PS4 Remote Play works but not with slower connections

One of Sony’s biggest selling points with the PS4 is the Remote Play functionality available with every title. If you own a PlayStation Vita, PS4 games can be played remotely over ad-hoc WiFi connections, local wireless networks, or even the internet. I’ve had surprisingly solid results with the first two options, so I decided it was time to test Remote Play over the internet. While there were a few speed bumps along the way, the process ended up being incredibly straight-forward.

At my office, I connected my PS4directly to my modem with an ethernet cable. I have a 75Mbps/35Mbps fiberoptic connection from Verizon, so I’m something of a best-case scenario here. I took my Vita to a McDonald’s a few miles away, and I tested Remote Play over WiFi and Verizon LTE. While the LTE connection remained rock solid, I was somewhat disappointed with the real-world limitations of public WiFi at fast food chains.

As you can see above, the McDonald’s WiFi connection had a 165ms ping, averaged 1.24Mbps down, and averaged 0.39Mbps up. It successfully found my PS4 over the internet, but Remote Play was unable to function in that network environment. I switched on my hotspot on my Verizon iPhone 5, and ended up getting full bars. This connection had a 48ms ping, averaged 32Mbps down, and averaged 6.07Mbps up. Connecting over my iPhone was incredibly fast, and offered shockingly playable results after automatically connecting to my PS4 over the internet.

That said, the lag introduced by the streaming technology is definitely noticable. If you’re going to play a competitive action game like this, you’ll definitely find yourself at a disadvantage. Single-player experiences like Contrast or Flower will work just fine if your internet connection can handle it, but don’t push your luck with games like Call of Duty orBattlefield.

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Xbox One launch day hardware issues abound

After the absurd and complicated roller coaster ride of the Xbox 180 pre-launch debacle, the Xbox One is finally finding its way into the living rooms of consumers. While many users are happily channel surfing and playing with their Xbox Ones, some users are hitting major issues. From faulty Blu-ray drives to unexplained buzzing to iPhone-like scuffs, the Xbox One launch is far from perfect. Hopefully, these failures don’t turn out to be an issue on par with the Xbox 360′s now-infamous red ring of death.

By far, the Xbox One’s most obnoxious day-one issue is the broken Blu-ray drives shipped to a number of consumers. When a disc is inserted, you’re not greeted with a nice loading screen or even a sad-faced error message. Instead, all you get is a shrill clicking noise announcing to the world that your shiny new console is broken. It’s almost as if the drive itself is mocking you, really.

Not to be outdone, this video shows an Xbox One making an eery buzzing noise without any explanation. Did something come loose inside the case? Is the fan scraping something? Nobody knows for sure quite yet, but I know I couldn’t stand to listen to this YouTube video for more than a few seconds before I had to shut it off.

Some forum denizens over at Neowin have reported that some Xbox One models are being received with noticeable scuff marks. Long streaks, missing hunks of plastic, and ugly dings leave the console looking like it lost a fight in a pub parking lot. Actually, this seems very familiar to Apple’s iPhone 5 “scuffgate,” so it’s not hard to believe that a high-profile device like this could ship in such a banged-up state.

Infuriatingly, some users have had problems connecting to the servers to pull-down the Xbox One’s day-one patch. While this hasn’t been directly attributed to a hardware issue, it’s quite frustrating nonetheless. This time last week, I couldn’t connect to PSN at all on myPS4, so my console was effectively useless for a few hours. Connectivity issues will vary wildly based on network setup and server load, but we can expect this problem to solve itself after launch-day traffic dies down.

Keep in mind, it’s still too early to tell how wide-spread these issues are. Some failures are absolutely unavoidable for a consumer electronics launch of this scale, but we have a valid reason to be wary. After the huge number of broken units last generation, Microsoft is being watched under a microscope. Worse, I’ve heard reports of Microsoft support phone queues extending past two hours today, so getting help will be a real chore if you do run into a problem. These issues aren’t reason enough to panic just yet, but holding out on your next-gen purchases for a few months wouldn’t be a terrible idea.

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World of Warcraft PvP basic

WoW stands for World of Warcraft is a game where players have the option of fighting against each other in a variety of settings. These options include beach games, a small map where two teams face each other on the battlefield. There are three sizes Arena game is a 2v2 (two players against two players), 3v3 and 5v5. Here is a rating system, while players with less "skill" is placed at the lower levels, players more often around 1100, and qualified, around 2000 rankings. The more you earn, the higher rank you get. If you win against a team that is much higher rating than that, you get more votes. Arena only purpose is to eliminate the opposing team where the team managed to do, win.

Type rating also applies to rated battlegrounds where players face each other in battles 10v10 or 15v15 on the map Battlefield normal. Rated battlegrounds group, or team, often have a leader or a few who will tell you what to do during the game. You have to listen to them, otherwise you can only kick you out! Even if you are new to the game, or just PvP, then I can recommend starting with a common battlefield.

Regular battlefields are often made up of leechers and less motivated players are good for exercise, but often you will be close to no competition at all, or is too much competition. The game is balanced in the normal battlegrounds are fairly rare, often a team has a team of better or more skilled than others.

Battlegrounds always has a purpose. This objective could be to take the enemy's flag from their base and capture in itself and in Warsong Gulch (WSG), or TP (Twin Peaks), could be to capture and hold the bases as the Eye of Storm and Arathi Basin, and even kill the last boss of the enemy base, as in Alterac Valley or the Isle of Conquest. Purposes even mix with each other in several battleground as Eye of the Storm.

The best defense is a good offense, which also applies to PvP in World of Warcraft. Although there are statistics like strength and endurance to match the enemy, and survived. You should always be active in one form or another, you should not wander aimlessly. If DPSer, keep doing damage or Crowd Control (Polymorph, Blind, Frost Shock, etc..) If you're healer is to heal a target that is low on HP or CC as many enemies as possible. No matter where you are PvP, you should always have something to do.

If you're dying, go defensive, use all his defensive skills and trying to get out of line of sight of the enemy, and ran to a healer on your team (s). If you do not have the defensive skills ready, use all your offensive skills - because as I said before, the best defense is a good offense. If you are able to do more damage to enemies who attack you instead of him for you, then you beat him, unless he has the defensive capabilities more than you.

Dirt 3 (RePack)

Dirt 3

Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Genre: Racing
Release Date: May 24, 2011 (US)

About Dirt 3

The acclaimed off-road racing franchise returns in this third series entry. DiRT 3 delivers mud, sweat and gears the world over: from the intense weather-beaten rally stages of Europe, Africa and the US, to executing performance driving showcases and career challenges where car control is pushed to spectacular limits. The game boasts more cars, more locations, more routes and more events than any other game in the series, including over 50 rally cars representing the very best from five decades of the sport.

Minimum System Requirements

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Memory: 2 Gb
Hard Drive: 15 Gb free
Video Memory: 256 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements

OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2 GHz
Memory: 3 Gb
Hard Drive: 15 Gb free
Video Memory: 1 Gb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 6670
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 11
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

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Hoard

Developer: Big Sandwich Games
Publisher: Big Sandwich Games
Genre: Action
Release Date: April 4, 2011 (US)