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ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q Gaming Monitor Revealed

Earlier this week, Asus announced two new 27-inch monitors; the PG279Q and PG27AQ. After years of slow improvement in the monitor business, we are finally seeing an influx of 4K models with superb image quality and amazing display speeds. Yes, speeds. With 27 inches of sizes, both these beasts are somewhat smaller than the 30 inches sized flagships we’ve grown a custom to see lately. But overall, nobody should take this as a drawback. Out of these two, the ASUS ROG PG279Q is the more run of the mill product. It features a 2560×1440 resolution, but it also comes with an In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel

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ASUS ROG GX700 Water-Cooled Gaming Laptop Revealed

The ASUS ROG GX700 is a beast posing as a laptop. It caters to the high-performance oriented gaming crowd more than it does to anyone else. It’s not an ultra portable machine, but it never intends to be one either. The GX700 displays a novelty in laptops; water cooling. While its portability is an issue compared to ultrabooks and similar machines available today, the sheer power of this particular laptop makes it irrelevant in most situations. The ASUS ROG GX700 water-cooled gaming laptop features an Intel Core i7-6820HK Skylake processor, an nVidia GeForce GTX 980 GPU with 8GB of GDDR5 memory and plenty of power

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Finally, Star Wars: Battlefront PC Specs are Confirmed

After numerous speculations, we finally have a confirmation of the hardware requirements for the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront game. The public beta is coming out on October 8th, with the fans all over the world having something to rejoice. This beta is more planned to be a stress test than anything else, with the full game being released a month later – on November 19th. The upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront represents a nice blend of Star Wars universe and themed places, combined with the silky smooth Battlefield-like gameplay in one. It will certainly be a coveted, AAA title for both Star Wars and FPS fans around. Let’s not forget the DICE and EA

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Does The Future Of VR Look Bright Thanks To This Icelandic Company?

Several companies are working hard in the Virtual Reality field, producing some rather tantalizing previews of whats to come in the future. One of the companies making the VR look bright for the future is Iceland’s CCP Games. Their currently under-development EVE Valkyrie is considered a standard-bearer for VR games. Made for Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus, this interesting and appealing space dogfighting game is definitely a sign of things to come as it attracts VR users everywhere. They also have a game called Gunjack, as a similar gaming experience albeit with less impressive graphics, being made for Samsung Gear VR device. In a

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The Swede Who Crafted One of the World’s Biggest Games

Markus Persson invented Minecraft, and should be a household name for this generation.

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AMD launches affordable A8-7670K APU For Budget Computers

After launching the much wanted R9 Fury, AMD is looking to expand its presence in the budget market with the introduction of the affordable A8-7670K APU revealed earlier. While AMD had less than stellar success rate with their CPU products lately, the newly launched APU models aim to take the throne currently held by Intel i3 CPUs – and might actually have what they need to do it. It also arrives on point for the Windows 10 release, ensuring its place on the budget market is secured thoughtfully. This means that all of those free updates to the new system will come in handy and

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Bungie Hires Destiny Reddit Moderator As Community Manager

Passion and dedication have won a dedicated Redditor a full-time position in Bungie’s ranks.

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AMD Might Be Making The Nintendo NX Processor

It looks as if Nintendo has eyed AMD to craft the processor to power the new Nintendo NX.

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Pluto Flyby Made Possible By Early PlayStation CPU

NASA’s New Horizons probe shares the same brain as the early PlayStation console.

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Preorder Fallout 4 on Xbox One, Get Fallout 3 for FREE

Even if you don’t like pre-orders, getting the new Fallout 4 by a pre-order for Xbox might be in the minds of many and one rather terrific idea. And it comes with something interesting. The customers who order Fallout 4 for Xbox, will get a Fallout 3 completely free for their enjoyment! The code for Fallout 3 will be delivered to your Xbox message center in 7-10 days. You can redeem your code on Xbox.com or on your Xbox 360. Fallout 3 will be included in Xbox One backwards compatibility access when made available. This is one of the better deals this summer for sure!

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Smartphones Mean a World of Competition, And Gaming Everywhere for Gamers

There once was a time when online gaming meant you had to be tied to a desktop or a console. This wasn’t a bad thing; these platforms provided a great platform for virtual battles and competitions for gamers around the world. These days everyone carries around a smartphone, and the popularity of mobile gaming is growing. While mobile gaming used to be limited to Nintendo Gameboys or Sony PSPs, smartphones are now the gaming platform of choice for many. In fact, mobile games are so popular that they have their own space at video games award shows such as The Game Awards. The games that

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review: The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep

Venture forth into the brilliant, hallowed world of Temeria for a fantasy-driven experience you won’t soon forget.

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AMD Radeon Fury X Performance Revealed

While VR World is currently working on a detailed series of analysis into how AMD is changing its future by unveiling a completely new product line-up, we were informed by the company’s representatives that the company decided to lift the embargo on performance data for the AMD Radeon Fury X earlier than expected. Thus, while you wait for the architectural analysis of the part (this article will be updated in due course), we are pleased to bring you details from the AMD Radeon Fury X Review Guide, which contains internal performance data of this new, $649 graphic card. This price pitches liquid cooled Radeon Fury X

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Bethesda Clears Up Fallout 4 Release Date Speculation

Bethesda doesn’t confirm or deny that Fallout 4 will release this year.

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Fallout 4 Reveal Trailer is Live, Listed For 2015 Release

The future of Fallout is here, and we have the trailer, details and more on the post-apocalyptic magnum opus.

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Fallout 4 Leaked, Coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC

New details surface ahead of schedule, but they’re as scarce as the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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Valve Will Now Issue Steam Refunds ‘for Any Reason’

As much fanfare accompanies Steam’s new refund policy, some speculate that the new structure is a bad omen for indie devs.

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Fallout 4 Announcement Teased By Bethesda

Hype…hype never changes.

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Sony Plans to Release 1TB PlayStation 4

Sony issues two new PS4 models, but they aren’t the big console refreshes we’ve been waiting for.

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BBC To Shed Light On Sony’s Shady PSN Policies

Sony’s ill handling of fraudulent purchases and hacked accounts will go public tonight courtesy of BBC One