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Though it has only been less than two years since their reveal, Valve’s Steam Machines are basically vaporware at this point. The hype was almost overbearing for a while, with gaming hardware companies announcing their own takes on the Steam Machine on a regular basis, and gaming communities passionately discussing whether the initiative would be Valve’s next big thing or next big flop. After ...
Sony has been making major inroads in the world of game streaming, but up until now, the PlayStation Now service was an incredibly poor value. After all, a couple of hours of access to a single game can’t compete with the likes of Steam sales and Humble Bundles. Thankfully, all that is about to change this month as Sony introduces an all-you-can-play subscription service that gives you unlimited access ...
On December 9, the Pirate Bay, long a central link repository for various illicit torrents, went offline. The 11 year-old site had long been lambasted by content creators and studios for the way it enabled and encouraged piracy, which means its removal from the Internet ought to have had some impact, at least temporarily, on total piracy across the Internet. According ...
Running out of disk space on your PS4 with those monthly PlayStation Plus releases? Maybe those long load times are slowly eating away at your sanity. That tiny, slow drive that comes standard with the PS4 leads to nothing but heartbreak, but you do have options at your disposal. It’s easy to swap out the default hard drive for something much better, but what about all the cool stuff already on your drive? ...
New rumors today imply that Nvidia is preparing to release a mainstream version of its Maxwell GPU in late January. Nvidia debuted Maxwell in three desktop GPUs in 2014 — the lower-end GTX 750 Ti in February, and the high-end GTX 980 and GTX 970 in September. The GTX 970 was the crown jewel of that arrangement, as far as the price-performance ratio is concerned. Now, the company is reportedly ...