Everything from CES and E3 to car shows and Apple product launches have all gone virtual, and gaming PC and accessory maker Razer is getting in on the act with a streaming event it calls Razercon 2020. Streamed on Saturday, Razercon is described by the company as “a full day of gaming goodness packed with product launches, tech demos, game reveals and then some.” For its gaming …
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AMD on Thursday announced the Ryzen 5000 series, its flagship consumer desktop CPUs for gaming and creation. And if the company’s smattering of benchmarks are to be believed, it’s managed to squeeze quite a performance increase out of the new processors without changing the basic specs — like number of cores, total cache and power envelope — and just switching …
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WD brings gamers SSD upgrades — to store all those 200-plus GB games coming down the pike — with the RGB lighting they crave. The three new products in the company’s WD Black family add some novelty to its NVMe: a bootable SSD RAID 0 array on an 8-bit PCIe 3 card, a Thunderbolt dock with up to 2TB of …
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Microsoft has been testing its xCloud cloud-gaming platform, the technology that lets you play Xbox games on your phone, streamed from remote servers, for more than a year. Now we’ve come to the part where the free ride for testers ends and it’s time to pony up for the privilege via a subscription to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. And as frequently …
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Dell is refreshing much of its monitor lineup with 2021 models that all have one thing in common: USB-C with power delivery. Otherwise, there’s something new at most prices, from the $5,000 32-inch UltraSharp HDR PremierColor display boasting a 2,000-mini-LED array and a couple of 34-inch curved updates. The 4K professional HDR UP3221Q display stands out for the first incorporation (at …
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Following up its wireless BlackWidow V3 announcement just a few weeks ago, Razer today launched its updates to the wired line of gaming keyboards with the $140 BlackWidow V3 (also in Quartz Pink!) and $100 BlackWidow V3 Tenkeyless (TKL, which means without a numeric keypad). Both are available now. The keyboards incorporate similar changes, including the upgraded Yellow (linear) and …
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Following last month’s Arctis 9 launch, SteelSeries is adding a couple of new flavors to its 2020 wireless headset lineup, the Xbox and PC-compatible Arctis 7X, and the PS4 and PS5-compatible 7P. Actually, the 7X is compatible with all platforms — Xbox (through Series X and S), PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation (through PS5) — while the 7P won’t work …
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New graphics cards bring opportunity. For better gaming, faster performance and expensive hardware sales. But they also bring challenges, with driver issues, design challenges and often supply shortages. As delivered by GeForce RTX 3080-based graphics cards, the latest version of the company’s GPU architecture achieves playable frame rates in games which use fancy RTX-specific features like ray-tracing and global illumination. Its …
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Google’s big Launch Night In event Wednesday was the latest in a flurry of September tech announcements. The virtual event, which saw the unveiling of the Pixel 5 and Google’s first entry into the 5G space, followed its unveiling of the Pixel 4A budget phone in August. That event confirmed the existence of Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 5, and the Pixel 4A …
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And now for something completely different: not the phones, just Samsung’s presentation of them. In what feels like the company’s nth Galaxy Unpacked event for 2020 — the last was less than a month ago for the Galaxy Z Fold 2 — Samsung took a more lifestyle approach to unveil its new $700 (£699, AU$1,149) Galaxy S20 Fan Edition, a model designed …
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