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1 of 4 Next The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the world’s largest — and most sprawling — trade shows. With over 2 million square feet of official exhibits in over a dozen venues, plus hundreds of unofficial vendor suites and hotel rooms, CES spans most of Las Vegas. A cab ride from one end to the ...

Out of all the weird, wacky devices and gizmos that have been releasing lately thanks to Kickstarter — Android gaming consoles, omnidirectional treadmills, 3D printing pens — only one really seems to be onto something big: the Oculus Rift. An affordable virtual reality headset, the Rift actually works as promised — something many other Kickstarter projects fail to do. Now, ...

Yesterday when CES 2014 began, Valve revealed 12 hardware partners that are going to help make its Steam Machine dream come true. We also got a look at a new third-party Steam Machine by CyberPowerPC that began at a price of $ 499. Now, just a day later, Valve has unveiled 13 Steam Machines, in all shapes, sizes, specs, and ...

The PS4 and Xbox One have some sharp-looking games, but those launch titles aren’t setting the world on fire. Sure, the new Killzone and Dead Rising look better than previous entries, but not enough to justify the price of a new console for many gamers. Thankfully, better-looking games are just over the horizon. One of the benefits of having a ...

The Oculus Rift is still in development kit form, but for a dev kit that aims to offer virtual reality in the living room for a relatively affordable $ 300 price tag, the device actually delivers. Your less tech savvy friends may not have heard of the Rift yet — and it doesn’t exactly have an impressive catalog of officially ...

At CES this week, AMD made an unusual announcement about Nvidia’s new G-Sync technology. According to the company’s senior engineers, they can replicate much of the advantages of Nvidia’s G-Sync tech through the use of what are called dynamic refresh rates. Multiple generations of AMD video cards have the ability to alter refresh rates on the fly, with the goal ...

At CES 2014, Sony has announced that the PS4 has sold 4.2 million units as of December 28, 2013. Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that it had sold 3 million Xbox Ones as of the end of 2013. It would appear that the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One by some margin, but the bigger picture is actually a lot more complex ...

We’ve only had the feature for a couple of console generations, but nearly every gamer was unhappy that both the PS4 and Xbox One dropped backwards compatibility just a couple of generations after it made a huge impact. Sony, though, always said it was planning to bring the feature to the PS4 via the Gaikai streaming tech it purchased what ...

This launch has been a long time coming. AMD took the wraps off its Kaveri APU today, officially putting the chip on pre-order — for delivery in the next few weeks — and launching a few benchmark results to demonstrate its performance. We’ve written a great deal about Kaveri in the past, so I’ll mostly recap today. This is AMD’s ...

Qualcomm is kicking CES off with a brace of announcements targeting new markets for the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The Snapdragon 602 is designed to drop into the vehicles of 2014 and beyond, while the Snapdragon 802 targets the next generation of smart TVs and 4K displays. This is part of Qualcomm’s own efforts to win space in the “Internet ...