Getting acclimated to a new Office In what could be the most important update ever to Microsoft’s popular productivity suite, Office 2016 for Windows is now available, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The new Office suite puts a much bigger emphasis on collaboration than ever before. One of the key ways it does that is through…
Just how fast is that SSD? Every now and again, resetting the benchmark charts is necessary. Now is such a time, for several reasons. First, we have a new testbed (Skylake) that enables potentially higher performance, particularly for M.2 PCIe drives. Second, some of the benchmarks we were using have gotten a bit long in…
Back in June during our E3 Press Conference, we announced that PlayStation is the new home of Call of Duty, bringing you early access to the Black Ops III Beta and upcoming DLC. Now you can play that early content in style with the Call of Duty: Black Ops III Limited Edition PlayStation 4 Bundle,…
Top Deal: Now is a great time to build a PC. Just ask Mr. Foley. He lives in a van down by the river, which was the best he could do after spending his retirement on a 1TB solid state drive before NAND flash memory pricing plummeted to pedestrian levels. Mr. Foley should have waited….
Affordable hybrids Asus has a couple of new Transformer Book devices that might appeal to users who are interested in a cheaper Surface. Specifically, Asus today announced the Transformer Book T100HA and Flip TP200SA, both of which offer a laptop and tablet experience in a single device. The T100HA sports an Intel Atom x5 Z8500…
We may have already made contact The only way E.T. could have phoned home is he didn’t use encryption. Otherwise, any communication would have been indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation, assuming the encryption was done right. That’s essentially the theory posed by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked classified documents to the press…
Hello, PlayStation fans! The team at Depth First Games is thrilled to reveal our game, Rally Copters, which is available starting today as a cross-buy download for PS4 and PS Vita! Watch the trailer here: Rally Copters is a 2.5D physics-driven, helicopter time-trial game. The vibrant style is reminiscent of a classic, vector-based arcade game….
We’re celebrating Outbreak Day for The Last of Us this year a little early. In the past, we’ve marked the occasion with a video and a contest but today we are happy to finally reveal there’s a new Clicker Statue from our friends at IP Factory/Gaming Heads now available for pre-order. You can get your…
Desktop graphics in a laptop form factor Big things are happening in the gaming laptop market. We’re starting to see notebooks with panels that support Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, faster storage options (M.2 SATA, for example), and coming soon, true desktop class GPUs. As it stands right now, the fastest mobile GPU available from Nvidia is…
A showpiece system Digital Storm gave us a glimpse of its liquid cooled Aventum 3 PC back at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. It was then we knew the company had something special on its hands, and now eight months later, it’s finally available to purchase. The Aventum 3 isn’t…