PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is receiving a new patch for its Xbox Game Preview version, offering what developer Bluehole calls “incremental” improvements, including to the frame rate. The PUBG Development and Community Team posted…
Nintendo Switch Beats Wii U Lifetime Sales in Japan
The Nintendo Switch now has now sold more units in Japan than the Wii U did in its lifetime. As reported by Famitsu (and spotted by Twitter’s Nibel), the Switch’s latest sales…
D-Link’s latest COVR whole-home Wi-Fi systems look a lot more like whole-home Wi-Fi systems
D-Link is showing two new whole-home Wi-Fi systems at CES, the dual-band COVR-C103 and the tri-band COVR-2202. Both are aimed at bridging the gap between mesh network early adopters and consumers who…
Dragon Age Character’s Fake Novel Being Released For Real
If you’re a seasoned player of Bioware’s Dragon Age series, chances are you’ll know the name Varric Tethras. An adventuring dwarf with a dry wit, he featured as a companion character in…
Sony Expects 130 More PSVR Games This Year
Following the success of its VR headset, Sony says it expects 130 games to be released for PSVR by the end of 2018. In a statement to Nikkei (initially translated by Siliconera), Sony says PSVR’s…
Valve Pulls Official Backing from Dota 2 Tournament
Valve is pulling official backing from a Dota 2 tournament in the Philippines due to new government regulations on drug testing. The Dota Team made the announcement, stating that they believe the…
HP’s updated Spectre x360 15 lets you pick your poison: Radeon or GeForce
HP’s Spectre x360 15 is here to help with one of the most vexing questions faced by high-performance laptop buyers: GeForce or Radeon discrete graphics? The super-thin flagship 15-inch laptop gives you…
Meet Nvidia’s BFGDs: Massive 4K, 120Hz G-Sync HDR displays bigger than your TV
In the legendary Doom series of games, the “BFG” was the ultimate weapon—the room-clearing, awe-inspiring Big F****** Gun. Late Sunday night at CES 2018, Nvidia revealed BFGDs: Big Format Gaming Displays, created…
AMD drops prices on Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Threadripper, upping the value war with Intel
Those crazy-good prices you saw on AMD’s stellar Ryzen CPUs aren’t going away. At CES Sunday night the company announced permanent price cuts to some Threadripper, Ryzen 7, and Ryzen 5 chips:…
AMD reveals Ryzen 2, Threadripper 2, 7nm Navi and more in CES blockbuster
AMD dropped a blockbuster at CES on Sunday, unveiling its plans for a 2nd-gen Threadripper, Zen 2, Zen 3, and its next-next-generation 7nm GPUs. The company even broke out a new mobile…