The PC games of 2015: 418 titles previewed
"PC gaming is dying" said a lot of people with big megaphones and bad analytical skills over the years, especially two or three years ago, when the sentiment was especially fashionable. Since then, well, their wrongness has become more obvious.
You can drink in the full scope of that error by browsing through Rock, Paper, Shotgun's massive preview of 418 upcoming PC games , most of which are scheduled for release ...
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Zotac takes the GTX 970 to 1380MHz on air
Zotac has added another variant to its growing lineup of GeForce GTX 970 graphics cards. The AMP! Extreme Core Edition is the sixth GTX 970 to bear Zotac's name—and the fastest one yet. This monster is clocked at 1125 MHz base and 1380 MHz boost, substantially higher than Nvidia's 1050/1178 MHz reference frequencies. The 7.2 GT/s memory transfer rate is higher than the stock 7 GT/s, as well, though the default 4GB memory size is unchanged.
Impressively, Zotac doesn't resort to liquid cooling to hit those clocks. The Extreme ...
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New Year's Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- WCCFtech: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 to have two 'Ti'
variants - up to 1536 CUDA cores, benchmarks revealed
- ZDNet: Google discloses unpatched Windows vulnerability
- Datamation: Shuttleworth explains why open
source is more secure than closed source
- WCCFtech: Only users of Windows 7 and above will
be getting direct upgrades for Windows 10 - MS head
- Neowin: Here's how to enable the new IE12
Trident mode in Internet Explorer on Windows 10
- Ars Technica: hp sells Palm trademarks; brand
could be resurrected with new smartphones
- PhoneArena: Samsung pressuring U.S. carriers to roll
out Android 5.0 Lollipop to Galaxy S5, Notes 4, others
- VR-Zone: iPhone 6 Plus buried under snow for stress-test
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Happy new year!
Hope you all enjoy your celebrations around the turning of the year. 2014 was a good one for us, and I'm excited to see what 2015 brings! Thanks again for all of your support!
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Two days of encore deals end the Steam Holiday Sale
2014 is drawing to a close, but the final Steam sale of the year is still in full swing. The final batch of encore deals includes 27 titles, all of which are discounted until January 2 at 10AM PT. Here are a few of the high-profile highlights:
The rest of the pack includes a mix of older big-budget titles, like BioShock Infinite and Skryim , ...
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LG intros ultra-wide FreeSync monitor
LG has introduced a collection of new PC monitors ahead of next week's Consumer Electronics Show. The most intriguing one for enthusiasts is arguably the 34UM67, an ultra-wide 34" display with FreeSync support.
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What were your top games this past year?
Lots
of folks like to produce lists of their top games released during a
calendar year as that year draws to a close. Thanks to discount
mechanisms like the Steam sales and the Humble Bundles, though, I think
many of us are plowing time into games well after their initial
releases. Also, heck, many MMOs and free-to-play games have a totally
different lifespan.So my question for you today is this: what were the top ...
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Samsung's fanless 12.2'' notebook pairs Core M with WQXGA display
The Consumer Electronics Show doesn't begin until next year, but companies are already taking the wraps off their new hotness. Samsung has fired the first shot in the mobile space by announcing the latest incarnation of the Ativ Book 9, an ultra-slim 12.2" notebook equipped with Intel's Core M processor.
The 2015 edition of the Ativ Book 9 has an "all-aluminum" chassis that's 0.46" thick and 2.06 lbs. Inside lurks a Core M 5Y10C with dual Broadwell cores clocked up to 2GHz. According to The Verge , Samsung manages ...
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New Year's Eve Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Bloomberg: AMD rescinds CEO Su's stock awards after shareholder suit
- DigiTimes: GlobalFoundries reportedly to likely delay 14nm ramp-up
- GOG.com explains why they use password-protected RARs
- WCCFtech: Intel's 14nm Broadwell-U HD 5500 iGPU performance
numbers revealed - 32% increase over Intel HD 4400
- DigiTimes: HGST pushing new technologies to enhance storage capability
- KitGuru: Nvidia to speed up development of graphics processing architectures
- Tt eSports: Black V2 laser gaming mouse refreshed to bring a new edge to your game
- Phandroid: Lollipop's memory leak bug confirmed,
will finally be fixed in future Android release
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Apple still leads PC satisfaction index but cedes phones to Samsung
According
to the latest numbers from the American Customer Satisfaction Index,
folks are more satisfied with Apple's personal computers than they are
with those from any other vendor. However, the iPhone maker lost ground
in the "cellular telephone" space, ceding the number-one spot to rival
Samsung.Cupertino leads much of the PC pack by a wide margin, but its satisfaction score dropped to 84, down three points from 2014. That's still much better than Acer and ...
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The Witcher 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and others fill out today's Steam discounts
Ready for another batch of discounted Steam games? I thought so. The ongoing 2014 Holiday Sale features the following deals for the next two days:
I've heard a lot of good things about The Witcher 2 , which has great Metacritic reviews . Arma 3 seems to be pretty popular, too. Unfortunately, every time I see Child of Light ...
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Early deal of the week: 30 inches of IPS goodness for $380
We usually save our deals posts for Friday, but every so often, a bargain pops up that deserves special attention. This time, it's Monoprice's 30" IPS monitor, which is selling for only $379.99.
The house-brand unit features an LG panel with a 2560x1600 resolution and matte coating. CCFLs provide the backlighting, while a dual-link DVI port handles ...
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Leaked pictures suggest Xiaomi is building a MacBook Air clone
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi recently raised $1.1 billion in funding, valuing the company at an astronomical $45 billion. CEO and founder Lei Jun announced the deal in a Weibo post, adding that the company plans to unveil new flagship products next month. One of those could be a low-cost laptop modeled after the MacBook Air.
GizmoChina has leaked pictures of the rumored 15" system, which is a dead ringer for Apple's slimmest MacBook. The machine looks well-equipped, too, with a ...
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The Talos Principle sentences pirates to eternity in an elevator
A few years ago, Serious Sam 3 developer Croteam punished pirates with the "immortal fast scorpion," an unkillable enemy that effectively halted their progress through the game. In its latest title, The Talos Principle, Croteam has taken a somewhat gentler approach. Instead of hunting down players with dual assault rifles, it locks them in an elevator at a critical moment—and just leaves them there.
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