Microsoft isn’t waving the white flag With a paltry 3 percent of the smartphone market, Microsoft might be forgiven if it conceded defeat to Android and iOS. And for a minute, it seemed like it might — there were rumors that Microsoft would switch up its mobile strategy by abandoning Windows Phone handsets and partnering…
Broadband for all We tend to freak out as if the world is ending when our Internet service goes down. However, among homes that bring in less than $30,000 per year, more than a quarter — 26 percent — don’t have Internet access, compared to 3 percent of adults who make over $75,000. Google is…
Following a collaboration with Coffee Stain Studios, I am delighted to announce that Goat Simulator will be available on PS4 and PS3 starting August 11th! Perhaps you’ve heard of Goat Simulator, perhaps you haven’t, but for those of you who have spent their days hoping to be a Goat, causing mayhem up, up, down, down,…
Hi, it’s Jakub from Grip Games and I bring you great news! After a very long wait, several delays, and a change of publisher, Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut is coming to PS4 and PS3 on July 21st. Formerly published by the game’s creators Toxic Games, we at Grip Games took over the work of releasing this…
Hello, PlayStation fans! The team and I at Gaming Minds Studios have been looking forward to sharing this news with you for some time — Grand Ages: Medieval will be launching on PS4 September 29th. We’ve been working diligently on the PS4 version for some time, so it’s a big deal for us that I…
This article was published in the April 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Adding dimensions to evolving (and shrinking) chip technology Three-dimensional flash memory is the latest chip technology that’s truly revolutionary and Samsung is leading the way with its 3D-NAND flash-memory cells in 500GB SSDs. Multiterabyte…
A Commodore for the modern era As I explained before, my roots in computing date back to the Commodore 64, which is generally recognized as the best selling PC of all time. Like many thirty-somethings and over, I cut my computing teeth on that system and get a sense of nostalgia any time I see…
Hi everyone! Just in time for the EVO Championship Series, we’re celebrating the world’s largest and longest-running fighting game tournament with deals on some of our favorite fighting games and movies. Starting right now, pick up titles like Mortal Kombat X, Ultra Street Fighter IV, and Guilty Gear Xrd, as well as films like Foxcatcher,…
Microsoft Insider boss Gabe Aul stated on Monday that the company will be suspending releases of Windows 10 Technical Preview for a brief period. The company wants to move deployment into the production channels, the same channels that will provide updates to PCs with the retail copy. “Starting tomorrow, we will also not be delivering…
Mozilla suspends Adobe Flash support in Firefox Mozilla announced on Monday that it has blocked all versions of the Adobe Flash plugin in Firefox, even the most recent version of the plugin, 18.0.0.203. Mozilla’s Mark Schmidt added via Twitter that the plugin will remain blocked until Adobe releases a version of Flash that’s not “actively…