We’re less than two weeks away from E3 2016, and in spite of the incessant “E3 is dying” narrative, there’s a lot going on. Sure, the focus is shifting to live streams and satellite events held around the world, but we’re still going to get a deluge of exciting gaming news. Let’s take a look at some of the largest companies in gaming, and explore what we might see out of them this ...
Steam is an incredible platform. Frequent sales, the workshop, refunds, cloud saves, and dozens of other smaller features come together to form a service that any company would be proud of. Unfortunately, there’s a downside: DRM. When you buy games on Steam, you’re locking yourself into that platform, and you have to abide by Valve’s restrictions. Thankfully, the folks at GOG.com have put ...
The trend in mainstream laptop design is to make it as unrealistically thin as possible, even if that means sacrificing battery life and performance. Improvements in mobile CPUs have made super-thin laptops much faster than they once were, but what if that’s not enough? For the discerning on the go gamer, Asus has announced a new version of its monstrous GX700 gaming laptop called the GX800 ...
After months of speculation, AMD finally revealed its own next-generation GPU at Computex 2016 this week. The new RX 480 is a midrange card that AMD claims will deliver dramatic performance improvements in VR and 3D gaming. It’s all part of AMD’s overall strategy to reduce the cost of buying into the VR ecosystem, while improving their competitive positioning against Nvidia’s midrange products. ...
When Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 earlier this month, it established its new Pascal-derived GPUs as leaders in the top of the market. Now, as expected, the GTX 1070 has dropped, piledriving both Nvidia’s previous cards and every top-end GPU AMD has to offer. First, let’s hit the technical specifications. The GTX 1070 packs 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 texture units, and 64 ROPS. That ...
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