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Not the message Microsoft wants to send Twitter lit up with criticism and condemnation at Microsoft’s decision to hire female dancers in schoolgirl outfits for an Xbox party it hosted at the Game Developers Conference last week. It also drew stern remarks from Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who said the party did “not reflect the…
How to give your hard drive a checkup Longtime computer users have likely at one point or another experienced that sinking feeling after their trusty rig develops a new “click-click-click,” or a whirring sound. It certainly should raise the suspicion that it could be the last gasp of a failing hard drive. The problem is…
High end features in a mid-tier card Asus has a new graphics card that it’s hoping to drum up demand for by pitching it as a limited edition product. It’s full name is the Asus Echelon GTX 950 Limited Edition and it sports an arctic camouflage aesthetic that admittedly looks pretty nice. The question is,…
A treadmill for gaming, not exercise One of the limitations of VR is your physical space. Sure, there are sprawling worlds to explore, but your living room is only so big. A company called Virtuix aims to get around that with the Omni, a special treadmill that allows you to walk, run, jump, and generally…
Full VR body tracking Xsens has been working on 3D motion tracking technology for the past decade and a half. However, the bulk of its solutions up to this point have focused on athletics, 3D character animation, and industrial applications. With VR positioned to disrupt the consumer market, Xsens saw an opportunity to extend its…
CPU Benchmarking 101 Benchmarking a PC is an essential activity, if you want to separate the hype from the facts. While component and PC manufacturers constantly brag about why this is the “best part ever,” benchmarking is where the rubber meets the road. Specs are interesting, but putting a system through its paces will tell…
Top Deal: Now that you’ve decided it’s finally time to trash your AMD Barton or Intel Northwood PC and build a new rig, the question is, which platform do you run with? If you want to go with the newest, then the answer is Skylake. There are several Skylake processors to choose from, including today’s…
Better but not more expensive Razer jumped into the virtual reality market with its Open-Source VR (OSVR) ecosystem. The idea is to push an open-source standard for developers to embrace rather than get lost creating content for a bunch of different proprietary hardware solutions. To show what it’s capable of, Razer built a headset to…