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Steam’s Big Data Holds Gaming Insights

by Tom Allen

Regular readers might know that I quite enjoy my gaming. I’ve spent many nights on my PC, crossing gaps, beating down baddies and using improbably well-placed solutions to solve puzzles. At the end of …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Resolution| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Windows

BLU is First With Mediatek Helio X10

by Tom Allen

Mediatek’s premium new Helio X10 chipset is being used to drive BLU Products’ BLU Pure XL smartphone. It is the first US phone to use the 2GHz, 64-bit octa-core chipset. The Pure XL is …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 37

CES Asia to Double in Size

by Tom Allen

More than 100 exhibitors have already been confirmed for the next CES Asia show, which will run from the 11th – 13th May 2016 in Shanghai. The current line-up of companies has already exceeded …

Tags:APAC| Back Panel| CTA (was CEA)| Events| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor

CEA Issues Call for Entries for CES 2016 Innovation Awards

by Tom Allen

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today issued a call for entries for its CES 2016 Innovation Awards. Award entries will be accepted August 10 through September 16, 2015. The 2016 Best of Innovation Awards …

Tags:Awards| CTA (was CEA)| Events

Sony Renames VR Headset

by Tom Allen

Less than a week after showing the headset at IFA 2015, Sony has renamed its Project Morpheus VR device. At a press conference ahead of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced that the product …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Gaming and Film Drive VR Shipments to 30 Million

by Tom Allen

In a new whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/nhox467), Juniper Research has predicted that 30 million virtual reality headsets will be shipped by 2020. Film and gaming applications will drive adoption; while adult video is a potentially large …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Worldwide

Apple Set to Beat Last-Gen Sales

by Tom Allen

Apple has said that sales of its iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are on track to beat the 10 million iPhone 6/6 Plus units sold in the phone’s first weekend last year. Analysts have …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 37

by Tom Allen

Three Asus Republic of Gaming monitors will be on sale in the UK soon, through online outlet Overclockers.com. The PG279Q (Asus Focuses on Colour at Computex) and PG278Q (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) …

Tags:Asus| Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| sony| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Nintendo Promotes Kimishima to President

by Tom Allen

Nintendo has named Tatsumi Kimishima as its new president, succeeding Satoru Iwata. Kimishima is a former banker who joined Nintendo in 2000. http://tinyurl.com/pysbx97

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nintendo| People| Vol 22 - Issue 37