Playing to Win

New M&E Industry Advances Put Viewer in Charge Between the sessions at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media Communications and Entertainment Conference and IBC, it’s obvious that folks aren’t just coming to play (think Field of Dreams). They are …

ARKTIKA.1 VR Review & Performance Evaluation

We have been playing ARKTIKA.1 since Sunday when we received a pre-release reviewer’s code from the publisher, 4A. These are the same devs who created the incredible Metro series for the PC which remains one of our favorite shooter series. …

Are you Game Ready for Middle-earth: Shadow of War and ARKTIKA. 1?

Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the highly anticipated sequel to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor which won more than 50 industry awards and was BTR’s GotY for 2014, will be released tomorrow, and we are ready with GeForce WHQL driver 387.92. This …

Crimson ReLive 17.9.3 Brings More Performance for RX Vega 64’s Liquid-Cooled Edition

This driver performance analysis focuses on 30 games to see if Crimson ReLive 17.9.3 brings more performance to RX Vega 64 compared with its Public Launch drivers. RX Vega 64 launched nearly 2 months ago on August 14. We have …

Technology Isolation

Technology that Brings Us Together Also Drives Us Apart First, it was Al Gore inventing the Internet. Then, Tim Berners-Lee came up with the Web. Finally, we were able to do things on a global basis. Motorola’s Martin Cooper showed …

Introducing the EVGA Z370 Series Motherboards

EVGA Z370’s motherboards, based on Intel’s Z370 Express Chipset and 8th Generation CPUs have just been introduced. We have experience with EVGA motherboards and they are built to take mainstream performance beyond the next level. EVGA’s new motherboard lineup includes …

Good Content Should Be Paid For and Protected

Taking It Back With this year’s Emmys, it was still obvious that diversity and equality come slowly for the M&E industry – heck, every industry – except for one area. People prove there is diversity, equality in the stuff they …

Project CARS 2 PC & VR performance evaluation – the Red vs. the Green Team

We have been playing and benchmarking Project CARS 2 since it released last week. This Project CARS 2 PC and VR performance evaluation pits AMD’s Red Team versus NVIDIA’s Green Team using eleven video cards, and we also measure VR …

New GeForce ‘Forge Your Army’ Bundle with Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Middle Earth: Shadow of War releases on October 10 for PC, and NVIDIA just announced the ‘Forge Your Army’ Bundle. For a limited time, gamers can get Middle-earth: Shadow of War for free when they buy a GeForce GTX 1080 …

Autonomous Cars Require More Than Just Technology

Don’t Look Back I don’t want to say that the AV (autonomous vehicle) is old news but … it’s old news. One of the first videos on the subject, “The Automatic Motorist.” was back in 1911 when filmmaking was really, …

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 ELITE – Now Available With 12GHz Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080Ti FTW3 ELITE cards are now available with 12GHz of GDDR5 memory, giving it 528 GB/s of memory bandwidth! This is a 9% increase in total memory bandwidth. These cards are available with either the ELITE …

Project CARS 2 releases tomorrow – are you game ready?

We are ready for Project CARS 2 and have been playing it since yesterday courtesy of Bandai Namco. Although we are just getting familiar with the game, it appears to be a solid improvement over Project CARS, especially in regard …