PC Gaming
An Unreal upgrade Nvidia has partnered up with Epic Games to integrate its GameWorks VR technology, including multi-resolution shading and VR SLI, into the Unreal Engine 4, the GPU maker announced at the VRX 2015 conference in San Francisco today. This is a win for both sides. UE4 software powers hundreds of games on PCs…
Full Steam ahead Here’s a quick heads up that the Steam Machine movement has officially begun with the availability of Steam Hardware, including dedicated systems (Steam Machines), a custom controller (Steam Controller), and a streaming device (Steam Link). This day was supposed to come a long time ago, but Valve decided to delay things a…
At a glance Steamy (+) Easier to get headshots than Xbox controller; comfortable to hold; touchpad support for mouse menus. Gassy (-) Steep learning curve; crowd-sourced presets are a mess; controller ecosystem feels jerry-rigged. How I learned to stop complaining and appreciate the controller Word on the street is that the Steam Machines were delayed…
At a glance Wired connection (+) Affordable; can connect multiple controllers to it. Wireless connection (-) Wireless is awful; lots of bugs at the moment. Wireless connections need not apply In case you already had a capable gaming PC, and didn’t want to pony up cash for an expensive Steam Machine for your living room,…
Top Deal: Display makes have an obsession with packing more pixels into smaller panels, and maybe in a generation or two, we’ll have 12K monitors with 8-inch screens. Maybe that’s your thing, or maybe you prefer the exact opposite approach, which is a big size panel with a pedestrian resolution. If you lean towards the…
TP-Link introduced on Monday two new dual-band wireless network extenders aimed at the consumer wanting to stream 4K HD video and play PC games online. These two devices are built to expand the coverage of Wireless AC networks in a home or office, covering areas where the base networking router can’t reach. First up to…
Finland-based Solu Machines is billing its current Kickstarter gadget Solu as the world’s smallest computer with a cloud-linked operating system and a touch-based surface. As of this article, the campaign has five days to go, reeling in $233,379 from 565 backers, surpassing the $227,812 goal. According to the specifications, Solu is based on a Nvidia…
Probably one of the biggest pains in typing on a smartphone is the actual use of the virtual keyboard. Sure, there are plenty of people out there who can whiz through sentences with their thumbs as if thoughts magically appear on the device without manual entry. But there are plenty of people who despise the…
New hardware, new color scheme Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) dialed up the hype machine to 11 to announce its new flagship Maximus VIII Extreme/Assembly motherboard and Matrix GTX 980 Ti graphics card. Part of the source of the hype is a “Plasma Copper” color scheme that’s new to the ROG line. “To be ROG…
Leaked confession As consumers, we’ve always been told that data caps exist for our own good. Just think, without them, Internet users who consume a lot of data with reckless abandon will congest the network and the rest of us will suffer because of it. Oh no! We certainly don’t want that to happen, right?…