Tesoro Tizona Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
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The Resident Evil Re-remaster Gets Some 'Next Gen Screens'
Capcom has released 19 new screenshots for the Resident Evil re-remaster that was announced back in August. The screenshots are apparently from the PlayStation 4 version of the game, so expect the same or (hopefully) better visuals on PC. Check them out below!
Resident Evil is planned for Early 2015 release for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Source: Press Release
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New Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Dev Diary Explores Puzzles
Isometric puzzle platforming action game Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is three weeks from release, so Square Enix has published a new developer diary video discussing the puzzle design. Entitled "Puzzles 101", the trailer features developer commentary by Executive Producer Scot Amos and Lead Level Designer Jeff Wajcs, who discuss how puzzles are designed to challenge players in both single-player and co-op.
Source: Press Release and Steam
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Far Cry 4 Celebrates Launch Day with Two New Trailers
Yet another major launch is upon us. Far Cry 4 released today for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. While we got a Season Pass Trailer yesterday, and technically already got a Launch Trailer last week, Ubisoft decided to grace us with not one, but two new trailers: a CGI Launch Trailer and a Story Trailer.
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Valve Details Next Dota 2 Update
The latest update for the popular MOBA Dota 2 is entitled The Foreseer's Contract and brings with it a number of rewards from The International 4 Compendium and more importantly, a new hero. The latest hero is known as Oracle and he "has come to let you seize the fates of both friend and foe." Phantom Assassin will receive a new Arcana set and it will be 20% off until December 7. Also added in the update will be new mega creep models, heroic effigies, and compendium gems and emoticons. A new event, Nemesis Assassin, will be added to the update and detailed before its release this week.
Source: Dota 2 Blog
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PowerColor Announces Name Our Babies Contest To Rename Product Lines
PowerColor is seeking your help to rename some of its video card lines as part of the Name Our Babies contest. The three lines that are up for a rename are the PCS+, LCS, and SCS series. The contest runs until December 6 at 23:59 PST and will award three PCS+ R9 290X cards as a grand prize and three Devil R9 270X cards as a second prize. Entry is rather simple and requires nothing more than creativity in naming the products and providing a reason for your name.
Source: PowerColor
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be quiet! Announces Silent Base 800 Chassis
be quiet!, a leading manufacturer of power supplies and cooling solutions, has just announced additional details about its Silent Base 800 chassis that was revealed earlier this year. The case provides incredible cooling performance, as it incorporates a total of three Pure Wings 2 fans and supports the installation of four additional fans; all air intakes feature dust filters. Quiet operation is an important feature of the Silent Base 800 as well, as it incorporates panels that prevent sound waves from escaping the case, thanks to a brand new anechoic material. The Silent Base 800 supports ATX, Micro-ATX, and Mini-ITX motherboards, and offers owners with three 5.25-inch, seven 3.5-inch, and four 2.5-inch tool-free drives. The latest case from be quiet! is also sturdy, as it uses thick steel, high-quality ABS plastic, and U-shape edges to provide ultimate rigidity.
The Silent Base 800, which features an MSRP of $139.90 and comes in color combinations of completely black, black and orange, and black and silver, will be available to purchase starting on November 24.
Source: Press Release
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Martian Water May Have Been Episodic
Many a long time the idea of life and liquid water on Mars has intrigued humanity. To look at it now, we can see it is dry and arid, but we have also learned that it likely did once have water flowing over its surface. Now researchers at Brown University and the Weizmann Institute of Science are suggesting that these warm periods, when water might have flowed, were episodic and based on the planet's volcanism.
Part of the reason Mars is dry today is because it is too cold to support liquid water. Some believe that it may have supported it billions of years ago, but that long ago, the Sun was dimmer, so where would the heat have come from? What the researchers suggest is that periods of volcanic activity may have triggered temporary warming periods, allowing water to form around the equator. This would be the opposite of what we see on Earth though, as volcanos typically cool our planet, but then our atmosphere is very different from that of Mars. The red planet has a dusty atmosphere, and the sulfuric acid released by volcanism could have caused the dust to clump up, allowing more light to strike the surface, while sulfur dioxide may also have kept some of the heat from escaping.
