Straight to multiplayer If you don’t give a rat’s behind about single player campaigns and just want to shoot your friends in a virtual environment, Activision has a proposition for you—buy just the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Black Ops III and you’ll pay a reduced rate. The Call of Duty: Black Ops III…
Big capacity in a little stick Toshiba’s proud as a peacock about its new SG5 series of consumer focused solid state drives. Why? The SG5 series is Toshiba’s first client SATA SSD to support a 1TB capacity in an M.2 form factor. That’s not the only capacity available—the SG5 series will also be available in…
Hello PlayStation Nation! The dev team here at our Osaka HQ and I are very happy to update our fans with the latest news for The King of Fighters XIV — just before the next showing at the PlayStation booth in C3 Show, Hong Kong. The King of Fighters XIV will feature a huge roster…
We’re back with another free multiplayer weekend in time for the launch of Street Fighter V — the latest chapter of the legendary fighting franchise and a console exclusive on PS4. Starting this Friday, you’ll be able to access the online multiplayer modes in any PS4 game without a PlayStation Plus subscription. This is also…
Last September we put a call out to PS4 owners to test out our next system software update and since we’re getting close to the release of our next update for PS4, we wanted to do it again! Starting today you can sign up to be a beta tester and get a sneak peek at…
Stuff to build stuff One of the great things about working at Maximum PC is that I’m always building things. And by things, I mean PCs. Like many people, I enjoy working with my hands and doing projects myself, as long as I have the appropriate hardware and tools at my disposal. I have a…
Top Deal: Flash drives are convenient, but when you need to take multiple terabytes of data with you, a portable hard drive is the ticket. They’re capacious, cost effective, and some of them even look pretty good. For example, check out today’s top deal for a Seagate 4TB Expansion Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0…
Vulkan has landed Remember AMD’s proprietary Mantle API? It died an unceremonious death a year ago, but large bits and pieces of it were picked up by The Khronos Group, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes and develops open standard APIs. Those pieces formed the foundation of Vulkan, which itself is the next iteration of…
Fill her up! Some lucky motorists in Toledo, Ohio were able to purchase gas for less than 20 cents per gallon over the weekend due to a computer glitch. Most of the motorists who benefited paid around 17 cents to 19 cents per gallon of gas, though in some instances, the price dropped all the…
Three-headed monster It’s been just over a year since Sony spun off its Vaio PC brand to a Japanese investment firm so that it could focus on its mobile business. At the time, it wasn’t clear what the future would look like for Vaio, though as it turns out it could be a key piece…