PC Gaming
Plays.tv takes a bite out of Twitch and YouTube, Instagram style Raptr today announced the official public launch of a gamer-focused service called Plays.tv, a kind of Instagram for gamers, where the idea is that everyone and every game has an epic moment of some kind. The idea though, says Raptr, is entirely different from…
Improvements to be enabled via DX12 and Vulkan APIs Graphics cards are currently “not living up to their full potential,” says AMD, and the company is adamant that the forthcoming DX12 and Vulkan APIs will change that. Specifically, the red team says that these APIs will be able to take advantage of AMD’s asynchronous compute…
More than just a Bluetooth speaker If you were to tell us three years ago that Razer was going to make a Bluetooth speaker, we would have been interested, but now that we’re inundated with Bluetooth speakers everywhere, it’s pretty hard to get excited. But while Razer’s Leviathan sound system is far from perfect, it’s…
Chrome OS without the Chromebook Google’s on a major push to advance its Chrome OS into more homes by whatever means necessary. Fancy a low-cost Chromebook? Google today announced the Haier Chromebook 11 and Hisense Chromebook, both available for pre-order at $149. Prefer an all-metal convertible? Google wants you keep your eyes peeled for the…
No quarters required This generation of kids and teens are pretty lucky when it comes to time wasters on the PC. Instead of Minesweeper or, my favorite Windows game from back in the day, Ski Free, today you can play some 900 classic arcade games right in your browser. And if you’re bored with those,…
Slimmer, slower, and cheaper than a Surface Pro 3 Microsoft just expanded its Surface line with the Surface 3, a less expensive version of the Surface Pro 3 that’s also smaller and less powerful. Other than size (10.8-inch display, 8.7mm thin) and weight (1.37 pounds or 622 grams), the physical design is the same as…
To 4GHz and beyond Back in February, Boxx Technologies rolled out its impressively spec’d Apexx 5 Workstation crammed full with five GPUs, demonstrating a combination of raw power and boutique building chops. Well, Boxx is back, this time with a pair of mobile workstations armed with Intel Core i7 desktop processors and optional Nvidia Quadro…
Another reason to no longer use Google+ It is hard to believe that Google+ is still around. However, for a service that we dubbed as one of Google’s failures last year, it is still kicking. Whether it will continue to exist is still anyone’s guess, though today another reason to use it has been removed…
Top Deal: Bill from accounting spilled coffee on your favorite shirt, and because you had to change, you were late to your meeting, prompting the boss to give you the stink-eye as he ponders who to promote to VP next week. And in your rush to get home and put the day behind you, you…
A fully loaded desk computer Mathieu “Sassanou Watermod” Heredia is back with another spectacular mod. This time, it’s the Watermod Ares III Desk and it’s exactly what its name implies. A custom-made desk houses an aggressively styled computer based on the Microcool Banchetto K test-bench case. Straight lines, sharp angles, and a clean color scheme…