Category: Technology
AMD Announces New Processors & Motherboards To Exist Alongside Current Offerings
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced new entries in its existing line of “A Series” APUs and “Athlon” brand processors that will co-exist alongside existing offerings. They have also announced that they will begin producing motherboards for their current AM3+/FMS2+ socket types that will feature more modern connectivity options such as USB 3.1 with the […]
GDC 2016 Survey: VR Support Up, PS Vita Support Nowhere To Be Found
The upcoming Game Developer’s Conference will be held in San Francisco this coming March and ahead of the conference GDC has released their annual “State of the Industry” survey results. State of the Industry captures the pulse of the development community thanks to over 2,000 participants, the results give developers, students and the media (heh.. […]
A Few Things You Learn When Buying A Used Oculus Rift Off Of Kijiji
Two weeks ago while pursuing the online computer classifieds I came across something I didn’t think I’d see locally for some time, an Oculus VR headset at a reasonable price. After the announcement that Oculus wanted $600 USD for the upcoming consumer version (known as CV1 in the Oculus community) I figured my dreams of […]
SpaceX’s Latest Rocket Landing Attempt Ends In Fantastic Explosion
Before we can colonize other worlds or send astronauts on journeys outside of our immediate interstellar backdoor we must first find a way to reuse spacecraft. This is the current goal of Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, who today attempted to land a craft on a floating platform after deploying a satellite. They […]
Activision Blizzard Announces New Co-President For TV Unit
This morning mega publisher Activision Blizzard announced that Stacey Sher has been named co-president of the company’s television and film production division Activision Blizzard Studios. Sher’s credits include producer roles in recent films like Quentin Tarantino’s recent release The Hateful Eight, 2000’s Erin Brockovich, 1997’s Gattica among other major film and television productions. She will […]
What It’s Like Entering The World of Virtual Reality With A Vision Impairment
With the Oculus Rift finally available for pre-order it’s easy to argue that the conversation surrounding virtual reality has never really been hotter. With all of the immersive enhancements that products like PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Open VR are providing to players – stereoscopic 3D, head tracking etc. I’ve noticed very little […]
X-Split Gamecaster Updates To Version 2.7
Popular game streaming software X-Split have released version 2.7 today. The latest update brings support for Intel’s bleeding edge which allows streamers to use chroma-key like effects without the need for a physical green screen. Other major updates include built-in integration with Facebook and Twitter to make communicating with fans easier, they’ve also included an […]
Oculus Rift Priced; Internet Freaks Out
Paradigm Shift In case you missed it or you’ve been living underneath a gaming rock for the last little while, Oculus announced a price and start date for shipping for its Rift VR Headset: 599$ USD and March 28th. As one can expect, the reaction was generally the same as it is with things that have […]
Independent Games Festival 2016 Finalists Announced
The Independent Games Festival have announced their line-up of finalists across seven different categories for the IGF Awards which are to be announced during the 2016 Games Developer Conference in San Francisco California. It must have been a painstaking process for the 400 evaluators to select this small list of finalists from among the more […]
Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Open, Servers Crash Despite $600 USD Price Point
As expected Facebook owned Oculus opened up pre-orders for their much anticipated virtual reality headset this morning. No one knew what the price point of the fledgling technology was going to be before the pre-order page went live. Potential Oculus Rift owners were greeted with a $599 USD (849.99 CDN) price point and of course […]
Steel Series Announces The Rival 700 – A Mouse With A Headshot Counter
Hardware manufacturer Steel Series has announced the Rival 700 Smart Gaming Mouse, a pretty neat piece of kit that is being marketed to the hard-core Counter Strike: Global Offensive crowd. What makes this mouse worthy of your headshots over say a rival mouse? Aside from a number of pretty neat inclusions, which I’ll get to […]
NVIDIA Opens Up CES Keynote With Self Driving Car Announcements
Today at their CES press event NVIDIA opened up their discussion of upcoming technologies with their recent investments in self driving cars. A special computer developed by NVIDIA called the NVIDIA Drive PX2 is powered by a 12 CPU-core system that is liquid cooled and contains the companies upcoming Pascal GPU. NVIDIA is billing their […]
Hackers Get Full Windows 95 To Work On New 3DS
Only one day after the new year we’re going to party like it’s… 1995? A clever hacker has gotten Microsoft’s two decade only operating system Windows 95 to run on Nintendo’s New 3DS according to a post on console modification forum GBATMP. RetroRampage37 released a rough build of the Windows 95 hack and certainly it […]
2016 and Gaming: A Year in Preview
As we’re closing in on the end of one year and getting ready to start the next, a lot of people are reflecting on the year that’s past and others are looking at the year to come. I’m one of those looking to the future and I’ll tell you why: 2016 and the coming years […]
GameStop Accidently Ships Pirated Game Just In Time For Christmas
It’s frustrating when someone gifts you a game you’ve waited months for only to find out you’re one of the unlucky few who have a defective product. What would your reaction be if it turns out you were gifted a pirated copy of a game by mistake? The parents of Reddit user Vernm51 bought them […]