Content and news by Rob Williams

There’s been much to come out of this COVID-19 pandemic that’s been upsetting, something that’s made pretty much all positive news seem that much more special. Today, AMD and NVIDIA both join the US government’s COVID-19 HPC Consortium, joining many others to dedicate massive amounts of computing power to researchers to help get…..

After much rumor, Activision announced the “Remastered” version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 yesterday. The title will follow in the footsteps of the Modern Warfare Remastered from 2017, but not include multiplayer or Spec Ops co-op modes. Considering the fact that MW2 MP was memorable for many, it’s unfortunate to…..

In some ways, it’s hard to believe that AMD launched its first Ryzen CPUs only three years ago. Out-of-the-gate, the first-gen series impressed, and little did we realize at the time, things were only going to be getting better. The second-gen launched with nice iterations, and then the third-gen launched last summer…..

With COVID-19 forcing so many of us to self-isolate, it was inevitable that the world’s networks would take a good beating, and start setting some new records. One service that has been enjoying some extra load is Steam, which has been setting multiple records for itself over the course of the past…..

Like a countless number of shows slated for this year, the annual NAB show in Las Vegas has been canceled, leaving many participating companies wondering where to go from here. For Maxon, its next move wasn’t too complicated, since for the past decade, the company has supplemented its live NAB appearance with…..

With the effects of COVID-19 in full swing, the world feels far different today than it did just two weeks ago, and especially one month ago. As mentioned yesterday, we would have been at NVIDIA’s latest GTC this week had it gone ahead as planned. Instead of canceling, NVIDIA decided to take things…..

It was a little over a month ago when we were preparing our travel for NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, and to say that a lot has transpired since would be a great understatement. Many have felt that their lives have been turned upside-down, and with self-isolation, the situation can become tedious really…..

It’s still a little hard to believe, but the Half-Life series has just introduced its latest release, following a thirteen-year hiatus. While every previous Half-Life has focused on delivering experiences through our monitors, Half-Life: Alyx exclusively uses VR to immerse the player in a way traditional gaming cannot. This is great for…..

AMD has reached out to let us know of some sweet deals that have hit most of the third-gen Ryzen mainstream processor lineup (Threadripper not included). On the lowest-end, a $25 savings can be found, while up top, $50 is being shaved off. That particular savings means the $499 12-core 3900X can…..

In January, we wrote about the ever-growing distaste for the direction Destiny 2 has taken over the last year, especially with regards to releasing content that forces players to jump in because it will be arbitrarily removed from the game later. At that time, players still had a new season to look…..

Following the usual round of intense hype, Gearbox released Borderlands 3 to the Epic Game Store this past September. Since then, it’s sold well enough to become 2K Games’ fastest-selling game ever, selling 50% more than BL2 did during its 5-day launch window, and ultimately breaching $1 billion in sales. As for…..

We’ve been hearing about ‘Big Navi’ for a couple of months now, and at AMD’s latest Financial Analyst Day, the company divulged plenty of solid information about what we can expect. At Navi’s launch last summer, we surmised that hardware accelerated ray tracing wouldn’t make it into RDNA until about the third…..

The free and open-source Blender has been around for twenty-six years, but over the past handful, it’s begun to accelerate the amount of respect it receives, and the number of people who integrate it into their workflows. Unlike most commercial software, we’ve seen Blender continually innovate at a super-fast pace. It was…..

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about AMD seeking feedback from those who’ve been experiencing black screen bugs on Radeon graphics cards. While the issue largely affects those using Navi-based GPUs, there have been cases of the black screen (and other related) bugs being detected on older cards as well. Thankfully,…..

How well does that new CPU you’ve got an eye on accelerate your Cinema 4D workloads? We’re going to find that out with the help of static and animation renders, as well as some simple viewport tests. For good measure, we’ll toss Cinebench results in as well, to see how those agree with our real-world testing.

With macro keyboards easy to come by, the draw of a mouse like Corsair’s SCIMITAR might not pull you in as much as it otherwise would. If you play MMOs and MOBAs, however, you’ll understand why having even more functionality at your finger tips is never a bad thing. Let’s check out Corsair’s latest take on the SCIMITAR, with the RGB ELITE.

Corsair has recently updated its popular K95 keyboard, with the new RGB Platinum XT. The major new feature bundled in here is Elgato Stream Deck integration, allowing you to go beyond typical macros with functions that directly tie in with popular software, such as OBS and Twitch. Let’s explore that while also seeing what else this $199 plank brings to the table.

There’s so much news of Intel’s 10th-gen Core series processors floating around, that it’d be easy to assume that they’re already available on the market. That’s not the case, but there seems to be little that’s been kept secret. Earlier this week, there were a bunch of engineering samples that went up…..

Since the launch of AMD’s third-gen Ryzen processors last summer, we’ve found ourselves running into a higher than the usual number of memory configuration issues on the AM4 / X570 platform. We’re not alone, as a simple Google search can reveal, and the worst of it is: we’ve found many users who’ve…..

Following-up on its teaser of a Cyberpunk 2077-infused GeForce yesterday, NVIDIA has today taken the veil off, and revealed everything there is to know about this special release. And… it does in fact pay to read about it beforehand, because if you are prepared to head to Amazon or Newegg to score…..