Gaming

By Darren Allan HP is said to be getting together with HTC in order to provide PCs specifically branded and designed for the latter company’s VR headset, Vive. Apparently the HP computers will be bundled with the HTC Vive and will obviously be powerful enough to be VR-ready, providing an entire virtual reality solution with…

By Darren Allan HP is said to be getting together with HTC in order to provide PCs specifically branded and designed for the latter company’s VR headset, Vive. Apparently the HP computers will be bundled with the HTC Vive and will obviously be powerful enough to be VR-ready, providing an entire virtual reality solution with…

By Darren Allan Intel’s Optane SSDs – which utilize 3D Xpoint tech and promise to be screamingly fast – will be with us before the year is out. Yes, Optane drives will ship before the end of 2016 according to comments made by Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel. Indeed, as PC World reports, some…

By Darren Allan Intel’s Optane SSDs – which utilize 3D Xpoint tech and promise to be screamingly fast – will be with us before the year is out. Yes, Optane drives will ship before the end of 2016 according to comments made by Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel. Indeed, as PC World reports, some…

By Jon Porter The NES (or as it was originally known in Japan, the Famicon) was one of the most influential games consoles of all time. It resurrected the video games industry after the video game crash of 1983, and no I’m not joking. Memories of the console are so fond that Nintendo has recently…

By Jon Porter The NES (or as it was originally known in Japan, the Famicon) was one of the most influential games consoles of all time. It resurrected the video games industry after the video game crash of 1983, and no I’m not joking. Memories of the console are so fond that Nintendo has recently…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons By now you know that Nintendo is bringing back the NES in miniature form, but we hadn’t seen it in the flesh until today. The Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition decided to make the trip to San Diego Comic-Con, and we caught the little thing sitting right next to its bigger,…

By Darren Allan Gigabyte has announced its new RX 480 G1 Gaming graphics card, which boasts nifty custom cooling that’s dead quiet, and software that allows for easy overclocking. The card comes in two variants, with 4GB and 8GB of video RAM on board, but otherwise they are identical. Gigabyte didn’t talk clock speeds in…

By Jon Porter The Apple Watch is set to get its first RPG from Square Enix, publishers of the long-running Final Fantasy Series of role-playing games if a teaser site is to be believed. Details on the game are currently scarce. We know it’s called Cosmos Rings, and that it’ll be exclusive to the Apple…

By Parker Wilhelm The soccer-with-cars phenomenon Rocket League is one step away from being the first game ever to bridge multiplayer between Xbox One and PS4 players. The catch? Developer Psyonix just needs to get the ol’ thumbs-up from Sony before it can go live. We’ve known for while that Psyonix had the know-how to…

By Dave Rudden PlayStation Neo Games Even though we likely won’t even touch PlayStation Neo hardware until late 2017, the weeks and months are sure to be packed with new information and imaginative prognostication on the virtual reality-focused 4K-compatible hardware. While we’ll enjoy diving into the specs and feature set as those details become available,…

By Darren Allan It was all about Nvidia yesterday with the launch of the GTX 1060, but we can focus back on AMD today as Asus has unveiled its new ROG Strix RX 480 graphics card. The stock flavor of the card will be clocked at 1266MHz in gaming mode with boost to 1286MHz in…

By Jake Tucker MetaWorld I’ve got a confession. Last week I saw the most incredible thing I’ve ever encountered in virtual reality, and it didn’t have me strapped into the cockpit of a spaceship, painting a 3D masterpiece or defusing a bomb. As a virtual reality convert I was already expecting these things to be…

By Parker Wilhelm Announced at E3 2016, the Xbox One S showed off a new iteration of a current console that wasn’t quite “next-gen,” but still a considerable upgrade for first-time buyers and Xbox One owners alike. It seemed strange at first, this sort of half-step into the next generation of consoles. But the more…

By Nick Pino While other folks might go out for a night on the town on their 20th birthday, action heroine Lara Croft is returning to her console birthplace on PlayStation systems. Square Enix announced that it will bring Rise of the Tomb Raider, last year’s Xbox One exclusive title, to PS4 on October 11…