It’s January and if you have a subscription to Xbox Game Pass you might be wondering what games will land for you to enjoy this month. That question has now been answered with the announcement that the new games include Absolver, Ark: Survival Evolved and the first chapter of Life is Strange 2. Last month …more
Parents can no longer say that video games can’t pay the bills. Famous Fortnite streamer Tyler Blevins, better known as Ninja, recently talked with CNN and said in the interview that he made nearly $10 million in 2018. He said that 70% of that income came directly from Twitch and YouTube via ads and subscriptions. …more
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the launch of its USB Type-C Authentication Program yesterday as an optional USB security protocol. The new USB Type-C Authentication specification defines cryptographic-based authentication for USB Type-C chargers and devices. USB Type-C is the must have connection on the latest notebooks, smartphones and other many other devices since it allows faster data …more
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is an old game, but it still has lots of fans. Fans of the game will probably be familiar with the Beyond Skyrim, the multi-team modding project for the game. The folks from Beyond Skyrim have announced that a new mod is coming called The New North. A new Morrowind …more
Fans of Chrome OS and the Chromebooks that run the operating system will soon have a new security method to protect their machines. The new security feature is called USBGuard, and it is designed to lock down the USB port of your Chromebook when your machine is locked. This is meant to protect the computer …more
A new iPhone rumor is making the rounds, and this one claims that when the 2019 iPhone models land next year, they will be packing a fancy new Sony camera sensor inside. Apple and Sony are said to be working together to integrated long distance 3D cameras into the next-generation iPhone. Forbes reports that the …more
One of the stranger things to happen this year was rapper Soulja Boy launching his own line of game consoles. Stranger than a rapper schilling game consoles packed with emulation software was that people were buying the consoles. Nintendo didn’t waste much time in putting a stop to these unlicensed game consoles and the ROMs …more
Several images of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition have surfaced online. The images of the RTX 2060 FE shows a dual-slot card that is styled similarly to the GeForce RTX 2070 FE. NVIDIA appears to be sticking with two axial fans for this model and it features one 8-pin PCIE power connector at the end …more
CES 2019 kicks off in days, and like each year the show is held, there will be some cool stuff unveiled at the show. Samsung is tipped to show off a new screen technology at the show called Sound on Display. The tech would eliminate the need for an earpiece speaker. That speaker is one …more
It pays very well to have the biggest game in all the land, and Epic Games can attest to that. Epic is the company behind the wildly popular Fortntie game, and the developer grossed $3 billion in profit for 2018. A big chunk of that profit lies at the feet of Fortnite. While banking massive …more
A game developer and designer called Rich Whitehouse has created something interesting for fans of the old school game Doom. The guy built a way to allow the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner to use the data it gathers about a room to create Doom levels. The resulting device is called Doomba and it works thanks …more
Amazon is taking the time after the holiday rush to brag about how well it did in sales. Sadly, it didn’t offer up any specific numbers for individual items sold, if that is the sort of data you are hoping for, you are out of luck. Amazon has said that more items had been “ordered …more
We’ve been following the rumors about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 over the past several weeks and it looks like it is going to be an interesting mainstream graphics card. The card purportedly features the TU106 ‘Turing’ GPU with 1920 CUDA cores and up to 6GB of GDDR6 memory. With all the leaks it wouldn’t shock …more
We don’t hear much news from the PUBG camp these days, but there are still lots of people playing the game. A new report has surfaced that PUBG Corp has banned a massive number of players who were using a radar hack to cheat. The ban hit 30,000 accounts and was implemented via an updated …more