Hello, and welcome to 2015! Let’s dive right into last year’s final PS Store top sellers chart: PS4 Games 1 Grand Theft Auto V 2 Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition 3 Battlefield 4 4 The Walking Dead: Season Two 5 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 6 Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes 7 Game of Thrones:…
Low power SSD hits ultra high speeds (2,150MB/s reads, 1,550MB/s writes) One of the biggest developments in the solid state drive market has been that of falling prices over the past couple of years. We hope that trend continues, though it’s not the sole storyline — there’s also the transition to PCI Express, and with…
Top Deal: As you wait impatiently for files to transfer from point A to points B and C, and as you spy stuttering in your in-home streams, have you ever thought to yourself, ‘There must be a better way?’ Well, there is, and it starts with tossing that 10-year-old router in the trash bin. You…
Yahoo recently replaced Google as the default search provider for Firefox in the U.S. In November, Yahoo and Mozilla reached an understanding to make Yahoo Search the default search provider for the latter’s Firefox browser in the United States and the results are already out there for all to see. According to the latest U.S….
The team at Mionix reaches their Kickstarter goal for the first biometric gaming mouse. One of the interesting things that we managed to get our hands on during CES this year was an unlikely candidate: a mouse. But unlike other more traditional gaming peripherals, Mionix’s new NAOS Quantified Gaming device is both a body sensor…
Company trying to get rid of multiple sync engines Microsoft drew the ire of many Windows 10 Technical Preview testers when Build 9879, which was released in November, was found to be missing a key OneDrive functionality: “smart files”, which are offline placeholders containing thumbnails and metadata of OneDrive files. At the time, the company…
New SSDs start at $69.99 There was no dearth of solid-state drive (SSD) announcements at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show. Of these, two were from Micron-owned memory and storage maker Crucial: the all-new BX100, aimed at the entry-level segment with the promise of “substantial yet affordable performance gains” over a hard drive, and the…
Rumored features include digital inking support and tab grouping Microsoft has a special press event scheduled for January 21, when it will finally turn the spotlight on Windows 10’s consumer-specific features. Chances are Microsoft could end up formally announcing the new “Spartan” browser, which we first heard about late last month, at the upcoming event,…
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that you all had a restful holiday with family, friends, and maybe even a few video games when no one (Or everyone?) was looking. But now it’s 2015 and we have to get the Drop rolling again, because there are more video games to play! So let’s start with the…
This week saw a couple pretty big stories: PlayStation Now is getting a subscription service on PS4 starting Tuesday, and we revealed the winners of our reader-voted Game of the Year awards! Some of your votes aligned pretty closely with my personal picks, but others ended up being big surprises! How did your favorites fare?…