The Verge

OCTOBER 10, 2020

It’s not clear whether Razer commissioned Secretlab to build an exclusive new gaming chair, or simply decided to copy one of today’s oft-cited favorites , but the new $499 Razer Iskur is a dead ringer for the similarly-priced Secretlab Omega and Titan. Razer did not use the word “Secretlab” in its press briefing.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I’ve played a variety of games on this preview unit, testing load times, performance, and some of the new Series X features. That’s how much the Xbox Series X improves the games you already play every day. The most significant and obvious improvement with existing games on the Xbox Series X is the massive changes to load times.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The new Xbox feels like you’re upgrading your PC Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X console is designed to usher in a new era of gaming. We affectionally call it the “next gen” every time a big leap in console hardware arrives, promising new games and things we’ve never seen before. Even older games like GTA V load a lot faster than before.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Hours after announcing it would bring controversial horror game Devotion to its platform, CD Projekt Red’s digital storefront GOG has reneged on its release plans. The company’s social media account claims that “after receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store.”.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

A top-notch convertible with a pricey sidecar If I saw the Asus ROG Flow X13 in the wild, I would never guess it was a gaming laptop. A 13-inch gaming laptop with those proportions isn’t unheard of, but it’s certainly unusual. The secret is that the real gaming hardware is on the outside. inch 2-in-1 convertible that’s just 2.9

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Image by Epic Games. Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. While you’re looking at incoming revenue and comparing it to the prior year, take some time to review your expenses as well. Whatever the case may be, don’t forget to monitor your expenditures.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Not so much Earlier this year, my colleague Cameron Faulkner reviewed the Razer Kishi , a smartly designed game controller for Android phones created in collaboration with Gamevice. It solves many of the biggest pain points of mobile game controllers: they can be awkward to carry, attach, detach, and pair with your device.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a web app people will be able to add to their homescreens like a native app. The site will let you play simple web games like Solitaire and match-threes and stream more graphically intensive titles like racing games.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The key difference is the overall volume, which makes it tiny in comparison to the Xbox One X. The Series S GPU works out to 4 teraflops of performance, designed to provide 1440p gaming at 60fps and beyond. The Series S is only a few millimeters taller than an Xbox One X and exactly the same height as an Xbox One S.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Intel is hitting back at Apple’s new M1 MacBooks with some benchmarks of its own, after early reviews showed impressive performance and battery life from Apple’s ARM-based chips. Intel’s benchmarks also include comparisons between HandBrake transcoding, Adobe Premiere Pro exports, and tasks in both Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The cure for the common gaming PC When we reviewed the $499 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 , we called it the 1440p sweet spot. At that resolution, you don’t have to compromise on a single graphical setting in your games, similar to how the bigger $699 RTX 3080 doesn’t make you compromise at 4K.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

But we’ve generally found that Razer’s thin machines run quite hot in our reviews, and the Blade in question was no exception even with a quarter of the memory and a less powerful RTX 3060 GPU. The primary hardware comparison the company touts is a 4x speedup over Apple’s M1 Max in a 16-inch MacBook Pro when running TensorFlow.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The other day, I saw a game named Valheim atop the Steam Early Access sales charts, with overwhelmingly positive reviews. Polygon seemed to like the $20 Viking-themed survival game , and I thought friends might like it, too. Valheim , by comparison, is slow and methodical.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new Pixel 6 finds Google really upping its smartphone game, but is it better than Apple's iPhone 13? We find out in this head-to-head comparison review.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

There’s also a very slight color variation between the two displays on my review unit — the white point on the left-hand side seems a little redder. The original version it sent out to reviewers was riddled with show-stopping bugs and crashes. But a better comparison for the Duo isn’t the iPad; it’s the original Surface tablet.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t just one of the biggest games of the year; it’s also one of the most technically demanding. CD Projekt Red’s ambitious roleplaying game takes place in a huge, dense open world, and — as anyone who has ever played a Bethesda game can attest to — technology is often a step behind the designers in these kinds of experiences.

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Digital Trends

JULY 6, 2021

The latest Xbox news, reviews, and guides, all in one place. From Xbox Series X exclusives to Nintendo Switch and PS5 comparisons, we’ve gathered the information you need to fully immerse yourself in Xbox gaming. Digital Trends offers extensive coverage of everything Microsoft’s flagship console has to offer.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Cresting a new wave of inexpensive gaming handhelds There have been several attempts to create Android-based game consoles, but none have really gone to plan. Nvidia’s streaming-focused Shield , meanwhile, evolved into a great streaming box but didn’t do much to make Android a better gaming platform.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This iteration of the XPS 17 is identical on the outside to the model we reviewed back in the middle of 2020. As Monica Chin pointed out in her review of the prior model , the XPS 17’s screen makes it very easy to put two windows side by side for comparison. The XPS 17 is not a gaming laptop (where’s the RGB?),

