PC Gaming
Don’t try this at home Most Chromebooks are pretty rugged, as they have to be in order to withstand the daily rigors of school age children treating them like regular objects. Even so, we wouldn’t recommend standing on top of one, not unless you’re looking to crush the screen for some odd reason. That attempt…
Building an IoT development platform The fast growing Internet of Things (IoT) market is ripe with opportunities for developers, though several of the solutions are based on ARM’s architecture, like the Raspberry Pi. That’s not inherently a bad thing, but for developers needing more power and not wanting to venture out of their comfort zones,…
Clearing up confusion There’s seems to some confusion swirling around the release of Quantum Break, which was once touted as an Xbox One exclusive. That’s no longer case—it’s also shipping to Windows 10 PCs, and if you pre-order a copy for Xbox One before it launches on April 5th, you’ll receive a complimentary copy for…
Google said this week that its Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing service will now be based on 100 percent HTML5 in order to reach more devices and to offer the best browsing experience. That means the company is phasing out advertisements based on Adobe Flash, a move that’s being seen across the Internet…
This week, Asus introduced a new monitor called the ROG Swift PG27AQ, the latest member in the company’s line of gaming panels. The big news with this release is that Asus crammed a 4K IPS panel together with Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, providing extremely high-resolution and flicker-free gameplay for those with a GeForce GTX 980 GPU…
The road to populating the VR industry is growing hotter by the week. Unity Technologies recently announced that its Unity Engine, which powers a wide range of games and applications, will natively support Valve Software’s upcoming SteamVR platform. This feature will be added to the engine with no extra cost to developers. In addition to…
All the World’s a Stage Next month, our sister site and magazine PC Gamer will be hosting their first PC Gamer Weekender event in London. The first 500 tickets are on sale at £9.99 each for the Standard Pass, or you can grab the Weekender Plus Pass for £24 each. This is Future’s own special…
At a Glance (+) Carmen Miranda: Good 1080p performance; beefy cooling; runs quiet. (-) Hokey Pokey: Aging architecture; less efficient than Maxwell; needs lower quality settings on some recent releases. Doing the Tonga Tango AMD’s Tonga architecture has always been a bit of an odd man out. It’s essentially a refined version of the old…
Microsoft’s Mandy Tidwell took to the company’s blog this week to ensure governments that Windows 10 has the best security to thwart hackers. Tidwell says that security was a prime focus as Microsoft developed Windows 10, which was released last summer. The platform promises to protect governments from the growing rise of attacks better than…
Following recent news that Windows 95 can be run in a browser without any plugins, the Internet Archive announced on Thursday that it has added hundreds of Windows 3.1 programs to its collection. Now you can relive the days of the early 1990s when consumers played games and carried out simple tasks in Microsoft’s popular-but-now-ancient-looking…