Few games have been through ten years of development hell, and come out the other side in good shape. Final Fantasy XV has been through numerous platforms, names, and directors in the last decade, but it’s finally made its way to store shelves this week. Final Fantasy XV began its …
Read More »Gears of War 4 competitive cross-play being tested this weekend between PC, Xbox One owners
If you’re still playing Gears of War 4’s multiplayer, this weekend has something special on offer. The Coalition team has decided to enable competitive cross-play for this weekend in hopes of gathering data on what it’s like for Xbox One and PC gamers to go head-to-head. Unifying the PC and …
Read More »The Last Guardian performs poorly on the base PS4
2016 has already seen dozens of big games, but it’s not finished just yet. This week, PS4 players finally get an opportunity to play The Last Guardian – the third game to be led by famed auteur Fumito Ueda. It’s been a long nine years since development began, but it’s …
Read More »Some AMD RX 460s can be modded to unlock missing cores, additional performance
From time to time, AMD and Nvidia release a GPU that can be modded to function like a different class of card. In the old days, there were so-called “soft mods” that could identify consumer GPUs as workstation equivalents to improve compatibility with various applications, and there’ve been a number …
Read More »Top space books to get as holiday gifts
It’s that time of year, where everyone wishes they could escape holiday gatherings and just hide in a corner and read. Wait, is that not you? At any rate, if you’re buying a gift for a space enthusiast, here are some of the best books to buy in both fiction …
Read More »Powerup FPV: See yourself fly in your own paper-airplane drone
Making paper airplanes is a time-honored hobby. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid, but I didn’t imagine a time would come when it’d be possible to see what it was like to be on board. With the FPV paper-airplane drone from Powerup Toys, now you can. Once …
Read More »Hands-off the steering wheel with a Delphi-Mobileye autonomous test-drive
PITTSBURGH – Delphi and Mobileye are creating a self-driving car that relies more on cameras, less on radar and lidar. In a demonstration drive here, the heavily modified Audi Q5 had no trouble following the road, recognizing traffic lights and stop signs, and interacting safely with cars and pedestrians on …
Read More »Plume ships its value-priced entry into the mesh Wi-Fi fray
We’ve written extensively about a variety of new mesh-based Wi-Fi solutions that are designed to replace both your router and access points, while providing whole home access to the internet. Most of them are clearly easier-to-use than existing solutions, but they’ve tended to be premium priced if you didn’t grab …
Read More »NextEV aims to leverage Formula E racing tech to take on Tesla
Formula racing has long been a laboratory for performance car companies to push their RD to the limit, on the way to introducing it into their street-legal car models. That’s one reason that cutting-edge Formula 1 has moved to hybrid engines from the more fan-popular V-8s; hybrids are where the …
Read More »Pebble confirms it is shutting down, devs and software acquired by Fitbit
Pebble was one of the early Kickstarter success stories after raising more than $10 million. It even came through, releasing what many consider to be the first viable modern smartwatch. However, that success was short-lived. Pebble confirmed today that the company is being acquired by Fitbit and is ending production …
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