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Nvidia has been launching GPUs at a rapid-fire pace this summer. The GTX 1080 and 1070 debuted in late May and early June, the 1060 dropped earlier this week, and now the full-fledged Titan X is shipping by August 2. The new GPU was announced by Jen-Hsun Huang last night and sets a speed record for fast turnarounds between the launch of a new architecture and the debut of its top-end GPU. ...
Last week, Futuremark released Time Spy, a new DirectX 12 benchmark that takes full advantage of DX12’s features and capabilities, including asynchronous compute. While the release of a new benchmark is typically of modest interest, there’s been a great deal of confusion, uncertainty, and doubt over Time Spy’s benchmark results and what those results mean. Futuremark has since published an ...
Pokémon GO has been an unbridled success since it launched about two weeks ago, and that comes amid sometimes crippling server issues. Developer Niantic was forced to slow its global rollout so it could add server capacity, and there are still some days that the game just won’t connect. This past weekend was particularly bad, and now a hacking group called OurMine is claiming responsibility for ...
When Pokémon Go launched, we theorized that Microsoft’s HoloLens could be a huge platform for the game. While HoloLens’ high price makes any kind of official port extremely unlikely, that hasn’t stopped HoloLens developers from creating mock-ups of how the game might play when paired with Microsoft’s headset. First up, there’s CapitolaVR and a video created by David Robustelli. ...
Summertime is associated with beaches, family vacations, and big action movies, but it’s traditionally something of a desert for major video game releases. So if you’re dying for something new to play while you wait for No Man’s Sky and Deus Ex, why not take this opportunity to explore the Japanese catalog on the PS4? Games like Phantasy Star Online 2 and Dragon’s Dogma ...