PC Gaming
The modern day milk carton At last count (September 2014), Facebook was sitting pretty with 864 million daily active users, and 1.35 billion monthly active users (as of September 30, 2014). With so many eyeballs zeroing in on the world’s largest social playground each and every day, Facebook and the National Center for Missing and…
Millions subscribed to Spotify after Taylor Swift pulled a disappearing act Can a streaming music service survive without the likes of Taylor Swift and her latest 1989 album? The answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’ as evidenced by Spotify’s latest head count. In a blog post this week, Spotify announced that it’s up to 60 million…
HP is one strong quarter away from regaining the PC supply crown The fourth quarter of 2014 saw 80.8 million PC shipments, representing a year-on-year decline of 2.4 percent, according to the number crunchers at International Data Corporation (IDC). That was enough to beat out expectations of a 4.8 percent decline, which was helped by…
Rockstar giveth and taketh away We don’t want to come off as curmudgeons halfway through the first month of a new year, so let’s start by focusing on the good news surrounding Grand Theft Auto V for PC. For one, Rockstar Games today shared the first screenshots of GTA V for PC, which were taken…
A different kind of streaming box In the old days, PC gamers would sit in front of a large CRT monitor in a dedicated room littered with spare parts, game boxes (yes, there was actually a time when PC games came in big retail boxes!), empty potato chip bags, and other things scattered all around….
CyberPower Trinity PC, tiny PC on an HDMI stick, and more While CES 2015 was more of an evolutionary year as opposed to a revolutionary one, there were some interesting devices in the PC space. If you’ve read our CES 2015 prediction piece, nearly all of that came true. We saw a bunch of VR…
A look at Evolve’s minimum and recommended specs Evolve by publisher 2K Games and developer Turtle Rock Studios is expected to release to Windows (as well as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) on February 10, 2015. However, up until now we didn’t know what the recommended and minimum specs would be to run this…
Score a point in favor of the home brewed PC You don’t have to sell us on the merits of building a PC from scratch — it’s what we’ve been doing for decades, and it’s one of the core principles of our brand. Heck, the desire to roll your own rig may have even been…
The need for speed Now that Haswell-E and accompanying Intel X99-based motherboards requiring DDR4 RAM are here, we expect to see a lot of record announcements. It always happens when new platforms are introduced, and G.Skill is wasting no time adding to its virtual shelf of overclocking tropies — G.Skill today announced that it set…
Microsoft views Google’s disclosure as a “gotcha” During the holiday break, Google’s Project Zero team disclosed a vulnerability in Windows 8.1 after Microsoft failed to issue a patch within the 90-day deadline that Google gives vendors. That sparked a debate on whether or not Google did the right thing, and while many (not all) of…