PC Gaming
PC Gaming
Play Black Ops III Multiplayer Free Until Sunday Afternoon
Can’t beat the price Valentine’s Day is in the rear view mirror, football season is finished, and the NBA playoffs won’t start for more than a month. Find yourself looking for something to do this weekend? That leaky faucet still needs fixed, but if you’re not up for manual labor, you can log some multiplayer…
Linux Community Lambasts Microsoft Over Skype Issues
Pissed off penguins Linux users are chastising Microsoft for not paying enough attention to its Skype software on their platform of choice. They’re ticked off that Skype had gone without an update on Linux for over a year and a half, and that the the long overdue upgrade that was rolled out this past Monday…
Microsoft Sticks a Fork in Project Astoria, Its Android-to-Windows 10 Porting Tool
Burning Bridges Microsoft wanted to make it easy for mobile app developers to port their software over to Windows 10 without having to rewrite their code, so it created a series of so-called bridges. They’re essentially toolkits designed to do the dirty work for developers. There was one for porting Android apps to Windows 10…
Apple Files Motion to Reverse Court Order
In response to the US government request that Apple create special software to access a locked iPhone 5c, the company filed a motion on Thursday to reverse the court order, stating that the dispute isn’t about one isolated case, but the “dangerous power” that could be given to the Department of Justice and the FBI….
Microsoft Siding with Apple in FBI Dispute
Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said during a congressional hearing on Thursday that the company plans to file an amicus brief next week to show its support for Apple. The news follows a statement made by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates earlier this week, who said he was “disappointed” that media outlets felt…
Full-Screen Ads Showing up in Windows 10
Microsoft launched Windows 10 last summer as a free upgrade for customers using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Of course, the software isn’t completely free: you must own a valid (read: Genuine) copy of the older operating systems in order to upgrade to the latest and greatest. To buy Windows 10 outright, the “Home” version…
Rant: Windows 10 Auto Updates Sucks
You know that moment: the moment you lose you work because you saved a little too late, or completely forgot save. The moment you look down at your palms. It’s a terrible feeling, especially when your computer crashes. This is why if you’re writing something, do it using Google Docs. Unfortunately, if you’re using Windows…
The Winter 2016 Turbo
4K? A-OK Ah, the Turbo. How we love thee, with thy i7 CPU and heaps of memory. With clock speeds fast and FPS high, thy power has the ability to make one cry. Well, maybe not cry, but we still look forward to building the Turbo each season. The Turbo is our power rig, only…