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  1. AlphaAtlas

    Farming Simulator Gets an Esports League

    Farming simulation may not be a genre for everyone, but apparently, it's a fairly popular one. Farming Simulator 19 peaked at nearly 60,000 concurrent players late last year, and the previous games seems to have sold surprisingly well, according to their SteamSpy data. While that's surprising...
  2. AlphaAtlas

    Motherboard Maker Shipments Drop as Focus Turns Away From Cryptominers

    Digitimes' industry sources claim that Q1 2019 motherboard shipments will "fall dramatically" thanks to reduced demand from the crypto mining sector and "seasonal factors." Gigabyte, Biostar and ECS will supposedly be hit particularly hard, as proportionally, they ship more entry level...
  3. S

    Need some advice about 1440p gaming with RTX2060

    Hi there, i currently run a 4670k @ 4,2GHZ and a GTX780 (non-Ti) together on a 1080p monitor. While this is fun, it is appearant to me that i am now at a point, where i have to go back in details in some games to get decent (around 60) FPS. I mostly play FPS or RPG games, but not competitive...
    • ScYcS
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    • Forum: Video Cards
  4. AlphaAtlas

    RGB LED SSDs are Good for Gaming

    Do RGB LEDs on your SSD make gaming better? Apparently, the answer is yes, because Digitimes says that gamers are buying them by the boatload. More specifically, in what is supposedly a noticeable boost to LED manufacturers, their sources claim that "about 5% of gaming SSD modules are equipped...
  5. AlphaAtlas

    Bioware Supposedly Tried to Make a KOTOR Sequel

    Ever since Obsidian published Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, Star Wars fans have been asking for another proper sequel to the series. While we did get The Old Republic from Bioware's Austin studio, the WoW-like MMO gameplay and other aspects tend to turn off fans of the older...
  6. W

    FS: Fujifilm XF 23mm, JBL ACTPACK, ROCKIT 88 1151/1150 Delid & Relid kit

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  7. AlphaAtlas

    Digital Foundry Compares Ace Combat 7 PC and Console Versions

    Digital Foundry just uploaded a great overview of Ace Combat 7. They start off by going over the history of the franchise, and note that the Playstation 2 versions of the game in particular really pushed the visuals of the series forward. I tend to agree with that sentiment myself, and also...
  8. AlphaAtlas

    Call of Duty's Battle Royale Mode is Free for a Week

    Acitivision is hosting a free one week trial for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's "Blackout" battle royale mode. Between now and noon CST on January 24, you can jump into Blackout's 100 man fights at no charge, and Activision mentions that they have "duo" and "quad" modes for players that want to...
  9. AlphaAtlas

    Netflix Points to Fortnite as Major Competitor

    Netflix's Q4 earnings report is out. The streaming giant said they made $16 billion in revenue and doubled their operating profits to $1.6 billion this year, and they say that growth was fueled by "high member satisfaction." But gamesindustry.biz and other media outlets spotted a particularly...
  10. AlphaAtlas

    Black Mirror's Interactive Episode is Drumming Up Interest in Games

    "Bandersnatch," Netflix's interactive Black Mirror Episode, is proving to be quite popular. Many are calling it "the dawn on interactive TV," but gamesindustry.biz points out that it's also drumming up commercial interest in similar efforts from the gaming industry. With cinematic experiences...
  11. AlphaAtlas

    Westworld Game Removed from App Store

    Bethesda accused the mobile Westworld game of blatantly using code and other assets from Fallout Shelter last year, and from the looks of things, those accusations had some merit. While Bethesda and Behavior Interactive later claimed they "amicably resolved" the lawsuit that Bethesda Softworks...
  12. AlphaAtlas

    Bethesda Confirms Fallout 76 Developer Room Bans

    Last week, reports of players glitching their way into a "developer room" in Fallout 76 began to emerge. Though the hack had allegedly been exploited for weeks within FO76 communities, some sources claimed that Bethesda was banning accounts that stole items from the room. Today, Eurogamer...
  13. noclevername

    Humble Bundle Store sales

    There is a ton of publisher sales going on at Humble Bundle right now. Quite a few good games in there on good sale. Links: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/bandai-namco-winter-sale/ https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/square-enix-winter-sale/...
  14. AlphaAtlas

    SuperData Breaks Down the Global Gaming Market

    A recent report from market research firm SuperData, which VentureBeat was kind enough to share, paints an interesting picture of the global gaming market in 2018. Among PC gamers, there's certainly a perception that mobile games, console games and free-to-play titles are eating into or even...
  15. AlphaAtlas

    Metro Exodus Gets More Gameplay Footage

    Several gaming sites recently got a hands-on peak at Metro Exodus's open world gameplay, and their videos are just now going up. As many mention, every video contains sequences of the same developer-provided clips, but the takeways of each site are unique. PCGamesN's footage includes an...
  16. AlphaAtlas

