A peripheral product Acer today announced that its XR431KC ultra-wide curved monitor with a QHD (3440×1440) panel, zero-frame design, and AMD Freesync support is headed to the United States. That’s a lot of visual goodness packed into a single display. We’ll start with the curved screen, which is quickly becoming popular in the display market….
Prepare for an adventure of enormously tiny proportions! Our latest pinball collaboration with Marvel will showcase their upcoming film, Marvel’s Ant-Man, only in theaters July 17th! Assume the role of Scott Lang, master thief turned Super Hero, as he fights to save the world on a microscopic level. The Marvel’s Ant-Man table will be available…
Everybody loves a good party game. That’s why we at Jackbox Games are constantly trying to make easy-to-play party games that can be played by everybody… literally. We’re not quite to “everybody” stage yet, but with our newest game, Quiplash, we’ve come pretty close. The game allows up to 10,000 participants in one game. And…
This article was published in the February 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Gaming laptops have come a long way, but can they really replace desktop rigs? For a long time, many PC gamers scoffed at the idea of gaming laptops. After all, how could you fit…
Rumor says that Valve already sold out of Controllers and Steam Links Earlier this month, Valve Software introduced an “early bird” program that offered purchase of Steam Machine hardware due to be released on October 16. The catch was that customers needed to pre-order the hardware as soon as possible, as the number of units…
Last week, a number of CAD files and documents were released indicating that Microsoft Research has fabricated a better lens than what’s used on the latest Oculus Rift model. The README file reports that with the new lens, the field-of-view is admittedly smaller than the “stock” Rift lens but the image is crisper than Oculus…
Top Deal: See that thing your PC over there? Yes, the part that’s occupying the optical drive bay. That’s your Blu-ray burner! In today’s cloud-centric environment, you can be forgiven for forgetting you had such a contraption, but now that you know it’s there, how about feeding it? We have just thing — it’s today’s…
Noisy GPUs Without buying a bundle package consisting of a CPU, motherboard, and graphics card, you’re not likely to find an AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card in stock — it’s sold out at most places. That’s probably for the best anyway, as some have reported hearing coil whine and pump noise. WCCFTech said…
Noisy GPUs Without buying a bundle package consisting of a CPU, motherboard, and graphics card, you’re not likely to find an AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card in stock — it’s sold out at most places. That’s probably for the best anyway, as some have reported hearing coil whine and pump noise. WCCFTech said…
Fixing a broken bat Having gone up against Gotham’s most ruthless thugs, who knew that mere bugs would ultimately present the biggest challenge for Batman? There were so many performance crippling issues in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight that publisher Warner Bros. made the call to pull the title from Steam until developer…