Welp, Nintendo is at it again. After the huge success of the NES Classic, it seems Nintendo is now releasing the SNES Classic as the sequel. The new, also miniature, version of the original SNES (launched back in 1990, by the way) will be available Sept 29th of this year […]
Turns out Sonic and his pals want in on the nostalgic action that Nintendo’s been getting recently–albeit in a very different way. No new huge console push, just a free app to play your favorite Sega games on your phone: simple. The app is called Sega Forever and will be available
AMD and Intel are just one upping each other and it’s awesome (for us, the consumers). After AMD announced their own “world’s most powerful consumer processor” with 16-cores and 32-threads, Intel has announced their contender–with two more cores and 4 more threads. The new i9 processor is the their new
Remember that Triton 700 super thin, metal gaming laptop I got to see at the Acer event in NYC last month? Well, when they showed it off, we didn’t know what GPU was inside. Until now. Turns out alongside NVIDIA announcing they’re new Max-Q program with OEMs, a way of optimizing
Video game streaming is huge. And it’s easy really, you can easily connect your computer to a streaming service, boot up your game and a mic, and you’re on your way to Twitch stardom. But what if you really want to stream games from a device that isn’t your computer?
When I was in Barcelona this year at the LG booth, a rep for LG told me he had something he wanted me to see. We walked into a glass room with a racing game playing on a wall-mounted TV and a horseshoe-shaped gadget resting carefully underneath. He told me to put
Acer held their annual press conference in NYC this year at an IMAX theater on the Upper West Side. Now, one might wonder why an IMAX theater? Well, once you realize that Acer is one of the strategic partners in IMAX’s new 50 million dollar investment fund for higher quality
You know what there needs to be more of? Premium looking & feeling Windows laptops. Seriously, have you been to a BestBuy or other electronics store and wandered into the Windows laptop section? The slight glimmer of metal here but mostly, cheap-looking plastic devices that are either clunky or overpriced.
Nintendo re-released their original NES system under the name the Nintendo Classic. This miniature version of the original console from the early 80’s has been updated to use HDMI outputs, different controller ports, and no longer needs the game cartridges. Instead of popping in new cartridges for each game it
While doing the review of the Razer Blade 2016 gaming laptop, I came across the Core: an external graphics card housing made by the same company. What is an eGPU? The idea of this housing is that it allows you to plug in your Razer laptop via a Thunderbolt 2 or
After my Razer Blade review, a slick laptop with a GTX 1060 built in, and the launch of Lenovo’s new Yoga 720 2-in-1, I think we can officially say we’re in a great time for gamers (and video editors, for that matter). The Yoga 720 has some serious specs. Intel
When the new Macbook Pro was released, there was a lot of humming and hawing from the creative professional community. Essentially, everyone was a little disappointed in the power the new Macbook Pro was given. One of the more popular theories of Apple aiming for the mainstream instead of the
Laptops are getting ridiculously powerful. With the latest generation of graphics cards that have all come out last year that are smaller, cheaper, and more powerful than the generations before them, it’s no longer hard to find laptops with comparable desktop power without having to go for a professional gaming
Remember that Acer 17X crazy gaming laptop I reviewed a while back? Well, Acer, in their infinite kindness and wisdom, has generously decided to give it away to you guys instead of asking for it back (like most review devices). It’s nuts, it’s a $3000 laptop with a desktop graphics
The Acer Predator 17X is a beast of a laptop. One of the first laptops to feature a full-blown desktop NVIDIA GTX 980 graphics card, it also houses a 6th gen Intel i7 processor, 32GBs of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, 512GB solid-state drive which means, it’ll handle pretty
