VR Progress

The Alternate World of Virtual Reality at CES Even though industry analysts are lukewarm on the success of VR (virtual reality), you couldn’t tell it as you navigated around many of the booths during CES with HMDs (head-mounted displays) taking …

Access to Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands closed beta

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is the eagerly anticipated tenth installment of the Ghost Recon series and it’s set in a massive open world in Bolivia that can be played solo or in four-player co-op. The player can engage the …

Introducing EVGA’s CPU Liquid Coolers

Introducing the EVGA CLC 120/280 Liquid Coolers The EVGA Closed Loop CPU Liquid Coolers at 280mm (above) and 120mm (below) have arrived. These new liquid coolers from EVGA feature excellent cooling performance, low noise, complete software controls, and even RGB …

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard PC Game Review & IQ Performance Analysis

We have been playing and evaluating Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (RE 7) on PC since it was released one week ago. Although we did not like what the Resident Evil series had become, and although we didn’t have high expectations …

New NVIDIA “Prepare For Battle” Bundle

NVIDIA’s latest game bundle has just kicked off for anyone buying a GeForce GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 GPU, either as a stand alone video card or included in a PC desktop or in a notebook. They can get a …

Drones Taking Flight

Consumer Drones Are Nuisances, Not Profits At CES, a whole new flock of fly-high, fly-fast, fly-bad drones were introduced and now the category is suddenly destined to be the next monstrous consumer category. Some were so small they fit in …

NVIDIA’s new Game Ready Driver for Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

We have been playing Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (RE 7) since it launched late last night – which was perhaps not such a good idea as the game is the stuff that nightmares are made of. However, it is a …

The Long-Term View of Autonomous Transportation

It won’t be long – at CES they said 5-20 years – that the next generation of Woz/Steve-types will think that phreaking a phone has to be about the dumbest thing people did back in ancient times. Now hijacking an …

Oculus Rift VR Benching – Part 1

BabelTechReviews purchased an Oculus Rift HMD (Head Mounted Display) and Touch controllers in mid-December, and since then we have been playing VR games using a variety of video cards. We have also been exploring potential ways to accurately benchmark VR …

Holiday Hangover

Next Year, Let’s Think “A Little” About the Recipient Between the rush of retailers to entice me to buy more and the sudden love/attention the press gets from publicists to meet with someone about something at CES, my inbox runneth …

When it’s Time for a Job Change

It’s Time – Recognize the Signs when it’s Time for a Job Change Business is only beginning to take advantage of the Knowledge Economy. The new economy is built on people with strong creative, intellectual properties who can deliver a …

NVIDIA’s Major Announcements at CES 2017

The conclusion of Jensen’s presentation summed up his nearly 1-1/2 hour keynote presentation at CES 2017: We want to bring video games to everyone. We want to turn your home into an AI, we believe your home will engage in …