Alienware Steam Machine Review

At a glance Alien (+) Sexy chassis; small and portable; quiet.Alien vs Predator (-) Only small portion of Windows games; lack of video streaming apps; Linux performance issues. Good hardware held back by mediocre software We’ve been looking forward to Valve’s Steam Machine initiative for a long time, mostly because Valve has never really failed…

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Are Asus, Gigabyte Working on VR Headsets?

We’ve already reported that Asus says it’s getting into the augmented reality business next year. The revelation was made by both chairman Jonney Shih and CEO Jerry Shen over the last few months. During an earnings webcast, Shen confirmed that a product would be released in 2016. As reported in October, Shih hinted that Asus…

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Samsung May Be Producing CPUs, GPUs for AMD

Unnamed sources have informed Korea’s ET News that Samsung’s foundry business has signed on to manufacture AMD’s next graphics chip, code-named Greenland, starting in Q2 2016. The chip will be produced using second-generation 14nm FinFET LPP processing, making it more power efficient and faster than the current 28nm Fiji GPU on the market. GlobalFoundries, who…

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YouTube Accuses T-Mobile of Throttling Video Streams

Net neutrality shenanigans? T-Mobile purposely delivers lower quality video streams for select services through its Binge On program, which allows subscribers to watch unlimited video in at least 480p without it counting against their data caps. That’s fine and dandy, except YouTube says T-Mobile is throttling all streaming video, not just the services that participate…

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Happy Holidays From Psyonix Studios

We couldn’t be more grateful for the amazing year we’ve had here at Psyonix Studios. With your help, your enthusiasm, and your unbelievable loyalty, Rocket League has created a family of almost nine million players worldwide and the numbers keep getting better each and every day! Next year, we have even bigger things in store…

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