Posted on June 25, 2015 12:59 PM by Rob Williams
Yet again, T-Mobile has introduced a new program that’s sure to miff its biggest competitors. With JUMP! On Demand, customers can lease the hottest phone and then upgrade to the next hottest phone without hassle, up to three times per year. T-Mobile stresses the lack of caveats here. It costs nothing to…..
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Posted on June 25, 2015 12:27 PM by Rob Williams
Well, this is quite the thing to happen. The launch of Batman: Arkham Knight has been such a mess on the PC, that publisher Warner Bros. has decided to suspend sales until key problems are worked out. We reported earlier this week that the game ships with a setting that pegs the…..
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Posted on June 23, 2015 12:30 PM by Rob Williams
When will some developers learn? Yet again, a much-hyped and technically detailed PC game has hit the market that defaults to a framerate of 30 FPS. I’m not sure about you, but I don’t appreciate a forced “cinematic feel”. There is an upside, though; unlike Ubisoft, which hard-caps the framerate to 60…..
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Posted on June 22, 2015 11:34 AM by Rob Williams
We wrote earlier about some affordable 4K FreeSync monitors from Samsung, so let’s talk a bit about some pricier models from Sony. On account of the fact that the X900C and X910C are full-fledged televisions and come in at under 0.2 inches thick, it’s not hard to understand why Sony’s latest 4K…..
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Posted on June 22, 2015 10:48 AM by Rob Williams
It’s kind of impressive just how fast 4K resolution has infiltrated the market, and likewise, how fast the tech has become affordable. Just two summers ago, ASUS released its 31.5-inch PQ321 4K monitor. Its price? $3,800. Today, spending 20% of that will get you an awesome 4K monitor, but there are a…..
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Posted on June 22, 2015 9:09 AM by Rob Williams
Microsoft’s Gabe Aul has answered some important questions regarding the roll out of Windows 10, and if you happen to be a user of an illegitimate license of Windows 7 or 8, or are still stuck on XP, take note. While Microsoft insists that a genuine license of Windows 7 or 8…..
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Posted on June 18, 2015 6:47 PM by Rob Williams
AMD intended to wait until next week before letting the juiciest bits of Fury X loose, but due to some communication errors, some people jumped embargo. Thus, AMD has decided to lift the veil off of its reviewers’ guide and is letting editors publish any and all details found within its pages.…..
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Posted on June 16, 2015 4:11 PM by Rob Williams
We learned just earlier that AMD’s Radeon ‘Fury’ graphics cards should pack quite a punch, with the top-end Fury X able to butt heads with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX TITAN X. It’s fun to note, then, that AMD already has plans to release a dual-GPU graphics card this fall. Normally, neither AMD or…..
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Posted on June 16, 2015 1:56 PM by Rob Williams
At its much-anticipated ‘New Era Of PC Gaming’ event, AMD put an end to all of the rumors we’ve had to endure these past few months. While much of what we learned was expected, AMD did have a couple of neat tricks up its sleeves. Kicking off its series of announcements, AMD…..
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Posted on June 16, 2015 11:30 AM by Rob Williams
Is it just me, or is this E3 proving to be one of the best ever? From Microsoft adding backwards compatibility to its Xbox One to Bethesda announcing the latest DOOM to Final Fantasy VII finally getting a remake – it’s almost hard to take it all in. And as if it…..
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Posted on June 16, 2015 11:02 AM by Rob Williams
Adobe has just released the latest major version of its Creative Cloud suite, 2015. With it, Adobe says it’s brought unprecedented innovation and even greater integration across both its desktop and mobile apps. Today also marks the release of Photoshop Mix, Color CC, Brush CC, and Shape CC for Android, all of…..
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Posted on June 15, 2015 2:57 PM by Rob Williams
Following up to its announcement of Fallout 4 a couple of weeks ago, Bethesda’s taken advantage of E3 to give us a lot more information on the game, including a release date. That release date is November 10, 2015, so those who were worried that they’d have to wait an entire year…..
