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Rejoice! Crossplay Across Epic and Steam is Now Possible
Life without crossplay was a sad time for online gaming with friends. With many games releasing across multiple platforms and your mates buying their preferred mode, meeting up to take on the big boss was more complicated than it should have been. Of course, crossplay is an increasingly common feature in our favourite games, but there are still hurdles even with just PC gaming. Epic Games fans have not been able to team up with their Steam buddies. Until now. What is Crossplay? Quick and…
Ryzen 7000: Everything We Know About AMD’s New Generation of CPU
AMD has been on quite the journey over the last five years with their Ryzen line. Now, Team Red is set to launch the 7000 series in 2022. Promising significant performance improvements, new features via Zen 4 micro architecture, and the AM5 platform for motherboards. It has all the potential on paper to be one of the best gaming CPUs available. Let’s dive into everything we know about the AMD Ryzen 7000 to see why that’s possible. Ryzen 7000 Series Features and Highlights We may…
L-Connect 3 is Here – Lian Li’s Latest Update to its RGB Software
L-Connect 3 is the latest version of Lian Li’s powerful RGB software, designed to work with a wide range of products including cases, Strimer V2 cables, UNI FAN SL and AL cooling fans, and AIO coolers. L-Connect 3 is a complete overhaul of Lian Li’s existing RGB software. You’ll find a new UI giving you a better user experience, compatibility with the latest Lian Li RGB hardware, and monitoring capabilities, allowing your components to react to changes in PC performance. We’re going to guide you…
Glorious Rebranding: Glorious PC Gaming Race has a New Name and a Fresh Look
Glorious PC Gaming Race is no more, long live Glorious. The brand renowned for producing gorgeous, high-end peripherals has decided it is time for a change. Along with a new logo and refreshed branding, the company has shortened its name to Glorious. Their original name is certainly something of an oddity to those not in the know. The manufacturer highlighted this in the official announcement acknowledging that it helped them stand out “within a crowded industry dominated by some massive corporations”. But times have changed,…
Windows 11 vs Windows 10 -Ten Big Differences You Need to Know Before Upgrading
The Windows 11 rollout began back in October 2021 and has been storming ahead ever since. If you haven’t yet upgraded, now may be the time to consider making the change from its predecessor, Windows 10. We understand that everyone is different in what features of their operating system they find most important. As such, we explore some of the big changes that Microsoft have made to Windows between 10 and 11, that might sway you to make that leap. One important thing to…
Exciting Addition to the GeForce RTX 30 Series: The 3050
Announced at this year’s CES, Nvidia has released a new entry-level graphics card for their 30 Series. Introducing the GeForce RTX 3050. To get us all nice and excited, we’re taking a look at three cards from Asus and all the graphical power they’ll be offering. The Ultimate Play As part of the 30 Series, you can expect the RTX 3050 to be packed with incredible gaming features. Even with its entry-level status. With Nvidia’s Ampere architecture at its core, the RTX 3050 is equipped…
New Nvidia Goodies: RTX 3070Ti and 3080Ti Gaming Laptops
Gaming on the go just got a whole lot better with new RTX 30 Series laptops. How? They feature RTX 3070Ti and 3080Ti graphics cards now. Take powerful gaming with you! Built with Nvidia Ampere architecture, these compact gaming laptops are brimming with the innovations of the GeForce RTX 30 Series. Enjoy second-gen RT cores for impeccable ray tracing and third-gen Tensor cores for hyper-realistic shading. All from a sleek package, too. https://youtu.be/W1YafbWbT6s RTX 30 Series Features Nvidia’s Ampere architecture is packed with amazing features…
The Latest Tech Gimmick or the Future of Gaming: 8,000Hz Polling Rate
With new hardware comes great innovations. Peripherals have always been about the lowest latency, the fastest gaming performance, and that oh-so-sweet tactile click under your fingers. The latest development coming to our keyboards and gaming mice is an ultra-polling rate. For a while now, the industry standard has been a 1,000Hz polling rate, with certain mice allowing you to scale it down. Now, we have mice and keyboards from the likes of Endgame Gear, Corsair, Glorious, and Razer boasting polling rates of 8,000Hz. That’s an…
NVMe Hard drives – Are we Done With SATA?
Seagate unveiled the industry's first native NVMe hard disk drive (HDD) at 2021's Open Compute Project global summit. This announcement might confirm a future for HDDs which have been becoming less popular as SSD's and NVME M.2 drives decrease in price and increase in storage capacity. The newly presented HDDs are connected with NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) via PCIe 3.0 instead of a traditional SATA (Serial AT Attachment) connection. Whilst hard drives are slower than SSDs and even slower than NVMe M.2 SSDs, they will…
Embrace The Geek: 2021’s Best Gaming Tech So Far
When Busted travelled to the year 3000, they were too busy chatting up their own great-granddaughters to take a sneaky peek at the tech available. Except of course, the boyband maker, but nobody wants one of those. However, I am convinced that some of the world’s tech giants must have tagged along for the ride, because some releases so far in 2021 have been seriously futuristic. From wireless charging to neural interfaces for gaming mice, we truly are living through some revolutionary developments. Let’s embrace…
It’s Coming… Home? Gaming Tech From England’s Last Final
In a surprising turn of events, the men’s England football team have reached the final of a major cup tournament for the first time in 55 years. That’s right, our last appearance in a final was that final. The 1966 World Cup. Since then, mobile phones have been invented, we started a new millennium, and flying cars are looking like they might actually be a thing. This really makes you think about how different life was back then, as well as how much technology has changed.…
Quake at 25
July marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Quake (id Software's first true 3D FPS). Whilst Doom was id’s breakout success, Quake remains a fan favourite, successful enough since launch to spawn three sequels and countless mods. Even retaining a cult following to this day, such an influential game calls for a suitable thorough retrospective, so here we go. Earth-shattering success The initial concept for Quake had been kicking around for some time - with some oblique references even appearing as far…