Nvidia’s Chris Daniel updated the company’s blog with news that the Shield Android TV set-top-box can now be purchased on Google Play in North America. The device is one of three Shield gadgets that Nvidia has released over the years, starting with the Shield handheld (2013) followed by the Shield tablet (2014) and the Shield…
Top Deal: Future generations will look back and giggle at the multi-monitor setups of yesteryear. They’ll listen as old folks tell about bezels and messes of cables that came with running two or three monitors at a time, but they’ll never know the struggle. That’s because they’ll be rocking a monitor akin to today’s top…
One TUF cookie If Mad Max were to build a system around Skylake, we have no doubt he’d opt for the new Asus TUF Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1. True to its name, this “TUF” board is littered with features designed for durability, such as port-protecting Dust Defenders, military-grade components, ESD guards, and so forth. Let’s…
Valid explanation or bogus excuse? You would think that adding support in Chrome for notifications to appear in the Action Center for Windows 10 would be an easy “Yes” for Google, but you’d also be wrong. As it turns out, Google has no intention of using the Action Center, at least not anytime soon. The…
Drats! Swap out your mechanical keyboard for a crappy membrane plank before reading any further. It’s just a precaution, should you decide to Hulk-smash your keyboard in frustration at what we’re about to tell you. Remember the Vive VR system being developed by Valve and HTC we told you about earlier this year? It’s the…
Hi! We’re called Ice-Pick Lodge, and we’re happy to announce that September 10th will mark the PS4 launch of Knock Knock — a creepy horror game with a rather unusual backstory. What do you, a small-to-mid-sized indie studio, do when an e-mail pops up full of mysterious scribbles, notes, and audio files — coupled with…
Two Star Wars skin packs have just arrived on PlayStation consoles! Disney Interactive, Lucasfilm, and Microsoft have teamed up and created over 70 new skins for the platform. Use the buttons on your controller, navigate through PlayStation Store to find the pack, then click the button. It’s easy! The Classic Skin Pack includes seven versions…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. It’s tempting to always get the biggest and fastest memory kit, but how much RAM do you actually need? Component lifespans are usually pretty easy to track. Processors get higher clock speeds, more cores,…
Board games? Card games? And adorable animals?! Yes, Armello has it all, and it’s launching on PS4 next week. We sit down with Director Trent Kusters to discuss this beautiful project. As an added bonus, the Blogcast team can hardly believe that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is out next week (alongside Mad…