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Google Play Turns 1 – Sales and Freebies Up for Grabs
Google’s Play store just turned 1, and to celebrate, the company is throwing a bunch of stuff your way – deals and freebies alike. As has become typical of Google’s celebrations, different deals will be revealed each day, so it’s worth checking back. Below are URLs that will take you directly to…..
ASUS Teases Upcoming Z87 Motherboards, Introduces ‘Gryphon’ Series
With Intel’s 4th-generation Core processors set to launch around mid-2013, we’re going to soon begin seeing companies tout their upcoming releases to support the platform. Up first, ASUS, with teaser shots for three upcoming motherboards – one falling into a brand-new series called “Gryphon”. Have a look: Apart from the fact that…..
Is $60 Too Much for a Game?
With rumors floating around of PlayStation 4 games costing $10 more than current-gen titles, and EA assuring us that all of its future games will have microtransactions built-in, just how much is too much for a game? The $60 price-point has been common for quite some time, but that was before the…..
Futuremark Issues Updates for 3DMark, PCMark 7 & PCMark Vantage
Futuremark has rolled out a handful of updates for a couple of its benchmarks this past week, including the just-released 3DMark. That update is an important one for Windows 8 users, as makes the benchmark “fully compatible”. Other enhancements or fixes include the program remembering the last-used resolution, a fixing of the…..
NVIDIA GeForce Users Stonewalled with Tomb Raider
It’s not a good day to be a just-released AAA game, it seems. EA’s much-anticipated SimCity has been experiencing a number of game-breaking issues, and as we can now see, Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider isn’t too far behind – at least for NVIDIA users. Complaints have been spreading through the Web from those experiencing…..
Seagate Launches Third-generation of SSHD Products, Including Desktop Model
We reported just earlier about Seagate’s intent to cease development of its 7,200 RPM mobile hard drives, and now, with an announcement of the company’s third-generation “SSHD” products, the blanks have been filled. Previously, Seagate’s hybrid drives fell into the Momentus XT line, but because of recent name change-ups, that’s now renamed…..
Intel Dishes On What Makes H.265 Worth Waiting For
Following-up on January’s H.265 announcement, we had a chat with Intel to better understand some of the developments and enhancements made to the upcoming codec, compared to the venerable H.264 (AVC). Although Intel isn’t the one conducting the development of H.265 (HEVC), the company has been keeping in good contact with those…..
Seagate to Cease Production of 7200RPM 2.5″ HDDs
In a bit of surprise news, it seems that Seagate has plans to stop producing 2.5-inch 7200 RPM hard drives later this year. The company cited an ongoing shift in the mainstream market’s demands for other products, specifically SSDs, as one of the primary reasons for stopping production. Meanwhile, the company will still…..
Purchase an Unlocked Intel Processor, Get a Chance to Win a Snowboard
Intel laughs at companies like AMD and NVIDIA which give out mere free games to purchasers of its products – that’s boring. To prove it, the company is offering a free “Extreme Edition” beanie to those who purchase an unlocked processor, and those same folks will then be entered for a chance…..
Next Step for DRM: Our Furniture
Here’s a potential product idea for IKEA: a DRM chair. If you’re asking, “How on earth could a piece of furniture have DRM?”, I’d have to respond, “You need to think outside the box.” Imagine a chair, that after a certain number of sits, self-destructs. It sounds ridiculous, and it is, but…..
NVIDIA’s GeForce 314.14 Beta Driver Tackles SimCity, SC2: HotS, HAWKEN PhysX and RE6
NVIDIA has been on a driver-release rampage lately, and with all of the games set to launch this month, it’s no surprise to see yet another release which introduces profiles for those, along with upgrades for past games. In particular, NVIDIA makes mention of SimCity, StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Resident Evil 6…..
ASUS Rolls-out Android 4.2 to TF300 Owners, Infinity Update to Come in Q2
With an update just rolled-out to Transformer Pad TF300 owners, ASUS becomes the first vendor other than Google to offer Android 4.2 to its customers. There is the Nexus 7, which ASUS manufacturers and does have 4.2, but that’s still considered to be a “Google” tablet, not ASUS. TF300 owners may be…..
