Category: personal computing

‘Outriders’ video shows off its RPG shooter gameplay

[ad_1] When it comes to moment-to-moment gameplay, Outriders has more in common with Gears of War and Mass Effect: Andromeda than Destiny, which makes sense when you consider People Can Fly worked on Gears of War: Judgement. You control your character from the third-person perspective, and there’s even cover you can get behind. Each class has access to eight abilities, […]

Razer’s pro Blade 15 Studio Edition now includes a 10th-gen Intel CPU

[ad_1] In its base configuration, the workstation laptop features a 16GB Quadro RTX 5000 GPU, 32GB of dual-channel DDR4-2933MHz RAM and a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD. You can configure the computer with up to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of internal storage.  The Blade 15 Studio Edition is available to buy today. At $4,299, the […]

Watch footage of Arkane’s unreleased Half-Life spin-off

[ad_1] For all of its many faults, 2020 has at least one thing going for it: We’ve seen more of Valve’s Half-Life franchise in the last two months than in the 13 years before combined. It started in late March when the studio released Half-Life: Alyx, the first new entry in the series since 2007, and continues this […]

HP’s latest monitors cut blue light levels to help you sleep

[ad_1] How do you make monitors that stand out when the features are often interchangeable? Build in technology that helps after you shut them off, apparently. HP has unveiled a string of E-Series monitors that are billed as the first ergonomic display with an always-on low blue light function, Eye Ease, that potentially helps you […]

Messages on the Mac may finally catch up to its iOS counterpart

[ad_1] The Messages app on the Mac has lagged behind its iOS equivalent for a long time — it’s good for answering text messages without reaching for your iPhone, but many of the features and effects are missing. It might catch up this year, though. The 9to5Mac team has discovered hints of an overhauled Messages […]

Windows 10 is adding a slew of accessibility upgrades in May

[ad_1] On that note, Narrator, Windows 10’s built-in screen reader, is likewise getting a couple of enhancements. To start, Microsoft says it has made the tool sound more natural by reducing the number of pauses it makes when reading a section of text. The company claims Narrator is also better at correctly pronouncing words thanks to […]

Virtual PC game box collection helps relive the heyday of floppies and CDs

[ad_1] If you’re a gamer of a certain age (cough), you probably have fond memories of the elaborate boxes PC games once had — sometimes more memorable than the gameplay itself. You don’t have to hunt down a copy on an auction site to indulge in some nostalgia, thankfully. Benjamin Wimmer has been running a […]

Oculus Link now supports nearly any USB cable you own

[ad_1] Oculus Link has been available for a while, but it’s been finicky about the cables you use — to the point where it was sometimes easier to buy the $79 official cable to connect your Quest to your PC. Now, it’s virtually certain that you have what you need. UploadVR has found that the […]

Epic Game Store’s Mega Sale is back, and ‘GTA 5’ is free

[ad_1] As expected, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 is the Epic Games Store’s latest free game. Starting today through to May 21st, you can download the 2013 open-world game for without paying anything — provided you’re willing to install the Epic Games Store launcher on your PC or Mac, of course. Once you’ve claimed your copy of […]

Get the 2019 Dell XPS 13 with touchscreen for under $850

[ad_1] Shop Dell’s computer and monitor sale While this isn’t the lowest price we’ve seen the XPS 13 sell for, $117 off one of the best laptops you can buy at the moment is nothing to scoff at either. That said, keep in mind that what’s on sale here is the 2019 XPS 13, not […]