An official denial Don’t go bidding farewell to ECS in the branded DIY motherboard business just yet. After catching wind of yesterday’s rumor claiming that ECS decided to stop pushing its own brand mobos in favor of building solutions for ODM and OEM partners, company president Sunny Yang sent a letter to the press calling…
Console fanboys are probably laughing right about now. Why? Because just two days after the general release of Batman: Arkham Knight, developer Rocksteady Studios and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have decided to pull the PC version until further notice due to serious performance issues. “We want to apologize to those of you who are…
Hey, dood! It’s been a hot and sweaty six months duking it out in the Netherworlds since we announced Disgaea 5, but I managed to find my way back with some awesome news! NIS America is unleashing Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance exclusively for PS4 on October 6th! This ridiculously over-the-top strategy RPG will be…
Playing it cool Many enthusiasts are waiting for Intel to release processors based on its forthcoming Skylake architecture before building a new system, and with good reason. Skylake is a “tock” in Intel’s “tick-tock” strategy, meaning it’s a major new architecture, one that will require a new socket (LGA 1151) and possibly new RAM (Skylake-S…
Back in April, Gio Corsi at PlayStation visited the SEGA office in Tokyo to interview two of the developers behind the legendary Yakuza series, General Director Toshihiro Nagoshi and Producer Masayoshi Yokoyama. In this first of three interview videos, Gio goes deep into the details of Yakuza 5 and also gets answers to some of…
Microsoft and Samsung speak out Samsung made headlines yesterday when it was discovered that its own software update utility that keeps drivers up to date and installs third-party programs (bloatware) was intentionally disabling Windows Update. If you thought that wouldn’t sit well with Microsoft, you were right. “Windows Update remains a critical component of our…
AMD’s Fury X is now out the door, and the performance benchmarks show what they show. We have a card priced the same as NVIDIA’s GeForce 980 Ti. Performance is honestly good from both parties, but in the community, it all doesn’t matter. Somehow, all that matters is that one person is an “AMD fanboy”…
A look at the settings Windows 10 users can manipulate for a more useful, enjoyable Cortana experience Wouldn’t it be just grand if we could have a virtual personal assistant that took care of all of our needs, and not just keep track of scheduled appointments or weather conditions? There’s no doubt that we’re heading…
Top Deal: Summer is upon us and that means taking vacations. The only thing is, how do you get your gaming fix when the evening rolls around and you’re stuck with nothing to do in your hotel room? The easy solution is a gaming laptop. If you’re in the market for one, check out today’s…
Double the backup Why choose between offline and cloud storage schemes when you can have both? That’s essentially what Seagate proposes with its Backup Plus line of external USB 3.0 drive solutions, which now include 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage for free. Seagate also announced a new 4TB option housed in a 20.5mm chassis,…