PC Gaming

In the PDF archive of the September 2014 issue, you can find: Dream Machine 2014! Gaming Mice roundup Calibrate Your Monitor Review: Falcon Northwest Tiki Z Review: Microsoft Surface 3 Much more… …read more

In the PDF archive of the August 2014 issue, you can find: Liberate Your Media Z97 Motherboards The Evolution of DirectX Build It: Tight Squeeze, Primo Parts Review: Origin PC Genesis More! …read more

Five percent royalty rate still applies to commercial projects At last year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), Epic Games made the decision to license its next generation Unreal Engine 4 to anyone and everyone for $19 per month, giving subscribers unfettered access to its complete C++ source code hosted in GitHub. If you sold and/or made…

Big things come in small packages If you can jam an 8-inch tablet in your pocket, then you’ll be down with Lenovo’s pitch of “pocket-sized productivity” for its newly announced Ideapad Miix 300 Windows tablet. Lenovo made the announcement at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, while also unveiling several other mobile devices, including four Android…

Hype is high Benq today announced that its 27-inch RL2755HM “blazing fast professional gaming monitor” is now shipping, meaning you should be able to find it online, if not now then soon. Selected as the official console gaming monitor of both Major League Gaming (MLG) and UMG, they hype machine is in overdrive on this…

Making a move for mobile Intel last week had already given the heads up that it was rebranding its Atom processors into three performance tiers — Atom x3, Atom x5, and Atom x7. The Santa Clara chip maker didn’t provide any details at the time, leading us to speculate that the first new Atom parts…

Big storage in a little card There are several new phones and tablets being introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but on the storage side of things, SanDisk on Sunday introduced its 200GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition. That’s not just a massive amount of storage for a device that’s about the size…

Top Deal: Jimmy down the street just picked himself up a 16GB kit of RAM and won’t shut his trap about it. That leaves just one option. No, not burn his house down — he’ll eventually do that on his own by adding more and more Christmast lights each year in an attempt to have…

Cherry Trail shows only marginal improvement over predecessor in leaked benchmarks Intel began shipping its new Cherry Trail Atom chips to its partners in the first week of January and now we have got our first benchmark scores. If you were expecting the 5th generation Atom chips to be a huge improvement over current-generation tablet…

The lightest Book 9 ever The new Samsung ATIV Book 9 laptop we told you about late last year is now available. The aluminum-clad device, which measures all of 11.19″ x 8.37″ x 0.46″ and weighs 2.09 pounds, is the thinnest and lightest device yet in the company’s four-year-old Book 9 range. Let’s talk specs…