgrowth. In this video, David Rosen showcases some of the changes that were made to the game’s latest alpha version and let us tell you that Overgrowth keeps getting better and better each and every week. David Rosen is a … Continue reading Overgrowth Alpha 163 Changes
CryZone: Sector 23 Beta Is Out Now; Crysis Total Conversion, based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
Team WoS Team, the team behind CryZone: Sector 23, a Crysis total conversion that is based on GSC’s STALKER, series has released its beta version which allows players to get acquainted with the post-apocalyptic world of «Cry» Zone. Players will find a few quests, and one, but huge in size, location, steeped with dense forest and wrapped innumerable villages, research … Continue reading CryZone: Sector 23 Beta Is Out Now; Crysis Total Conversion, based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Author of SkyBoost claims that Bethesda has no interest in boosting/fixing the PC version of Skyrim
Posted on: 03 Jan 2012
A few days ago, we informed you about the latest version of SkyBoost, a CPU performance optimization mod that is based on Arisu’s TESV Acceleration Layer. After the findings of Arisu, we were hoping that Bethesda would acknowledged and fix it in a future patch. Apparently, that’s not the case as Alexander Blade, author of … Continue reading Author of SkyBoost claims that Bethesda has no interest in boosting/fixing the PC version of Skyrim
Battlefield 3 – DICE is looking into enabling SMAA and FXAA support
Posted on: 02 Jan 2012
SMAA and FXAA injectors are two tools that are pretty much essential to every PC gamer. SMAA injector comes with amazing AA results that do not blur the image, while the FXAA injector comes with options to tweak the HDR effects and saturation/contrast of your games. We’ve showcased some FXAA screenshots but as it was proved, … Continue reading Battlefield 3 – DICE is looking into enabling SMAA and FXAA support
Swen Vincke confesses: “I wouldn’t be in this industry if I hadn’t pirated a couple of games”
Posted on: 02 Jan 2012
In an age where most developers and publishers are fighting piracy with all of their power, a confession from Larian Studios founder, Swen Vincke, comes to shake things up. According to Vincke himself, he wouldn’t be in this industry if he hadn’t pirated a couple of games. Now this is really shocking and we are impressed … Continue reading Swen Vincke confesses: “I wouldn’t be in this industry if I hadn’t pirated a couple of games”
Batman: Arkham City – PhysX FPS boost in DX11 and DX9 with custom apex.dll
Posted on: 02 Jan 2012
Now here is a great find. Guru3D’s user ‘gerardfraser’ decided to try Mafia 2’s apex.dll file and see whether or not he could gain any performance boost with it in Batman: Arkham City. Apparently, there is a nice performance jump as the user witnessed a 20fps boost from using this apex.dll file. In other words, this is a must-have … Continue reading Batman: Arkham City – PhysX FPS boost in DX11 and DX9 with custom apex.dll