Ever looked at your PC and thought: “Man, I wish this thing looked like a Star Destroyer, with integrated fiber optic lighting, a water-cooled GPU, and 3D printed detailing?” Enterprising custom PC builder Sander van der Velden, aka Asphiax, evidently did — and his new Venator-class Star Destroyer (dubbed the Yazi) is truly something to see. The Yazi will be shown at CES this ...
It’s been over 18 months since we first visited the topic of DirectX 12 and what features and benefits it would bring to modern gaming. Much has happened since. Windows 10‘s launch and the debut of Ashes of the Singularity brought the first hints of DirectX 12 gaming performance, as did Fable Legends, which debuted some weeks later. We’ve also covered the work being done on Vulkan, the open-source, ...
As the year comes to a close, our focus shifts to 2016. What games will we be playing this time next year? Will virtual reality and game streaming see astronomical success, or are we in for another year of major missteps? In a way, the last few years feel like they’ve been building to this moment. The consoles have a solid install base new, long-awaited VR helmets are making their ...
The Oculus Rift’s price is still unknown, but the company appears determined to keep its Q1 2016 release window. The VR developer announced that it has finalized its Oculus Rift SDK (Software Development Kit ) in version 1.0, and will be shipping the software to a handful of chosen developers. Not just anybody gets the new hardware — the launch will be limited to those devs who are “putting the ...
Two new announcements from the Team Green front as we head into the holidays. Nvidia’s 361.43 driver has just dropped, with two significant updates inside it, though only one will be of immediate benefit to customers. First, Nvidia has fixed the driver bug that caused abnormally high power consumption at high refresh rates when using Maxwell cards. This should prevent the issue we documented ...
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