Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available for Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets.
I knew it was coming and it was just one of a dozen excuses I used to justify buying a new Meta Quest 3 at launch. Late last week, whilst gathering a bit more material for my long in gestation Meta Quest 3 review, I came across the freshly released Xbox Cloud Gaming App in the Meta Quest store. Continue reading Xbox Cloud Gaming comes to Meta Quest headsets
Intel has unleashed the company’s new 14th-generation desktop processors. I check out the Core i9-14900K flagship CPU and its little sibling, the Core i5-14600K. Continue reading Intel Core i9-14900K and Intel Core i5-14600K 14th-generation CPU review
For the launch of Intel’s 14th Generation CPUs, ASUS has revisited its ATX DDR5 TUF Gaming Z790 motherboard to bring us the ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-PRO WIFI.
Sitting between Asus’s more budget-conscious Prime and enthusiast-level Republic of Gamers brands, the TUF Gaming brand styles itself on producing durable, military-grade components. Whilst they certainly look the part with a more industrial design, in my experience, TUF Gaming Z-series motherboards are dependable in that they offer reasonable performance tweaking without the instability that usually comes with overclocking. Continue reading ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-PRO WIFI motherboard review
The Intel Extreme Masters tournament returned to Sydney for an epic live esports competition running from the 20th to the 22nd of October.
It’s been four years since fans from all over the world turned up to watch the 2019 event in Sydney Olympic Park or the live stream over the Internet. A global phenomenon, this year, the Sydney leg of ESL’s IEM pro gaming tour ran parallel with the SXSW Sydney event at the International Convention Centre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour. Continue reading The Intel Extreme Masters returns to Sydney
The TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI is an AMD Socket AM5 ATX motherboard designed for AMD Ryzen 7000-series CPUs. I take it for a test.
Looking at the box, the TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI motherboard gave me quite the feeling of deja vu. I’ve reviewed a few similar Intel-based TUF Gaming XXX-Plus WIFI D4 motherboards, and this board looks virtually identical. The big difference is that this board supports DDR5 memory, as AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series chips don’t have an option for DDR4. Continue reading Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI motherboard review
As the moving feast that is virtual reality shifts once again, I take a look at HTC’s Vive XR Elite, a headset that heralds the arrival of the next generation of VR devices.
I first checked out the Vive XR Elite at a Sydney preview event, finding both the device’s wireless standalone VR and wireless PC VR experiences were very impressive. Since then, Sony has released its PlayStation VR2 headset, a device that has been lauded by console gamers, but left me feeling somewhat underwhelmed. Continue reading HTC Vive XR Elite review
Asus’s TUF Gaming B760-Plus WIFI D4 offers a fully functional 12th and 13th-generation Intel LGA 1700 ATX motherboard for the more budget-conscious gaming PC system build. Continue reading Asus TUF Gaming B760-Plus WIFI D4 motherboard review
Billed as the ultimate graphics cards for 1440p, AMD’s new Radeon RX 7800 XT and its sibling the Radeon RX 7700 XT aim to take on Nvidia in the contested, and very expensive, mid-range graphics card market. We were sent an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT reference card to test, which was perfect timing with the release of Bethesda’s AMD-optimised Starfield. Continue reading AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT review
