Posted on January 18, 2016 8:10 AM by Tom Roeder
So it may not be Half-Life 3, but at least we have something that’s in the ballpark. Valve has officially approved and is offering a fan-made expansion for its incredibly popular Half-Life 2, the game with what could have the most significant cult following of any PC game, ever. The game begins in the…..
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Posted on January 15, 2016 8:10 AM by Tom Roeder
I really try not to get over-excited about projects on Kickstarter. Personally, I think that many projects are on Kickstarter because they are either not viable for the market, or the proprietors are not able/willing or viable themselves to work with investors. Having said that, I will not ignore the successes that…..
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Posted on January 14, 2016 2:28 PM by Rob Williams
A new beta for NVIDIA’s game-optimization tool GeForce Experience has just been released, and if you’ve been eagerly awaiting features like windowed-mode recording or advanced microphone control, this isn’t an update to skip over. If you’ve yet to receive a GFE beta update, you can click on Preferences at the top of…..
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Posted on January 11, 2016 7:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
With an unexpected press release, AMD has slashed the price of one of its flagship Fiji based GPUs, the Radeon R9 Nano, from its launch price of $649, to a much more attractive $499. This out of the blue price cut comes just days after the end of CES, where AMD also…..
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Posted on January 11, 2016 10:45 AM by Tom Roeder
Improving on an incredible product can be quite the challenge, no matter who you are, or how strong of an Engineering/Design team you have. Logitech is no different, and it is always on the cutting edge of innovation, design, style, and function with its peripherals and other products as well. At CES…..
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Posted on January 11, 2016 10:10 AM by Robert Tanner
2016 is already shaping up to be the year of NVM Express enabled PCIe 3.0 solid-state drives. SATA Express was over before it began thanks to PCI Express x4 drives being able to offer twice the bandwidth, and SSDs such as the RevoDrive 400 are able to put all that bandwidth to…..
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Posted on January 11, 2016 9:20 AM by J.D. Kane
Guitar players know the name Gibson. In fact, many of us aspire to owning at least one of these magnificent instruments. But did you know Gibson is actually the parent company of several home theater and personal audio solutions? Fellow Techgage staffer Tom Roeder and I spent a good amount of time…..
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Posted on January 11, 2016 8:10 AM by Techgage Staff
CES may be over, but there is still a wealth of new releases to cover. Thermaltake was on call with some new chassis designs for big builds, and water coolers to match. While there is a fair amount of bling with the AIO coolers, the chassis mean business with huge areas to…..
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Posted on January 10, 2016 12:00 PM by Rob Williams
Digital health products have exploded over the past couple of years, and at CES, there was no shortage of related offerings to look at. One company’s portfolio stood out to me more than the others, and it might have its apt name to thank. iHealth offers a huge selection of different health…..
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Posted on January 10, 2016 11:00 AM by Rob Williams
Kingston announced four products in total at CES, but at its Caesar’s Palace suite, it had a handful of other things to whet our appetites with. Our first stop was at a PC with a simple looking PCIe SSD. Under the hood, though, it was far from simple: it packed four M.2…..
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Posted on January 10, 2016 10:00 AM by Rob Williams
Kingston hasn’t been in the audio game for long, but in the short time it has been, it’s managed to strike the right chord with gamers. Ever since the release of its first HyperX Cloud headset, the company has been delivering solutions that are priced right, look good, and deliver excellent audio…..
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Posted on January 9, 2016 12:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Ever wanted the camera in a game to follow your eyes, instead of relying on your mouse? Eye tracking is one of those odd technologies that crops up every now and then when it comes to games. MSI is experimenting with such a feature by utilizing eye tracking tech from Tobii, and…..
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Posted on January 8, 2016 1:00 PM by Techgage Staff
Cooler Master continued to impress us with its latest offerings for CES 2016. While there was the usual peripheral refresh, as well as new designs for fans and water-blocks, there was an exciting, new enthusiast class power supply and chassis concepts built around Makers. Let’s take a quick peek at what Cooler…..
