High end features in a mid-tier card Asus has a new graphics card that it’s hoping to drum up demand for by pitching it as a limited edition product. It’s full name is the Asus Echelon GTX 950 Limited Edition and it sports an arctic camouflage aesthetic that admittedly looks pretty nice. The question is,…
A treadmill for gaming, not exercise One of the limitations of VR is your physical space. Sure, there are sprawling worlds to explore, but your living room is only so big. A company called Virtuix aims to get around that with the Omni, a special treadmill that allows you to walk, run, jump, and generally…
Full VR body tracking Xsens has been working on 3D motion tracking technology for the past decade and a half. However, the bulk of its solutions up to this point have focused on athletics, 3D character animation, and industrial applications. With VR positioned to disrupt the consumer market, Xsens saw an opportunity to extend its…
Hi Playstation Nation! Today is the start of Paragon Early Access — we hope you join us on the battlefields of Agora. Everyone on the Paragon team is looking forward to watching the game grow with our players. As we’ve written before, Early Access is new to us. It’s a real commitment to listen and…
It’s been an exciting week for PS VR, but we still have more news to share. Starting at 7:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, March 22nd, pre-orders will open for the PlayStation VR Launch Bundle at participating retailers. Exclusively for pre-sale and in limited quantities, this bundle will include: All contents of the PS VR core…
CPU Benchmarking 101 Benchmarking a PC is an essential activity, if you want to separate the hype from the facts. While component and PC manufacturers constantly brag about why this is the “best part ever,” benchmarking is where the rubber meets the road. Specs are interesting, but putting a system through its paces will tell…
Is it possible to give gamers that magical, musical feeling of being “in a groove?” How do we sync graphics and sound so they combine into something more powerful than the sum of their parts? Most importantly, can we do all of this and still make something that is fun to play? 15 years ago…
Top Deal: Now that you’ve decided it’s finally time to trash your AMD Barton or Intel Northwood PC and build a new rig, the question is, which platform do you run with? If you want to go with the newest, then the answer is Skylake. There are several Skylake processors to choose from, including today’s…
Better but not more expensive Razer jumped into the virtual reality market with its Open-Source VR (OSVR) ecosystem. The idea is to push an open-source standard for developers to embrace rather than get lost creating content for a bunch of different proprietary hardware solutions. To show what it’s capable of, Razer built a headset to…
A better Blade Razer recently announced that it improved its Blade laptop across the board, and it wasn’t kidding. The refreshed Blade with Skylake inside is faster, lighter, and less expensive than the previous generation, a rare but welcome combo. We stopped by Razer’s booth at GDC to get a closer at the new Blade….