    EA Allegedly Cancels Open World Star Wars Game

    Citing "three people familiar with the matter," Kotaku claims that a long running Star Was project under development in EA's Vancouver office has been canceled. This "open world" Star Wars game allegedly inherited some art assets from Visceral Games' Uncharted-like Star Wars game, which itself...
  17. AlphaAtlas

    Modders Find Ways Around Resident Evil 2 Demo's Time Limit

    Capcom released a Resident Evil 2 demo last week, but it comes with a major caveat: players are limited to 30 minutes of gameplay. Personally, I despise time limits like that, as it compels me to rush through gameplay I'd otherwise take time to enjoy, and I suspect I'm not the only one with that...
  18. AlphaAtlas

    Jensun Huang Comments on the Viability of Streaming Games

    Jensen Huang had a long press Q&A session at CES this year, and VentureBeat posted a transcript of the whole thing. Nvidia's CEO talked about the impact of blockchain, AI, their current GPU lineup, and a wide array of other things, but one of the most interesting comments he made was on the...
  19. AlphaAtlas

    Ace Combat 7 Gets a Launch Trailer

    Ahead of the game's console launch this week, Bandai Namco just posted a launch trailer for Ace Combat 7. As was seen in previous trailers, the game is visually stunning, but that isn't exactly a surprise since previous Ace Combat games typically looked good for their generation. Speaking of the...
  20. AlphaAtlas

    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Gameplay Revealed

    From Software, the developers behind the Dark Souls series, published a trailer for their next title at the Tokyo Game Show last year. Since then, Game Informer has been covering the upcoming title extensively, and they just recently got a chance to sit down and try the game themselves. Sekiro...
  21. AlphaAtlas

    Battlefield V RTX CPU Performance Revisited

    Back when HardOCP published our Battlefield V ray tracing reviews, we got some criticism for using a 7700k in the GPU tests. Some claimed that the CPU was ultimately the bottleneck in the benchmarks, and that a CPU with more threads would change the results. Following up on those claims with a...
  22. AlphaAtlas

    Fallout 76 Players Glitched Their Way Into a Developer Room

    Eurogamer says that some enterprising Fallout 76 players managed to glitch their way into a "developer room" with high tier and unreleased items. While the exploit is just now going public, Eurogamer's sources say that the exploit has been circulating around Discord servers for several weeks...
  23. AlphaAtlas

    Dimenco Keeps the 3D TV Flame Alive

    At the beginning of the decade, glasses free 3D displays were hyped as the next big leap in TV and monitor technology, but the 3D push from big manufacturers fizzled out years ago. However, IEEE Spectrum reports that at least one company was continuing to champion the concept at CES 2019. One of...
  24. AlphaAtlas

    Unity Gets in a Spat With SpatialOS Developers

    Improbable Game's SpatialOS Engine and cloud service are behind a number of promising, upcoming MMOs, including Worlds Adrift , Mavericks: Proving Grounds, an MMOFPS called Scavengers, and a mysterious project from Runescape developers Jagex. But yesterday, Improbable released a statement saying...
  25. AlphaAtlas

    New Ace Combat Trailer Shows Off "Battle Royale" and Team Deathmatch

    Bandai Namco just uploaded a trailer for Ace Combat 7 that shows off the game's multiplayer modes. While they're prominently advertising a "Battle Royale" mode, probably with the intention of cashing in on the battle royale craze, the game mode is more akin to free-for-all modes you'd see in...
  26. AlphaAtlas

    China Approves 84 New Games

    The Chinese government halted all new game approvals last year, which pummeled the stock prices of Chinese developers like Tencent while making international developers hoping to enter the Chinese market anxious. After releasing a small initial batch approved games late last year, the Chinese...
  27. AlphaAtlas

    Metro Exodus Gets a Story Trailer

    Metro Exodus is set to take the Metro series above ground. So far, we've seen trailers that show off the game's combat and ray-traced scenery, but Ukranian developer 4A Games just published a "Story" trailer for the game. The devs mention that there will be "vast, non linear levels inspired by...
  28. AlphaAtlas

    Resident Evil 2 Gets a Demo This Week

    Capcom has been teasing the Resident Evil 2 remake for some time, but the game studio is giving fans more than just trailers now. According to VG247, the possibility of the demo was "leaked" in the Xbox Store last month, but Capcom officially confirmed it today. The Playstation 4 Blog says that...
  29. AlphaAtlas

