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Apple’s MacBook Air is a great piece of kit in a number of scenarios, but if you’re a gamer, it’s not a great system. The only available graphics option is the Intel HD 5000, and while that core is decent enough for the casual gamer, it’s still weak compared to other solutions for any modern title. In theory, Thunderbolt is ...

The Xbox One and PS4 have very similar hardware specs, except for two key areas: The GPU, and the memory architecture — not the amount of memory, but the way in which games access that memory. At launch, the different memory architectures probably won’t be significant — but after three or four generations, as developers master the eighth-generation console hardware, ...

We’re only four months away from the presumed launch of the next generation of game consoles, and the internet is clamoring for new information. In response, Sony has deemed fit to post a video answering some of the most burning questions surrounding the PS4. From the number of slots on the PSN friends list to the existence of 3D games, ...

At the annual computer graphics mecca SIGGRAPH 2013, Nvidia has taken the wraps off the Logan (Tegra 5) SoC. Nvidia isn’t talking about the CPU yet (it’s probably Cortex-A15, like Tegra 4), but the GPU… oh the GPU is a mobile version of Kepler that blows every other mobile graphics solution out of the water. Mobile Kepler can match the performance ...

Once relegated to cheap, low-margin phones, Android’s leading vendor Samsung has now overtaken Apple as the world’s most profitable smartphone vendor. Samsung’s estimated $ 5.2 billion in profits from phone sales compares favorably with Apples’s estimated iPhone profits of $ 4.2 billion, according to Strategy Analytics — the first time in nearly four years that the iPhone hasn’t held the ...

AMD’s second quarter financial results were released yesterday and they’re reasonably good, relative to the company’s current position and the strength of the PC market. AMD lost $ 74 million in Q2, as compared to the $ 147 million loss it posted in Q1. Computing Solutions revenue — that’s the CPU/APU side of the business — was up $ 90 ...

The Leap Motion releases today, promising to change the way we interact with the personal computer. It delivers on that promise, but change could mean for better or worse. On which side of the spectrum does the Leap land? Perhaps oddly in this day and age, the Leap Motion is a cheap, potentially revolutionary computer and video game peripheral that wasn’t ...

Tablet integration and cloud gaming have been incessantly heralded as the saviors of the Xbox One and PS4.. While they both have a lot of potential to expand the medium, plenty of other important features are slated for the Xbox One and PS4 that haven’t received nearly enough praise. When it comes down to it, features like built-in video sharing, ...

It’s been one month since the Ouya hit retail shelves, made available to the public for just $ 99. The Kickstarter campaign was a wild success, but the console and games have been met with an almost universal underwhelmed response. Sales figures of games have been revealed, and we can now get a much better sense of how well the ...

Microsoft has reversed course on another one of the differences between itself and Sony — and possibly laid the groundwork for a major policy shift in the future as well. Up until today, Microsoft had repeatedly stated that independent game developers wouldn’t be welcome on Xbox One unless they had a publisher; in other words, they couldn’t self-publish. That’s in ...