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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...
Introducing the 2012 Mobile Benchmark Matrix
Testing computer hardware can be a difficult process. On the one hand there’s a desire for more information and benchmarks, and on the other hand there’s a desire for...
48 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2012
HP Omni27 All-In-One, Pavilion HPE Phoenix h9 Gaming PC Shipping January 8
HP has announced two desktop PCs for the United States ahead of CES next week: the Omni27, a 27" all-in-one that follows the general design of the TouchSmart lineup...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/4/2012
Mobile Game Roundup: Dragon Fantasy, Stay Alive, Spelltower, and Time Ducks
It's that time of the year again - this weekend, many of you without smartphones, iPod, or iPads are likely to get one, and those of you who have...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/22/2011
Alan Wake Coming to PC in Early 2012
Today Remedy announced plans to finally bring their psychological thriller Alan Wake to PC via Steam early next year. The developer will also be including the game’s two pieces...
16 by Craig Getting on 12/14/2011
Humble Indie Bundle 4 Available
The Humble Indie Bundle team today launched the pay-what-you-want Humble Indie Bundle 4 just in time for the holidays - the bundle included WIndows, OS X, and Linux versions...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/13/2011BioWare Unveils Command & Conquer: Generals 2
At the Spike TV Video Game Awards, BioWare announced it is working on Command & Conquer: Generals 2. A new BioWare studio, BioWare Victory, is developing the PC-exclusive real-time...
36 by Craig Getting on 12/11/2011
Microsoft Releases Metro-themed Xbox 360 Dashboard Update
At some point today, Microsoft will issue an update for the Xbox 360 that will roll out the latest set of changes to its gaming console, most prominently a...
28 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/6/2011Puget Systems Deluge Updated with NVIDIA Surround Results
Once NVIDIA dropped the 290 series beta driver, we were able to test the Puget Systems Deluge's pair of GeForce GTX 580s in triple-monitor surround. There's good news and...
3 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/30/2011
PS3 System Software Version 4.00 Adds Vita Support
Sony has released System Software version 4.00 for PlayStation 3 owners. This update primarily supports integration with the PlayStation Vita, which is launching in Japan on December 17 (the...
3 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/30/2011
Game Review: Jurassic Park: The Game
Movie tie-ins are nothing new to gaming. They crop up repeatedly throughout the industry’s history, as both successes and failures. For every good Star Wars-licensed game, there’s a bad...
7 by Craig Getting on 11/29/2011
Skyrim 1.2 Patch Due on Nov. 30
It should come as no surprise that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim launched with a whole host of bugs. Bethesda RPGs are renowned for their massive worlds, but with...
58 by Craig Getting on 11/28/2011
NVIDIA Posts 290.36 GeForce Beta Drivers
NVIDIA today released beta version 290.36 of its GeForce driver package for desktops running Windows XP, Vista, and 7 and laptops running Windows Vista and 7. Like previous releases...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/28/2011
Puget Systems Deluge: Revisiting the Art of Custom With X79
It's been a little while since we've had a Puget Systems desktop in, and so far we haven't yet tested any of their big dog gaming machines. Everything else...
72 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/24/2011
Batman: Arkham City—New Villain DX11 Man on PCs!
If you’re one of the gamers who waited anxiously for the PC release of Batman: Arkham City yesterday, and you have a reasonably high-end PC, there’s a good chance...
40 by Jarred Walton on 11/23/2011
Game Review: Minecraft (PC)
Minecraft, the world building game from independent developer Mojang, finally came out of a lengthy beta last week. It's difficult to adequately review a game that has been playable...
21 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/21/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 11.11 Drivers
AMD yesterday released its 11.11 Catalyst driver package, not three weeks after last month's 11.10 release. As usual, supported operating systems include 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Vista...
21 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/19/2011
Minecraft Pocket Edition Comes to iOS Tomorrow
Mojang's indie game Minecraft, which has sold more than four million copies on the PC, is coming to iOS on November 17th according to its page in the iTunes...
8 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/16/2011
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Breaks One Day Sales Record, Hauls In Over $400M
Publisher giant Activision Blizzard has released first day sales figures for the latest in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. They sold 6.5 million...
16 by Amman Sood on 11/14/2011
LIMBO Sells a Million Copies, Due Out on Mac This Year
LIMBO, the haunting indie platformer that netted a slew of awards for its minimalist design, has sold over a million copies, announced the developer Playdead. The success has allowed...
10 by Craig Getting on 11/11/2011
Steam Hacked, Valve Investigating Possible Credit Card Theft
Valve head Gabe Newell sent out a message today explaining that the breach of Steam's forums this past Sunday goes beyond the message boards and potentially includes Steam account...
37 by Craig Getting on 11/10/2011
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