Computer peripheral giant HP has announced its intention to acquire HyperX, Kingston Technology’s gaming peripheral division, for $425M. HyperX has been a major contributor to the gaming industry with its offerings ranging from manufacturing keyboards, mice, microphones to its most notable entry in the form of gaming headsets. The brands’ […]
PC Hardware
“Mafia: Definitive Edition” Revealed at PC Gaming Show to Be a Complete Remake
“Mafia: Definitive Edition” has officially been announced via PC Gaming Show. The first Mafia game is being completely remade and the second being remastered in 4K UHD.
[Opinion] The Sorry State of Windows vs Linux in Late 2019
How I Learned Not To Worry and Love the Dual Boot (Linux & Windows) I recently spent some amount of time and successfully got my home computer to dual boot both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18. While much writing can be spent on this process, the fantastic thing is that […]
Beginning of the End of Moore’s Law
Many techies are familiar with Moore’s Law, commonly stated that computing power doubles every 18 months. It was more or less true throughout the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st century, but the “law” is at the beginning of its end. Moore’s Law is that old […]
Steam Announces Beta Registration for In-Home Streaming
Steam has confirmed that the beta for its Home Streaming service will be opening later this year (even though there isn’t much left of this year.) Beta testers will be chose at random from the Homestream group in their forums. If you’d like to sign up for the beta, simply […]
New Gamepad Controller Announced by Steam
Following on the heels of Valve’s game-changing announcement about Steam OS, the fan-favored developer threw a new one at us out of left field. It seems that Valve has been developing a new type of controller for gaming, using dual trackpads instead of thumbsticks. Which, of course, begs the question […]
Valve Director Hints at Announcing Steam Box Next Week
The Valve ‘Steam Box’ may well be considered the Holy Grail of devices among PC Gamers. It’s talked about in hushed whispers behind closed doors (usually because that’s where the gamers hide), but nobody knows much about it yet. Steam, the Valve-created game download client, stands far above any other […]
This Is The Next Xbox, and they’ve called it the Xbox One
The next Xbox is offically called Xbox One. After weeks of speculation and rumored names like Xbox 720, Xbox Fusion, and even Xbox Infinity, Microsoft officially landed on Xbox One. Microsoft announced the news no more than an hour ago in the offical reveal event in Seattle, and what seemed […]