Month: June 2017

Noctua’s Computex booth featured a cooling extravaganza.

The EVGA GTX 1080 Ti HYBRID FTW3 now has a solid launch date.

On today’s stream, we’ll try Blizzard’s latest addition to the “Diablo III” universe.

CloudGate Studio is preparing to bring its virtual reality dinosaur hunting game to the Oculus platform. The developer will launch “Island 359” on Oculus Home Early Access on July 6.

The game is former Epic Games designer Cliff Bleszinski’s first major project since the “Gears of War” series, and it’s available on PC in an open beta from now through July 5.

Germany passed a law that will impose up to 50 million euro fines on social media companies that fail to remove hate speech and other “obviously illegal content.” Human rights groups have criticized the law for harming freedom of expression.

In April, EK Water Blocks released a monoblock for Asus’s top-end AM4 motherboard, and in early June the company launched a monoblock for MSI’s flagship Ryzen board. The first Gigabyte AM4 monoblock supports more than just the top of the line motherboard.

Bitfenix brought a handful of new cases to Computex this year, including the RGB-equipped Enso mid-tower and the Portal chassis we looked at earlier this year, as well as the Aurora and Nova TG cases defined by their seeming affinity for tempered glass.

The release will include graphically overhauled versions of StarCraft and The Brood War expansion as well as new online features.

If you’ve ever wanted a gaming laptop, but thought you might be afraid to whip it out in public or at work, the Asus ROG Zephyrus might be for you. But can it play modern games whilst maintaining a slim profile? Let’s find out.

Toshiba and Western Digital made two big technology announcements this week. One company announced shipping 4-bit per cell QLC flash and the other touts 96-layer BiCS. The announcements come at a contentious time between the manufacturing partners.

Another year, another update to the Gear VR. Still one of the most ubiquitous mobile VR systems, the Gear VR is Samsung’s proprietary platform that turns a Galaxy (or Note) phone into a VR headset.

Gigabyte has unveiled the AB350N-Gaming WiFi motherboard. If you have plans to build a Ryzen-based small form factor system, this motherboard will certainly be of interest to you.

The update will ensure that “players who are behind in online matches will receive items geared toward catching up more frequently.”

Thermaltake’s gaming division, Tt eSports, took the wraps off its Nemesis Switch Optical RGB MOBA/MMO gaming mouse.

AMD releases its Ryzen PRO series of processors that should give us some insight into the forthcoming Ryzen 3 processors for the desktop.

When is ransomware not ransomware?

Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority has now issued more than 100 million certificates and has helped encrypt 18% of the web in less than two years.