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Grand View Research: Gaming to be Worth $171.96 Billion by 2025

by Andrew Fenn

The global gaming market is anticipated to reach $171.96 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, registering a 6.5% CAGR during the forecast period. Technological advancements in gaming hardware …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Chinese Gaming Market Growing Well

by Bob Raikes

Data from Sigmaintell, quoted in the Taiwanese press, forecasts that gaming monitor shipments in China will be 1.07 million units in 2018, up from just 450,000 in 2017. TPV was the biggest supplier, followed …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

ESA: US Video Game Industry Revenue Reaches $36 Billion in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

The US video game industry generated a record $36 billion in revenue in 2017, up 18% from 2016, according to new data released by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and The NPD Group. Michael …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 03

ViewSonic is Aggressive with UHD Home Cinema Pricing

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic was at the Pepcom evening event with a number of new products including a new UHD projector. The Px727-4k is a DLP home cinema projector that has a SuperColor RGBRGB colour wheel and …

Tags:CES 2018| Desktop Monitors| DLP Projectors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Nvidia Sees Three Big Opportunities

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia had a press event at CES that was away from the main Mandalay Bay and, as with previous years, highlighted the importance of automotive to the company’s future by being in the North …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 02

The BFGD is Previewed by HP at CES

by Bob Raikes

HP was not on the show floor or even at the Venetian (like Dell and Lenovo) was at several of the evening events at CES and had a number of different announcements at the …

Tags:CES 2018| Game Playing| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Asus and MSI Achieve Half of All Worldwide Shipments in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to unconfirmed reports coming out of Taiwan, Asus and MSI shipped around 2.5 million gaming notebooks in 2017, accounting for approximately half of all worldwide shipments. Mid and high-range gaming notebooks were among …

Tags:Acer| Asus| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Asus OLED Monitor is Previewed

by Bob Raikes

Asus had a couple of suites in the Wynn, one covering just the ROG gaming products and the other covering the rest. We started in the main room looking at smartphones, PCs and monitors. …

Tags:Asus| CES 2018| Convertible PCs| Desktop Monitors| DLP Projectors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Asus Strix GL702ZC uses 8 Core AMD Ryzen

by Bob Raikes

Asus has a new laptop which features an AMD Ryzen eight core processor and is claimed to be the first to use this chip. The GL702ZC also supports FreeSync on its integrated 17.3″ UltraHD …

Tags:AMD| Asus| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Samsung Claims First VESA HDR Label

by Bob Raikes

Samsung said that its CHG90 49″ 32:9 QD LCD monitor is the first monitor that has been certified as DisplayHDR 600 compliant. (VESA Releases Open Standard and Test Methodology for HDR in Monitors and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 48

YouTube VR Now Available on Steam Early Access

by Andrew Fenn

YouTube VR is now available for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows VR for free, via Steam Early Access. The app previously launched exclusively for Google Daydream last year, and for PlayStation VR in …

Tags:AR/VR| Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Iiyama Unveils Its First Curved Gaming Display

by Bob Raikes

Iiyama has released its first curved gaming monitor in the form of the G-Master G3266HS-B1 which is a 31.5″ FullHD FreeSync unit. The monitor has a VA panel with 300 cd/m² of output and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48