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  1. Oculus founder confirms VR is shaping up into an unavoidably fragmented mess - AMD’s asynchronous shaders are key

    by , 07-23-2015 at 12:04 PM

    Ever since Oculus launched its Kickstarter, hopeful fans of VR technology have looked to the company to provide a cutting-edge gaming solution. Since then, we’ve seen a number of companies announce their own VR efforts, from the Vive (Valve and HTC) the Gear VR (Samsung and Oculus), Razr’s OSVR, the new StarVR, to Sony’s Project Morpheus, there’s currently a race on to see who ...
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  2. For want of a nail: How hardware hijinks fracked my AMD Radeon R9 Fury testing - Metro Last Light and Total War

    by , 07-22-2015 at 11:45 AM

    Hardware reviewing is often a hectic process. Whenever you’re dealing with pre-release drivers and early hardware, there’s a greater-than-average chance that something might go wrong. Sometimes, that’s the fault of the company providing the hardware. Sometimes, it’s because the reviewer screwed something up. And sometimes… sometimes it’s because of mind-boggling hardware issues that you didn’t know existed ...
  3. AMD Radeon R9 Fury review

    by , 07-21-2015 at 02:05 PM

    At E3 last month, AMD announced that it would bring launch multiple GPUs under its new Fury brand. First up was the Fury X, a $649 card meant to compete with the GTX 980 Ti and sporting its own custom water cooler. Today, the company is launching its follow-up to the Fury X, the $549 Radeon R9 Fury. This new card uses the same base Fiji GPU as the Fury X, but with fewer cores (3584 as opposed to 4096). ...
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  4. Why do some games get the ‘downgrade’ treatment? In the case of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs...

    by , 07-18-2015 at 05:07 PM


    There’s been a lot of hubbub about so-called “downgraded” games in recent years. Developers like Ubisoft Montreal and From Software have received a lot of heat from fans over the fact that some of their finished games don’t look nearly as good as early gameplay videos made them out to be. What causes this phenomenon, and why haven’t developers learned their lesson about over promising and under ...
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  5. Windows 10 no longer launching on July 29 for vast majority of people

    by , 07-11-2015 at 01:54 AM

    When AMD accidentally leaked that Microsoft would launch Windows 10 this summer, it surprised a number of people. Even at the time, midsummer was near enough to seem unlikely, particularly given how badly Redmond bungled Windows 8. Microsoft later confirmed that the date was genuine, however, and has been riding hell for leather to finish the OS in time to make the ship ...
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