Hi, I’m Kyle Duncan, Producer for the Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 team here at PopCap in Vancouver. One of our key development goals for Garden Warfare 2 was to allow players to immerse themselves in the world of Plants vs. Zombies like never before. We wanted players to experience what has happened since…
Tech tips and tools that will help you be more productive While we all wish we could have personal assistants to get ourselves through the day (because being an adult is hard), most of us have to forego that luxury. Luckily, computers and technology have come a long way, and can help us save time,…
Top Deal: You’ve seen your share of monitors—black and white models, those bulky CRTs, early era LCDs that were thick and heavy, and today’s crop. Each and every time, you tell yourself, “Self, I want a big display, but doggone it, the bang-for-buck is so much higher if I go smaller.” Well, it’s time you…
The Pirate Bay this week announced a plugin offered by Torrents Time, offering users the ability to stream movies directly from torrent files. Currently in beta, the feature isn’t made obvious until users click on a torrent and see the “stream it” link residing between the torrent link and the anonymous download link. This is…
Top Deal: Today’s top deal is a little different than usual. It’s not actually a product with a discount, but a new product that’s really, really unique—it’s the MSI GT72S G Tobii-805 Gaming Laptop with Tobii Eye Tracking Technology for $2599 with free shipping (Exclusive Launch at Newegg). This beast of a laptop (17.3-inch display,…
Still a player in laptops AMD issued a press release today touting an increase in notebook market traction specifically tied to its 6th Generation AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors. The company was short on figures, but did note a strengthened relationship with HP. In particular, AMD pointed to HP’s 14-inch ProBook 645 and 15.6-inc ProBook…
An unwinnable war? PayPal appears to be helping Netflix in its efforts to stop people from streaming movies and TV shows that aren’t supposed to be available to them in their region. What isn’t known is whether PayPal’s effort is intentional or just coincidentally linked to Netflix. More on that in a moment. Here’s the…
Getting a jump start on VR Oculus has revealed the first batch of officially certified “Oculus Ready” PCs in anticipation of its Rift headset shipping to users at the end of next month. All of the systems unveiled will be available to pre-order on February 16, 2016 (next Tuesday) at a discount of up to…
Gather your party and sharpen your blades, Sword Coast Legends is headed to PS4 this spring with a veritable treasure trove of additional content! Sword Coast Legends is a one-to-four-player RPG set in Dungeon & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms. In Sword Coast Legends, you play as a member of the Burning Dawn — a small adventurers’…
In celebration of Safer Internet Day, Google has updated Gmail on the web with two new security features that will be rolling out to users this week. The changes center around Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption and email authentication, aiming to keep users’ email safe from hackers. However, the company points out that other services…