PC Gaming

Top Deal: Everywhere you look it’s Windows 10 this and Windows 10 that. Hey, we get the excitement — the desktop experience is back! It’s also a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 owners, though if you’re building a new system and need a brand new license, you’ll need to pony up for one….

Big things in a little package Boutique builders come in different sizes and specialties. There are the ones primarily focused on gaming, like Maingear and Digital Storm, and a select few that deal with professional builds. The latter is the category Boxx fits into, though don’t mistake the outfit for a cookie cutter operation. There’s…

Raising a new flagship Microsoft is getting ready to open two new flagship retail locations, one in New York and the other in Sydney, Australia. Both locations have been six years in the making and will be Microsoft’s largest stores to date. The store in New York will be Microsoft’s first full size store in…

Netflix of games Services like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify have proven there’s a vast market for streaming services., and it looks like Nvidia will help itself to a slice of the pie. The way it will do that is through GeForce Now, a $7.99 per month on-demand gaming service for Shield devices (namely the Shield…

A look at the gritty details of what gives your rig its juice The power supply unit (PSU) is one of the PC components that we tend to take for granted. It sits in the case with a bunch of wires sticking out of it, and maybe once in a while we blow some air…

Top Deal: There are many ways to relieve stress. If we were to list them out, gaming would be No. 2 on our list (we’ll let your mind run wild with what No. 1 is). Of course, without a dedicated graphics card, trying to game would only increase our stress level, so why mess around…

Getting ready to rumble If you’re running Radeon graphics and plan to play the Star Wars: Battlefront beta when it comes out next week, AMD has a new Catalyst driver release that might be of interest. It’s Catalyst 15.9, which itself is also a beta release. According to AMD, its latest beta driver contains “performance…

Can privacy and Windows 10 go hand-in-hand? Since launching two months ago, Windows 10 has been simultaneously praised for bringing the focus back to the desktop, and soundly criticized for potentially stepping over privacy bounds at every turn. Speaking to the latter, Microsoft’s Terry Myerson says that from the very outset, WIndows 10 was designed…

Compact and colorful Logitech today announced its new G410 Atlas Spectrum, a tenkeyless (no dedicated number pad) keyboard with mechanical switches. Unlike many of the mechanical planks out there, the G410 Atlas Spectrum doesn’t use Cherry-brand key switches. Instead, Logitech designed its own “Romer-G” switches and tasked Omron with building them. If the name Omron…