PC Gaming
Top Deal: Back in the old days, building a PC was a bloody affair. Literally. Those old beige cases had sharp corners that would jump out at you like a cougar high on catnip. These days? Health insurance is no longer required, and long gone are the boring designs of yesteryear replaced by all kinds…
Something for everyone AMD on Tuesday made available a new Catalyst driver, 15.10 beta, while Nvidia has a hotfix for GeForce graphics owners who are having trouble with G-Sync. Starting with AMD, the Catalyst 15.10 beta is an incremental update to the previous beta release. On the performance side, the release notes mention DirectX 12…
Sour grapes for Apple Apple may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the University of Wisconsin after a U.S. jury ruled that it used technology belonging to the school’s licensing arm, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, without permission. The patent in question was filed way back in 1998 and relates to technologies that…
Money making machine The remarkable thing about Intel is that it continues to rake in billions of dollars every quarter no matter what the market conditions are. Case in point, Intel beat out Wall Street estimates by recording $14.5 billion in revenue during the third quarter. That’s down just a tick from $14.6 billion the…
Go big or go home I’ve got access to a lot of computer hardware—more than any sane man really needs, frankly—but when it comes to my home entertainment I have a problem… well, several in fact. First, I don’t have a good space set up as a home theater, and second, I can’t really afford…
Let’s face it: many of us grew up sneaking a peek at Dad’s stock of Playboy magazines or stole them outright from his library (cough). The magazine, partially known for its articles, was the flagship of light pornography. But the Internet now provides everything you need for your nudie fix with a simple search on…
Toshiba says that its latest 12-inch dynaPad Windows 10 tablet not only reinvents the marriage between pen and paper, but it’s the lightest and thinnest of its class, measuring just 0.27 inches and weighing a mere 1.25 pounds. The dynaPad seems to be competing with Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 4, which has a 12.3-inch screen,…
Top Deal: Working from home sounds great on the surface, but between the dog barking at every passerby, the cat meowing to go out, kids arguing with other, and door-to-door salesman all interrupting your work flow, some days you might just want to run away for a spell. There’s nothing wrong with that, though if…
Yes, it will run Crysis (and every other game) The marketing pitch from Asus for its new ROG G752 laptop is that it will run any game you throw at it. That’s the benefit of pairing an Intel Skylake processor with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980M GPU. The ROG G752 is a 17.3-inch laptop with a…
Today is a great day for gaming; not only did we get the long-awaited Wasteland 2 Director’s Cut early this morning (yeah, I’m a post-apocalyptic junkie), but Humble Bundle also has a new slate of games up, this time courtesy of Capcom. While many of the bundles feature indie games that you might otherwise miss,…