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- Google Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL Fall To Record Low $279, $319 Unlocked With These Hot Deals
- AMD's Chief Architect Of Gaming Solutions, Frank Azor Joins Our 2.5 Geeks Podcast
- Legendary Windows 3.0 OS And Microsoft Solitaire Both Turn 30 Years Old Today
- Borderlands 3 Bounty Of Blood Campaign And New Takedown Gauntlet DLC Announced
- NVIDIA GameGAN Builds A Faithful Recreation Of Pac-Man With AI Generated Graphics And Maps
- Alleged Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPU Leaks With 6 Cores, 12 Threads
- Civilization VI Is Now Free At The Epic Games Store, Here's What May Come Next
- Original Xbox And Windows NT 3.5 Source Code Leaks To The Internet
- Facebook Launches New Controls To Neutralize Scammers On Messenger
- Command & Conquer Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn Source Code To Be Released By EA
- Samsung's Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition Is A Ruggedized And Military-Grade Phone For US DoD
- Razer Blade Pro 17 Amps Up With 300Hz Display, 10th Gen Comet Lake-H, And RTX 20 GPUs
- Google’s Pixel 4a Reportedly Facing A Huge Delay, Here’s When To Expect It
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Ampere, AMD Radeon Big Navi Rumored For Summer Release
- Doom Eternal To Ditch Denuvo Anti-Cheat Software Following Scathing Backlash
- AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core CPU Hits Low $389 Following Intel Comet Lake-S Launch
- Leaked Intel Tiger Lake Xe GPU Benchmarks Show Huge Performance Gains Over Ice Lake, Ryzen 4000
- Dell G5 15 SE Laptop Review: All-AMD Gaming With SmartShift
- Intel Makes 'Killer' Acquisition Of Rivet Networks To Bolster Its PC Networking Portfolio
- Amazon's Crucible Team-Based Sci-Fi Shooter Available Now As Free-To-Play Download
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All News for May 2020
With the Pixel 4a looming on the horizon, discounts are starting to pile up on the current generation Pixel 3a family. That’s good news for those that don’t want to wait until July for the Pixel 4a’s arrival, and need a low-cost smartphone right now.
Amazon is selling both the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL at record low...
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We've got a heads up for you folks that tune in to our weekly 2.5 Geeks podcast. As a reminder, the next show goes live Friday (5/22) at 5PM EST, and we'll have none other than Frank Azor on the line to rack his brain on all things gaming related.
For those that don't already know, Frank serves as AMD's Chief...
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There are no two ways about it, I'm heading into the weekend feeling old. Earlier today, I wrote about NVIDIA using AI to recreate Pac-Man without using a game engine, partly in celebration of the game landing in arcades (remember those?) 40 years ago. Today also happens to be the day that Windows 3.0 and Solitaire...
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A new campaign add-on and Takedown are coming to the popular game Borderlands 3 this summer. Details of both events have been offered via Episode 7 of The Borderlands Show, which can be seen below. Episode 7 is the first-ever at-home episode of The Borderlands Show, which was required due to the coronavirus...
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One of the first arcade games you may remember playing on an Atari 2600, what seems like a million years ago, was Pac-Man. However, this was not exactly a faithful recreation of the true classic co-op arcade version. Now, several decades later, NVIDIA trained an AI model called GameGAN to recreate a proper recreation...
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The ink is barely dry on our review of Intel's brand new 10th generation Comet Lake-S based Core i9-10900K and Core i5-10600K processors, but we're already discovering evidence of their successors popping up in online benchmarks. We're talking of course about Intel's upcoming 11th generation Rocket Lake-S...
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A week ago, Epic Games treated players to Grand Theft Auto V for free in the Epic Games Store, and despite being five years old (on PC), it drew so much interest and traffic that it temporarily crashed the store. How do you follow that up if you are Epic Games? You give away Sid Meier's Civilization VI for free the...
