At a Glance (+) Speed Boats: Good performance; overclocks well; Z170 platform offers new features. (-) Tug Boats: Not much faster than Haswell; still quad-core; no heatsink included; needs new motherboard and RAM. Making waves on Skylake Skylake. The name invokes images of a serene outdoor setting, with clear water surrounded by forests, and blue…
During our E3 press conference in June, we introduced Horizon Zero Dawn, a brand new, third-person action RPG from Guerrilla Games coming to PS4 in 2016. This month, PlayStation Heroes is giving you the opportunity to support the USO by purchasing a Horizon Zero Dawn theme for PS4. This theme will only be available through…
Hi everyone! Week two of PlayStation Store’s Summer Sale is here and we’re finishing strong with a diverse collection of red-hot games and videos, all for up to 70 percent off. PlayStation Plus members enjoy an additional discount, at up to 80 percent off. Starting right now, pick up game titles like Assassin’s Creed Unity,…
Top Deal: Do you hear that noise? No? Listen harder. Still nothing? Great! That’s the benefit of a low noise and/or silent power supply. And no, you don’t have to compromise performance for silence. Want proof? Check out today’s top deal for an EVGA 1,000W Super Silent Power Supply for $170 with free shipping (normally…
Double the speed, but is it enough? Comcast is doubling the speed of its low-cost Internet Essentials service to 10Mbps, the company announced today. It’s the third time the discounted tier has seen a speed increase since it was introduced to low income families four years ago. In addition, both new and existing Internet Essentials…
Pricing out Skylake-S If you’re planning to build a system around Intel’s Skylake-S architecture, it would be helpful to know how much the CPUs will cost, would it not? In all likelihood, you’ll find out official price points tomorrow when Intel is supposed to launch Skylake-S, but in the meantime, there’s a leaked price list…
A new gaming mouse from Asus ROG Looking for a new mouse for your gaming rig? The Republic of Gamers arm of Asus has introduced a new mouse “ergonomically designed” for long gaming sessions. Called the GX860 Buzzard, this peripheral includes high-quality Omron switches, LED illumination (red, orange, or green), and a two-way DPI switch….
Take back your bandwidth At last unofficial account, Windows 10 had been downloaded and installed on tens of millions of devices, and that number may be in the hundreds of millions at this point. A big reason why is because Microsoft is giving the OS away for free as a no-cost upgrade for existing Windows…
Hey there, galactic friends! Let’s talk Capsule Force aesthetics and the decisions behind them. Capsule Force is a 90’s arcade game set in an 80’s space anime world, but why did we go with this style? When we started working on Capsule Force, we tried to make a fun, competitive multiplayer game by creating prototypes…