Consoles
With the rise of the handheld gaming PC market, we've seen PC vendors and their partners toy with a number of tricks and tweaks to improve improve framerates in games, with some of their latest efforts on display at this year's Computex trade show. Perhaps the most interesting find thus far comes from ADATA sub-brand XPG, who is demoing their prototype "Nia" handheld PC, which uses eye tracking and dynamic foveated rendering to further improve their rendering performance. For those unfamiliar, dynamic foveated rendering is a graphics technique that is sometimes used to boost performance in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications by taking advantage of how human vision works. Typically, humans can only perceive detailed imagery in the relatively small central area...
Sony to Start Selling PlayStation VR in October for $399
Sony has published the price of its PlayStation VR virtual reality headset and confirmed its final specifications and launch timeframe on Tuesday. The company intends to start selling the...
27 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2016Xbox One Gets Windows 10 Underpinnings With New Xbox One Experience
Today the New Xbox One Experience began rolling out, and with it comes a big change in not only the look and feel of the Xbox One’s Dashboard, but...
33 by Brett Howse on 11/12/2015The Seagate Game Drive For Xbox: Do You Need A Green Drive?
When Seagate first announced the Game Drive for Xbox, they chose Gamescon as a venue to launch the new product. With the prolific Xbox branding, this is not a...
41 by Brett Howse on 10/8/2015Razer Launches New Wildcat Xbox One Controller And New Version Of The Nabu Smartband
Today at PAX Razer announced a refresh of the Nabu smartband which they first announced at CES in 2014. They also announced that they will be selling the Razer...
11 by Brett Howse on 8/28/2015Seagate Announces 2TB Game Drive for Xbox At Gamescom 2015
Today Seagate is announcing a new product aimed squarely at the console market, and specifically at the Xbox brand. Seagate partnered with Microsoft to create the Xbox branded Game...
28 by Brett Howse on 8/5/2015Xbox One Will Be Upgraded To Windows 10 In November
Just a couple of days ago, Windows 10 was launched for the PC and the rollout is underway. But that is just a single aspect of Windows 10, and...
25 by Brett Howse on 8/5/2015Xbox One To Get TV DVR Capabilities
Those that never got to experience Windows Media Center as the hub of a home entertainment system likely wonder why there is such a vocal group of people who...
19 by Brett Howse on 8/4/2015Xbox At E3: New Controller, Game Emulation, And Plenty Of Exclusives
Today is the first official day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, otherwise known as E3, and the Xbox team was on-stage to deliver plenty of news surrounding Xbox. It...
63 by Brett Howse on 6/15/2015Microsoft Launches Updated Xbox One, Controller, and PC Adapter
News comes from Redmond today that Microsoft will be offering a new model of Xbox One. It will ship with a larger 1 TB hard drive, which is double...
33 by Brett Howse on 6/9/2015Xbox Game Streaming Demonstrated At Build
Today I got a chance to try the new game streaming ability of Xbox One at a breakout session. For those that are unaware, Xbox Game Streaming will allow...
17 by Brett Howse on 4/30/2015NVIDIA’s SHIELD Console Becomes SHIELD Android TV
NVIDIA updated their SHIELD website today with a bit more information on the SHIELD Console. And while an earlier $299 device listing ended up being erroneous – NVIDIA accidentally...
19 by Ryan Smith on 4/23/2015Microsoft Adds Over-the-Air Tuner Support To Xbox
Back in the day, if you wanted to watch broadcast television on your Xbox 360, all you had to do was build an entire other computer, complete with TV...
33 by Brett Howse on 4/8/2015NVIDIA Announces SHIELD Console: Tegra X1 Android TV Box Shipping In May
Today NVIDIA has announced their latest addition to the SHIELD product family, the SHIELD Console. Launching in May at $199, the SHIELD Console is a combination microconsole and Android...
64 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2015PlayStation Plus September 2014 Games Preview
September is only a few days away, which means it is only a few days before the next round of games become available at no cost to PlayStation Plus...
6 by Brett Howse on 8/29/2014Xbox Games With Gold September 2014 Preview
It is the end of August already, which means two things. School is back, and Xbox Games with Gold has released the upcoming games for September. On the Xbox...
13 by Brett Howse on 8/28/2014PlayStation Plus August 2014 Games Preview
August will soon be here, with one of the perks being a new list of games available to PlayStation Plus members. Like last month, Sony is offering up six...
12 by Brett Howse on 7/30/2014Xbox Games With Gold August 2014 Preview
The latest round of upcoming games for the Games with Gold program have been announced today, and unlike last month, there are no carryover games on the list. As...
6 by Brett Howse on 7/28/2014Xbox Games With Gold July 2014 Preview
Today Xbox released the list of upcoming games for Xbox Live members under their Games With Gold program. In an odd move, one of the Xbox One games carries...
4 by Brett Howse on 6/26/2014PlayStation Plus July 2014 Games Preview
Summer is upon us now, and with that comes new free games for PlayStation Plus members. Sony has now moved to a two game per system per month model...
2 by Brett Howse on 6/26/2014Microsoft 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