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Just after Computex, NVIDIA released Quake II RTX, a new take on the classic that infuses ray tracing into the engine. The result is pretty impressive, with the real-time lighting effect delivering believable, and perhaps more immersive, environments. Of course, ray tracing isn’t light on computation (pun intended), so the faster your…..

Five months ago (to the day), we explored what PCIe 4.0 and its 5.0 successor will bring to the table in terms of raw bandwidth. At the time, it felt funny talking about 5.0 when 4.0 wasn’t even been commercially available to regular consumers yet, but that’s the way tech goes sometimes.…..

The gaming world has been incredibly busy this past week, with a countless number of new announcements brought about at E3. Ahead of the event, Gearbox gave us a surprise launch of brand-new Borderlands 2 DLC, called Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary. With Borderlands 3 slated to launch this September,…..

This fall is going to be an important one for Destiny 2, and if you’ve found yourself ignoring the series for the last while, you may want to pay attention to what’s coming. All told, the game is going to be launching a free version, make a move from Blizzard to Steam,…..

Development on Corona Renderer has only seemed to pick up since Render Legion was acquired by Chaos Group a few years ago. Today, the resulting company is now known as Chaos Czech, and its latest update for 3ds Max has just dropped. Now versioned 4, the new Corona Renderer introduces a lot…..

Ahead of this week’s E3, it seemed really likely that NVIDIA would be unveiling a new GeForce series called “SUPER” at the event, but as it happens, that didn’t happen. Word is that some people got briefed at the event, but since we bowed out of Los Angeles right after AMD’s Next…..

It might just be our perception, but it feels like this year’s E3 has been a lot more PC gaming-focused than recent ones. Even Corsair is now getting in on the fun, having announced two brand-new gaming mice that cater to a wide-range of gamers. To start, we have the NIGHTSWORD RGB,…..

This year’s E3 seems to be one of the best in recent memory, at least in terms of hardware being announced. AMD in particular had a really good show, with Sony and Microsoft committing to the company’s CPUs and GPUs in the next-gen consoles, and of course, Zen 2 processors and the…..

At Computex a couple of weeks ago, AMD announced two sets of products: Zen 2 CPUs, and Radeon Navi GPUs. At this week’s E3, the company is unveiling a lot more, and because time is limited at such a venue, we can assure you that there will be even more to talk…..

Ahead of next week’s E3, the hype is real when it comes to graphics hardware. AMD has admitted that it will be revealing more about its Zen 2 CPUs and Radeon Navi during the event, while NVIDIA has teased something “SUPER” that largely feels graphics card-related. NVIDIA has not given the press…..

As covered in our roundup from earlier this week, there was a lot of excitement at this year’s Computex surrounding AMD’s upcoming products. Admittedly, Radeon Navi almost seems to act as a side-car to the Zen 2 launch, which seems to have everyone excited. It’s for good reason. AMD’s original Ryzen launch…..

It’s hard to believe that in 2019, we’re hearing so much talk about the FPS classic Quake II. We’ve known for months that NVIDIA’s been able to infuse some ray tracing into the 1997 original, but we didn’t know until recently that the company had plans to make it available to the…..

It shouldn’t be that when you suddenly find yourself offline, half of your software stops working. The problem gets worse when you take advantage of offline options and still run into roadblocks which can’t be corrected until you find Ethernet or Wi-Fi again. It shouldn’t be like this.

With time to reflect, we’re looking back at last week’s Computex in Taipei. This year’s event seemed to start off a bit slower than usual, but it didn’t take long for things to ramp up. Before long, we were being overloaded with information, of which all of the important stuff will be tackled in this article. If you need a refresher or want to make sure you didn’t miss anything, read on.

When a new Call of Duty is released nearly every year, it’s admittedly hard to get truly excited about the “next one”. The new Modern Warfare, due in October, is one of the biggest exceptions in recent years, and for a handful of reasons. Arguably, the MW series has been the best…..

Intel had quite a lot to talk about at last week’s Computex, and we covered most of it right here. The star of the show was the company’s new Ice Lake 10th-gen Core processors, even though all we’re seeing for the moment is a quad-core model at the top-end. We hate to…..

A couple of weeks ago, some AMD AM4 motherboard users began to notice that a new EFI option hinting at PCIe 4.0 support appeared. We couldn’t find the option on our installed AM4 board of choice, but after talking in private to a related vendor, we were told that the option would…..

Apple had lots to talk about during its WWDC keynote today, but the star of the show was really the brand-new (and hugely overdue) Mac Pro. The trash bin design is gone, having been replaced with a cheese grater instead, littered with holes for optimum airflow. And that airflow is going to…..

During last week’s Computex, Qualcomm revealed lots about its upcoming Snapdragon 8cx mobile platform, which should see the first notebook models being introduced in the months ahead. We’ve already gone over the numerous bullet-points for 8cx in a dedicated article and video, but after we were done taking a look at 8cx,…..

Over the last handful of years, the popularity of Unreal Engine has gone through the roof. Some renderer vendors which once overlooked the engine have suddenly begun to put a ton of effort into porting theirs over. We’re not sure Chaos Group particularly ignored Unreal Engine at any point ever, but it’s…..