Category: Gaming

AMD’s third-gen Ryzen 9 CPU is a 12-core powerhouse for $499

[ad_1] All of AMD’s 3rd-gen Ryzen chips will feature its new Zen 2 architecture, a chiplet-based design that’ll offer a 15 percent performance improvement across every application. They’ll also have double the floating point performance and double the cache over its last CPUs. The 3900X features a base/boost speed of 3.68GHz/4.6GHz and 70MB of total […]

AMD’s first Navi GPUs are the Radeon RX 5000-series

[ad_1] Unfortunately, AMD is waiting until E3 to divulge specifics on these next-generation RDNA cards. For now, the company says we can expect 25 percent better performance-per-clock and 50 percent faster performance per watt with the new architecture, compared to its older Graphics Core Next technology. In addition to being the first 7nm consumer video […]

We’re live from Computex 2019 in Taipei!

[ad_1] Every summer, the PC industry descends on the capital of Taiwan to show off the latest in components, laptops and gaming gear. It’s an opportunity for us to see the shape of things to come, and get excited about how much more powerful our machines are about to get. After a series of very […]

Leak shows Microsoft’s very purple ‘Fortnite’ Xbox One S

[ad_1] The system itself would be a standard disc-based version of the Xbox One S with 1TB of storage. If accurate, the Fortnite model is days away from launch and would cost just under €300 in Germany, and likely $299 in the US. That could make it a tough sell to some gamers. Microsoft’s E3 […]

‘Dauntless’ success leads to hours-long wait times across platforms

[ad_1] Dauntless‘ Twitter account has announced that it’s “slowly but surely increasing [the game’s] capacity” and that it will continue working on its services over the weekend. // Today we … // ✨Raised our maximum capacity (again!)✨Reduced overall queue size✨Tracked many, many reports and messages Work on services will continue this weekend, and we’ll update […]

Overwatch League commissioner leaves to head competitive ‘Fortnite’

[ad_1] It’s not certain just how Nanzer will shape Fortnite esports, although it’s likely to be significant when he was the one who got Overwatch League off the ground. He pitched the idea to Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan back in 2015, well before the game even arrived, and helped enlist support from both major financial […]

The Morning After: 'Sonic the Hedgehog' got rescheduled

[ad_1] Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to your weekend! We'll recap some highlights from the last week, plus new stories from Friday including a new release date for Sonic the Hedgehog and reader's impressions of the most recent MacBook Air. [ad_2] Source link

Every Xbox One title will be playable on Project xCloud

[ad_1] The company revealed some other news as it continues to build out the platform. It has deployed custom Project xCloud blades to Azure data centers in 13 regions, with a focus on those in the game development hotspots of North America, Europe and Asia. The likes of Capcom and Paradox Interactive can now test […]

Mark Zuckerberg apparently tried to buy Panic, the creator of Playdate

[ad_1] Panic has worked on various, clever Mac and iOS apps for years — including Transmit, a file transfer protocol, and Firewatch, an adventure video game that’s available for Mac. So it’s not unreasonable that Zuckerberg would reach out. But, as Sasser told Edge Magazine, “Any time I see a company in the software world […]

Bungie is making ‘Destiny 2’ raid races more competitive

[ad_1] The raid will be available on day one, for a start — there’s no days-long window for characters to build up their Power levels. You’ll have a two-hour window between 11AM and 1PM Eastern to ensure that you can download and verify the necessary update. Those first 24 hours of Contest mode will also […]