PC Gaming
Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney is back at it again with another shot at Microsoft and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP). He says that the industry must fight the company, which is accused of attempting to “monopolize and control” the PC gaming market with the new platform. He and other developers feel that UWP is…
Jumping off the Bitcoin bandwagon If you were saving up your Bitcoins with plans of going on a shopping spree for Windows apps and games, you’ll first have to covert them to U.S. currency. That’s because Microsoft has quietly announced that it’s no longer accepting Bitcoin currency. There wasn’t a big press release or blog…
A “Do’h!” moment for a DDoS protection company A security outfit that prides itself on DoS and DDoS attack protection and mitigation was itself the victim of a DDoS attack late last week and over the weekend. Staminus Communications first disclosed the attack to the public last Thursday in a Twitter post, calling it a…
Portable power In order to get a respectable amount of power from a gaming laptop, it’s got to be big and bulky. That’s been accepted as gospel for quite some time, but now we have notebooks like Digital Storm’s Equinox as exceptions to the rule. Armed with a 6700HQ and a 970M, the laptop is…
What the hell? While many PC gamers are joyfully hacking away in Blizzard Entertainment’s current Diablo III: Reaper of Souls expansion, the company has released a patch for the ancient second installment Diablo II, a PC game released way back in 2000. This is the first patch for the classic title since Blizzard released the…
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Digital first, physical later Developer IO Interactive and publisher Square Enix released the first episode of a new Hitman title today, which is the sixth entry in the popular Hitman series. It’s available right now in digital form, though if you prefer to wait for the complete game to be released on disc, get cozy,…
More holes than Swiss cheese The web can’t move away from Adobe’s Flash Player fast enough. Though efforts have been made to leave Flash behind, it’s still a prominent part of the web. It’s also still prone to what seems like an endless discovery of security holes. To that end, Adobe has released another update…
Getting ISPs to respect your privacy The moment you hop online, you can pretty much kiss your privacy goodbye. There are steps you can take to limit how much of your privacy you give up, but for the most part, your online activities are logged, tracked, sold, and everything else. To ensure that ISPs don’t…