Carmack to leave id, focus on Oculus
Wow.
Talk about unexpected. Earlier today, id Software announced that John
Carmack, the company's co-founder and technical guru, will be leaving
the company. Here's the official statement from id CEO Tim Willits, as quoted by Polygon:In a Twitter post ...
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Deal of the week: Cheap storage, a Bay Trail discount, and more
Even with Black Friday discounts not due for another week, there are plenty of bargain-priced SSDs out there today. The most appealing one may be Seagate's 600 SSD 240GB, which debuted in May with a $210 asking price. Thanks to subsequent price cuts and a new, $20 discount, the drive can now be purchased for only $170 at Newegg. That works out to about $0.71 per gigabyte, and two-day shipping is free.
SSDs are best paired with mechanical storage, and Newegg has a couple of nice discounts on that front, too. The RAID- and NAS-optimized WD Red 4TB we looked at in September has already fallen ...
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Friday Shortbread
The Pick 6
- Reuters: Intel shares drop as Wall Street questions mobile growth
- Six in a row: GPU-powered system again
wins student supercomputing competition
- Ars Technica reports Newegg's chief counsel testifies:
30 infringement claims in last 8 years online
- DigiTimes: Microsoft to launch new version of Xbox One in 1Q14
- iFixit's Xbox One and PlayStation 4 teardowns
- PCPer's PC vs. PS4 vs. Xbox One hardware comparison
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Intel reveals upcoming Atom SoCs, opens foundry business to competitors
Intel made some interesting revelations at an investor event yesterday. Perhaps the most telling came from chairman Andy Bryant, who admitted to being "a little embarrassed that we seemed to have lost our way." Bryant was referring to Intel's failure to recognize the shift from traditional PCs to smartphones and tablets, and he said the company is "paying the price for that right now." New Intel CEO Brian Krzanich seems to be righting the ship, though.
Part of Krzanich's plan includes more focus on the Atom processors that go into smartphones and tablets. On the front, he mentioned two codenames we haven't heard before. Broxton is a new Atom SoC due in mid-2015. It will be based ...
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WSJ: FCC may allow cellular use during flights
Last month, the FAA lifted
its restrictions on the use of electronics during takeoff and landing
for commercial airliners. Delta has already applied the new rules, and
other airlines will soon follow. However, one limitation remains in
effect: you still can't use your cellular connection during the flight,
be it for voice calls, texts, or data.Now, according to the Wall Street Journal , ...
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Sniper Elite 3 to tap AMD's Mantle API
Another game has joined the ranks of Mantle-enabled titles. Earlier today, Rebellion Entertainment announced plans to use AMD's new graphics API in Sniper Elite 3, the latest instalment in its shooter series. The game is due out next year.
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The Xbone reviews are out
Looks like the press embargo has lifted on reviews of the Xbox One in anticipation of the console's impending public launch, so you can now go read reviewers' impressions at places like Yahoo, Ars, and Kotaku.
I have to admit, I haven't been reading the reviews so much as nibbling at them, combing through and extracting their vital essences at ...
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Winamp is shutting down December 20
More than 16 years after its first release, Winamp is shutting down. "Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013," reads a short post on the official site. Folks have until then to grab the latest—and final—version of the media player software.
Winamp was first released in 1997, and it became wildly popular as the MP3 scene exploded. By 2007, 90 million people ...
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Valve prepping beta test for local game streaming
Local game streaming is one of the most intriguing aspects of Valve's SteamOS, but it's not limited to that operating system. The feature is also designed to work between any two Steam-equipped PCs, and some lucky Steam users will soon be able to try it for themselves. A beta test is "coming soon," according to the official In-Home Streaming group on Steam. Interested users are encouraged to join the group to make themselves eligible for the beta. At least initially, participants will be selected at random from that group.
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Wednesday Night Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Reuters: Microsoft's Gates highlights tough requirements for new CEO
- Insight from Reuters: For Intel, Hollywood dreams prove a leap too far
- DigiTimes: Players see stable income from motherboard businesses
- Wind8Apps: AMD to launch a Windows
8.1 gaming tablet with Mullins chips
- Microsoft: Office 2013 Service Pack 1 coming early next year
- Eurogamer: Valve gives Black Mesa
permission to be a commercial product
- HotHardware reviews Xbox One
- Xbox One's Emergency Offline Update (EOU)
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Report: Broadwell-K chips to have four cores, Iris Pro graphics
Last month, we heard that the first unlocked, desktop-bound versions of Intel's next-gen Broadwell processor were due out in late 2014. Not much else was revealed about the chips at the time. Now, however, the folks at CPU-World have gleaned some additional details.
For starters, they say Broadwell-K processors will feature Iris Pro integrated graphics. That is, they will pair up their integrated graphics logic with 128MB of dedicated eDRAM ...
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AMD to give away 1,000 Battlefield 4 keys through Facebook
As promised, AMD has kicked off its massive Battlefield 4 giveaway on Facebook. The giveaway involves 1,000 license codes for the game, and entering is pretty straightforward—all you need to do is click a button or two on AMD's Gaming Evolved Facebook page.
Here are the instructions, straight ...
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LSI introduces Nytro PCIe SSDs with low power consumption, 2TB capacity
LSI is showing off some new enterprise gear at its Accelerating Innovation Summit in San Jose, California. The most interesting products may be in the Nytro XP 6200 family, which includes a pair of PCIe-based solid-state drives designed for read-intensive server applications. The Nytro XP 6209 is a half-height expansion card with 1TB of flash, while the 6210 is a full-height offering with 2TB of storage. Both products have Gen2 PCI Express links with eight lanes of bandwidth.
The Nytro XP 6209. Source: LSI
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Valve developer event teases virtual reality plans
Valve is holding a developer event in January, and the session list reveals some interesting tidbits about the company's plans for virtual reality. Programming wizard Michael Abrash is holding a session on "What VR could, should, and almost certainly will be within two years." He'll show a prototype based on the sort of VR hardware that's expected to be available to consumers in a couple of years. It's unclear if this means Valve intends to produce a headset of its own, though.
The Oculus Rift seems to the the leading candidate for consumer headsets, but the final version isn't ready yet. Its inventor, Palmer Luckey, is leading a session titled "Porting games to Virtual Reality." Luckey has said in the past that the ...
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