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Micron Launches M500 Series SSDs, First $0.62 cents-per-GB 1TB Model
First mentioned during CES 2013, Micron now officially delivers on its promise of a 960GB SSD priced at a mere $0.62 per GB. The M500 delivers a long-awaited refresh to the venerable m4 SSD family, featuring an updated controller, new NAND, and especially, new pricing. And just to clear things up now, the M500 branding [...]
Google to Offer 1Gbit/s Fiber in Austin Next Year and… So Will AT&T
Well well well. Things are beginning to get a little interesting in the 1Gbit/s Internet game. As has been covered before, Google launched the US’ first consumer 1Gbit/s Internet option last fall, and so far, consumer response has been outstanding. For its next move, Google will be moving into Austin, Texas, as announced yesterday. Pricing [...]
Have You Ever Wondered Why Luigi is Green?
Sometimes, the simplest stories can be the most interesting. In Nintendo’s Mario universe, have you ever wondered why the iconic plumber’s brother wears green clothing? Of course, it’s to help differentiate the two characters from each other – but there’s more to it than that. In a recent Rolling Stone interview with Mario-creator Shigeru Miyamoto, [...]
Love In-game Purchases? You’ll Adore Real Racing 3
You know what sucks? When a game is awesome… but has ridiculous DLC. It happens all too often, and I admit I’m guilty of loving some of these insufferable games. The worst, arguably, are racing titles. There have been games that have wanted to sell you most cars, upgrades, liveries, tracks and of course the de facto [...]
Google Updates its Play Store, Rollout Should Take a Couple of Weeks
Google has just launched a major update to its Play Store for mobile devices (an update to the website hasn’t been mentioned), and from initial screenshots, it looks quite good. It’s clean, modern, colorful and attractive. While I didn’t find too much wrong with the previous iteration of the Play Store, I feel this update [...]
Next Xbox Rumored to Forego Backwards Compatibility
Well, this rumor is a little disappointing. Citing an anonymous source, Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft’s next Xbox, dubbed Durango, will not offer backwards-compatibility. That large Xbox 360 game collection you’ve amassed over the years? Potentially only playable on Microsoft’s soon-to-be-outdated console. The reasons are obvious. If Microsoft could have easily made Durango backwards-compatible, it [...]
EVGA and k|ngp|n Shatter 3DMark Fire Strike Records
Proud of your PC, are ya? Well, once again, EVGA and Vince “k|ngp|n” Lucido want you to realize that your rig is rubbish, with the help of some brutalization of Futuremark’s current flagship benchmark, Fire Strike. Vince managed to gain the top spot for the benchmark both with SLI and single GPU, Extreme test and normal. The [...]
Google Purges 60,000 Apps from Play Store to Help Keep Things Clean
In its continuing effort to keep its Play Store clean, Google purged a staggering 60,000 “low-quality” apps this past February. If you’re an Android user, you can probably understand why this is a very good move, although quite frankly, I have doubts that Google will ever go the distance I’d like it to. The fact is, the [...]
US Reaches 5 Million Cable TV-free Homes
I’m sure this will come as no surprise to a lot of you, but the number of people getting rid of their cable TV is readily increasing. In 2007, there were 2 million homes in the US that didn’t subscribe to a cable TV service, and as the title of this post suggests, that number [...]
Verizon CEO Says It’d Be ‘Easy’ to Go Contract-Free
T-Mobile shook the mobile world up a couple of weeks ago when it announced its first no-contract plans, and it seemed likely that we’d be hearing from its competitors in some way or another as time passed – hopefully with good updates. Well, I somehow managed to miss this last week, but so far, Verizon [...]
GameStick Ships Dev Units, Kickstarter Units Delayed Until Late June
As we posted on Friday, the initial OUYA console reviews have begun to roll-out, and at this point, it’s clear that there’s some work to be done before the final retail launch occurs this June. As we can nows see, delivering an affordable console at around the ~$100 range is hard, so with the initial reports [...]
