PC Gaming
Playing fast with VR Our illustrious Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang has been toiling away at the 2016 Game Developers Conference (that lucky dog) getting up and close and personal with several VR players. One of them is Ben from Tasty Beverage Studios (500 geeks points right off the bat for a cool name), who…
Microsoft takes a mulligan Seemingly out of nowhere, Microsoft earlier this week quietly added an entry to one of its support pages announcing that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin currency for purchases in the Microsoft Store. This came as a surprise in part because Microsoft didn’t offer up a reason for its ban on…
Whistle while you work One of the things about working on weekend projects is that they are often labor intensive, but frequently not big concentration hogs. So, when I work on a project I enjoy listening to music while I do so. It can help me focus, reduce stress, and give a kind of rhythm…
Top Deal: It’s time to put that big, bulky CRT monitor out of its misery. You hear it wheezing when you turn it on, and you also see it struggling to hold a steady picture. Hey, it was a fantastic monitor back in the day, but that was forever ago. And now? Well, now it’s…
Twice the Fury AMD has answered the call for a graphics card with two GPUs based on its Fiji architecture, but the new Radeon Duo Pro isn’t really intended for the home consumer market. Instead, AMD is taking aim at content creators focused on virtual reality games and applications. This is a two-headed beast that…
Hardware refresh Razer today announced that it upgraded its thin and light 14-inch Blade laptop. The improvements extend “across the board from its predecessor,” and there’s a new, more affordable price tag to boot. To start with, Razer brought its Blade current by going with a Skylake foundation. Specifically, the Blade now features a 6th…
Uniting gamers in glorious warfare You’ve undoubtedly heard the term PC master race, a designation some PC players throw around to declare their dominance over their console brethren. But are PC players really better at games than console gamers? Cross-platform play between the Xbox One and both PC and PlayStation 4 may answer that question….
Dream Machine meets Large Pixel Collider Maximum PC has been around for over 20 years now. Starting out as the ground-breaking boot magazine, we’ve been covering PC tech and culture with an attitude ever since. With the launch of the Maximum PC website several years ago, we were able to expand our coverage of hardware…
Sea god 2.0, now with more lighting options At a Glance (+) Finding Nemo: Futuristic design; thumb rest; dual-mode scroll wheel.(-) Sharknado: Scroll wheel is loud! The Logitech Proteus Spectrum is arguably one of the most anticipated peripherals from Logitech. Building on the success of the Logitech G502 Proteus Core, the Spectrum version has been…
Top Deal: Think about all the typing you do in any given day, whether it’s hammering out reports and emails or mashing buttons in a frenzied online battle. You’re only as good as your tools, and if you’re still using a squishy membrane or dome-switch keyboard, it’s time for an upgrade. Mechanical key switches are…