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Posted on June 15, 2015 2:26 PM by Rob Williams
When Techgage launched in early 2005, the hottest and most demanding PC game at the time was DOOM 3, which had just come out six or so months earlier. I still vividly remember just how gorgeous the game was at the time, and being in awe at the fact that a 512MB…..
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Posted on June 15, 2015 1:49 PM by Rob Williams
Microsoft has been making a number of great announcements at E3, but the one that strikes me as being the most notable is that the Xbox One will be gaining backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 titles later this year. Unfortunately, original Xbox titles are unsupported, but that’s not too surprising. . @XboxP3…..
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Posted on June 12, 2015 1:51 PM by Rob Williams
When board game The Doom That Came To Atlantic City hit Kickstarter in 2012, the project’s lead hoped to secure $35,000 in funding to make it happen. With its wonderful design and creators on-board with some serious clout, backers ended up funding it three-and-a-half times over. With the project’s wallet $122K fuller,…..
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Posted on June 12, 2015 12:35 PM by Rob Williams
Eurocom makes some of the beefiest, most bad ass notebooks around, and I wouldn’t blame you if you thought it was impossible for the company to produce something a bit more modest. Well, it can, and today we see an example of that with the M4 ultraportable notebook, one that happens to…..
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Posted on June 12, 2015 9:45 AM by Rob Williams
Twitter’s Dick Costolo has announced that he’ll be stepping down from his post as CEO next month. This move isn’t too surprising, as Twitter has suffered stagnant growth, but while it’s speculated that he could have been ousted, Costolo claims that this move has been in the works for a while. “I…..
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Posted on June 12, 2015 8:15 AM by Rob Williams
As if needing Java isn’t bad enough, it’s frustrated users for so long because every single freaking update tries to install Ask toolbar on your PC. It’s a nuisance, and if there’s a single person on our Earth that actually wants it, I’d be hugely surprised. Well, it seems that Microsoft agrees, as…..
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Posted on June 11, 2015 1:17 PM by Rob Williams
It’s that time of year again! Valve has just kicked off the latest iteration of its Steam Summer Sale, this time called Steam Monster Summer Sale, and as with previous years, nearly the entire catalog of games is on sale. There’s nothing too surprising here; there are daily deals at the top,…..
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Posted on June 11, 2015 12:44 PM by J.D. Kane
The Xbox One has no shortage of racing titles (Forza Motorsport, Codemasters’ F1 20xx games), but the platform hasn’t had a lot of options as far as racing wheel controllers are concerned. Certainly, there has been nothing available if you’re a Logitech loyalist. Well, you can say we’ve turned the corner. Logitech has…..
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Posted on June 11, 2015 12:15 PM by J.D. Kane
BitFenix was plenty busy during last week’s Computex in Taipei, showing off a gaggle of PC chassis and accessories to visitors. First up is the Pandora ATX. The company has actually used the Pandora moniker for one of its existing chassis. Whereas the original is strictly for mATX/mini-ITX systems, the Pandora ATX can…..
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Posted on June 11, 2015 11:00 AM by Rob Williams
Futuremark has announced that it will be adding VRMark to its fleet of benchmarks at some point this year. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand what this tool’s goals will be, but what can’t be understated is just how important it could become. I’d wager it’ll be even more important than…..
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Posted on June 11, 2015 9:30 AM by Rob Williams
We can’t go a day without hearing about 4K content, but despite that, there’s just not that much 4K content out there. The situation is a bit better on the TV, as some services, such as Netflix, allow you to stream some content in Ultra HD, but on the computer? We’re mostly…..
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Posted on June 10, 2015 2:10 PM by Rob Williams
In an email sent to the press, Valve gives details on a couple of things surrounding its upcoming Steam hardware. For starters, the company says that 35% of its “get it early” pre-order hardware has been sold. It’s not giving exact numbers, so it’s hard to say whether or not this is…..
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Posted on June 10, 2015 1:30 PM by Rob Williams
Tesla unveiled its much-anticipated Powerwall at the end of April to much fanfare, and in its first week of being available for pre-order, 38,000 people jumped on it. Given it was just announced a month ago, I think it’s safe to call the product a “success”, especially given what it is. But,…..
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