    FoxNet is Working on an Alien MMO Shooter

    Following the release of Alien: Isolation in 2014, fans have been hungry for another big game set in the Aliens universe. So, I bet you can image the fanbase's reaction when they learned the highly anticipated Alien: Blackout is actually a mobile game today. Fortunately, several media outlets...
  30. AlphaAtlas

    The Performance Impact of Battlefield V's Ray Tracing With a 2080 TI

    Ray tracing can certainly make Battlefield V look stunning, but that extra rendering quality comes at a significant performance cost. Here at HardOCP, we've already looked at the performance impact RTX and the DirectX 12 API have on the RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and on the CPU. But today, we examined...
  31. cageymaru

    HyperX Partners with Audeze for Cloud Orbit Gaming Headset Lineup

    HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company Inc., has revealed its new Cloud Orbit gaming headsets that use the same Audeze 100mm planar magnetic drivers from the $399 Audeze Mobius gaming headset. The HyperX collaboration with Audeze incorporates a pop filter to create a better...
    • cageymaru
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    • 100mm 3.5mm audeze audeze mobius audiophile bluetooth cloud orbit cloud orbit s console gaming detachable dsp gaming gaming headset head tracking headphone headset hyperx kingston technology microphone mobile pc gaming pcmr planar magnetic planar magnetic driver pop filter technology usb-a usb-c video games waves nx
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  32. AlphaAtlas

    BioWare Shows Off Anthem at CES

    As the game approaches release, Bioware is showing off more and more of Anthem. Over the weekend, IGN gave us a 15 minute look at one of Anthem's missions, and EA has revealed even more in their official CES 2019 trailer. Check out the 4k footage here. Check out the latest exclusive 4K Anthem...
  33. AlphaAtlas

    HP and Razer Tease Laptops with OLED Displays

    New display tech is a big theme at CES 2019, and it isn't limited to sizes over 40". In addition to some high refresh rate LCDs, both HP and Razer teased laptops with 4K OLED panels. Like its 13" predecessor, HP's new Spectre x360 15" will come with an option for a 4K HDR touchscreen OLED. While...
  34. AlphaAtlas

    CVAA Regulations Affecting Multiplayer Chat Just Went Into Effect

    The International Game Developers Association sent out a notice reminding readers that the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act just went into effect for the gaming industry. The CVAA "requires any communications functionality and any UI used to navigate to or operate it to be...
  35. AlphaAtlas

    Square Poaches Activation-Blizzard's Other CFO

    Just a few days after Activision lost their CFO to Netflix, gamesindustry.biz reports that Square Inc. poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment. Amrita reportedly worked at Blizzard for 8 years, and Square's CEO gave some typical corporate praise to their new CFO, calling Ahuja an...
  36. AlphaAtlas

    Steam VR Usage Almost Doubled in 2018

    On the surface, Steam's latest hardware survey doesn't look particularly flattering for the VR market, but UploadVR points out that 2018 was a good year for the Steam VR gaming industry. According to the Steam statistics they've been logging, PC VR usage almost doubled in 2018, and 0.8% of Steam...
  37. AlphaAtlas

    Half Life and Portal Writer is Back at Valve

    Shacknews says that Eric Wolpaw, the writer behind Half Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead, is back at Valve. Following several other high profile departures, Eric left the gaming company about 2 years ago, and many saw it as a symptom of Valve's shift away from actually developing games. Shacknews...
  38. cageymaru

    VESA Introduces DisplayHDR True Black Standard for OLED and Emissive Displays

    VESA has announced that it has created a new variant of the DisplayHDR standard that promises up to 100X deeper black levels for OLED and other emissive displays. When compared to VESA's DisplayHDR 1000 performance tier; DisplayHDR True Black allows for up to 100X deeper black levels, a greater...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • 500 performance level computer hardware displayhdr 1000 displayhdr true black emissive display gaming hdr laptop monitor oled pc gaming pc hardware standard tv vesa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  39. B

    FS : Sony PS Vita PCH-1010 32gb + case & extras - $155 XLNT

    1/29/19 SOLD! Hello fellow Hardocp members! What we have here for sale is a Sony PS Vita PCH-1010 in excellent condition. No scratches, looks great. Screen is perfect, battery works great. Adult owned and cared for. 3.69 firmware. Comes with a 32GB official memory card ($50+ used on ebay)...
  40. cageymaru

    Samsung Announces New Monitors for Gaming and Content Creation

    Samsung has announced new members to its monitor family. First there is the CRG9 49" gaming monitor that features a super ultra-wide screen and dual QHD resolution (5120x1440). The monitor meets HDR10 standards with a peak brightness of 1,000 nits and local dimming. The display uses Samsung's...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • 1000 nits 27" 32" 49" 4k crg9 dual qhd freesync gaming hdr10 monitor pbp pc gaming pcmr qhd resolution samsung space saving uhd ur59c
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
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