Gaming

By Darren Allan If you want a mini-PC, then obviously you have to make sacrifices in terms of power to get that compact form factor. But those sacrifices are gradually becoming less painful to bear, and Intel has taken another major step in this respect with its latest NUC. The new ‘Skull Canyon’ NUC is…

By Darren Allan If you want a mini-PC, then obviously you have to make sacrifices in terms of power to get that compact form factor. But those sacrifices are gradually becoming less painful to bear, and Intel has taken another major step in this respect with its latest NUC. The new ‘Skull Canyon’ NUC is…

By Darren Allan Aorus has introduced a new mechanical keyboard called the Thunder K3 Tournament Edition. The new offering is a tenkeyless version of the previous Thunder K7, which has also been refreshed with orange backlighting. The Thunder K3 is aimed at eSport pros as the ‘tournament edition’ moniker suggests, and it’s the same as…

By techradar This week we’ve mainly been strapping buckets to our heads and bumping into things. No, we haven’t been on the cider again – we’ve been getting ourselves ready for virtual reality, which is going to be absolutely huge this year. We discovered what VR games you’ll be able to play, what you’ll have…

By techradar This week we’ve mainly been strapping buckets to our heads and bumping into things. No, we haven’t been on the cider again – we’ve been getting ourselves ready for virtual reality, which is going to be absolutely huge this year. We discovered what VR games you’ll be able to play, what you’ll have…

By Hugh Langley Any serious eSports player will tell you that if you’re not playing with a keyboard and mouse, you’re not playing. In games like Counter-Strike, hairline accuracy isn’t just an advantage, but a necessity – especially with hundreds of thousand of dollars prize money at stake – which is why even the pro…

By Hugh Langley Any serious eSports player will tell you that if you’re not playing with a keyboard and mouse, you’re not playing. In games like Counter-Strike, hairline accuracy isn’t just an advantage, but a necessity – especially with hundreds of thousand of dollars prize money at stake – which is why even the pro…

By Darren Allan Logitech has announced a pair of new gaming keyboards which benefit from LED backlighting and a choice of mechanical switches. You get two choices here: the G610 Orion Brown and the G610 Orion Red, the former of which uses Cherry MX brown switches, and the latter Cherry MX red switches. Both of…

By Hugh Langley Game Design Challenge At GDC, one conference in particular has become legendary for the wonderfully bizarre ideas it has given birth to – the Game Design Challenge. The title is pretty self-explanatory: some of the industry’s most innovative developers must pitch a game to fit around certain theme. The last one took…

By Hugh Langley Game Design Challenge At GDC, one conference in particular has become legendary for the wonderfully bizarre ideas it has given birth to – the Game Design Challenge. The title is pretty self-explanatory: some of the industry’s most innovative developers must pitch a game to fit around certain theme. The last one took…

By David Nield Your intrepid techradar team is on the ground at GDC 2016 this week and we’ve just seen CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt take the big prize at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, pretty much the gaming equivalent of the Oscars. The sumptuous open-world fantasy RPG beat out competition…

By David Nield Your intrepid techradar team is on the ground at GDC 2016 this week and we’ve just seen CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt take the big prize at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, pretty much the gaming equivalent of the Oscars. The sumptuous open-world fantasy RPG beat out competition…

By Hugh Langley “It is not extra GPU power for the game.” “It is not more CPU power.” “It is certainly not a PlayStation 4 expansion unit or upgrade.” Chris Norden, Senior Staff Engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, is talking about the black processing unit that will come with PlayStation VR – and he’s…

By Hugh Langley “It is not extra GPU power for the game.” “It is not more CPU power.” “It is certainly not a PlayStation 4 expansion unit or upgrade.” Chris Norden, Senior Staff Engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, is talking about the black processing unit that will come with PlayStation VR – and he’s…

By Hugh Langley One of the amazing feats of virtual reality is that it can make the most mundane tasks feel incredibly rewarding. For me, during the Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine experience, that was fixing the Millennium Falcon by smashing a sequence of colored switches. For context, Trials was made by ILMxLab for the…