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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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Are We Reaching GPU Normalcy? The Answer is (Almost) Yes
It's time for another look at graphics card pricing and this month it's particularly exciting as we...
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CPU and GPU Availability and Pricing Update: March 2021
CPU and graphics card pricing and availability are still a mess, but is the situation improving? Can...
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The Story of Solitaire, One of the World's Biggest Video Games
For over twenty years, a video game has tormented mums, dads and office workers the world over. And...
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How Blizzard Saved Diablo III From Disaster
This is an excerpt from Jason Schreier's upcoming book, "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels," which comes out...
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King's Field Retrospective: Exploring the Roots of Elden Ring and Dark Souls
A little over 10 years ago, Demon's Souls launched on the PS3, an action RPG import from a little-kn...
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Long Live the Mouse and Keyboard, a Great Way to Control Video Games
For years, I only played PC games with a mouse and keyboard. For years after that, I played almost e...
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What's New in DirectX 12? Understanding DirectML, DirectX Raytracing and DirectStorage
DirectX has been with us for 25 years, providing developers with the tools to make incredible games....
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Did You Know? 14 Strange But True Tech Facts
In the grand scheme of things, it could be argued we're still in the infancy of the Information Age....
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Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off
On a May morning in Rhode Island two years ago, a reporter for the Providence Journalstood outside t...
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A List of Oculus Rift & HTC Vive VR Games to Look Out for in 2016
The next few weeks are set to be exciting ones in the world of gaming and virtual reality with Oculu...
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4GHz CPU Battle: Ryzen 3900X vs. 3700X vs. Core i9
IPC stands for "instructions per cycle" and it can be a good indicator of a processor's architecture...