If this theory is correct, one of the implications is that the planet likely only enjoyed these warm periods for decades or centuries at a time. That may not seem like much time, but it is still possible that life could have formed and bloomed during those periods, in which case we may have a better idea of where to look for any fossil remnants.
Source: Brown University
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NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 344.75 WHQL Drivers Now Available
New NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers are available, with Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Crew, and World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor all getting some nice improvements. The new GeForce 344.75 WHQL drivers offer performance improvements in those four games and others, so if any of you picked them up or are planning to pick them up, now is a good time to update your drivers. There are also new SLI profiles for Heroes of the Storm Alpha and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, plus an updated one for Assassin's Creed Unity. NVIDIA does state that both BioWare and Ubisoft are working to get any single and multi-GPU issues ironed out for Dragon Age: Inquisition and Far Cry 4, so please be patient while that is being resolved. Ubisoft plans to get something out today, while BioWare is still working on it.
The 344.75 drivers also provide support for NVIDIA's Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA), which helps to improve anti-aliasing quality while minimizing the performance hit. It only works on the GTX 980, 970, 980M, and 970M right now, as well as about 20 games. In order to take advantage of MFAA, you simply need to enable it in the NVIDIA Control Panel and then set MSAA in the games to either 2x or 4x. You can see the full list of supported games at GeForce.com, but some examples include: Civilization: Beyond Earth, Assassin's Creed Unity, Battlefield 4, Crysis 3, and Saints Row IV.
Source: GeForce
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Five-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional
Ayan Qureshi, who is currently six-years-old and attending his first year as a student at Clifford Bridge Primary School in the United Kingdom, has been named the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. The young boy successfully passed the Microsoft certification exam on September 27, 2014 when he was just five-years-old, which also happens to be the age that he built his first computer. Qureshi told BBC's Asian Network that he encountered a variety of questions that included multiple choice, drag and drop, hotspot, and scenario based. According to his father, Qureshi has an amazing memory that allowed him to retain a wealth of information, which certainly assisted the boy in successfully passing the exam at his age.
Source: HotHardware
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Updated Amazon App Features Android Wear Support
Amazon has just pushed an update to its core Android application, which features a variety of components such as shopping and Amazon Instant Video. The most notable feature within the updated application is support for Android Wear, which provides users with the ability to save an idea or search for products with their voice. When a product is found after the search is initiated, users can utilize their Android Wear device to purchase the item or save it to their wish list, enabling users to make even more mobile purchases than they currently do. The updated Amazon application also includes Android Lollipop support along with a variety of bug fixes and performance improvements.
Source: Android Police
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Spin Waves Successfully Created and Controlled
Many of our modern devices rely on electronics that perform operations based on the charge of electrons. In the future, electronics may be replaced by spintronics, which use a different property of electrons, but much must be done before that future can be achieved. Researchers at New York University and the University of Barcelona have recently succeeded in creating and controlling spin waves in a way that is bringing that future a little closer.
Instead of relying on the charge of electrons, spintronics use their spin, which is an intrinsic property tied to magnetism. This allows spintronics to potentially be much more efficient, as spin waves do not have to possess a certain amount of energy to be readable. Producing and controlling spin waves is not easy though, at least not when the target is waves that will be useful for advanced devices. Ideally these waves will have short wavelengths, which are what the researchers have managed to create by injecting spin-polarized currents into magnetic materials, using nanoscale contacts. That made the waves short, but by combining magnetic forces they were also able to confine the spin waves into magnetic droplets that remained still, instead of propagating out.
By controlling these droplets, it could one day be possible to emit spin waves on demand, with information encoded in them.
Source: New York University
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