The TR Podcast 185: Honey, I shrunk the Fury
We recorded our latest podcast this past Thursday, and the video version of the result is now available on YouTube. We chatted about the Radeon R9 Nano, Intel supporting
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Run, gun, and murder aliens in 3D Realms' Bombshell
3D Realms is arguably going back to its roots. Its newest title is Bombshell, an isometric action shooter featuring a protagonist with a chip on her (bionic) shoulder—and lots of guns. Although the game is making a few waves at PAX Prime with a new gameplay trailer and a hands-on demo, the original E3 trailer is more illustrative. Check it out.
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Light and shadow play together in Calvino Noir
And now for something a little different. Calvino Noir is a stealth-based adventure platformer, if you have to label genres. So far so old, but check out the video below, and things should become both clearer—and darker.
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Go pro with Razer's Wildcat Xbox One controller
Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan held a brief presentation today at PAX Prime to talk about some new hardware and some updates to the company's Nabu X fitness tracker. Tan introduced the company's take on a tournament-grade Xbox One controller, called the Razer Wildcat. He also took some time to talk up the "Designed by Razer" NZXT S340 microATX case and version 2.0 of the companion app for the Nabu X.
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CliffyB returns to the FPS scene with LawBreakers
Cliff Bleszinski is back with a new multiplayer FPS called LawBreakers. Set on a futuristic Earth whose gravity has been irreversably corrupted by the destruction of the Moon (an event the game describes as "The Shattering"), LawBreakers is supposed to reward "skill, not streaks." I'll plead ignorance of which game that dig is targeting, but the first gameplay trailer is certainly action-packed:
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There can be only one Headlander
Psychonauts developer Double Fine has announced its latest oddity, Headlander, at Pax Prime today. Hang onto your
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Deals of the week: Asus' Strix GTX 970 and more
It's Friday morning, and you know what that means: time for another round of deals from the vast world of online retailers.
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Chrome will soon block Flash ads and auto-playing background media
Web users around the world, rejoice. Google will be skewering most Flash ads with prejudice come September 1. The company has announced that Chrome will begin automatically pausing resource-hogging Flash ads, in a bid to improve PCs' performance and battery life.
This move was announced last June , but the deadline is now looming. AdWords already converts most Flash ads to HTML5 automatically, and Google encourages ...
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Vive VR headset is a victim of Valve Time, now set for 2016 release
Valve is not a company known to rush its products to release, so much so that the company's release dates are now half-jokingly said to be in Valve Time. Now this space-time warp has claimed another victim: the company's Vive VR headset, designed in partnership with HTC.
According to Gamesindustry.biz , a Valve press statement made during PAX Prime indicates the headset will be delayed. Only "a limited quantity of community and developer ...
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Alienware delivers a UFO full of notebook updates
Not content to make intentionally-terrible videos and an enormous luggable PC, Alienware has updated the rest of its gaming notebooks and its diminutive X51 desktop with newer CPUs and more I/O options. Since the full Skylake line of CPUs isn't available just yet, these systems' updated spec sheets look a tad familiar.
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The TR Podcast is live on Twitch
We're recording The TR Podcast live on Twitch right now. Tune in as we talk about AMD's Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, Cooler Master's MasterCase 5, and a variety of other topics. You can also toss some questions our way in the Twitch chat, and we'll do our best to answer them as we go.
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Thursday Night Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- WCCFtech: AMD details Carrizo APUs energy efficient design at
Hot Chips 2015 - 28nm bulk high density design with 3.1 billion
transistors, 250mm2 die
- LaptopMedia: The new Intel Core i7-6500U
(Skylake) is already in our rankings
- techPowerUp!: MSI launches the Z170I
Gaming Pro AC mini-ITX motherboard
- Integral SSD takes performance to the extreme
- GeForce Hotfix driver 355.80
- Softpedia: AMD also quietly launches the Radeon
R9 370X, Sapphire gives it Vapor-X treatment
- Ars Technica: LG brings OLED tech and HDR to non-curved 4K TVs
- Corsair Gaming and Team Dignitas collaboration spawns first
products: Team Dignitas Edition gaming mouse and mat
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Cooler Master's MasterCase 5 reviewed
Cooler Master has big plans for its products of tomorrow. Chief among them is modularity: as the company told us a couple months ago, its future product catalog will contain fewer items with more customization options. That customizability will be achieved through modular parts that can be added, removed, or changed as needed. The company also wants to get in on the "maker movement," where adventurous modders might use 3D-printed custom parts to mold a product to their unique needs.
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Don't call it Knots Landing: next Xeon Phi detailed
Intel's sequel to Knight's Corner is more than just a fresh coat of paint. We've been hearing about the Xeon Phi successor for a while now, and the company released a torrent of new information at Hot Chips, detailed by Serve The Home.
Knights Landing-based Xeon Phis (Xeons Phi?) are built using tiles. A tile contains a pair of x86 cores based on the Silvermont microachitecture with customizations for HPC, which are fed by 1MB of L2 cache. Each core can track ...
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