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Audeze Penrose headset review: Top-grade sound with a price to match
(Pocket-lint) – Audeze is a big name in high-end audio – it specialises in planar magnetic headphones that get up to eye-watering prices. However, it’s also recently been making strides in gaming, with more and more headsets coming to its line-up. Best PS5 and PS4 headset: Superb Playstation gaming headphones The company’s first wireless console… Read more
read more...Overwatch is getting cross-platform play on PC and console
Overwatch launched in 2016, but it’s getting a significant feature soon. Blizzard Entertainment is releasing a cross-play beta that will let PC and console gamers play in matches together. The developer says the update is coming “soon.” Until now, the communities on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch were segmented, but this update should make… Read more
read more...Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review: more 4K for more of your wallet
Nvidia goes back to 4K for more than $1K Last year’s Nvidia RTX 3080 was the first GPU to make 4K gaming finally feasible. It was a card that delivered impressive performance at 4K, especially for its retail price of $699 — far less than the 2080 Ti cost a generation earlier. That was before… Read more
read more...Valorant is the latest big shooter to get a mobile spinoff
Riot is bringing its tactical shooter Valorant to mobile devices. There aren’t a lot of details yet — such as when it will launch, on what hardware, or how it will differ from the main game — but Riot says the new version will simply be called Valorant Mobile. The developer claims that the PC… Read more
read more...AMD Brings Radeon RX 6000M GPUs to ‘AMD Advantage’ Laptop Designs
Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD introduced its new Radeon RX 6000M-series laptop graphics at Computex, during a keynote by AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. The new mobile graphics lineup is made up of the top-end AMD Radeon RX 6800M, a mid-range RX 6700M and the entry level RX 6600M. For now at least, the… Read more
read more...Lofelt’s new haptics framework is ready to bring good vibrations to Android
Haptic feedback on Android phones is usually terrible, at least compared to devices that have Apple’s Taptic Engine. You know it, I know it, and a haptics company called Lofelt apparently knows it, too. Today, though, Lofelt, in partnership with Qualcomm, announced that it’s making its VTX haptic framework available to OEMs, with the hope… Read more
read more...Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2021) review: Can it finally replace the laptop?
(Pocket-lint) – A lot has happened in the world since the launch of the iPad Pro 12.9-inch in 2020, yet the need for us to work on the go is still an key factor for many people. Apple’s 2021 iPad Pro looks to up the ante once again, bringing a new processor, a new screen,… Read more
read more...Xbox is partnering with the studio behind the world’s biggest mobile games
Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios is teaming up with Tencent’s TiMi Studios, developer of the wildly successful mobile hits Call of Duty: Mobile and Honor of Kings. According to a Google Translated version of the announcement from TiMi, the two companies have formed a “strategic partnership” to create “game content,” but it’s unclear exactly what that… Read more
read more...Gigabyte Aorus FV43U USB-C Gaming Monitor Review: King of the 43-Inch Class
Our Verdict The Aorus FV43U misses a couple of things as a TV replacement, but for gaming, it has few equals. A huge and accurate color gamut coupled with high contrast, 4K resolution and 144 Hz makes it a great choice for both PC and console gamers. For + Class-leading contrast + Huge color gamut… Read more
read more...Asus ROG Phone 5 review: A gaming phone with little compromise
(Pocket-lint) – Gaming phones have become something of a fixture in the Android space; while many flagship devices push their gaming prowess, for a select few, gaming is their raison d’être, their everything. The ROG Phone is one such device, pushing Asus’ Republic of Gamers brand and weaving into that the experience Asus has gained… Read more
read more...Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti can deliver 60fps gameplay in more budget-friendly laptops
Nvidia’s RTX 30-series lineup of mobile graphics chips has two new members joining today: the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and 3050. They sit beneath the GeForce RTX 3060 in terms of specs and performance, with less video memory (4GB) and fewer dedicated Tensor AI and RT cores available to perform ray tracing and handle AI-enhanced… Read more
read more...2021’s video game hall of fame inductees announced
Mustafa Mahmoud 3 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming As the video game industry matures, it is only fair that a record of some of history’s most important titles is kept for the sake of posterity. As can be observed in other media industries, the world video game hall of fame inductees for… Read more
read more...The Call of Duty League’s champions are being honored at Verdansk Stadium in Warzone
The champions of the first season of the Call of Duty League are being honored in a unique way: with their faces plastered at the stadium in Call of Duty: Warzone. Today, Activision revealed that the front entrance to Verdansk Stadium in Warzone will soon display a giant rendition of the CDL trophy, along with… Read more
read more...The Division is getting a free-to-play game and mobile version
Ubisoft announced that it’s developing a free-to-play game set in The Division’s universe, called The Division Heartland. The company also announced that a Division mobile game is in the works. The announcement is light on details, so it’s not clear yet whether the game will be a battle royale style like Call of Duty: Warzone… Read more
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