Electronic Arts Aims for Microtransactions in All of its Future Games
Much to the chagrin of gamers everywhere, EA announced its intentions to expand its methods to monetize its games. Blake Jorgenson, CFO of the games publisher, spoke at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on February 27. Jorgenson said, “The next and much bigger piece [of the business] is microtransactions…..
A Look at Steam’s Hardware Survey for February 2013
Another month, another Steam Hardware Survey. Isn’t it a little hard to believe that it’s March already? 2013 seems like it just got here, but it’s been an exciting one so far. This is especially true on the Steam front, as mid-February marked the official launch of the platform for Linux. Prior…..
Thermaltake Urban S21 – The First of a New Breed of Thermaltake Chassis
Thermaltake has announced the birth of a new line of PC chassis, the “Urban” series, with the introduction of the Urban S21. The new line marks a noteworthy departure for Thermaltake. Known primarily for flamboyantly-styled products such as the Level 10 and its various gaming-oriented chassis such as those that belong to the…..
Important: Site server move
(Edit: This is the new server.) We’re in the process of moving Techgage from one server to another (in another state, in fact, Indiana > California), so this will be the last piece of content to be posted to this server. If you continue to see this post going into Monday, then you’ll…..
HGST Develops Breakthrough Nanolithography Process to Boost Hard Drive Capacity
Due to technical challenges, hard drive densities have not been exponentially increasing in recent years as much as they used to, and the threat of reaching that upper-limit is looming all too close. However, with a breakthrough HGST has just announced involving nanotechnology, a solution is right around the corner. Kind of.…..
Defender’s Quest Developer Talks Steam for Linux Successes
When Valve released Steam for Linux a couple of weeks ago, one of the first thoughts I had revolved around the potential success that developers would experience. Would those developers that already support Linux cause those who don’t to reconsider? Our best chance at an answer for the moment comes from the…..
OUYA Consoles to Begin Shipping to Kickstarter Backers on March 28
If you’re one of the tens of thousands of people who chipped in enough cash to OUYA’s Kickstarter project to earn the console, then the time to be getting excited begins now. The developers have just announced that consoles will be shipping out on March 28, with assembly lines “buzzing” as we…..
The PS Vita Outsold Wii U in Japan Last Week, What’s Nintendo’s Next Move?
Well before the Wii U’s launch, I would have laughed out loud if someone predicted a headline like: “PS Vita outsells Wii U”. But it’s happened. In Japan, Sony’s PS Vita is getting a price-drop, and it’s assumed that some retailers decided to jump the gun in order to attract immediate business.…..
Tegra 4’s Awesome Performance? Qualcomm Isn’t Too Worried
When NVIDIA let some performance information loose on its Tegra 4 processor earlier this week, it seemed like it had the goods to ride-high for the rest of the year. The numbers we saw were down-right impressive – some, about 5x that of Tegra 3. Could the competition possibly compete? Well, if…..
Turn Your Mobile Device into a Controller for Google’s ‘Super Sync Sports’ Online Game
Using a mobile device to control an application on a PC, media player or video game console, isn’t too uncommon, but it is when the content being controlled is a game. Just how possible would it be to play a fairly fast-paced game on your PC via your mobile device? Google wanted to…..
Cooler Master Scout 2 Advanced – Gamer-Inspired Evolution
Cooler Master has just announced an evolution of one of its popular gaming-oriented chassis: Scout 2 Advanced. The company says the Advanced model features enhancements specifically requested by its customers. To wit, there is a revised dust filter designed for more effective performance. More significantly, perhaps, is now the availability of a…..
Adobe Ports Photoshop Touch to Android and iOS Smartphones
Need advanced photo editing while on the go? Then Adobe’s Photoshop “for Phone” might just be what you’re looking for. It’s based on “Photoshop Touch”, which has been available for iPads and Android tablets for some time, but is customized to better suit smaller screens. It also happens to cost half as…..
TressFX – For Salon Beautiful Hair in Your Virtual Home
Have you ever wanted silky-smooth, volumized, independently-rendered hair? Now you can, with Per-Pixel Linked-List Order Independent Transparency DirectCompute Real-time Physics Simulated TressFX Hair, all without paying salon prices. AMD and Crystal Dynamics have formulated a special blend of Silica and C-derived syntax from the Direct family to create a nourishing and invigorating…..