Hitman Beta Live This Weekend, Exclusive to PS4

It’s time to unpack your gear and start downloading. The Hitman Beta launches today for those of you that preordered the game. This is one of those moments where every single developer at Io-Interactive is keenly focused on what’s happening out in the world. We’ll be watching as you progress through the “Prologue,” as we…

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Google to Ban Flash-Based Ads by 2017

Google said this week that its Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing service will now be based on 100 percent HTML5 in order to reach more devices and to offer the best browsing experience. That means the company is phasing out advertisements based on Adobe Flash, a move that’s being seen across the Internet…

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Asus Combines 4K, G-Sync with ROG Swift PG27AQ

This week, Asus introduced a new monitor called the ROG Swift PG27AQ, the latest member in the company’s line of gaming panels. The big news with this release is that Asus crammed a 4K IPS panel together with Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, providing extremely high-resolution and flicker-free gameplay for those with a GeForce GTX 980 GPU…

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Unity to Support Valve’s SteamVR Natively

The road to populating the VR industry is growing hotter by the week. Unity Technologies recently announced that its Unity Engine, which powers a wide range of games and applications, will natively support Valve Software’s upcoming SteamVR platform. This feature will be added to the engine with no extra cost to developers. In addition to…

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Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Review

At a Glance (+) Carmen Miranda: Good 1080p performance; beefy cooling; runs quiet. (-) Hokey Pokey: Aging architecture; less efficient than Maxwell; needs lower quality settings on some recent releases. Doing the Tonga Tango AMD’s Tonga architecture has always been a bit of an odd man out. It’s essentially a refined version of the old…

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Microsoft: Win 10 Will Protect States from Hackers

Microsoft’s Mandy Tidwell took to the company’s blog this week to ensure governments that Windows 10 has the best security to thwart hackers. Tidwell says that security was a prime focus as Microsoft developed Windows 10, which was released last summer. The platform promises to protect governments from the growing rise of attacks better than…

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PlayStation Blogcast 196: Ranger of a Lonely Heart

Subscribe via iTunes or RSS, or download here Join the Blogcast gang as we enjoy a quieter, more intimate show (read: Sid couldn’t make it this week) and continue our discussion about gaming masterpieces. Inspired by this week’s release of Firewatch, we recall games that nail the feeling of loneliness and isolation, veering dangerously close…

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Play Windows 3.1 Programs In a Browser

Following recent news that Windows 95 can be run in a browser without any plugins, the Internet Archive announced on Thursday that it has added hundreds of Windows 3.1 programs to its collection. Now you can relive the days of the early 1990s when consumers played games and carried out simple tasks in Microsoft’s popular-but-now-ancient-looking…

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