The Sony PlayStation 5 has been out a few short days, and Sony has already rolled out a system update for the console. It’s a large download at 866 megabytes and brings the system to 20.02-02.25.00. Sony isn’t getting specific on what exactly the patch is fixing, only stating that “This system software update improves …more
Microsoft has been gobbling up studios left and right to help make its Xbox ecosystem packed with popular games. One of its biggest acquisitions was Obsidian Entertainment, the developers behind DLC for The Outer Worlds and more. Microsoft also purchased Bethesda, known for franchises, including The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. With future games in both …more
With the PlayStation 5 now launched, those lucky enough to get their hands on the console on launch day have been excitedly ripping open boxes getting ready to game. Something strange is going on for some who purchased the PlayStation 5 digital edition, which lacks an optical drive. According to reports, when some Digital edition …more
When Valve launched Half-Life: Alyx, fans of the franchise were thrilled that after waiting many years, the Half-Life franchise was back. The only catch was the game wasn’t for traditional PC gamers. Instead, it was for virtual reality headsets. It became quite successful and resulted in shortages of VR headsets as people gobbled them up …more
PUBG Mobile will be returning to India, according to the PUBG Corporation. The company announced on Thursday that it was returning two months after being banned in India. The new game will be called PUBG Mobile India and was created specifically for users in the country. The exact date the game well relaunch in the …more
Fall Guys turned out to be a very popular game with many gamers and well-known streamers enjoying the game daily. The Official Fall Guy’s Twitter account has confirmed change has been added that many players have been asking for. Players are now able to queue up for multiple shows at once. With the new feature, …more
Fallout 76 has had a tough go of it, with the game receiving poor reviews early on in its release. Many franchise fans were sorely disappointed in the game, but it has kept improving since launch. Developer Bethesda has now announced an official launch date and released a trailer for the first chapter in the …more
One of the things that many gamers particularly like about Fortnite is that it is free to play. You can undoubtedly spend significant amounts of money on the game with cosmetics and other purchases if you want. A new report is going around that Epic has been surveying some players to determine if they would …more
Apple and Epic Games are still fighting in court over Apple’s practices and the incredibly popular game Fortnite. Recently, a federal judge in California dismissed some of Apple’s counterclaims against Epic in the lawsuit. The legal fight has seen Apple boot Fortnite from the App Store, preventing Apple device users from accessing the game. The …more
We got excited yesterday was some rumors going around after the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Twitter account teased with a picture of The Mandalorian and The Child. Many people were rather excited, hoping that the indication was Disney+ was going to get bundled with the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for one low price. Unfortunately, that’s …more
Black Friday will be here before you know it, and Nintendo has unveiled its deal, and it’s one many people will recognize. Nintendo’s Black Friday 2020 deal is a Nintendo Switch hardware bundle that includes a digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Also included in the bundle is a three-month membership to Nintendo Switch …more
Phison Electronics Corporation just announced that their PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 SSD controller is ready to be unleashed and it has entered the market. The Phison E18 is their first fully native PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 controller and it was made by TSMC on the 12nm process node. The result is an SSD controller that …more
One of my personal all-time favorite videogame franchises is Mass Effect. The first few games in the franchise were fantastic but some of the later episodes left a bit to be desired. Fans of the franchise will be thrilled to hear that the often rumored Mass Effect Legendary Edition has been confirmed by BioWare. BioWare …more
I’m sure there are plenty of gamers out there who love Disney movies and Xbox Game Pass that have subscriptions to Disney+ and Xbox Game Pass. I’m sure there are also plenty of people out there who don’t care for Disney movies but want to watch The Mandalorian and keep Disney+ solely for that show …more
First Look at Big Navi with Radeon RX 6800 Series We are just days away from the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics card coming to market on November 18th and we finally can share a little bit more about the upcoming cards! For starters, we have them in our possession and we are allowed to …more
