June 2015
This Week in PlayStation
Hello, friends! Excuse me if I keep this short — Batman: Arkham Knight and Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward are out, so… This Week’s Top 10 Posts DRIVECLUB PlayStation Plus Edition Out June 25th Uncharted 4: Inside That E3 Demo Conversations with Creators with Wil Wheaton Premieres July 7th Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Out…
Palmer Luckey Talks Oculus Rift Price, the State of VR
Last week during E3 2015, Re/code got a chance to chat with Oculus VR co-founder Palmer Luckey who was at the show demonstrating Oculus Rift. He hinted that virtual reality will be as big as Apple’s launch of the original iPhone. However, the difference is that mobile phones existed long before the iPhone arrived whereas…
Flash Sale Starts Now: Fantasy Deals
Hi everyone! Hot off the heels of E3, we’re celebrating one of our favorite genres with a Fantasy Deals Flash Sale. Starting right now, we’ve got a collection of fantasy games and movies on sale for up to 80 percent off. Head over to PlayStation Store through the weekend to nab titles like Dragon’s Dogma:…
Newegg Daily Deals: EVGA 750W PSU, Intel Core i7 4790 CPU, and More!
Top Deal: For new builders, the power supply is arguably the most underrated component. All the attention gets paid to the CPU, GPU, RAM, and storage, but it when it comes time to select a PSU, new builders often wonder why they should pay more for a name brand model when generic high wattage models…
Lenovo Gets Nostalgic, Considers Building a Retro Looking ThinkPad
Old school design meets new school hardware Do you have sit back and reminisce about the old days of computing? Lenovo does, and if there are enough people out there pining for a blast from the past, the world’s top PC supplier may bring back the ThinkPad X300. Well, sort of. Lenovo’s David Hill wrote…
Shadow of the Beast: An E3 Retrospective
We’ve had a roller-coaster of a time since our last update to you all. PlayStation invited us to Los Angeles to present Shadow of the Beast as part of the line-up of games coming to PS4 at one of the biggest gaming events on the planet, E3! For us, this was a huge honor —…
The Division: Tense Multiplayer in the Dark Zone
First revealed at E3 2013, Tom Clancy’s The Division introduced us to a post-apocalyptic vision of New York City realized in jaw-dropping detail. Bringing Ubisoft’s vision of a post-pandemic urban battleground to life isn’t a task that the development team are keen to rush, so at E3 2015 there were still plenty of details to…
Build It: Creating a Quiet but Beastly PC
This article was published in the May 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Low noise doesn’t mean low joys Length of Time: 2-4 Hours | Difficulty: Medium The Mission Over the last few months, in the creaking depths of the secret Maximum PC lair, we’ve been constructing…