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

Last year, when Volkswagen unveiled the ID 4 for the first time at an eerily empty, socially distanced event in Brooklyn, the company’s CEO for North America, Scott Keogh, warned me not to make the obvious comparisons to other EVs, like Tesla. Three years of free charging with VW’s Electrify America.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Microsoft surprised everyone with this smaller, cheaper next-gen Xbox, promising that the Series S is “designed to play games at 1440p at 60 frames per second.” At $299, the Xbox Series S looks, on paper, like a budget entry into the next generation of Xbox games. Will this console hold back next-gen games? Will it hit 1440p?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

My takeaway for the regular iPhone 13 doesn’t require relative comparisons, though: battery life is excellent. That was with some camera testing, watching some video, the usual doomscrolling, emails, work, and some games. Because if you focus on the fundamentals, your whole game gets better. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

Arm for Windows has certainly improved since we first reviewed the Surface Pro X in 2019. The last one I reviewed was Acer’s ConceptD Ezel , a hulking 5.6-pound I think this is the first laptop I’ve ever reviewed that I wish had slightly larger bezels. You can download Steam, but a bunch of games aren’t there.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Those sorts of gaps are fairly normal for a new platform, but the new Chromecast does have one very strange omission: Google’s own game streaming service, Stadia. The new Chromecast with Google TV, by comparison, has several layers. You can read our full review of the new Chromecast with Google TV right here.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

I wanted to understand: how is a single man making the entire Apple App Store review team look silly? There’s a lot to unpack there: fake free trials, fake reviews, subscription awareness. Then, you find ones where the user reviews are suspicious and look for ridiculously high subscription prices. Can it really be this easy?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Every DualSense controller has 40,000 tiny PlayStation symbols When my colleague Andrew Webster reviewed the PlayStation 5, he explained how Sony’s next-generation of video games is something you can’t see — you have to touch. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It makes sense.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

All in, the bundle of products I reviewed would cost $2,349.97 For comparison, the Sonos Arc is a 5.0.2 Surprisingly there’s no preset audio mode for gaming. Passthrough largely worked flawlessly, with the soundbar correctly detected different audio codecs being sent from games and streaming apps on the game console.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

This $379 (on paper at least) card is built on the same RDNA 2 architecture that AMD is using for its high-end cards, but it’s designed to boost 1080p gaming instead of reaching the heights of 4K gaming. While it hits 60fps on average, it dropped to the 30fps range at more demanding parts of the game. Bonus puppy for scale.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As someone who plays primarily on PC, the lower frame rates and input lag on current-generation consoles are enough to put me off playing a lot of games on an Xbox One or PS4. That was until I started playing games on the Xbox Series X three weeks ago. But it’s most of the way there. More on these in the next section.)

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

For $200 you can upgrade to the model I’m reviewing, which has 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Note that there’s no discrete GPU option, but Iris Xe graphics can lend a hand in some lightweight gaming and graphic work. The 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro 360 starts at $1,299. All I want is a garage, Samsung. Two buttons on the pen.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

I would normally start a phone review by talking about its industrial design. Here are a few comparisons with the iPhone 11, which is one of the better cameras in this price segment. Apps load quickly, web pages render as expected, games run fine, and so on. The question is what was sacrificed to achieve this.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

The performance I saw here wasn’t a massive upgrade from the previous Aero 15, but it’s still some of the best gaming and productivity performance that you’ll find among laptops of this size. Getting straight to the gaming: Red Dead Redemption 2 averaged 80fps on the ultra preset in 1080p, dropping to 37fps in 4K. inch 4K OLED screen.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

$499 for some solid 1440p PC gaming Last month, Nvidia’s RTX 3080 ushered in the next generation of 4K gaming with an impressive leap in performance over the 2080 model it replaced. This combination of performance and price puts the RTX 3070 in the ideal sweet spot for 1440p gaming.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Not quite a gaming PC. For a more modern comparison, both the XPS 13 and the XPS 13 2-in-1 (both with a Core i7-1165G7) took over 10 minutes to complete the task. These results are mostly for the sake of performance comparison — the Latitude wouldn’t be the best choice for anyone regularly working with 4K and 8K video.).

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

OnePlus also tosses in extras like a low-latency mode for gaming and Zen Mode Air, which plays soothing relaxation audio. I bring up the Nothing buds because they’re the first project of OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s new company and, at least on paper, have similar capabilities, so there will inevitably be comparisons between the two.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The $299 next-gen console will arrive on November 10th, designed to be a more affordable option for 1440p gaming. There’s an obvious power gap here, but Microsoft is targeting the Xbox Series S at 1080p or 1440p monitors and TVs, so you don’t need the same GPU power required for things like 4K gaming.

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