Gaming
Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company initially promised variable refresh support on GeForce Now back in early January during CES, and has seemingly waited so that it could launch alongside GeForce Now Day Passes, which are also now available. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game. This synchronization prevents screen tearing, when two or more frames are present on a display at the same time. Without a VRR technology, gamers either have to tolerate the visual incongruity of screen tearing or enable V-Sync, which solves screen tearing by...
Steam Holiday Sales and PuppyGames Humble Weekly
With Christmas just around the corner and all the festivities and shopping, I’ve neglected to mention the Steam sales that are going on right now. They’re being updated daily...
7 by Jarred Walton on 12/20/2013
Humble Bundle for PC and Android 8 and More
The Humble Jumbo Bundle is now sadly over, but while good things come to an end we can always look forward to the next big thing. For the next...
6 by Jarred Walton on 12/18/2013
Humble Jumbo Bundle, Dying Orcs, Bundle Stars, and More!
I'm late on this one, as I was traveling last week, but the current Humble Jumbo Bundle definitely deserves your attention. I actually bought this bundle while I was...
11 by Jarred Walton on 12/11/2013
Gaming Motherboards under $175: Holiday 2013
Glad tidings we bring, and this time it comes in the form of gaming oriented motherboards. As an ex-semi-serious gamer (local clan matches, LANs), the motherboard in my...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/27/2013
Chipworks Confirms Xbox One SoC Has 14 CUs with 2 Disabled
In our mini-review of the Xbox One I speculated that the shipping version of Microsoft's console featured 14 AMD GCN CUs (Graphics Core Next Compute Units), with two disabled...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013
Humble Weekly: Zen Studios' Pinball FX2
The Humble Weekly this round is for one type of gamer and one type of gamer only: those who like electronic pinball. I used to play some of the...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013
The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4
Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I’ve been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now...
286 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/20/2013
Humble Mobile Bundle 3: Android Only
Need more games for your mobile Android device? Humble Bundle has you covered, with their latest set of six games. And for those of you who haven’t been keeping...
11 by Jarred Walton on 11/20/2013
NVIDIA 331.82 Game Ready WHQL Drivers Available
Just in time for the release of Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag and Need for Speed: Rivals, NVIDIA has an updated driver available. The 331.82 driver builds on the...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/19/2013
Humble Weekly: bitComposer
Another week, another sale, this time from a name that some might not immediately recognize: bitComposer. Which isn’t to say that I don’t recognize quite a few of their...
2 by Jarred Walton on 11/15/2013
Humble Bundle Launches the Humble Store
I’ve been a big fan of the Humble Bundle since it first showed up several years ago. I haven’t purchased every single bundle (often simply because I missed hearing...
9 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2013
Ode to Wasteland
I’ve been covering some gaming stuff more of late, branching out from my laptop reviews to look at the various Humble Bundle offerings and a few other titles. I’ve...
21 by Jarred Walton on 11/8/2013
Humble Weekly: Pointing and Clicking with Daedalic Entertainment
Let me start with a couple disclaimers before I get into the meat of this week’s Humble Weekly Sale. First, I grew up back in the time when we...
10 by Jarred Walton on 11/7/2013
Humble Bundle: Batman Edition
I’ll be honest with you: there are a lot of games we’ve used as benchmarks that I haven’t quite finished, and some that I hardly even play. So when...
13 by Jarred Walton on 11/5/2013
Humble Weekly: Team17 Worms, Frogs, and Aliens (Oh My!)
The Humble Android 7 sale has come to a close, with over 200,000 people joining up to the tune of more than $1.2 million. I missed the last couple...
9 by Jarred Walton on 10/31/2013
iBUYPOWER Releases M8 Mini-ITX Gaming System
iBUYPOWER is no stranger to these parts; we reviewed a few of their desktop and laptop systems over the years. They're now one of the larger boutique PC vendors...
36 by Jarred Walton on 10/25/2013
Humble Bundle with Android #7 (Updated)
In the latest edition of the Humble Bundle, there’s another collection of fairly popular games available. As usual, you unlock the core set of games with any donation of...
13 by Jarred Walton on 10/15/2013
Valve Video Demo of Steam Controller
Some of you may be tired of the SteamOS/Steam Machine/Steam Controller news posts, but Valve’s foray into the living room is set to potentially change the way many people...
23 by Jarred Walton on 10/12/2013
Radeon GPUs Confirmed for Retail Steam Machines
Last week Valve posted the specs for their prototype Steam Machines, and we noted at the time that all of the prototypes were using Intel CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs...
55 by Jarred Walton on 10/11/2013
The Humble Weekly: Nordic Games
Looking for some more "oldies but goodies" to pass your time? The Humble Bundle has a new weekly sale up, and as usual it's $1 minimum to get the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 10/3/2013
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