Another month, another crop of free PC games for Amazon/Twitch Prime members. This time Amazon is giving away 5 games including Earthlock, Kathy Rain, Turok, Etherborn, and Lightmatter. Don’t have a Prime membership? No problem — you can grab two free games from the Epic Games Store this week: Gone Home and Hob. Here are […]
Gigabyte new gaming laptops sport 10th-gen Intel chips, NVIDIA RTX graphics
Like pretty much every company that makes gaming laptops, Gigabyte is refreshing is lineup with several new models sporting the latest Intel and NVIDIA solutions. But I’m going to single out a few new models because they pack a lot of features into a relatively compact chassis. The new Gigabyte Aorus 15G, for example, is a […]
Amazon is developing a game streaming platform (code-named Project Tempo)
Amazon is already one of the biggest players in game livestreaming thanks to its acquisition of Twitch in 2014. But according to the New York Times, Amazon eventually plans to launch a service that lets you stream games over the internet rather than just watching someone else play in real-time. The move… isn’t all that […]
Next-gen Eve V tablet design concepts unveiled (crowd-developed tablet)
The folks behind the Eve V tablet that started shipping in 2017 (and then ran into some speed bumps) are gearing up to launch their second tablet. But the design and features for the Eve V gen 2 haven’t been finalized yet — because unlike most PC makers, Eve solicits community input through its forums […]
Asus ROG Zephryus DUO 15 is a gaming laptop with two screens
The new Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 GX550 is a gaming laptop with support for up to an Intel Core i9-10980HK octa-core Comet Lake H processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics. But we’re expecting to see a lot of laptops with those specs in the coming months. What makes this one different is […]
The new Razer Blade 15 comes with up to a 300 Hz display, RTX 2080 Super, and Core i7-10875H
Razer’s most powerful 15-inch gaming laptop to date is coming in May for $1600 and up. The new Razer Blade 15 features a physical design that’s nearly identical to last year’s model (except for a small but significant keyboard layout change). But this year’s model features the latest CPU and GPU upgrades from Intel and NVIDIA, […]
NVIDIA launches RTX SUPER graphics for high-end gaming and studio laptops
NVIDIA is refreshing its laptop graphics lineup with new solutions that the company says will bring better performance, improved efficiency, and a few new features to gaming laptops and “RTX Studio” laptops designed for content creation. The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and RTX 2080 SUPER GPUs will most likely be paired with Intel’s […]
Now you can pre-order a PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch for $150
The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run open source operating systems such as postmarketOS, KDE Plasma Mobile, or Ubuntu Touch. But the first units to ship earlier this year didn’t have an operating system installed — it was up to users to load their own. Now the Pine64 team and the developers of […]
MSI unveils gaming laptop with up to Core i9-10980HK, RTX 2080 Super, and 300 Hz display
MSI’s Stealth line of gaming laptops have a history of striking a balance between performance and portability… but the latest model doesn’t seem to skimp much on the performance side of things. The new MSI GS66 Stealth supports up to a 10th-gen Intel Core i9-10980HK octa-core processor, up to NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics, and […]
Intel launches 10th-gen H-series chips for high-performance notebooks (up to 5 GHz and 8-cores)
After launching two sets of 10th-gen chips aimed at thin and light laptops in 2019, Intel is expanding its 10th-gen family with a new set of 45 watt Comet Lake H-series processors aimed at high-performance notebooks and compact desktops. Like the Comet Lake-U series, these chips are still 14nm processors. But Intel has ramped up […]
PICOHOT is a free, 8-bit version of the popular PC game SUPERHOT
SUPERHOT is a popular first-person shooter from 2013 with an unusual game dynamic — time in the game only moves when you physically move your character. That gives you time to plan your next move… but not a lot of time, because as soon as you’re in motion, those bullets are going to keep flying. […]
Microsoft PowerToys v0.16 adds batch image resizing, Window Walker text-based task switcher
Microsoft revived its PowerToys utility last year releasing a new open-source version designed to tweak the Windows 10 experience. Since then, Microsoft has been releasing regular updates bringing bug fixes, performance enhancements, and… new toys. This week Microsoft released PowerToys v.016 and, among other things, it support for batch image resizing from File Explorer, and […]
