Verizon has announced that its super-fast 5G wireless broadband trails have started with the company working with Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Samsung, and Qualcomm. Verizon says that their tests mimic real world scenarios and show their Continue reading “Verizon 5G to Deliver Gigabit Speeds with Ultra-Low Latency”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Feb. 22, 2016 at 8:43pm
Today Valve released the SteamVR Performance Test, which just happens to be the first VR performance test that we know of. This test allows end users a a free and simple way to find out Continue reading “SteamVR Performance Test Released – No VR Headset Needed”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 22, 2016 at 8:32pm
One of our readers just pointed us to a story over at Phoronix that states the future Intel desktop processors will support Clang (C language family frontend for LLVM compiler infrastructure project). We aren’t talking Continue reading “Intel Cannonlake Added To LLVM’s Clang – AVX-512”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 21, 2016 at 4:55pm
Bohemia Interactive today introduced the Eden Update for ARMA 3! The goal of the Arma 3 Eden Update is to enhance the game’s core usability and to cater to custom content creators in meaningful ways: Continue reading “ARMA 3 Eden Update Brings NVIDIA HBAO+ and More!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 18, 2016 at 10:49pm
Gamers and enthusiasts are getting excited about NVIDIA’s upcoming next-generation flagship GP100 GPU based on the brand new ‘Pascal’ GPU architecture. The folks over on the 3DCenter.org forums found a slide by NVIDIA CUDA Fellow Continue reading “Rumor – NVIDIA GP100 Pascal GPU To Have 4 TFLOPS of Compute Peformance”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 18, 2016 at 4:18pm
Today, Epic Games revealed an all-new “Rush the Core” gameplay video for its upcoming MOBA, Paragon. The new video features Heroes Sparrow and Gideon rushing towards the enemy core, while Dekker gets help from Steel Continue reading “Epic Releases New Paragon Gameplay Trailer”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 18, 2016 at 3:51pm
A letter posted on Apple’s website titled “A Message to Our Customers” and dated February 16 is calling for a public discussion on strong encryption and backdoors. The letter, electronically signed by Apple CEO Tim Continue reading “Tim Cook and Apple in Defiance Publicly Speak Out Against Encryption Backdoors”. …more
By David Yee •
Feb. 17, 2016 at 1:01pm
Rumors are floating around VideoCardz that claim NVIDIA is working on releasing a new variant of the GeForce GTX 950 graphics card. Months ago we heard some whispers about a GeForce GTX 950 Ti might Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP Rumors Gain Momentum”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 16, 2016 at 8:57pm
It’s Valentines season and Sega wants to share the war, not the love, with PC gamers by offering some classic titles up for free on Steam as part of their “Make War, Not Love 3” Continue reading “Sega offering the PC versions of Jet Set Radio and Golden Axe for Free”. …more
By Sean Sinha •
Feb. 16, 2016 at 8:47pm
Vulkan is the new generation, open-standard and cross-platform API for high-performance graphics that promises to end the software bottlenecks and unleash a new, rich visual gaming experience. Vulkan gives unprecedented access to all of the Continue reading “AMD and NVIDIA Release Vulkan 1.0 API Beta Drivers”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 16, 2016 at 8:23pm
NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 361.91 WHQL drivers for Street Fighter V are now available to download through the NVIDIA driver website or GeForce Experience. The fighting game title comes out tonight (Feb. 15 @ 9:00PM Continue reading “GeForce 361.91 WHQL Video Card Drivers Released For Street Fighter V”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 15, 2016 at 4:42pm
AMD has partnered with IO Interactive to make Hitman for the PC part of the AMD Gaming Evolved program. This means that Hitman will feature enhanced image quality features as well as performance optimizations for Continue reading “Hitman Beta PC System Requirements Announced – AMD Gaming Evolved”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 11, 2016 at 5:02pm
We are within a handful of weeks until the first Oculus Rift consumer versions start being shipped and major manufacturers are unveiling their Oculus Ready PCs. This potentially opens the gateway for non-PC gamers and Continue reading “Oculus Rift Headset & Oculus VR-Ready PC Bundles Start At $1499”. …more
By Ryan Pack •
Feb. 11, 2016 at 2:03am
President Barack Obama is seeking a 35 percent increase in cybersecurity funding in his 2017 fiscal year budget plan. The President hopes to boost the capability of the federal government to defend itself against cyberattacks. Continue reading “President Obama Seeks 35% Boost In Cybersecurity Funding”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 9, 2016 at 2:07pm
Sony has entered the international SATA III 6Gbps SSD market with a 2.5-inch drive series called SLW-M. The Sony SLW-M SSD series has two drives available right now at two capacity points 240GB (SLW-MG2) and Continue reading “Sony Now Making Consumer SSDs – SLW-M Series Debuts With Phison S10 Controller”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 5, 2016 at 4:39pm