PC Gaming
Android games, game streaming, Netflix, and mo’ Nvidia unveiled the next step on its road to dominating PC gaming and possibly your living room today with the announcement of an Android-based game console simply dubbed the Shield. This asymmetric, die-cast 23-ounce black aluminum slab is about the size of a home network router and positioned…
The new wave of Steam Machines We had the chance to get a first look at Zotac’s new Steam Machine today at GDC 2015. The company first announced that it was part of Valve’s Steam Machine initiative, along with 14 other partners, back in 2013 during CES. Despite the announcement though, Valve wasn’t ready with…
Company will offer six models Ever since Valve announced last year that it was delaying the launch of its Steam Machines, in order to perfect the Steam Controller, we have been wondering when that would be. Last week, the company then announced that it would showcase new living room devices, a SteamVR hardware system, and…
We interview AMD Graphics CTO Raja Koudari about the company’s VR initiative Providing presence inside a virtual reality headset, or trying to make you feel like you are somewhere you aren’t, is a difficult challenge to solve. AMD is trying to help VR headset maker like Oculus VR and other head-mounted display (HMD) manufacturers better…
Source 2 will be free for content developers The Game Developers Conference is in full swing and we are starting to get a glimpse of what is being shown there. One of the more interesting parts of GDC revolves around Valve and what it is showing. Last week, the company said that it would be…
Top Deal: Microsoft did users a solid when it announced that Windows 10 would be a free upgrade for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 users for the first year. That also means you can forge ahead with that new build you were planning and not have to have invest in another OS once Windows 10…
Now with twice the GDDR5 memory There were rumors earlier this year that 4GB versions of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 960 graphics card would show up in March, and it turns out they were right. EVGA has emerged as the first to cross into 4GB territory with its GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC graphics card announced today….
Goodbye Mantle, we hardly knew ye In a blog post on Monday, AMD’s Raja Koduri waxed nostalgic on Mantle and how it “revolutionized the industry’s thinking on low-overhead/high-throughput graphics,” among other things. But at the end of what reads like a reluctant death sentence, AMD told developers that if they’re interested in Mantle 1.0’s functionality,…
Fast and capacious storage It’s been a couple of months since Mushkin first trotted out its Striker line of solid state drives. First announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, the Striker line drew interest for its rated speeds, which can reach up to 565MB/s for read and up…
In the PDF archive of the September 2014 issue, you can find: Dream Machine 2014! Gaming Mice roundup Calibrate Your Monitor Review: Falcon Northwest Tiki Z Review: Microsoft Surface 3 Much more… …read more