Categories Posted inin Business Samsung Sweden got a llama to unbox the Galaxy S7 while Samsung Indonesia leaked the phone on video Posted byby GamesBeat February 16, 2016 2 min We’re in the final week before Samsung unveils the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge on February 21 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge leaked from every angle Posted byby GamesBeat February 15, 2016 2 min Samsung shipped more phones than any other company in 2015, meaning its upcoming flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge devices are once again... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Oculus VR guru John Carmack leads crucial position-tracking development for mobile VR Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 9, 2016 2 min Oculus VR has one of its biggest brains working on a feature that could make mobile virtual reality even more impressive than its Rift... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Google reportedly plans to release a Cardboard successor like Samsung’s Gear VR this year Posted byby GamesBeat February 7, 2016 2 min Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset for smartphones this year, pegged as a successor to its Google Cardboard platform and... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Samsung confirms Galaxy S7 event for February 21 Posted byby GamesBeat February 1, 2016 2 min It’s been a crazy Samsung weekend. In less than 48 hours, we learned what the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge will look like, and... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business AMD’s graphics guru describes the march to full graphics immersion with 16K screens Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 15, 2016 10 min When Advanced Micro Devices created its own stand-alone graphics division, Radeon Technologies Group, and crafted a new brand, Polaris, for its upcoming graphics architecture,... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Technology CEO Lisa Su expects company watchers to say ‘AMD is back’ in 2016 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 14, 2016 21 min Advanced Micro Devices has had a few tough years as it struggles to stay afloat financially and compete with Intel, the world’s biggest chip... Continue Reading 21 min
Categories Posted inin Business $599 Oculus Rift headset and 100 games will kickstart VR in 2016 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 11, 2016 10 min CES was a big event for Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The Facebook-owned company said it would begin... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Our preview of next week’s CES 2016 tech extravaganza Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 1, 2016 4 min I made my predictions last week about what will happen in games in 2016. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 30, 2015 10 min The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their... Continue Reading 10 min