PC Gaming
Stop the PC shaming I built my first PC when I was 12 and believe that if you have any love for the platform, you should learn how to build one yourself. Having said that, however, I realize that not everyone has the time or patience to learn how to build a rig (even though…
Free Office 365 for education offer extends beyond the U.S. Microsoft had already been doing teachers and students living in the U.S. a solid by offering them free Office 365 subscriptions, and now that same offer is extending beyond the border. How far? Try all the way around — if you’re an eligible teacher or…
Where did all the colors go? Corsair’s Vengeance K70 RGB mechanical keyboard is supposed to deliver a color palette that’s precisely 16,777,216 wide, which the industry rounds up to 16.8 million. However, a curious user who often works with Arduino LED projects noticed that something seemed off with his plank, so he did a bit…
Here come the memes Nividia ticked a lot of people off when it came to light that its GeForce GTX 970 graphics card was suffering from performance issues when games tried to access onboard memory above 3.5GB. Turns out it’s the result of an architectural design, one that doesn’t exist on the GTX 980, and…
Top Deal: We’re all friends here, right? Good, because friends don’t let friends run aging mechanical hard drives when they could be rock and rolling with a speed solid state drive, especially when there’s a deal involved. What kind of deal? Today’s top deal, which is for a Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB SSD for…
Where barebones and Broadwell meet Shuttle’s been a player in the small form factor (SFF) space ever since our cave dwelling ancestors first discovered the PC, which back then was made out of stone and dinosaur bones (this is why we don’t teach history, folks). Fast forward to today and Shuttle is still making SFF…
Plugin allows developers to add virtual hands to games Epic and Leap Motion have teamed up to create and launch an official Windows plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that’s supposed to make it easy for developers to integrate virtual hands into their games. The plugin is available in the Unreal Engine 4.7 source code, which…
Carrizo’s coming to town AMD has high hopes for its energy-efficient Carrizo System-on-Chip (SoC) for laptops and low power desktops. The Sunnyvale Chip designer wants you to be optimistic as well, and so it shared several details about Carrizo’s architecture at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), saying that Carrizzo will deliver a bunch…
Packed to the gills with hardware Quick, hide your small form factor (SFF) PC and any NUC-like devices you might have hanging around, we wouldn’t want any hurt feelings. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum of all these pint-sized PCs that are suddenly vogue is Boxx’s new Apexx 5, “the world’s most advanced…
The fight for the living room just got bigger Unlike most developers and publishers that tend to inundate consumers with trailers, screenshots, developer diaries, and press releases to keep their games in the public’s eye, Valve tends to stay quiet. So while we know that the company has been working on its Steam Machines and…