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Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 665, 730, and 730G mobile chips

Qualcomm is upgrading its mid-range smartphone chip family with three new processors. The company says its Snapdragon 665 brings improvements for photography and on-device imaging and AI features, while the Snapdragon 730 and 730G offer better CPU and graphics performance, among other things. The Snapdragon 730G is a particularly unusual chip — it’s designed to […]

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Razer Blade Stealth laptop now available in pink (for a limited time)

Gaming PCs tend to have a certain aesthetic that’s usually sci-fi inspired. While different companies have different approaches ranging from sharp angles to a more organic look and feel, most gaming laptops have one thing in common: they come in black. It looks like this could be the year that changes. Dell’s new Alienware Area-51M […]

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Gigabyte’s new external graphics dock houses a GeForce RTX 2070 GPU

Adding a high-end graphics card to a desktop PC isn’t usually all that hard. But things get trickier when you want to add desktop-class graphics to a laptop or mini-desktop (which may have no room for a discrete GPU). Enter graphics docks, which allow you to use a desktop graphics card with any computer… as […]

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Steam Play for Linux update supports more games (including non-Steam games)

Valve is making it a little easier to be a gamer with a Linux computer. A few years ago the company started encouraging game developers to port their titles to run on Linux… but the vast majority of PC games are still Windows-only. So last year Valve introduce Proton, a new tool for Steam Play, a […]

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MUJA is a gaming touchpad that sticks to the back of your phone (crowdfunding)

Mobile gaming has come a long way since the days when Tetris was the killer app. But the rise of touchscreen smartphones has presented a bit of a challenge — how do you interact with a gaming using just a touchscreen without covering up part of the display with your fingers? For the most part […]

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It’s probably too early to call the Mad Box game console vaporware, right?

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo dominate the console gaming space, and that’s a sentence I probably could have typed at any time in the last decade or two. But every now and then a company decides to try to take them on… sometimes with a cheaper, more accessible alternative and sometimes with a platform that basically […]

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Crowdfunded Gameband watch cancelled (no tiny screen Atari games for you)

The Gameband was supposed to be a watch with a 1.6 inch touchscreen display, the sort of hardware you’d expect to find in a smartwatch, and a focus on gaming — the developers partnered with Atari and planned to load the Gameband with games including Asteroids, breakout, Centipede and Pong. But a year and a […]

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Microsoft begins testing Project xCloud: Stream Xbox games to PCs, smartphones, and consoles

Google may be working with game developer to let you stream PC games to a web browser, but Microsoft wants to let you play games on just about any device. The company has unveiled a new game streaming service called Project xCloud that lets you stream PC games to a console, PC, or mobile device […]

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The KillMii is a Nintendo Wii game console stuffed in an Altoids tin

The Nintendo Wii introduced a whole new way to play console games when it launched in 2006. At a time when Sony and Microsoft were releasing big, power-hungry devices with high-performance graphics, Nintendo went a different direction and launched a small box that came with a motion controller that allowed you to interact with games […]

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Switch Online NES emulator hacked to run unofficial ROMs

As promised, Nintendo’s Switch Online service finally went live yesterday. One feature that had Switch owners particularly excited was its library of classic NES titles. The selection of games is somewhat limited right now… but hackers have already solved that little problem. That’s right. It took less than 24 hours for Switch modders to figure […]