NHL 17  is launching Sept. 13, but just like last year, people will get the chance to play it early through a beta, publisher Electronic Arts announced today. The  NHL 17  public beta will include three modes of play — online head-to-head games, EA Sports Hockey League and Hockey Ultimate Team — along with the ability to create your own player. Interested parties can get early access if they sign up on the  NHL 17 website  by 11:59 p.m. PT on July 7. The beta will run for seven and a half days, from noon PT on July 28 until 11:59 p.m. PT on Aug. 4. The  NHL  series' first-ever beta came last year, when developer EA Vancouver held an  EA Sports Hockey League beta  for  NHL 16 . Sean Ramjagsingh, lead producer on  NHL 17 , said today in a press release that the feedback the studio received from that beta "helped us create a great experience at launch." EA also announced today that Vladimir Tarasenko, the star right winger for the St....

Think the speed of your website doesn’t matter? Think again. A 1-second delay in page load time yields: 11% fewer page views 16% decrease in customer satisfaction 7% loss in conversions (source:  Aberdeen Group ) Amazon found this to be true, reporting increased revenue of 1% for every 100 milliseconds improvement to their site speed. (source:  Amazon ) So did Walmart, who found a 2% increase in conversions for every 1 second of improvement. Image source That’s not all. A study by  Akamai  found that: 47% of people expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. 40% will abandon a web page if it takes more than three seconds to load. 52% of online shoppers say quick page loads are important for their loyalty to a site. But the average website load speed has increased 22% this year, according to a report by  Radware . It now takes 7.72 seconds to load—a far cry from the two-second limit of your average user. Clearly, speeding up your website is critical—not jus...

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - or was that Resident EVII? - is now definitely a thing, but it’s not exactly the thing we thought it would be. It’s first-person, it looks like it’ll actually be a survival horror game and the whole thing will be playable in VR - though thus far the goggle-friendly component has only been confirmed for the PS4 release. Those departures aside, it’s still a Resi game, so expect zombies that still really, really want to eat your brains. Capcom announced the forthcoming Resi title at E3 2016 with a murky trailer and some gameplay torn straight from the game’s demo, which is currently playable now on PS4 for PlayStation Plus subscribers. Exact details about the game’s setting, story and gameplay remain scarce, but the 15-minute demo (one of those replayable ones that fans will be poring over for clues until release) seems to confirm this is Resident Evil going back to its roots. From what we’ve seen at E3 and the subsequent deluge of information that has followe...

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Ubisoft releases a teaser trailer for Watch Dogs 2 , which indicates that a full reveal for the upcoming sequel will take place this coming Wednesday, June 8th. The first  Watch Dogs  was the highlight of  Ubisoft’s E3 2012 press conference , and so many assumed that  Watch Dogs 2 would close out the show for the company at this year’s event. On the contrary, Ubisoft has decided to spill the beans on  Watch Dogs 2  ahead of its E3 press conference next week, releasing a teaser trailer today for a full reveal that will take place on Wednesday, June 8th at 9:00AM Pacific. The teaser trailer for  Watch Dogs 2  gives players little to no information as to what to expect from the sequel, except that it will likely retain the smartphone hacking mechanics found in the original release. All the teaser trailer shows is a man’s butt while he presses buttons on his smartphone without looking at the screen. As he does this, the background flickers between var...

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