PC Gaming
“Buy one, get ‘10′ free” With the countdown to Windows 10 in its final phase, don’t be surprised if you find PC vendors offering some steep discounts on older, Windows 8.1-running models like Hewlett-Packard is currently doing. The company is offering discounts of up to $350 on some of “our most popular Windows PCs.” As…
Intel wants you to stick to the original operating system As you may be aware, Intel has plans to offer a Ubuntu 14.04-running variant of its Compute Stick, PC-on-a-stick device that’s powered by the chip maker’s quad-core Atom Z3735F “Bay Trail” processor. While this new model will be a good $40 cheaper than its $150…
The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook will undercut the company’s own Chromebook offerings The upcoming launch of Windows 10 could see Microsoft approach its fight against Chromebooks with renewed vigor. The company offered a glimpse of what’s to come on this front at its Worldwide Partner Conference, where it showcased a dirt-cheap Windows 10 notebook from…
Open to all those who’ve a Windows 10 PC and an Xbox One console A little over a month after Microsoft enabled it for members of the Xbox One preview program, the ability to stream Xbox One games to Windows 10 devices is now available for everyone. To be clear, “everyone” here means anyone with…
The Verge reports that Shenmue 3 has become the most funded video game on Kickstarter to date, surpassing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which raised $5,545,991 as of June 11. As of this article, the Shenmue 3 project has just 7 hours to go and has gathered $5,779,046 from 63,856 backers. Yup, we have a…
Top Deal: If you’re still rocking a bulky CRT monitor, you’re doing it wrong. Yes, we know, color accuracy and all that jazz. But you can also get a flat screen display with good color accuracy, along with more pixel real estate than you shake a stick at. To wit, check out today’s top deal…
A quieter R9 Fury Asus on Friday announced the Strix R9 Fury, and as with other Strix-branded graphics card, this one comes with a custom cooling solution sporting the new DirecutCU III air cooler. According to Asus, its Strix cooler keeps things 30 percent chillier than reference while being up to three times quieter. The…
A decade of support As close as we are to the release of Windows 10, there are still some questions that remain. Microsoft seems to have answered one of the biggest ones by today officially committing to support Windows 10 for the next 10 years. The Redmond software giant updated its support lifecycle page to…
A little graphics card with big performance Size doesn’t matter when it comes to graphics cards, hence why we’ve seen some powerful options for mini ITX form factor systems. And come August, AMD will release its Radeon R9 Nano, yet another option in the mini ITX sector. AMD confirmed the August launch during an earnings…
Spam Spam Spam Humbug First of all, award yourself 1,000 geek cred points if you got the “spam spam spam humbug” reference without Googling (or Binging or DuckDuckGoing or whatever). However, that’s not the story here. The real point of focus is that spam is now at its lowest level over a decade, according to…