Top Deal: Quick, what’s the most important part of a PC? If you answered anything but “power supply,” then you’ve yet to have one fail. The first time a generic PSU gives up the ghost in dramatic fashion — sparks, loud noises, smoke coming from your PC — is the last time you’ll trust a…
Hello from San Diego! I’m at Comic-Con 2015, and I just got back from playing a few rounds of Call of Duty Black Ops III multiplayer (after seeing the debut of its hyper-cool looking new Zombies mode). Black Ops III feels both familiar and fresh, featuring Treyarch’s tried-and-true genre-defining shooting mechanics but amplified by new…
Ready, fight! Let’s suppose a website got its hands on Intel’s forthcoming Core i7-6700K processor, the flagship CPU in Skylake-S that’s rumored to launch on August 5, 2015, at Gamescom. Then let’s suppose that said site benchmarked the chip and offered up comparisons to Intel’s existing Core i7-4790K (Devil’s Canyon). That would be pretty interesting,…
Better tools for stopping spam Google claims that less than 0.1 percent of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, with the amount of junk mail landing in the spam folder being even lower at 0.05 percent. Assuming the claims are true, those are good numbers for Google to hang its hat on, though…
It’s only temporary There are three things you can count on in life — death, taxes, and overreactions to the PC market. Nearly every time an analyst or market research firm posts less than stellar shipment figures for the PC sector, sensationalist headlines follow. Gartner’s report that worldwide PC shipments declined 9.5 percent in the…
LittleBigPlanet 3: The Journey Home launches today on PS4 and PS3, and we re-join our courageous champions of Bunkum right where we left them; just after they stepped into Newton’s Dimensional Doorway and were being zipped back home to Craftworld. The Journey Home Premium Adventure Pack is the ultimate adventurer’s pack for Sackboy and friends,…
The teams at developer Mediatonic and publisher Devolver Digital are thrilled to announce that our remake of Hato Mao’s incomparable Hatoful Boyfriend will launch on PS4 and PS Vita on July 21st! Bird lovers around the world will be able to enjoy the romance of their avian suitors in luscious HD at home or on…
Do you love roguelikes? Rhythm-based combat? Challenging but fair gameplay? If you said “yes” to any of those questions then this is the announcement for you! Crypt of the NecroDancer, the award-winning and critically-acclaimed roguelike rhythm game, will be launching exclusively on PS4 and PS Vita! Now you can move to the music and deliver…
This article was published in the March 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. We discover that balancing size and power is a delicate process when building a specialist content creator rig Length of Time 1–2 Hours | Difficulty: Low The Mission Sometimes we build systems in this…