Cherry Trail shows only marginal improvement over predecessor in leaked benchmarks Intel began shipping its new Cherry Trail Atom chips to its partners in the first week of January and now we have got our first benchmark scores. If you were expecting the 5th generation Atom chips to be a huge improvement over current-generation tablet…
The lightest Book 9 ever The new Samsung ATIV Book 9 laptop we told you about late last year is now available. The aluminum-clad device, which measures all of 11.19″ x 8.37″ x 0.46″ and weighs 2.09 pounds, is the thinnest and lightest device yet in the company’s four-year-old Book 9 range. Let’s talk specs…
Finished product to debut by year-end Valve just made good on its promise of unveiling a SteamVR hardware system at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Meet Vive, a virtual reality headset powered by Valve’s SteamVR platform and manufactured by Taiwanese company HTC. Born out of what HTC says is a “strategic partnership…
Spectre x360 is now available from the company’s website For a number of years, members of the PC master race looked to the Macbook Air with envy, even though most of us knew deep down that we just weren’t meant to be and there could be no platonic bond between the two of us. Wintel…
Prepare to drop into high-stakes combat and protect democracy at all costs — Helldivers is coming to PS4, PS3, and PS Vita this week in a flurry of friendly-fire chaos! Helldivers enlists you in an elite squad of soldiers that travel the star system, obliterating any enemy of Super Earth that dares rear its insectoid…
Players visited Vulcan to pay their respects Yesterday, actor Leonard Nimoy passed away at his home at the age of 83. Nimoy was known for his iconic role as Mr. Spock on Star Trek: The Original Series, and subsequent movies, though he was also a director, author, producer, and singer among other things. As a…
Busy week! New Arkham Knight trailer, Spring Fever 2015 lineup (maybe our best yet!), PS Vita birthday sale, Nash is back in Street Fighter V, Axiom Verge launches March 31st, the Gold Saucer is open for business in FFXIV, Far Cry 4 is getting some cool new DLC, Heists are happening soon in GTA Online,…
…Spring Fever, that is! On this week’s show, we gush over the incredible, eight-week lineup of digital games coming to PlayStation this Spring. Also, a killer recipe for chicken thighs, and Nick’s secret(?) crush on the chef who makes them. Subscribe via iTunes or RSS, or download here Stuff We Talked About Spring Fever GDC…
PC version was initially advertised to have offline co-op If you were one of those PC gamers who purchased Resident Evil Revelations 2 for its advertised offline co-op, then you already know that the PC version has no such feature. Owners of the game soon discovered that the feature was missing despite it being advertised…
VR is going to be big The Game Developers Conference is taking place just around the corner between March 2-6 and we’ll be in San Francisco covering it. There will, of course, be a bunch of game discussions and demos as usual, but we wanted to approach it from a hardware/PC perspective. Having said that,…