Capcom has made some cool games over the years, and fans might agree that the coolest is the recent Monster Hunter World game. It was revealed as part of the Capcom financial results recently that the game was the best selling title it has ever launched. Monster Hunter World shipped over 12 million units. That …more
Samsung has announced something that everyone has been wondering for those who preordered the Galaxy Fold smartphone. The screen on the Fold failed within a few days of getting into the hands of several reviewers, and Samsung canceled the lanch while it tried to figure out what was going on. Samsung has now announced that …more
Game of Thrones fans who are sad that the final season of the beloved show is here might want to get some gear to keep the show in their thoughts as the years go by. Game of Thrones gaming chairs are coming from Secret Lab and HBO. There are three designed including the liveries of …more
Tests conducted by a UK watchdog group caleld Which? have found that Apple is overestimating the battery life of various iPhone models significantly. The iPhone XR is cited as falling particularly short of Apple’s claims. Which? says that in its testing all nine iPhone models underperformed when it came to battery life with between 18% …more
Apple sees its sales slow significantly for several of its popular product types. The iPhone has sold in lower numbers than what the company wants and its MacBook computers have as well. Apple recently blamed Intel for the decline in revenue from Mac computers. Luca Maestri, Apple Chief Financial Officer, said in an earnings call …more
Way back in 2013 a joke started that led to a Facebook page caleld “Give Us the Razer Toaster Please” and Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan said that the company would make the toaster if the page acquired a million likes. In 2016 Razer’s April fools prank was Project Breadwinner, the first gaming grade kitchen appliance. …more
Seagate has a new SSD that is aimed directly at use in network attached storage boxes. What’s as important as storage capacity for NAS drives is how much data can be written to them over time. Seagate’s new IronWolf 110 SSD is rated for 2TBW, or two TeraBytes Written, for every 1GB of capacity. That …more
Samsung is not having a good time of it recently. Its Galaxy Fold folding screen smartphone broke days after landing in reviewer’s hands. Now the company has a new tablet called the Galaxy Tab S5e that launched with a terrible design choice. The way Samsung integrated the WiFi module in the tablet leads to blocked …more
Valve has rolled out a new virtual reality headset that is available for preorder. The headset is called the Valve Index and it sells for $999 for the headset, two hand tracking controllers, and two base stations that use laser sensors to increase the play space. The pricing for the Valve Index undercuts the HTC …more
Google has announced that the Pixel 3 smartphones are selling poorly with a decline in year over year sales. The search giant is blaming the decline in sales on fierce competition in the global smartphone market, and while that has something to do with it, that isn’t the entire story. One reason that manufacturers see …more
Spotify has hit a big milestone for the service with over 100 million paid subscribers. The company says that paying subscribers rose 32% during the first 90 days of 2019 allowing it to hit the high-end of its forecast of 97 to 100 million users. Spotify also reports that its monthly average user base grew …more
Treyarch has released a new trailer for CoD 4 that highlights new features for Operation Spectre rising. The update introduces Spectre as the latest multiplayer specialist and Blackout character. The primary weapon for the character is a sword and smoke grenades. He can see the outlines of enemies through the smoke to attack. The update …more
We just noticed that NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 430.53 has been released. This hotfix driver comes less than a week after Game Ready Driver 430.39 was introduced. It turns out that 430.39 drivers had a minor glitch in them where it would hurt gaming performance due to the increased CPU load. We ran into this issue …more
AMD is celebrating their 50th anniversary this week, and they had some pretty big announcements this morning for their fans. The most exciting news for those looking to build AMD powered system is that AMD has launched special ‘Gold Edition’ versions of the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X processor and AMD Radeon VII graphics card. The new AMD Ryzen …more