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

Posts by John Papadopoulos:

Hard Reset is a truly old-school PC game

Posted on: 04 Aug 2011

As we got our hands on Hard Reset’s preview code, we really wanted to share some information with you before posting our PC performance analysis. As the title suggests, Hard Reset is a truly PC game and takes advantage of modern day’s GPUs and CPUs. Oh yeah, this game is definitely benefited from a quadcore … Continue reading Hard Reset is a truly old-school PC game

Assassin’s Creed Artefact is an interesting fan-made movie

Posted on: 04 Aug 2011

Well, we’ve seen fan-made movies for a lot of games but come on, admit it. You’ve always wanted to see a real-life Altair, no? Well here is a fan made movie that is based on Ubisoft’s action adventure game, Assassin’s Creed. We’ve seen better movies that are based on games but still, it’s cool. The … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Artefact is an interesting fan-made movie

BlastZone 2 Released; indie PC shoot em up by Matt Edzenga

Posted on: 04 Aug 2011

We said it before and will say it again. Here in DSOGaming we highly support all those indie developers out there. BlastZone 2 is an indie PC shoot em up that was developed by Matt Edzenga and looks great. Matt released a demo for it and the game is available for $10 USD. There is … Continue reading BlastZone 2 Released; indie PC shoot em up by Matt Edzenga

Activision’s Digital Sales Sky-Rocketed and are 42% higher than those of 2009

Posted on: 04 Aug 2011

During their conference call, Activision stated that their digital sales surpassed their expectations and are growing higher each and every year. According to a sales graph, digital sales of 2011’s first half are 42% higher than those of 2009 and around 24% of last year’s.

Diablo III Beta Still Planned For Q3 2011

Posted on: 04 Aug 2011

Well, we had high hopes for Activision’s conference call. There were hints that a release date would be announced but no, Blizzard didn’t announce anything that we didn’t already know. Instead the company re-affirmed that the beta is still on schedule for Q3 2011. The company didn’t provide any release date for both the beta … Continue reading Diablo III Beta Still Planned For Q3 2011

BloodRayne: Betrayal – New Developer Diary

Posted on: 03 Aug 2011

Vampire fans, here is a new developer diary for the upcoming 2D platform game that will be based on the Bloodrayne series. This diary details the redesign process and Rayne’s new appearance. And let’s be honest, it looks great. Don’t know if it’s because I love this kind of 2D HD platformers but still, it looks … Continue reading BloodRayne: Betrayal – New Developer Diary

New free version of StarCraft II announced; Starcraft II: Starter Edition

Posted on: 03 Aug 2011

Blizzard has just announced a new edition for Starcraft II. StarCraft II: Starter Edition allows anyone to play the following Starcraft II content for free. Yeap, you read that right. What’s more interesting is that you can play MP matches for free with this Edition. Consider it an extended demo of Starcraft II if you … Continue reading New free version of StarCraft II announced; Starcraft II: Starter Edition

Steam Daily Deal – Machinarium 75% off

Posted on: 03 Aug 2011

Machinarium is an amazing point-n-click adventure game that every PC gamer should play. In case you were hesitating, well there is no reason to anymore. Steam’s daily deal sees Machinarium with 75% off. This basically means that it will only cost you 2 euros. Seriously, it can’t get any better than that and it will … Continue reading Steam Daily Deal – Machinarium 75% off

Elsword receives Raven; a new melee character

Posted on: 03 Aug 2011

Manga-inspired online beat-‘em-up, Elsword, introduced a bold new melee fighter to its free-to-play online game today. Raven, a human fighter reborn with Nasod improvements, slices and dices his enemies with giant metal claws and finishes them off with swift blade skills, all in an effort to protect the people of Velder.

Dungeons: The Dark Lord Coming This September + First Trailer

Posted on: 03 Aug 2011

Kalypso Media released today a new trailer for Dungeons: The Dark Lord, the standalone add-on for the evil dungeon builder game by Realmforge and Kalypso, adding a new story-driven campaign and multiplayer. Dungeons: The Dark Lord is slated for a September 2011 release on the PC. Enjoy the trailer after the jump!