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Hitbox Wants to Bring 4k to eSports

by Milos Pavlovic

A start-up company called Hitbox wants to bring UltraHD to the eSports industry. The world of live video delivery for competitive gaming is worth around $3.8 billion today, and growing. CEO Martin Klimscha says, …

Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers

by Jon Peddie

Gaming PCs consume roughly 75 billion kilowatt-hours per year of electricity in 2012 – 20% of global PC consumption. Evan Mills of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nathaniel Mills of GreeningTheBeast.com just published a …

Tags:Environment| Game Playing| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Virtual Reality Intrigues Disney and Other Players

by Norbert Hildebrand

Virtual reality is still a hot topic, even though the consumer uptake in the form of device purchases is still dismal. Market growth in terms of units sold are always impressive if the base …

AOC Selects Freesync

by Tom Allen

AOC has built Freesync into two new monitors – the company’s first with AMD’s anti-tearing technology. As long as gamers are using a compatible AMD GPU with the 24″ G2460PF or 27″ G2770PF, they …

BenQ Pushes Touch to 79 Inch

by Bob Raikes

Much of what was new for the US at Infocomm from BenQ had already been seen by us at ISE earlier this year, which disappointed staff! However, there was a bit more information and …

Casio’s Slim Projectors Take The Gaming Experience To A Whole New Level

by Helen Vince

Whether consumers enjoy battling it out in adventure video games or prefer to be on the edge-of-their-seats during intense sports video games, the need to be part of the action instead of on the …

Tags:Casio| Game Playing| Projectors

Gigabyte Begins Mobile G-Sync Rollout

by Tom Allen

Gigabyte introduced several new laptops under the Aorus brand; the first and more powerful model took the form of the X7. Like other Aorus models, it is a gaming notebook. The X7 features Nvidia’s …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 23

by Tom Allen

The Geforce GTX 980 GPU, Nvidia‘s newest flagship, is now even more powerful. The company has updated the card in the form of the new GTX 980Ti, with support for UltraHD gaming at an …

The Void Creates VR War Games…And Dragons

by Tom Allen

The Void, a Utah-based start-up that’s been operating in secrecy for some time, has created what could be loosely called ‘Laser Quest for VR’. The company builds physical areas (Gaming Pods) that roughly mirror …

BenQ’s Curve Brings Gamers Into Action

by Tom Allen

To bring racing gamers into the action, BenQ has entered the world of curved monitors. The XR3501 is a 35″ LCD monitor with a 2,000R curvature and wide 21:9 aspect ratio (2560 x 1080 …

EA Takes Advantage of Apple Watch Hype

by Tom Allen

EA has been quick to jump on the Apple Watch hype train, having released an update to the iOS FIFA ’15 app supporting the device. According to Pocket Gamer, the app will send game …

Meleap Merges eSports With Real Life

by Tom Allen

A Japanese start-up called Meleap claims that it has developed the world’s first augmented reality sport – and not an eSport, either. ‘Hado’ uses a head-mounted display to display the ‘arena’ and a smartwatch …