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It’s been years since many of us have even thought about the first-generation Xbox gaming console. That was Microsoft’s proverbial “foot in the door” into the console gaming market to battle Sony’s PlayStation 2 with PC-centric hardware (custom Intel Pentium III processor, NVIDIA GeForce 3-based graphics).
But...
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Facebook has announced that new features are being added to Messenger, which aim to make it a safer place to connect and chat with friends and family. One of the new controls is a safety feature that will help millions of people avoid potentially harmful interactions and possible scams without compromising privacy...
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EA producer Jim Vessella has taken to reddit to talk about something that is surprising to hear from a major game publisher. EA will be heavily supporting game modders with the upcoming re-releases of some classic video games, including Command & Conquer and C&C Red Alert. According to Vessella, EA will be "releasing...
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Well look at that, Samsung is rolling out a new Galaxy smartphone! This one is not intended for consumer use, though. Called the Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition (TE), this newest member of the Galaxy family is a rugged, "mission-ready" handset designed for the "unique needs of operators in the federal government and...
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The last Razer gaming laptop to go under the knife was the Blade Stealth 13, which arrived in April with a 10th generation Intel Ice Lake processor, GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics, and a 120Hz display option. Now, Razer has turned its attention to the top dog Blade Pro 17, which is gaining a wealth of new spec bumps...
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The Google Pixel 4a has leaked so much, that the only thing really missing right now is an official launch date. As recently as April 29th, the rumors on the internet have suggested that Google would launch its new mid-range smartphone on May 22nd, which is tomorrow. However, a tweet from Jon Prosser is casting down...
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The Coronavirus pandemic has been depressing on multiple levels (not the least of which is the loss of life), and who knows if we will still be collectively cooped up this summer. Even if so, there is something look forward to—the potential launch of next generation GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA, at the tail end of...
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Id software recently announced that it was adding anti-cheat software to its popular game Doom Eternal. What id Software chose to go with to protect BATTLEMODE multiplayer gamers from cheaters was Denuvo, which requires kernel-level access to the host computer. Id Software has now promised to remove the anti-cheat...
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We all got a real look at what Intel's Comet Lake-S desktop processor family brings to the table yesterday, as you saw in our review of the Core i9-10900K and the Core i5-9600K. The former in particular was rather impressive for its nearly unassailable gaming performance and was helped out in multi-threaded benchmarks...
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One of the ways Intel is going to make its upcoming Tiger Lake processors purr is with an upgrade in graphics performance. Tiger Lake will debut with Intel's Xe graphics architecture in tow, which Intel promises will deliver a "huge leap" in performance, while perhaps giving us a taste of bigger things to come in the...
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AMD is in an enviable position in the gaming laptop world. Not only does the red team arguably produce some of the fastest mainstream mobile CPUs around in its Ryzen 4000 series, there's also formidable graphics horsepower in the same camp. As a result, AMD can control the whole platform, hardware and driver stack in a PC with its CPU, GPU,...
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Intel has just made a big announcement that it hopes will help expand its PC platform and improve Wi-Fi performance for devices using its hardware. The company has acquired Rivet Networks, which produces the popular “Killer” family of networking products and software solutions that complement them.
However, Intel...
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The coronavirus lockdown around the world has been hard on everyone. Anyone still stuck at home looking for a new video game to play may want to give the new release, Crucible, from Amazon Game Studios a go. The video game is free-to-play and will be available to download on Steam today at 12PM PST.
Crucible was...
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It has been a year since PowerToys, a 90s era Windows 95 (and later, Windows XP) utility, made a triumphant return to Windows 10. While not yet a fully polished release, Microsoft continues to tweak the utility on GitHub, the open source hosting platform it purchased for $7.5 billion in 2018, and has released a new...
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It looks like the next Call of Duty game will take a step back in history. As is now tradition, the next game’s name has already leaked. It was recently revealed that the upcoming game will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Leaker “Okami” posted what appears to be the cover art of the next Call of Duty...
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