Inspired by the award winning l3p d3sk case mod, Cross is now available for pre-order From smartphones to smart TVs, convergence is everywhere. Often, it can even be found in places where we least expect it. Take Red Harbinger’s Cross Desk, for instance. It’s a desk and a PC case rolled into one. Inspired by the l3p d3sk case mod that we covered here a couple of years ago, the Cross...
The following post is sponsored by Best Buy. Head over to Best Buy for your back to school needs. Yeah, I know for some lucky readers, school isn’t in session for yet another couple of months. Regardless of whether you start next month, in two months or are already in school, it helps to plan ahead to and keep an eye on great back-to-school offers. So we’re doing our best here to...
The king is dead, long live the king Well, it finally happened. According to newly compiled data from two separate market research firms, Gartner and International Data Corporation (IDC), Lenovo is now the top supplier of PCs in the world, overtaking Hewlett-Packard (HP) for pole position. While Gartner and IDC report a slightly different number of PC shipments for each OEM, both...
Select Haswell parts will feature Intel’s supercharged Iris graphics. Nobody brags about integrated graphics, and that’s because there’s not much there worthy of boast. That’s fine, but if manufactures insist on pushing thin and light platforms on the masses and shrinking the desktop, then is it too much to ask for an integrated graphics solution that either (A) doesn’t suck, or (B) is...
Why hasn’t this already been done? For first person shooters, real-time strategy titles, and most gaming genres outside of sports, using a mouse and keyboard trumps a console controller, hands down. I won’t debate this, but after reading about the Stinky Footboard, I am willing to concede that there’s room for a third wheel in what’s traditionally been a two-handed tango. Just as piano...
PC shipments fell 4.9 percent to 90.3 million units shipped during the fourth quarter, which is typically a strong period for sales due to the holidays. Why? Well, it wasn’t necessarily because Windows 8 was a flop, but more because users are turning to tablets more and more for media consumption, Gartner said in a report on Monday. “Tablets have dramatically changed the device...
Forget the top-down antics you’re used to in traditional Pokémon games. One fan has decided to take the world of Pokémon Gold and Silver and turn it into a 3D Poképaradise, or something. Pokémon is now in first-person, and it’s bizarre. The developer working on the project is Nils Drescher (or nilllzz), and he’s been calling this thing Pokémon 3D. As the headline to this post...
Sales of consumer electronics in the U.S. fell 5.6 percent year-over-year on Black Friday, according to new research published on Tuesday by The NPD Group. Televisions, Android tablets and PCs were the most purchased items, accounting for 58% of all consumer electronic sales on the popular shopping day. “This slow start is merely a continuation of the challenges seen in the consumer...
On a fanciful whim, TechnoBuffalo’s Senior Gaming Editor Joey Davidson asked me, “Would you like to stare at a spreadsheet for 8 hours?” Well of course I said yes. But no, I wasn’t playing Disgaea. Instead, I was data-mining Wikipedia’s various lists of games by platform to see which platforms had the most exclusive games. As a caveat, I’ll note that these lists were compiled by...
Thursday, new data regarding PC sales are down from the same period last year, 25 percent to be exact, Macs are forecasted to be down 7 percent. Even with Windows 8 hitting the shelves and being heavily pushed through marketing and offering free copies to PC-buyers for the a good part of the year, sales are down. Windows 8 in itself is an admission of the death of the PC, with the...