at a glance (+) Bending the RulesSpectacular wrap-around in-game visuals; VA panel packs plenty of contrast and black levels. (-) Just BentCurved geometry looks weird in Windows; poorly calibrated colors; expensive against competition. This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Curved…
Fancy new box art Unless there are any last minute changes, Intel will formally introduce Skylake-S (desktop variant of Skylake) on August 5 at Gamescom. The launch will presumably include the immediate availability of Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K CPUs, though at least one vendor has jumped the gun. Both the 6700K and 6600K have…
Hello, PlayStation.Blog! I’m Alex, from Hello Games. Hope you’re well! How’s your summer going? Ours? We’re kinda recovered from E3, where Sean showed off live No Man’s Sky gameplay for the first time. It has been a big relief that people seemed to like it. You can’t know just how scary it is to show…
Hey everyone! Street Fighter V is about to get a lot more “beautiful” with the latest character reveal of the Spanish Ninja himself: Vega! Street Fighter V | PlayStation.com A mainstay in the franchise since his introduction in Street Fighter II, Vega believes that beauty is the truest form of strength and that he alone…
The apocalypse has arrived. After two and a half years, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is out in just about a week, and to celebrate, we want to share the launch trailer for the game with you. We recently announced the cast list for the game — an amazing group of some of the best…
We compared graphics performance between Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 with our standard benchmarks. The results? Meh. We were in the midst of running benchmarks and writing the stories for our Budget Gamer, Midrange and Turbo Blueprints builds when Windows 10 launched on Wednesday. So we figured, “Hey, while we’re at it, let’s take a…
At A Glance (+) Furies: High performance; good cooling; more efficient than stock Fury; less expensive than Fury X. (-) Furries: Still expensive; requires lots of space; less efficient than GTX 980; drivers could use tuning. Asus Strix R9 Fury, aka Rocky II It’s not a stretch to say that the launch of AMD’s Fury…
What’s better than a highly maneuverable, awesomely destructive spaceship? Easy: a spaceship that can also turn into a battle mech. Anime fans, rejoice. Galak-Z: The Dimensional is launching this week, and it’s bringing sweet, sweet space battles to your PS4. Galak-Z puts players into the cockpit of a versatile spacecraft with a host of powerful…
Top Deal: So you’ve decided that for your next build, you’ll use solid state storage for your OS. Awesome, you’re going to love it! But what if you want to go RAID 0? That will cost a fortune, right? Nope! Just check out today’s top deal for not one, but TWO Kingston SSDNow V300 Series…
Building a compact workstation The small form factor movement grows stronger with each new generation of hardware, though it’s not only home consumers looking to build a compact game box or general purpose PC who are buying in. There are also DIYers who are interested in small sized workstations, and for them, Asus is offering…