Say hello to USB 3.1 Biostar’s been making a concerted effort to gain a reputation as a high-end hardware player, and it’s doing it by releasing boards with enthusiast grade and sometimes unique feature-sets. We saw it last summer with the release of the TD85, a motherboard with half a dozen PCI-E slots intended for…
Top Deal: Haven’t you heard? iPad sales are down and tablet growth as a whole has slowed considerably. If we were analysts jumping the gun, we’d call this the post-tablet era. Either way, if you’ve had your fill of the tablet life and now find yourself in the market for an affordable gaming laptop, check…
Company is ‘putting finishing touches’ Ever since the furor over GTX 970’s specs first erupted last month, AMD has been having plenty of fun rubbing salt into Nvidia’s self-inflicted wounds, reminding GTX 970 owners how Nvidia lied to them and asking those interested in getting a “real video card at a decent price” to go…
SMPS chip to blame The Raspberry Pi 2 credit card-sized computer that went on sale a week back has been a talking point ever since. Initially, it was all about its many improvements over the first-gen Pi and the fact that it will eventually be to run a free version of Windows 10. Now, however,…
Current version of Project Spartan is said to be only marginally better than IE11 in HTML5 compliance When it officially unveiled the Project Spartan (codename) browser last month, Microsoft said it would not be part of “our first few Insider builds.” It is hard to say how much longer we might have to wait for…
The new low-level API easily outperforms DX11 in Star Swarm benchmark The latest preview build of Windows 10 includes DirectX 12 and supports a new graphics driver model in the form of Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0. Lest you take the new graphic driver architecture lightly, know that this is the most significant WDDM…
Hello, friends! Let’s take a look back at the biggest PlayStation news of the past week. A few personal highlights: Sid played Dark Souls II on PS4. I’m jealous. We unboxed the super-slick Collector’s Edition for The Order: 1886. Oh yeah, and here’s the honest-to-goodness first 18 minutes of Bloodborne, thanks to our pals at…
Flying a ship through space must be a fun, right? How about when you add a seemingly endless storm of asteroids, aliens, world-ending robots, and also a resupply ship that can kill you? That’s right, Stardust is back, and it’s gotten a boost with Super Stardust Ultra on PS4. The well-loved, high-score chasing shooter Super…
Learn how to wring every last bit of performance out of your video card Overclocking a graphics card used to be more trouble than it was worth, but things have changed. EVGA Precision X and MSI Afterburner are just two of the most popular choices for software overclocking. AMD even bundles its own overclocking solution—AMD…
Hello! On today’s show, we speak with the Game Director of The Order: 1886, as well as gush about the upcoming, asymmetrical multiplayer shooter Evolve. Oh, and a brief examination of Sid’s thoughts on retirement. Come on in, and enjoy the show! Subscribe via iTunes or RSS, or download here Stuff We Talked About The…