There is a feeling that I remember from when I was a kid playing video games: the huge, intense satisfaction when I finally beat a level or a boss I had been struggling with for a while. The feeling of learning how to overcome a challenge, with my brain and my thumbs. The combination of…
Attack of the drones Up until the last few years, drones meant for your everyday consumer have been nothing short of simple little play things, for the most part. That doesn’t keep the child in me from sill wanting one, though. With DJI working on its Phantom 4, which brings flying drones to a whole…
We’ve unsheathed our hidden blade and slashed the prices, offering discounts of up to 75% on Assassin’s Creed games, ranging from the original title to the most recent mainline entry, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. If you need to catch up on the franchise, don’t lurk in the shadows too long – these deals will vanish after…
An engineering marvel When Nvidia told us that it managed to shrink its desktop GTX 980 GPU to fit inside notebooks, we went through two stages of denial. The first stage was disbelief. “The 980 is a huge and powerful card,” we thought to ourselves. The second stage was dismissiveness. “It’s got to throttle tremendously.”…
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Hello friends, my name is David OReilly. I’m an artist based in Los Angeles and am from a town called Kilkenny in Ireland. Some of you might be familiar with my films, most of which are short or very short, and more might be familiar with the video game sequences I created in the movie…
Closing the gap It’s not unusual for grade school teachers to assign their students homework that requires Internet access. The problem is that more than half of all households making under $25,000 don’t have broadband Internet service, versus a 95 percent broadband penetration rate among households with incomes over $150,000 per year. To help close…
Packing a big punch in a small footprint Boutique system builder Origin PC decided to literally downsize things with its new Chronos small form factor desktop for gamers. What makes this particular iteration special for Origin PC is that it uses the smallest SFF case it’s ever offered. The new Chronos SFF desktop measures just…
Think small You may have noticed an increase in the number of small form factor computer cases to choose from these days. That’s because SFF builds are suddenly vogue, and to assist with builders looking to piece together a compact system, Corsair today announced the release of its first ever SFX form factor PSUs. Don’t…
Hi everyone! I’m very excited to announce the inaugural lineup for a new PlayStation Store event called Launch Party. One of the best perks about being on the PlayStation Store team is that we get to work very closely with both first and third party studio teams on previewing upcoming releases. Launch Party is a…