PC Gaming
Pushing shoppers towards Prime Are you planning to build or upgrade a PC to handle the glut of VR games that will no doubt follow the release of HTC’s Vive and Oculus’ Rift headsets? If you’re buying your parts from Amazon and aren’t a Prime member, you now need to spend a minimum of $49…
Platform agnostic headsets It doesn’t matter if your gaming platform of choice is a Windows PC or if you prefer to frag on an Xbox One or PlayStation 4 console, Corsair’s new universally compatible Void Surround and Void Wireless RGB headsets don’t discriminate between the three. “Most gamers don’t play on just one platform, so…
Sticker shock? HTC announced that it’s opening pre-orders for the first Consumer Edition of its forthcoming Vive headset on February 29—a week from today—starting at precisely 10:00 AM Eastern. Full commercial availability will follow in early April, which is when the initial batch of pre-orders will ship, though it remains to be seen if the…
Top Deal: Life if full of waiting, isn’t it? You go the DMV to renew your license and have to wait (a really long time). At Disneyland, you stand in line and wait (also a really long time). Same for the grocery store and numerous other places. And to add insult to injury, that aging…
K.O.’d by server issues Street Fighter V didn’t have the smoothest launch in the world. One of the problems is that users reported a myriad of issues with Capcom’s servers—painfully slow matchmaking, outright outages, and disconnects were some of the complaints. Capcom was quick to roll out several fixes, but for many, the problems persisted….
Ships next week If you’re in need of a high-end router, Linksys hopes you’ll consider its new EA7500 Maxtream model, one of several it debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. The EA7500 is a dual-band AC1900 router with MU-MIMO support. There’s a bit to digest there, starting with the…
Dallas Mavericks owner dishes an assist to Apple Apple finds itself at the center of a controversy, one that pits the rights of U.S. citizens to privacy versus the government’s power to access data on the grounds of national security. For what it’s work, Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire star of Shark Tank, Mark Cuban,…
On Thursday, McAfee security firm founder John McAfee wrote an op-ed article about the security issues surrounding Apple, the FBI, and the controversial iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters in December. Essentially, he wants to offer his services to the government, free of charge, in exchange for Apple not having to provide…
Master PDFs with these free tools The PDF (portable document format) file format was developed back in the early 1990s by Adobe. These now-ubiquitous files are used for all types of documents, from tax forms and bank statements to newsletters and product manuals. Rather than sending paperwork via snail mail, a PDF makes it easy…