Top Deal: One of the unsung heroes of the PC is the printer. Without it, those TPS reports and Lost Cat flyers would have to be hand written or punched out on a typewriter (remember those things?). If you need one (a printer, that is), check out today’s top deal for an HP Officejet Pro…
This mouse doesn’t cost a lot of cheddar Peripherals makers like to put the squeeze on gamers, don’t they? It seems that a surefire way to command a premium on a product is to slap the world “gaming” on it and BAM, it’s an instant high dollar item. We’re not saying all gaming products are…
Appreciating the classics There are some downright wild case designs out there. Heck, Lian Li makes some of them, though its new PC-18 mid-tower chassis is a brushed aluminum enclosure with an intentionally minimalist aesthetic. Lian Li said it was going for a classic look, hence the rectangular shape without any crazy deviations or color…
Samsung announced today that they have partnered with Ubisoft to bundle the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (ACS) with select Samsung SSDs and monitors. The latest title in the long-running Assassin’s Creed universe, Syndicate is scheduled to ship November 19 for PC and October 23 for PS4/XB1; obviously, this bundle is for the PC version—console gamers…
Registration required Nvidia’s doing its best to transform its GeForce Experience software from something supplementary into an integral part of the gaming experience. One way it’s doing that is by changing how gamers receive title-specific drivers on a game’s day of release. Beginning sometime in December, automatic access to Game Ready drivers that provide optimizations…
Organ Trail Complete Edition launches on October 20th for PS4 and PS Vita! Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Packed full of zombie mechanics, themes and references, Organ Trail is a must-have for any…
Adobe After Effects is a popular tool for adding images and visual effects to video, but can be daunting to those unfamiliar with it. In this how-to, we’ll cover the basics so that you can start experimenting without feeling completely lost. First though, we should cover some of the lingo. Composition This is simply a…
Top Deal: Back in the old days, building a PC was a bloody affair. Literally. Those old beige cases had sharp corners that would jump out at you like a cougar high on catnip. These days? Health insurance is no longer required, and long gone are the boring designs of yesteryear replaced by all kinds…
Something for everyone AMD on Tuesday made available a new Catalyst driver, 15.10 beta, while Nvidia has a hotfix for GeForce graphics owners who are having trouble with G-Sync. Starting with AMD, the Catalyst 15.10 beta is an incremental update to the previous beta release. On the performance side, the release notes mention DirectX 12…
Sour grapes for Apple Apple may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the University of Wisconsin after a U.S. jury ruled that it used technology belonging to the school’s licensing arm, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, without permission. The patent in question was filed way back in 1998 and relates to technologies that…