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During a meeting with investors earlier this week, Nintendo unveiled its very first smartphone game. Dubbed “Miitomo,” this free-to-play game lets you use an adorable avatar to interact with your friends without investing in Nintendo hardware. This certainly isn’t the kind of mobile game many of us were hoping for, but can this oddball social game keep this gaming giant relevant in a rapidly ...
Earlier this week, we discussed new test results for Ashes of the Singularity that showed GPUs from AMD and Nvidia running the game side-by-side. Unfortunately, Oxide has made the decision not to make this build of the game public immediately.*What we do have, courtesy of Oxide, *is video evidence of the ultimate Frankenstein rig running both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Note that in this ...
When Oculus announced its Kickstarter campaign for the Rift VR headset, it probably didn’t realize just how excited consumers were going to be. The number of companies planning to launch VR headsets or related technologies has skyrocketed in recent years. Sony has VR plans for the PlayStation 4, Qualcomm claims VR capabilities are baked into its upcoming Snapdragon 820, and both AMD and Nvidia ...
AMD announced its quarterly results for Q3 2015 yesterday, and the short-term news wasn’t good. While company revenue rose by 12% compared to Q2 2015, total Q3 sales were down 25% year-on-year. AMD reported that demand for both its semi-custom and PC hardware increased in Q3 thanks to Carrizo’s ramp and the approaching Christmas holiday. AMD announced several new projects to hopefully boost its revenue ...
From the beginning, Microsoft has tried to set its nascent augmented reality technology, dubbed HoloLens, apart from competing VR solutions. While VR companies like Oculus and Sony’s Playstation VR have focused on showcasing how virtual reality creates new opportunities to explore games and distant worlds, Microsoft’s AR demos have dedicated themselves to showing how ...