PC Gaming
Ships next week If you’re in need of a high-end router, Linksys hopes you’ll consider its new EA7500 Maxtream model, one of several it debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. The EA7500 is a dual-band AC1900 router with MU-MIMO support. There’s a bit to digest there, starting with the…
Dallas Mavericks owner dishes an assist to Apple Apple finds itself at the center of a controversy, one that pits the rights of U.S. citizens to privacy versus the government’s power to access data on the grounds of national security. For what it’s work, Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire star of Shark Tank, Mark Cuban,…
On Thursday, McAfee security firm founder John McAfee wrote an op-ed article about the security issues surrounding Apple, the FBI, and the controversial iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters in December. Essentially, he wants to offer his services to the government, free of charge, in exchange for Apple not having to provide…
Master PDFs with these free tools The PDF (portable document format) file format was developed back in the early 1990s by Adobe. These now-ubiquitous files are used for all types of documents, from tax forms and bank statements to newsletters and product manuals. Rather than sending paperwork via snail mail, a PDF makes it easy…
New color, more durable switches If you’re looking for a budget mouse like Asus ROG’s Sica but need something to compliment the look of your white themed PC, you’re in luck—there’s a new version of the Sica available, one with a Glacier White color finish. In addition to a new color option, Asus also upgraded…
Firing on all cylinders Life is good at Nvidia, which capped off a record year with $1.40 million in revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter ended January 31, 2016. That’s a jump of 12 percent from $1.25 billion a year earlier, and a 7 percent spike from $1.30 billion in the previous quarter. The strong…
Giving Lara Croft a Shield Lara Croft has been to many places over the years, some dark and dank, others bright but just as dangerous. Now she’s headed over to the Nvidia’s Shield platform. Square Enix announced today that it’s releasing a handful of games to Shield, starting with the Tomb Raider reboot (not to…
Game developers weigh in on VR input I recently had the chance to attend Valve’s Steam VR Developer Showcase and had a great time trying out a dozen VR demos (you can read about the games here). It was the first developer-focused event that I’ve attended that showed a wide assortment of games that used…
Top Deal: We’re less than two months into 2016 and it’s already shaping up to be an exciting year. Part of the reason is because of VR—Oculus and HTC both have VR headsets hitting the streets real soon, and you can bet others will follow suit. Can your PC handle VR? If you’re rocking an…
Two-Bay NAS Box At minimum, anyone who can’t afford to lose their files should have a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box of some sort. There’s no shortage of options out there, one of the newest being Western Digital’s My Cloud EX2 Ultra, a high-performance, two-bay NAS for the prosumer crowd. The Ultra model’s been upgraded…