The OUYA Console Gets Reviewed – It Appears There’s Much Work to be Done
Reviews of the OUYA “Backer Edition” console have begun to trickle out, and so far, the general consensus is that there’s little to be excited about. It should be mentioned, though, that the retail release of OUYA comes in June, so units that have been sent to Kickstarter backers should be consider “beta” – something that was [...]
CyberLink Introduces PowerDVD 13 – Sports ‘Video Beyond HD’, 4K Support & Windows 8 App
It’s not often that we talk about commercial media player software here, but CyberLink’s latest PowerDVD packs in some new features that are worth talking about. As mentioned a couple of years ago, I’ve come to prefer PowerDVD for my video needs because I feel it delivers the best image quality, and the folks there [...]
RIP LucasArts – Thanks, Disney!
Disney has pulled the plug on LucasArts. Consequently, LucasFilm’s erstwhile video games development arm becomes the second significant casualty of Disney’s purchase of George Lucas’ family of entertainment companies. The first to die by Disney’s hand, of course, is the excellent Clone Wars animated series. With LucasArts’ shutdown, around 150 members of its staff were [...]
First Impressions of Trion Worlds’ Defiance
I’m not a sci-fi guy, and I certainly don’t need another MMO to play – so what’s the deal with me taking Trion’s just-released Defiance for a spin? Because I was sent a copy, and sometimes that’s all the reason I need. Plus, I do like the premise of the game, and figured that maybe… [...]
AMD’s Holding a ‘Fan Day’ in San Francisco this Coming Saturday
In or around San Francisco this weekend? If so, you’ll want to make a special trip to hit-up AMD’s “Fan Day” at City View in the Metreon. At the event, you can expect to see all things AMD on display along with other things from the company’s partners. Perhaps AMD itself puts it best: “This [...]
Seagate’s 4TB ‘Desktop HDD’ Designed for Those who Want Mass Storage on the Cheap
We’ve taken a look at a trio of 4TB hard drive models over the past couple of months, but today’s launch of Seagate’s “Desktop HDD” model is special for a couple of reasons. Alright, one big one: $200. Given the fact that the other 4TB models we took a look at hovered closer to the [...]
Time to Punish Your Android: Futuremark’s 3DMark Has Landed in the Play Store
The state of benchmarking tools for mobile platforms is still very-much in its infancy, and up to this point, there have been few that have really pushed through the limits of what our hardware is capable of. My favorite benchmark up to this point has to do with gaming, Epic Citadel, as it simply looks [...]
Canonical Considering the Removal of WUBI from Ubuntu 13.04 Release
When Canonical introduced Ubuntu 8.04 in 2008, it implemented a tool called WUBI (Windows-based Ubuntu Installer) that aimed to help those not familiar with installing an alternate OS on their PC to be able to do so easily – without affecting their partitions. Admittedly, I’ve never had much luck with WUBI, although it’s been quite [...]
Square Enix Rolls-out First Trailer for Thief Reboot
I have to admit something I’m not proud of. Up to this point, I haven’t played a Thief game. I know, I know… foolish. Appalling. Unfortunately, I could have said the exact same thing about Deus Ex when the third game in the series, Human Revolution,showed-up. However, much like how I ended up realizing what [...]
IBM + AMD = Intel Killer?
It’s no secret that Intel is the dominant solutions provider in the x86/64-bit microprocessor space. Ever since it jettisoned its Netburst microarchitecture for Conroe, Nehalem, and subsequent generations of the Core CPU families, the company has only increased its market and performance superiority over its only real rival, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). But could AMD [...]
Killing Your Internet with Killer Ethernet
We’re PC enthusiasts. We buy bigger graphics cards to improve our gaming, better audio cards to improve our immersion, and feature-richier gaming peripherals to improve our skill. Is it so unreasonable, then, to purchase an Ethernet card that promises to deliver the best-possible net experience for gamers? It’s an oft-debated topic, and one that doesn’t [...]
Google Opens Up Some Patents to Open-Source Projects, Vows Not to Sue
Here’s something we don’t see everyday: Google has pledged not to sue open source projects or its users if they make use of patents the company opens up to the public. Seems crazy, right? Well, it should come as no surprise that Google, like many businesses, rely on open source software in one way or [...]