Hey everyone! We have a very special character joining the Street Fighter V roster today! It’s none other than the 7-Colored Bomber herself, Rainbow Mika! Having made her first and only appearance (until now) in Street Fighter Alpha 3, R. Mika has long been a fan-favorite, and we’re super stoked to bring her back after…
Abducting Skylake It was three years ago to the day that we posted our review of Dell’s Alienware X51 PC game console to the website, which we called “impressively powerful for its size.” That was true at the time, though in the fast moving world of technology, the system’s Core i5-2320 CPU paired with a…
PlayStation fans worldwide have been spending their summer venturing around the Shropshire countryside, investigating the abandoned community of Yaughton Valley and the mysterious events that unfurled there. Whether you’re piecing together the mystery of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, or considering exploring this apocalypse, we’ve created a very special gift to thank you. Starting now…
AMD R9 Nano: Small but Powerful The initial launch of AMD’s Fiji architecture has been a bit rough: The R9 Fury X failed to claim the performance crown from GTX 980 Ti, though it puts up a good fight. Stepping down a notch is the R9 Fury, an air-cooled take on Fiji with eight of…
Just a day before the start of PAX Prime in Seattle, peripheral maker Logitech unveiled the company’s latest entry into the gaming audio arena. At Logitech’s audio lab in Camas, Washington, we got a hands-on with the two units that are billed as the successors to the G930 headset. Like the G930 before them, both…
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David Marcus, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, revealed on Wednesday that America’s number-one social network is currently developing a genderless virtual personal assistant called “M.” This new AI will be located within Messenger, the company’s stand-alone chat client. So far there’s no indication when—or if—this virtual assistant will be released to the Facebook…
Free Apps from Amazon For a long time, Amazon offered the Free App of the Day promotion for Android tablets and smartphones. The catch was that customers needed to sideload Amazon’s Appstore onto their device to take advantage of the daily promotion. Those days are gone, replaced by a new Amazon service called Underground. Like…
Long-time Transformers fans know that every single robot-in-disguise has a very specific personality. Grimlock, for instance, probably wouldn’t be described as “neighborly” and Sideswipe isn’t always interested in playing by the rules, but both have a fondness for combat. Optimus Prime, on the other hand, would always prefer a diplomatic solution. Platinum Games, the developer…
Windows 10 to the rescue? When it comes to the PC market, analysts tend to err on the side of gloom and doom. We wondered if that would still be the case once Windows 10 released to the public, and though it’s been installed on 75 million devices to date, at least one market research…