Nvidia Announces Turing Based RTX 20xx Series Focusing on Ra…
A new generation of consumer gaming GPUs is finally arriving over two years after the launch of Nvidia Pascal based GTX 10xx series. Unfortunately for gamers, AMD had not been competitive at the top end and GPU prices were extremely inflated by the cryptomining craze. So let us take a look at what the new…
AMD’s Radeon RX Vega Announced
While AMD released a new generation of mid-range GPU's last year, the wait for the competitor to Nvidia’s GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 became quite long. Fortunately, that wait is coming to an end soon with three Radeon RX Vega cards having been announced for an August 24th release date: RX Vega 56, RX Vega…
Intel Kaby Lake X & Skylake X – More Cores for Desktop…
Intel has announced their latest line-up of high performance desktop CPUs, ranging from 4 to 18 cores, and all of them use Intel’s X299 platform and LGA2066 socket, but there is a lot of variety in their specifications. At the lower end of the core scale, there are Kaby Lake X based quad-core i5-7640X and…
Standalone VR Headsets and Experimental Displays
This week at the I/O conference, Google presented a new version of their Daydream VR platform. In addition to the original Daydream that uses a smartphone for display and processing, there will be fully standalone wireless VR headsets. Google advertises their new 'WorldSense' technology will add positional tracking to these standalone headsets without any external sensors. The…
When Valve Got Steamy in the Living Room
Having been available for a year and half, following the November 2015 launch, now seems like a good time to reflect on Valve's invasion of the living room. Granted, in my case, my PC is already in the living room and hooked up to my TV, so I've been making use of the latter mostly…
Nvidia Announces The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
As soon as Nvidia has announced their latest, Pascal based Titan X, gamer's were expecting to see a similar performance in a more affordable GTX 1080 Ti. This wait is ending soon, as Nvidia has finally announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, to be released next week. In terms of specifications, GTX 1080 Ti is very…
AMD’s GDC Event – Very Little About Vega
Many people have expected AMD to finally announce their high performance Vega GPUs at Game Developers Conference. It seems that Nvidia expected that as well, announcing the GTX 1080 Ti the same day. Unfortunately, there was little information about Vega. We now know, that new cards will be released under the name Radeon RX Vega,…
AMD Ryzen CPUs Available for Pre-Orders
Since Intel’s introduction of Core 2 CPUs, back in 2006, they have been keeping a serious single core performance advantage over AMD’s offerings. Even with the very slow performance gains during last several generations, Intel’s quad core CPUs were far enough ahead to outperform AMD’s best Bulldozer and Excavator CPUs in most scenarios. While games…
Wireless VR? We’re Moving Forward Into the Future!
The Vive, one of two front runners for the s̶p̶a̶c̶e̶ virtual reality race, has just stepped up its game. After starting a production initiative only months ago, the Chinese company TPCast has pushed the HTC Vive mobility to the next level, and is now wireless. Starting yesterday 7AM PST, pre-orders for the wireless unit go…
PlayStation Now Coming to PC, DualShock 4 Adapter Announced
Have you ever looked at the library of PS3 games and thought to yourself, “Man, I’d love a chance to check out the Uncharted games, but I don’t own a PlayStation?” Well, you’re in luck, because today Sony confirmed rumors that soon, people will be able to stream PS3 games not only to their PS4,…
Nvidia Releases GeForce GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 for Laptops
While release of 14/16 nm GPUs has brought new performance records for desktops, the improved efficiency is extremely important for laptops. In a tighter, thermally and power-restricted environment it is less appealing to have a large hot chip with heavy cooling. Until this week, Nvidia’s most powerful laptop GPUs were cut down GTX 970M, 980M,…
Viveport? Yes! More VR Peripherals? Please
Greetings again, welcome back to another segment I like to call “VR News, Is There Any? There Is? Let’s Write About It.” It’s been a little while since there’s been any big news when it comes to the Vive, but of course that’s why I’m here, isn’t it. A few days ago at an expo…
Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) First Benchmarks
Nvidia has released their latest Nvidia Titan X graphics card and together with its release, there are independent benchmarks and more details about the card’s capabilities. While named in a confusing way, similar to GeForce GTX Titan X (Maxwell), the new Titan X drops GeForce name, but is often referred as Titan X (Pascal) or…
Nvidia Titan X Announced – Bigger Pascal
Nvidia has started their 16nm GPU generation with a big GP100 GPU intended for the high performance computing. While first Pascal based gaming cards used a considerably smaller GP104 GPU, everybody has expected a new Titan card to come eventually. It has arrived early this time around. Nvidia’s latest flagship is named Nvidia Titan X,…
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Cat Cafe Manager – Releasing April
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On my birhday! Nice -
Chicken Police – Releasing November
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Wut? -
Final Fantasy XVI – Announcement (Updated)
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This might be an actual Final Fantasy for a change. I'll remain sceptically optimistic -
Future Games Show August 2020
3 years ago
Die by the Blade didn't just steal the show, it is the show, now -
E3: Guerrilla Collective 2020 Day 1
3 years ago
No Werewolf? Interesting