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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus tonight and i am joined by Nick Pinkerton we just finished our first day at pax prime 2013 where we were on the show floor all day and I spoke to a couple of hardware companies Nick spoke to a couple game companies so nick is going to be starting us off with the wolf among us then we're going into Wolfenstein a little bit of lords of the fallen and then I'll follow it up with intel SSD overclocking which is a brand new thing and cooler master's half stacker so Nick what can you tell us about the wolf among us well the wolf among this is from Telltale Games the same developers that made the walking dead and there are actually a couple elements that they borrowed over from the walking dead like the dialogue there are multiple options in the dialogue wheel you can even choose silence as an option and there are a lot of reactions that that these characters will have during that series and and the variety in those interactions is pretty crazy so they've basically just taken that to the next level they also let you act out combat situations or combat scenes by choosing different objects in the environment to interact with and so basically there's a lot more variety in those scenes so it's really taking the walking dead bring it to a new level and really putting it in a noir setting that kind of reminds me of sin city the the comic book or the film and just putting this beautiful like neon coat of paint on top of that so that's going to be a lot of fun to play it comes out later this fall and then I also went by the Bethesda booth to talk with some people about Wolfenstein the new order so that's a Wolfenstein shooter where you're running around and kinda like post World War two europe and really i didn't think that the the World War 2 setting was was anything that we hadn't seen before but it was really cool to see that on a more current gen engine if maybe played the games like like rage or the fallout game so you're familiar with what Bethesda can do from like a visual standpoint so I mean that's definitely still worth checking out and there are a lot of new like mex and technologies that kind of come later in the game as you get later into the stages and lastly Lords of the Fallen if you like Dark Souls that's definitely a game to keep on your radar the executive producer he was the one doing the demo presentation the guys worked on The Witcher 2 he's worked on Skyrim and kingdoms of amalur so i'm pretty sure that this is going to be a game that we want to follow in the future very cool and as far as the hardware front for the hardware enthusiast out there intel SSD overclocking is a sort of new thing they have a utility coming out it's all software driven you can overclock the asic you can overclock the the actual frequency of the bus and that improves the speed from what we saw at least a couple you know like fifteen percent or twenty percent in the least and that's ideally useful for when you're writing a large video files because that's that's hammer in your eye oh so that's your biggest bottleneck we're actually doing a full video on that tomorrow so check the site for our interview with Intel's SSD engineers and the overclocking lab where we'll show you how it works and how you can do it the cooler master half stacker is the other item I wanted to talk about there's two full videos on that and an article already on the site the half stacker is actually a fully modular enclosure so it is a it's a full tower enthusiast solution that can actually stack multiple mini cases on top of each other and that's an endless until you hit a weight limit obviously so you just stack the rails it comes with comes with one of their module boxes if you pay 170 dollars you get the module box and the full half 925 mid tower solution and then you can purchase additional mini-itx form factor boxes each one of those can either fit another machine or it can fit two three sixty millimeter radiators each so if you bought two of them you could put four and that's obviously ideal for enthusiasts building a custom liquid loop and check the full article for that if it interests you you're looking at video footage of it right now so that's it for the first day of pax prime for us check back again tomorrow for our Intel footage for more of our lords of the fallen we'll be up by then and then we're also checking out a game called shadow warrior shadow warrior yes with lo with lo Wang move in so check that out and we'll see you guys next time peace