Picking Apart A Single Frame In DOOM
Ever wonder what exactly goes into rendering each painstakingly detailed frame in a game like DOOM (2016)? Well, Adrian Courrèges, a software Engineer based in Tokyo, has you covered.
The First Five PC Games I Use To Test A New Graphics Card
First, you spend too much on a new graphics card. Then, you fire up your chewiest, toughest PC games and make them beg for mercy. For one brief moment, your exorbitant purchase feels completely reasonable.
This Video Explains How Performance Degradation Happens In Your Gaming PC
When you first get a new graphics card, your games run buttery smooth. Over time, you might start to notice that it doesn’t run as well, even on the same games. What gives? This video explains what causes performance degradation over time.
AMD's New Radeon RX 480 Is VR-Ready For $200
The price of entry to PC-based virtual reality just got a lot lower. The first graphics card based on AMD’s Polaris architecture arrives at the end of June, promising VR performance of a $500 GPU for less than half the price.
PC Graphics Card Showdown: NVIDIA vs. AMD
The hardest part of building a PC is picking the parts, especially when everyone around you seems to have an opinion. And no flame war is more prevalent than the NVIDIA snobs vs the AMD fanboys. What’s really going on with these two companies, and which card should you get?
Graphics Card Battle 2015: Nvidia Versus AMD At Every Price Point
You might say 2015 hasn’t been the most exciting year for graphics cards, though in many ways it was more eventful than 2014. The only big highlight last year was the arrival high-end Maxwell GPUs in the form of the GeForce GTX 980 and 970. Then this year Maxwell did what many thought was impossible: becoming…
Batman: Arkham Knight PC Benchmarks, For What They're Worth
Although I didn’t spend much time playing Batman: Arkham Origins, I remember the game rather well after testing it on no less than 30 graphics cards and 20 CPUs. Arkham Origins appeared to take full advantage of Unreal Engine 3, it ran smoothly on affordable GPUs, though it’s worth remembering that Origins was…
Project CARS Benchmarked: Brutal Weather Conditions
Project CARS (or Community Assisted Racing Simulator) is a racing simulation game that’s been on everyone’s radar since its drool-inducing visuals started to make the rounds as far back as 2012.
Holy Crap, Nvidia's New Tegra K1 Has 192 Cores?!
Nvidia's kicking off this year's CES madness with the Tegra K1, the first Nvidia chip with freaking 192 CUDA cores. Does that sound like a desktop thing, not mobile? It sort of is. According to Nvidia this bridges the gap between Kepler-based desktop cards and the mobile-based Tegra chips. Not just Tegra 5 but like…
Enslaved, Brothers, Mario 3D World, Odin Sphere, Dollhouse [Deals]
Black Friday is just about upon us, Cyber Monday is just around the corner, and there's a Steam Autumn Sale happening, and yet we still have an entire additional set of great deals for you to pick through below. It's a great day to pick up Enslaved on the PC if you missed it on the consoles.
Playstation 4 And Xbox One Games, Amazon Digital Black Friday [Deals]
Brace yourself because we've got a ton of deals today. Nothing fancy, just a laundry list of great discounts not only on PC, PS3, and 360, but on PS4, Xbox One, and Mac. The standout thing to grab is of course the Bioshock Triple Pack, but my personal recommendation goes to the Trine 2 Complete Story, Flower, Super…
Xbox One Games, Cheap Playstation Plus, Boardwalk Empire [Deals]
Head over to the Microsoft Store and get $10 credit back on select pre-orders, reducing this great selection of games to $50/piece, or buy 6 get 1 free. You also have the option of walking into a physical Toys R Us and getting a $50 gift card with 3 Xbox One games purchased, which works out to be slightly cheaper, but…
Big 3DS XL And Vita Discounts, BenQ Monitor, Graphics Cards [Deals]
It's a good day for deals, headlined by great discounts on the 3DS XL in multiple colors. If you're looking for anything from a Vita to a new graphics card to a monitor, we've got you covered.
You Won't Believe This Violent Video Game Theory
Professor Dong Wong Cho of Chungbuk Provincial College in South Korea has an idea about violent video games. And it's truly bonkers.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review
It's been over six months since Nvidia launched its Kepler architecture and we've finally seen the GTX 600 series enter more affordable price brackets, delivering a greater value every step of the way. In August, the company shipped its GK104-based GeForce GTX 660 Ti for $300, which was about 13% slower than the $400 …
Nvidia's New Video Card Leaks, Looks Mighty
This video is almost certainly the launch video for Nvidia's new GPU, the GeForce GTX680, leaked ahead of schedule.
Which PC Hardware Best Contributes to Mass Effect 3's War Effort?
As you've undoubtedly heard, the third installment of BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy hit shelves last Tuesday. Being one of the year's most anticipated launches, it's no surprise to see it with an aggregate review score of over 90. However, in what has become common among high-profile PC game releases, tons of …
AMD’s New Under-$100 Video Cards Are Pretty Decent
A hundred bucks isn't what it used to be. It won't get you a new pair of Jordans or take you halfway to buying your way out of a Union army conscription. But it'll buy you a half-decent video card.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Review
Although we've seen plenty of good things from Nvidia's latest GeForce GTX 570 and 580, both cards are too pricey for the mainstream bracket as many gamers prefer to spend less than $300 on a GPU upgrade.
