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Nov 26, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jamie Lendino
16 hours agoThe Madden video game franchise is a cultural staple. Gamers ranging from professional football players to non-athletes have played a version of Madden for decades. The first version, called John Madden Football, was released in 1988. This year’s installment, Madden NFL ’25 (not to be confused with …
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Jamie Lendino
The revised and updated Second Edition of Adventure, by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino, details what it was like to play the Atari 2600 when it was new and exciting.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jamie Lendino
This Humble Bundle for Music Producers Contains $2,249 Worth of Virtual Instruments and SoundsPay what you want for IK Multimedia's terrific SampleTank 4, Miraslov Philharmonik, and 38 other plug-ins and soundbanks with 30GB of sounds. Humble …
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Ryan Whitwam |Josh Norem |Jamie Lendino
Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft has recently become the most valuable company in the world based on its massive investment in generative AI. That technology has yet to prove itself, but things are looking up for one of Microsoft's most important established products. The good news comes in the latest Steam survey, which shows Windows 11 is now the most popular platform for gaming PCs. It took almost three years for the new OS to squeak past Windows 10.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Josh Norem |Ryan Whitwam |Jamie Lendino
Nobody knows when Nvidia will be launching its next-generation Blackwell series of GeForce cards, but we now have our first bit of info about the mobile variants. A reliable source in China has shared some details from a pre-launch meeting with a laptop manufacturer. New information regarding the upcoming RTX 5060 mobile GPU was discussed at the meeting, giving us our first trustworthy account of the incoming GeForce lineup.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Josh Norem |Ryan Whitwam |Jamie Lendino
Credit: SonyA chip manufacturer in China has reportedly shipped components to Sony and Nintendo for their new consoles. Though we still have limited information about the so-called PlayStation 5 Pro and Switch 2, the shipment of a major part could mean both consoles are closer to finally hitting shelves. Writers for MoneyDJ, a Chinese financial news outlet, attended an investor's briefing last week in which the CEO of chip manufacturer Weltrend mentioned the consoles.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Josh Norem |Ryan Whitwam |Jamie Lendino
Credit: NvidiaNvidia has finally pulled the wraps off the industry's worst-kept secret, a "new" RTX 4070 with GDDR6 memory. The previous version came with GDDR6X memory, but due to a shortage, Nvidia has swapped it out for slightly slower memory, although it says performance will be "similar." Everything else about the GPU is the same, including its $549 price tag. Nvidia launched the 4070 at $599, then lowered the price when the Super version debuted at $599.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Ryan Whitwam |Josh Norem |Jamie Lendino
Credit: NvidiaNvidia has announced a major change to its image-smoothing G-Sync technology that will open the feature up to more gamers. Nvidia and MediaTek have linked up to redesign G-Sync to work with MediaTek monitor scalers, doing away with the expensive hardware G-Sync module. That means wider support for the full suite of G-Sync features and (hopefully) lower prices for your next gaming display. Nvidia announced G-Sync in 2013 to solve a long-standing problem with PC gaming.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
extremetech.com | Jamie Lendino |Ryan Whitwam |K. Thor Jensen |Josh Norem
Credit: AtariAtari has unveiled the 7800+ ($129.99), another miniature retro console that this time brings the more powerful 1986 system to modern gamers. Like the Atari 2600+ before it, the 7800+ is a dead ringer for a real model hit with a shrink ray, and it has an HDMI output for connecting it to today's TVs.The 7800 ProSystem was a terrific console and a victim of unfortunate timing.
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May 14, 2024 | 
pcmag.com | Jamie Lendino
For many mix engineers and producers, desktops and laptops have become a natural place to compose, record, mix, and master new music. At first, I wasn't sure what to make of Logic Pro for iPad when Apple unveiled it last year. It quickly became apparent in early hands-on testing that it had the goods. It was the first time I saw something as powerful as a desktop digital audio workstation running on a tablet.
