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Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company initially promised variable refresh support on GeForce Now back in early January during CES, and has seemingly waited so that it could launch alongside GeForce Now Day Passes, which are also now available. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game. This synchronization prevents screen tearing, when two or more frames are present on a display at the same time. Without a VRR technology, gamers either have to tolerate the visual incongruity of screen tearing or enable V-Sync, which solves screen tearing by...
Humble Daily #4: Indie 8 Re-Bundled
Returning to their roots with day four of their 14 days of bundles, Humble has decided to give people a second chance at a collection of up to eleven...
7 by Jarred Walton on 5/16/2014
14 Days of Humble Bundles #3: Banner Saga
The next update to Humble’s 14 Days of Bundles brings us RPG mixed with tactical combat, all wrapped up in a crunchy Viking shell. This is a bit of...
2 by Jarred Walton on 5/15/2014
Humble’s 14 Days of Bundles: Day #2
Many were wondering how Humble Bundle would follow up the rather incredible deal they offered yesterday – over $150 worth of games (at regular Steam prices) for as little...
5 by Jarred Walton on 5/14/2014
Humble Bundle: Two Weeks of Daily Bundles
Humble Bundle just started their latest bundle, but this time there’s a twist: instead of a single bundle that will run for two weeks, they're doing fourteen different daily...
6 by Jarred Walton on 5/13/2014
Microsoft Unbundles Kinect, $399 Xbox One Model Available Starting June 9th
In an interesting reversal of what happened last generation, Microsoft's Xbox One launched at a $100 price premium to Sony's PlayStation 4. Despite Sony building the higher performing console...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/13/2014
SHIELD Gets Portal and Half-Life 2
Last week, news came out that Portal is available for SHIELD, which involved NVIDIA sending various members of the press a presumably tasty little cake. (And no, I’m not...
22 by Jarred Walton on 5/12/2014
Running an NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti Over Thunderbolt 2
A common issue for laptop users is the lack of GPU power. Even the fastest mobile GPUs, in SLI or Crossfire cannot reach the echelons of performance of a...
72 by Kristian Vättö on 5/4/2014
Steelseries Sensei Wireless Gaming Mouse Review
SteelSeries is a manufacturer of gaming-related peripherals and hardware with a very large selection of products. Today, we have their most advanced (and expensive) mouse, the Sensei Wireless. Can...
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MSI GT70 Review: GTX 880M Edition
MSI has had the same core designs for several of their high-end laptops for at least a couple years now; specifically we’re talking about the GT60 and GT70 series...
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NVIDIA GeForce Experience 2.0: Remote GameStream and Notebook Support
Coinciding with today’s launch of the R337 driver, NVIDIA has also updated their GeForce Experience (GFE) software to version 2.0. The updated beta drivers are available for notebooks as...
27 by Jarred Walton on 4/7/2014
NVIDIA SHIELD Price Cuts and Portal
NVIDIA has a couple big SHIELD-related announcements today. The first is a “limited time” price cut to $199. The original price was $299, which then dropped to $249 &ndash...
20 by Jarred Walton on 3/25/2014
Razer Announces the New Razer Blade: 14” QHD+ with GTX 870M
Gaming based laptops have boomed in recent months and quarters. There are plenty of companies getting their feet wet and some are trying to push the limits. QHD+ is...
56 by Ian Cutress on 3/12/2014
MSI Launches New Keyboard Tools for Upcoming Gaming Laptops
The march on gaming laptops from MSI has been relentless these past couple of years. At most PC component events I attend, there is usually one ultra-powerful model...
6 by Ian Cutress on 3/6/2014
Twitch Plays Pokémon beats Pokémon
A departure from the normal tech news, but for those not keeping tabs on the phenomenon Twitch Plays Pokemon, it is an interesting social experiment via the Twitch platform...
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AVADirect Deluxe Quiet Gaming Desktop PC Review
AVADirect is back at us again with a quiet gaming PC. We know you can get high performance without too much noise; did they get the balance right?
33 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/23/2014
Gaming Bundles Weekly Roundup: Humble, Indie, etc.
I’m going to make a change with my coverage of gaming bundles; rather than focusing mostly on Humble Bundle, I’ll try to gather together a short overview of the...
18 by Jarred Walton on 2/21/2014
Humble Bundle: Civilization and Double Fine
Update: The Codemasters weekly bundle has ended; I've added the new Double Fine bundle to the text below. Right now there are two pretty major promotions going on with Humble...
27 by Jarred Walton on 2/5/2014
GIGABYTE Launches BRIX Gaming: AMD A8-5557M and R9 M275X
GIGABYTE’s push on the BRIX has been with so much gusto it is hard to keep up with all the possible models coming to market and ones they are...
22 by Ian Cutress on 1/28/2014
Humble Weekly Update: Endless Random Dungeons and Audiobooks
With the craziness and germ cultivation experiment known as CES now behind us, we can return to our regularly scheduled updates. For me, that means a quick look at...
17 by Jarred Walton on 1/25/2014
G1.Sniper Mid-Range Expansion: GIGABYTE Launch Z5S and Z5
All the main motherboard manufacturers now have three distinct classes of motherboard to sell to the common home-build end user: the channel range, the overclocking range and the gaming...
17 by Ian Cutress on 1/3/2014
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