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ASUS ROG Swift PG32UQX Review – 4K 144Hz w/ HDR 1400

Dominic Moass 15 hours ago Featured Tech Reviews, Monitors, Reviews Announced back at CES 2020, the ASUS ROG Swift PG32UQX is billed as the world’s first mini LED 4K HDR gaming monitor. It’s certainly not short on features, with a 32in 4K 144Hz panel from AU Optronics, DisplayHDR 1400 certification, 1152 local dimming zones, as… Read more

Microsoft follows Epic’s lead, reduces Windows Store revenue cut to 12%

Earlier this week, we heard that Microsoft was due to make some announcements about its PC gaming store. Now, we know what changes are coming, as Microsoft is reducing its revenue cut for PC games sold through its store from 30 percent to 12 percent. This is the same strategy that Epic Games employed when… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey is the first laptop to feature the RTX 3050 Ti GPU

João Silva 18 hours ago Featured Tech News, Laptop / Mobile Samsung Unpacked just took place this week and this time around, Samsung introduced a new gaming laptop – the Galaxy Book Odyssey. While we have seen listings and rumours about laptops equipped with an RTX 3050 Ti GPU, the Galaxy Book Odyssey is the… Read more

Revised RTX 30 series GPUs with mining limiter reportedly shipping next month

João Silva 19 hours ago Featured Tech News, Graphics Nvidia AIB partners have reportedly been informed about the GAxx2 GPUs with new anti-mining capabilities and Resizable BAR support enabled by default. Named LHR (Lite Hash Rate), the revised RTX 30 GPUs should start shipping in the middle of May. We’ve already shared that Nvidia was… Read more

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition arrives next week with extensive graphical enhancements

Home / Tech News / Featured Tech News / Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition arrives next week with extensive graphical enhancements Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Back in February, 4A Games announced that it would be releasing an Enhanced Edition of Metro Exodus, complete with a ton of graphical upgrades…. Read more

Naughty Dog has already outlined The Last of Us Part III

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming The Last of Us is one of the PlayStation’s most prestigious first-party franchises, with both entries garnering near universal critical acclaim (despite Part II seeing more controversy from fans), and selling millions of copies. Therefore, it may come as little surprise that the… Read more

Rumours point to RTX 3080 Ti announcement on 18th May

João Silva 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Graphics We might be just three weeks away from seeing the RTX 3080 Ti announced. The upcoming graphics card has been rumoured for a long time now and has reportedly been hit with multiple delays. However, sources now reckon we’ll finally see the GPU in action next… Read more

Windows 10 now has 1.3 billion active users

Back when Microsoft first introduced Windows 10, it had a lofty goal of reaching 1 billion active users within its first three years. That milestone ended up taking five years to reach, with Windows 10 being found on 1 billion active devices by March 2020. Now a year later, Microsoft has added another 300 million… Read more

Xbox revenues rose to $15 billion over past 12 months

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings results last night, giving us a good idea as to how well Xbox is doing right now to start off the new console generation. Microsoft unfortunately doesn’t reveal specific sales numbers, but everything appears to be on the up, with the… Read more

Sony has sold 7.8 million PS5 consoles so far

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News Sony just released its quarterly earnings report, giving us a look at how well PlayStation has sold during its first full quarter on the market. At this point, Sony has sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles, boosting gaming revenues to new heights. By the end of… Read more

Microsoft reveals how Halo Infinite will look on 32:9 super ultrawide monitors and other PC perks

I wish I’d had this to test with Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Microsoft has something of a history of neglecting PC gaming, but it’s trying to change that in a big way — by promising its flagship Halo Infinite will feel like a native PC game when it arrives later this year. We’ve known for many… Read more

Akko 3108DS Matcha Red Bean Keyboard Review

Introduction The original plan for my first Building a Keyboard article was to cover six Gateron switches. However, I found it quite hard to get a hold of two specific Gateron switches for that series. Epomaker offered an easy enough solution—just review full-size keyboards using them! The Akko 3084 World Tour Tokyo was a fascinating… Read more

World’s widest plane nails ‘extremely successful’ second test flight

Stratolaunch, the aerospace firm founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, flew its behemoth carrier airplane named ‘Roc’ on Thursday for a second time. It was the company’s first flight under new ownership, coming two years after the twin-fuselage craft’s initial flight test. “Today’s flight, at first review, has appeared extremely successful,” Stratolaunch’s chief… Read more

Amazon crosses $100 billion in sales in huge first quarter

Amazon had a wildly successful 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and that blazing trail shows no signs of stopping for 2021. The company shared its financial results for Q1 2021, and it brought in $108.5 billion in net sales. That’s a 44 percent increase from the $75.5 billion reported in the first quarter of last… Read more

Watch Dexter creepily smile again in the first teaser trailer for his new Showtime series

Years ago, my Verge colleagues convinced me that Dexter got so bad, it’d be a waste of my time to see my favorite TV serial killer reach the end of his story — so when I tell you that Dexter’s coming back this fall, picking up right where the show left off, I have absolutely… Read more