consumer tech
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This Kit Lets You Make Your Old SNES Controllers Completely Wireless
For five years, 8Bitdo has been creating near-perfect wireless clones of your favourite classic gamepads, improving the experience of emulating retro games on modern devices. But if near-perfect isn’t perfect enough for your discerning gaming tastes, the company is now selling kits that should make it dead easy to upgrade your original Nintendo and Sega…
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All Signs Point To A Late August Release For Nvidia’s New GTX 1180 GPU
Even though Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told journalists at Computex that new GPU’s wouldn’t be available for “a long time“, new rumours and leaks indicate that the upcoming Nvidia GTX 1180 could get announced much sooner, possibly as early as late August at Gamescom in Germany.
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This Is The Desktop PC The Borg Would Use, Probably
Image: Cherry Tree The visual style of the Borg in Star Trek — with its protruding cables, dark metals, and monolithic sameness — is unmistakable, and has become, since the collective’s introduction in Star Trek: The Next Generation, iconic science fiction. They’re cool villains, and now you can merge your own technological uniqueness with theirs.
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Microsoft Claims To Be ‘Talking To Sony’ About Playing Nice
With the launch of the Xbox One X only a few months away, Microsoft needs an interim win to keep people interested in the console that is currently in a very distant second place to Sony. Which is why it is no surprise that Xbox Marketing Manager Aaron Greenberg told GameReactor it was “talking to…