HyperX has been doing a number of collaborations lately and one of their most successful was back in May 2020 when they teamed up with the mechanical keyboard maker Ducky. Ducky is a powerhouse amongst keyboard enthusiasts, so when this limited edition 60 percent-sized Ducky One 2 Mini keyboard hit the market all 3,700 units …more
iLive ISB380B Bluetooth Tailgate Speaker Portable Bluetooth speakers have been pretty popular this year and will likely be a hot holiday gift item now that the holiday shopping season is in full swing. Legit Reviews was approached by the PR firm handling iLive products and wanted to know if we’d be interested in reviewing the iLive …more
WD_BLACK SN850 Take Performance To The Next Level The WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD entered the market in January 2019 as one of the fastest PCIe Gen3 drives on the market and was targeted to gamers and enthusiasts. After being on the the market for nearly two years it is finally time to move forward, meet …more
PassMark PerformanceTest 10 Examined and Tested We’ve noticed PassMark PerformanceTest 10 results in the news quite a bit over the past month or so. Just before AMD’s Zen 3 processors came to market someone ran PassMark on the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor and uploaded the results to their online database. That made news …more
First Look at Phison E18 – Successor of E16 Phison Electronics Corporation announced this week that their PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD controller was about ready to enter the market. The Phison E18 is their first fully native PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 controller that is capable of delivering sequential read performance up to 7.4GB/s and sequential write …more
Basemark GPU Benchmark Examined and Tested BasemarkGPU was introduced back in 2018 as a free multi-platform, multi-API 3D graphics benchmark. The benchmark was written in C++ and developed using their own in-house game engine called Rocksolid. The desktop version runs an AAA quality game-like workload as each scene has tens of thousands of individual draw calls …more
Watch Dogs Legion came out at the end of October as the third installment in the open-world action-adventure game series by Ubisoft. The game has a built-in benchmark that we wanted to try out, but we wanted to wait for the first wave of patches to hit before we tested a big stack of desktop …more
3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test Earlier this week the benchmark team over at UL introduced a new 3DMark feature test that measures pure ray-tracing performance. The release of the 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test comes just before the debut of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series cards are set to come out on November 18th. AMD’s …more
AMD Wants to Destroy Intel with Zen 3 The AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors come out today and promise best-in-class performance across pretty much any vertical that you can think of. AMD was able to get a 19% instructions per cycle (IPC) improvement with these Zen 3 based chips over the previous generation of Zen 2-based …more
DHL Express just dropped off the brand new Huawei Mate 40 Pro smartphone after a 10,000 mile journey to get into our hands. The Mate 40 Pro is one of the four models that make up Huawei’s Mate 40 series and it goes on sale later this month for €1,199 and that converts to about £1,080, …more
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 TUF Gaming Arrives Today we will be taking a look at the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card that is being sold under part number TUF-RTX3070-O8G-GAMING. This fully custom card is priced at $559.99 and comes with a large triple fan GPU cooler, RGB lighting and military-grade components. The …more
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING X TRIO The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition delivered gamers a $499 graphics card that offered impressive generation-on-generation performance uplift, but we really wanted to see what the board partners were going to bring to the table. There always seems to be room for improvement and the board partner …more
GeForce RTX 3070 Is Here For Under $500 The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is one of the most highly anticipated in years after it was hyped up as delivering more performance than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti for just $499. This is impressive as the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti sold for twice as much! NVIDIA …more
Silicon Motion Launches Complete 16-Channel PCIe 4.0 NVMe Turnkey Enterprise SSD Controller Solution The SM8266 accelerates customers’ time-to-market with a development platform that includes turnkey firmware stack and reference design kit TAIPEI, Taiwan and MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 17, 2020 — Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) (“Silicon Motion”), a global leader in designing and marketing …more