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Posted on January 8, 2016 10:30 AM by Jamie Fletcher
AMD already hit us at the beginning of the week with some rather encouraging news, it’s new Polaris architecture and the jump to FinFET manufacturing techniques. While less dramatic, AMD has few more surprises in store with its current line of APUs, and some changes to come with the next generation. Meeting…..
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Posted on January 7, 2016 9:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
And now the fun begins. Intel’s ultra compact NUC mini computers have received their update and are now beginning to pack the all new mobile-based Skylake CPUs. These small, yet incredibly powerful machines have been growing a strong niche over the years, gaining more attention each generation. The latest batch follow a…..
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Posted on January 7, 2016 6:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Intel’s Compute Stick is a noble concept, a personal computer the size of a thumb-drive, with all the benefits of an x86 processor. Many thumb-drive computers have emerged and failed over the years, largely because of poor software support, too limiting hardware, or the price was never right. It’s a very hard…..
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Posted on January 7, 2016 11:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
Synology’s annual update of its NAS line continues with the introduction of the DS416j, a 4-bay NAS for streaming multimedia content over a home network. Rather than being built like a tank of a NAS, suitable for enterprise use like much of the other NASes that Synology has released this year, the…..
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Posted on January 7, 2016 10:30 AM by J.D. Kane
Corsair wowed us with several items in its private suite. It had a couple of new chassis, a DIY PC kit, and a family of SFF PSUs that are designed for the aforementioned DIY PC kit but can be used for small form factor systems. We covered the press release earlier this…..
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Posted on January 7, 2016 9:30 AM by Greg King
We’re familiar with SteelSeries. Last year, their Sentry was included in our best of CES piece and we’ve looked at many of their devices over the years. Meeting with the team earlier today, it was happy to show us its new Rival 700 gaming mouse. To some, a mouse is a mouse…..
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Posted on January 6, 2016 10:50 PM by Greg King
One of our primary tasks at CES, is meeting with the companies that we cover. One that we always make a point of meeting is TRENDnet. We’ve covered them for years, and they have always been very accommodating when it comes time to scheduling a meeting. This year, we met early in the CES week.…..
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Posted on January 6, 2016 10:07 PM by Rob Williams
Not too long ago, Patriot’s biggest focus was DRAM and flash, but over the past couple of years, the company has expanded its portfolio to include battery-related products, and most recently, peripherals. At its CES suite, Patriot had pretty much everything on display, with our first stop being a table where a vast…..
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Posted on January 6, 2016 12:30 PM by Jamie Fletcher
We’ve been seeing murmurs of the Oculus rift going on sale soon over CES, but it’s finally happened, we can now tell you the price – not that it’ll do you much good right now, as it’s already sold out. For that next generation experience that we’ve all been waiting for over…..
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Posted on January 6, 2016 11:40 AM by Rob Williams
Last summer, we took a look at Kingston’s MobileLite Wireless G2, a product we ended up loving thanks to its multi-purpose design and ease-of-use. With it, you could share data wirelessly to various devices, charge up a mobile device, and act as a router if a LAN cable is plugged in. At CES,…..
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Posted on January 6, 2016 11:10 AM by Robert Tanner
Kingston is taking the lid off its latest Enterprise-grade SSDs with the SSDNow KC400 series. While metrics such as “15 times faster than a hard-disk drive” are one thing, the KC400 aims to deliver end-to-end data security thanks to SmartECC protection and SmartRefresh to safeguard against read errors, as well as firmware…..
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Posted on January 6, 2016 11:08 AM by Rob Williams
Kingston has long produced secure flash drives, but its latest, the DataTraveler 2000, could very well be its best ever. There are two reasons for that: it offers a hardware PIN to keep it secure, and the OS you use doesn’t matter. As a hardware-based solution, the DT 2000 keeps your data…..
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