Microsoft’s way or the highway Microsoft this week made public the changes it’s rolling out to the Windows Store app certification policies in an effort to clean up the clutter and improve the overall experience for customers. As part of that process, Microsoft will keep a closer eye on app pricing to make sure that…
DisplayPorts gone wild Zotac is plenty experienced in the mini PC movement, and if you can conceive it, they’ve probably already built it or have it on a roadmap. That also means that some of its offerings are niche products — or niche within a niche, since not everyone cares about NUC-sized systems — like…
Welcome back to PlayStation Underground, our online show about video games! Today, we go underground with Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, a poignant exploration of the apocalypse, and a snapshot of 1980’s England. For those looking for an emotional, story-driven experience, look no further than this upcoming PS4 project. I get mellow on the couch…
Pushing the pedal to the metal The number of people who overclock their desktop PCs is growing, according to data found in the latest HWInsights Quarterly Report. We have no idea how HWInsights tracks such things, but apparently there was a 50 percent uptick in the annual growth of overclockers from the first quarter of…
Just when you thought it was time to ditch the books and kick back for some lazy summer days, school will be starting right back up. The digital version of Class of Heroes 2G for the PlayStation 3 will be accepting new students June 2, 2015. This is one grid-based, dungeon crawling RPG master’s program…
Massive, open-world fantasy adventures? Sign us up! The team assembles (late at night) to gush about The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and its incredible scope. Expect several mentions of Geralt’s rippling ab muscles, and how Ryan was right about the game all along. We also hear Sid’s rave review of Mad Max: Fury Road, and…
We show you how to back up your games, so you don’t have to re-download them With modern PC games tallying up download sizes of 20GB (and even soaring up to GTA V’s massive 70GB), sometimes it’s better to back up the game to an external drive rather than slog through the long download again….
Today AMD announced the availability of a new APU, codenamed Godavari: the A10-7870K. There’s also an A8-7670K coming soon, though it wasn’t part of today’s announcement. Despite the new codename, these APUs are effectively extensions of the existing Kaveri APU lineup, and they should be drop-in replacements on any socket FM2+ motherboard. Other than clock…
Top Deal: Take it from us, you don’t want to smell smoke coming from your PC. That’s one of the risks you take when you skimp on a power supply and buy a generic brand for pennies on the dollar. Just. Don’t. If you’re in the market for a PSU, a much better idea is…
Endless storage Thanks to the advent of the mobile phone, we’re all photographers now — just peek at your camera roll and see if you can scroll through all the pictures you’ve taken in less than a week. The more important ones we tend to back up, but with Google Photos, being selective is no…