Items tagged with Gaming
ROCCAT announced the Savu, a hybrid mid-sized gaming mouse, which ROCCAT CEO René Korte calls “The planet’s premiere mid-size gaming mouse – period”. The rest of the press release is just as effusive, but the...
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At 12:01 AM this morning, Diablo III launched. Normally, at this point, I pontificate. I write a bit about the game, share some pithy comments, and offer some well-reasoned considerations of salient points. I'm a journalist. It's what I...
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Big news in gaming this week if you're a fan of the survival-horror-meets-FPS series Dead Space; the third game in the series is scheduled to launch within the next 12 months. The original game, Dead Space, centered around deep space repair engineer Isaac Clarke's mission to investigate a...
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If you're looking for a new game for less than the cost of a tank of gas, we'd strongly recommend you take a look at Orcs Must Die. Some games are triumphs of storytelling and character development. This isn't one of them. OMD tells its story through the use of static art and a bit of in-game...
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MSI announced the GE60 and GE70 gaming laptops which feature Intel's newest third generation quad core processors and Nvidia's GT650M discrete graphics card. The machines weigh about 5.51 and 6.17 pounds, respectively. In addition to Intel third generation Core i7 quad core processors and...
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Hot on the heels of the impressive, dual-GPU powered GeForce GTX 690, which launched just a few short days ago, NVIDIA is already back with a much more affordable Kepler variant featuring a slightly pared down GK104 GPU. What’s perhaps most interesting to all of you though, is that this...
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We really dig it when the two big discrete GPU makers are firing on all cylinders. Our workload may increase exponentially as NVIDIA and AMD volley grenades back and forth, but the excitement that’s generated as a result, is a rush for hardware guys like us. And if the overall engagement...
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Hot on the heels of the release of the Naga Hex Red Wraith Edition gaming mouse, Razer announced an update to the Razer Naga MMO gaming mouse. The overhaul of the mouse is meant to improve its overall ergonomics, making it easier and more comfortable to use as well as facilitating better...
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How do you make the experience of buying from a boutique system builder easier than it already is? If you're Digital Storm, you answer that question by offering a line of pre-configured machines that are fully loaded to meet your budget and ready to ship in 72 hours. Not only do you save the time and energy required to build your own system...
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How do you make the experience of buying from a boutique system builder easier than it already is? If you're Digital Storm, you answer that question by offering a line of pre-configured machines that are fully loaded to meet your budget and ready to ship in 72 hours. Not only do you save the time and energy required to build your own system...
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Android 4.0 is finally making the rounds at a pretty good clip, and if you can believe it, it's actually making it onto something other than a phone or tablet. Yes, the Wikipad is a gaming-centric handheld, and yes, it's using Ice Cream...
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After testing the GeForce GTX 680 last month, it was practically a foregone conclusion that a dual-GPU powered graphics card based on the same GK104 GPU was coming down the pipeline. The GK104 at the heart of the GeForce GTX 680 was able to best AMD’s current flagship GPU more often...
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Eurocom added the newest AMD Radeon HD 7970M GPU to the EUROCOM Racer 2.0 notebook. The EUROCOM Racer 2.0 is a 15.6-inch small form factor notebook that uses the Intel Mobile HM 77 Express chipset and supports the full line of 22nm Ivy...
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What’s more fun than a gaming mouse? A gaming mouse designed specifically for hacking and slashing games, which is precisely the raison d’etre of the Razer Naga Hex Wraith Red edition. The mouse is equipped with six mechanical...
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Samsung announced the Samsung Series 7 Gamer laptop. This laptop features a mode-changing dial that lets you switch between four modes: Gaming, General, Quiet, and Power Saving. These preconfigured modes can quickly switch on and off components and optimize settings for the mode chosen. The Series 7 Gamer features a 3rd generation Intel...
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Earlier this month, Dell announced an overhaul of its Alienware M14x, M17x, and M18x gaming laptops, featuring NVIDIA 600 Series GPUs among other impressive specifications. The machines themselves boast backlit keyboards with multiple color zones, “headlights”, and laser-engraved...
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Over the weekend, NVIDIA announced the dual-GK104 powered GeForce GTX 690. If you missed the announcement, the details are available right here. While we’re not able to give you the full run-down on the GeForce GTX 690’s performance just yet, we did uncover one more details we wanted to share. Last week, NVIDIA sent some pry...
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Asus launched the new Republic of Gamers (ROG) G75VW and G55VW notebooks which feature Intel 3rd generation Core i7 processors. These new G-Series laptops also offer NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M/670M GPUs with up to 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM, up to 16GB of DDR3 DRAM, and support for dual hard drives in...
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Count Digital Storm as the latest custom builder to offer Intel’s 3rd generation Core processors (Ivy Bridge). The company isn’t just offering them in a few systems, though; Digital Storm is going whole hog and offering the...
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Today at the GeForce LAN taking place in Shanghai, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen Hsun Huang unveiled the company’s upcoming dual-GPU powered, flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690. The GeForce GTX 690 will feature a pair of fully-functional GK104 “Kepler” GPUs. If you recall...
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Most of the major news in consoles this week was in handhelds, but there are major implications for both Sony and Nintendo. Nintendo broke a record that's stood for almost 125 years and posted the company's first ever yearly loss this...
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It's obvious, the PC and console game industry is in desperate need of an overhaul. With skyrocketing costs to develop games, gamers aren't going to accept $80-$100 game titles, especially not with mobile prices in the 99 cent - $4.99 range and with food and gas prices on the rise. In...
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