PC Gaming

Fill her up! Some lucky motorists in Toledo, Ohio were able to purchase gas for less than 20 cents per gallon over the weekend due to a computer glitch. Most of the motorists who benefited paid around 17 cents to 19 cents per gallon of gas, though in some instances, the price dropped all the…

Three-headed monster It’s been just over a year since Sony spun off its Vaio PC brand to a Japanese investment firm so that it could focus on its mobile business. At the time, it wasn’t clear what the future would look like for Vaio, though as it turns out it could be a key piece…

Last week, The Pirate Bay introduced a new “service” that allows visitors to stream movie and TV show torrents in a web browser, eliminating the need to install a standalone third-party BitTorrent client. This is made possible by the Torrents-Time browser plugin, the maker of which insists that its software doesn’t break any laws because…

Unnamed sources have informed the Wall Street Journalthat Google is working on a standalone VR headset focused in the midrange of the VR hardware spectrum, that doesn’t require a phone, a game console, or a computer. Sources told the paper that Google’s VR headset will consist of outward-facing cameras, high-powered processors, and a screen. The…

Top Deal: Not feeling the performance benefits of Skylake just yet? That’s okay, you can still build and/or upgrade a PC on previous generation architecture and still have a powerhouse on your hands. Case in point, today’s top deal for an Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150 Processor for $325 with…

USB Type-C Cable controversy Cable makers are apparently having a bear of a time constructing reliable USB Type-C cables, and it’s not entirely clear why. Perhaps they’re underestimating the importance of building these newfangled cables to spec or maybe they’re cutting corners to save a few pennies—whatever the case might be, consumers are paying the…

Forced retirement It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for Google to maintain two separate but similar photo services, and so it’s not going to—Picasa is out and Google Photos is in. Google didn’t come at this decision lightly. Instead, Google said it decided to phase out and retire Picasa over the coming months…

Ready, download! Street Fighter V arrives on PC tomorrow (along with PlayStation 4), and if you want to be prepared for the brawls that await, Nvidia has a new Game Ready driver available to download, version 361.91. This is not an unexpected driver release—Nvidia and its driver team works feverishly “up until the last minute”…