NEW SPECIAL EDITION WD_BLACK DRIVES FROM WESTERN DIGITAL ENABLE GAMERS TO HEED THE CALL OF DUTY Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Gets Next-Level Performance with WD_BLACK Collector’s Edition Storage Products SAN JOSE, Calif., November 16, 2020 – Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is working with Call of Duty to reimagine three high-performance products from the …more
Apple unleashes M1 With industry-leading performance, powerful features, and incredible efficiency, M1 is Apple’s first chip designed specifically for the Mac Cupertino, California — Apple today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac. M1 is optimized for Mac systems in which small size …more
Micron Ships World’s First 176-Layer NAND, Delivering A Breakthrough in Flash Memory Performance and Density New 3D NAND boosts storage capability across mobile, automotive, client and data center applications BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 9, 2020 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced that it has begun volume shipments of the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND …more
KIOXIA Introduces Industry’s First PCIe 4.0 OCP NVMe Cloud Specification-Enabled SSD New XD6 Series E1.S Data Center NVMe SSD Optimized for Hyperscale, Open Compute Platform Applications SAN JOSE, Calif., November 3, 2020 – KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.) announced another significant technological contribution to cloud data center infrastructures. Today, the company expanded …more
AMD to Acquire Xilinx, Creating the Industry’s High Performance Computing Leader — Strategic transaction strengthens AMD’s industry–leading technology portfolio — Expands AMD’s rapidly growing data center business Xilinx, the No. 1 provider of adaptive computing solutions, increases AMD TAM to $110 billion Immediately accretive to AMD margins, cash flow and EPS All stock transaction with combined enterprise value of approximately $135 …more
SK hynix to Acquire Intel NAND Memory Business NEWS HIGHLIGHTS SK hynix will pay US $9 billion for the Intel NAND memory and storage business, which includes the NAND SSD business, the NAND component and wafer business, and the Dalian NAND memory manufacturing facility in China. SK hynix aims to enhance the competitiveness of …more
Silicon Motion Launches PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 Controller Solutions for Client SSDs New controller solutions offer best-in-class Power and Performance up to 7,400/6,800 MB/s Sequential Read/Write Speeds TAIPEI, Taiwan and MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 20, 2020 — Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) (“Silicon Motion”), a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage …more
HyperX Releases QuadCast S USB Microphone with Dynamic RGB Lighting Effects that can be Personalized with Custom Settings Ideal for Streamers and those Working from Home, RGB Microphone Features Four Polar Patterns and Built-in Anti-Vibration Shock Mount FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif – Sept. 28, 2020 – Underscoring an unwavering commitment to streamers, casters and work from …more
World’s Fastest Discrete Graphics Memory From Micron Powers NVIDIA’s Breakthrough Gaming Speeds Micron GDDR6X accelerates photorealistic 3D experiences at 1 terabyte per second, rates once thought impossible BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the world’s fastest discrete graphics memory solution, GDDR6X, the first to power system …more
Toshiba releases New Canvio Portable Storage Lineup with New Applications and Designs Adding new Canvio Flex and Canvio Gaming models along with new colors and textures. Irvine, Calif. — August 31, 2020 — Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announces the newest models of the Canvio Portable Storage lineup. Canvio Flex models with USB-C are portable storage …more
Intel Launches World’s Best Processor for Thin-&-Light Laptops: 11th Gen Intel Core More than 150 Designs in Development, Including 20 Verified Under New Intel Evo Platform Brand NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel launches 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics, the world’s best processors for thin-and-light laptops, delivering up to 2.7x faster content creation, …more
QNAP Launches USB 3.2 Gen 2 Dual-port PCIe Expansion Card for NAS and PC – SuperSpeed+ up to 10Gbps Taipei, Taiwan, August 20, 2020 – QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today launched the QXP-10G2U3A – a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Dual-port PCIe Expansion Card which provides speeds of up …more
Western Digital’s New Sleek WD Brand My Passport SSD Is Built for Speed to Accelerate Productivity With Massive File Sizes and Loads of Digital Content, Consumers Continue to Trust WD Brand Products for Fast Reliable Storage SAN JOSE, Calif. – Aug 20, 2020 For consumers who need to accelerate their productivity and protect their valuable content …more
