PC Gaming
Samsung announced today that they have partnered with Ubisoft to bundle the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (ACS) with select Samsung SSDs and monitors. The latest title in the long-running Assassin’s Creed universe, Syndicate is scheduled to ship November 19 for PC and October 23 for PS4/XB1; obviously, this bundle is for the PC version—console gamers…
Registration required Nvidia’s doing its best to transform its GeForce Experience software from something supplementary into an integral part of the gaming experience. One way it’s doing that is by changing how gamers receive title-specific drivers on a game’s day of release. Beginning sometime in December, automatic access to Game Ready drivers that provide optimizations…
Adobe After Effects is a popular tool for adding images and visual effects to video, but can be daunting to those unfamiliar with it. In this how-to, we’ll cover the basics so that you can start experimenting without feeling completely lost. First though, we should cover some of the lingo. Composition This is simply a…
Top Deal: Back in the old days, building a PC was a bloody affair. Literally. Those old beige cases had sharp corners that would jump out at you like a cougar high on catnip. These days? Health insurance is no longer required, and long gone are the boring designs of yesteryear replaced by all kinds…
Something for everyone AMD on Tuesday made available a new Catalyst driver, 15.10 beta, while Nvidia has a hotfix for GeForce graphics owners who are having trouble with G-Sync. Starting with AMD, the Catalyst 15.10 beta is an incremental update to the previous beta release. On the performance side, the release notes mention DirectX 12…
Sour grapes for Apple Apple may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the University of Wisconsin after a U.S. jury ruled that it used technology belonging to the school’s licensing arm, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, without permission. The patent in question was filed way back in 1998 and relates to technologies that…
Money making machine The remarkable thing about Intel is that it continues to rake in billions of dollars every quarter no matter what the market conditions are. Case in point, Intel beat out Wall Street estimates by recording $14.5 billion in revenue during the third quarter. That’s down just a tick from $14.6 billion the…
Go big or go home I’ve got access to a lot of computer hardware—more than any sane man really needs, frankly—but when it comes to my home entertainment I have a problem… well, several in fact. First, I don’t have a good space set up as a home theater, and second, I can’t really afford…
Let’s face it: many of us grew up sneaking a peek at Dad’s stock of Playboy magazines or stole them outright from his library (cough). The magazine, partially known for its articles, was the flagship of light pornography. But the Internet now provides everything you need for your nudie fix with a simple search on…
Toshiba says that its latest 12-inch dynaPad Windows 10 tablet not only reinvents the marriage between pen and paper, but it’s the lightest and thinnest of its class, measuring just 0.27 inches and weighing a mere 1.25 pounds. The dynaPad seems to be competing with Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 4, which has a 12.3-inch screen,…