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10 For Windows 10: Tips And Tricks
With Windows 10 now available for free upgrade, enthusiasts and pros both are looking for more ways to enhance their experience. This has been touted as the last Windows, with constant free updates to improve and add features through the years. We’ve taken the time to dig under the hood and find some tips and tricks for you. Do not worry, none of these methods need you to tinker with the registry, they are all legit features that Microsoft has added, and you should definitely make use of them, or at the very least, know about them! Windows 10 is already brimming with handy new features, have fun exploring them all! 1. Meet Cortana Cortana’s finally made the leap to the PC in Windows 10, assuming control of the operating system’s search functions and dishing out just as much sass as t...
Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts At A Glance
Windows 10 comes with a host of new fearures along with a bunch of new keyboard shortcuts. Lets just say that they are very nifty and speeds up the workflow a lot. So read on to become more efficient and getting a step closer to being a pro user! One of my favorite shortcuts is Windows + Tab which opens the brand new Windows 10 Task View. Besides the list of running applications, you’ll also notice the option to add Virtual Desktops on the bottom of your screen. Virtual Desktops allow you to create multiple desktops beyond the limitations of a physical display. It’s a great way to organize and quickly access groups of windows on your PC or tablet. Here’s my list of Windows 10 shortcuts, and – in addition – some of my favorite “old but gold” shortcuts known from previous versions of Windows...
Gamescom 2015 Digest: All You Need to Know
Gamescom rolled around like a mini-E3, with conferences, game reveals and gameplay trailers a-plenty. Here’s a quick primer on all the gaming news and announcements from there: Halo 5: Guardians’ multiplayer was shown off. For those not keeping up, Halo 5 will have two distinct multiplayer modes: Arena and Warzone. Warzone is the traditional Halo multiplayer experience while Arena is an all new e-sports mode. And Microsoft is betting big on e-sports: they announced a prizepool of One Million Dollars. And they streamed a match to the showfloor between the top teams of Europe and US. The Halo 5 Edition Xbox One was also shown off. Halo Wars 2 was also announced Remedy’s Quantum Break is also incoming, and has a novel new idea: a tie-in in-game TV show. Microsoft announced...
Steam Hit by Major Security Breach, Many Accounts Hacked
Valve’s Steam is the biggest platform in the PC gaming market, with Valve themselves being one of the most prominent companies in the gaming industry as a whole. Steam has millions of accounts all over the world, and in some cases people have invested literally thousands of dollars into their own accounts. Which is why a security breach like the one that just occurred a few days ago is something to take very seriously. Reports are still blurry and information keeps coming out – Valve themselves are yet to make an official statement on the issue – but according to a demonstration that was posted on YouTube, a hacker could abuse the “forgotten password” feature in Steam’s log-in service, completely bypassing the stage where they have to enter a security code, and being granted access to rese...
CoD Black Ops multiplayer beta comes to PC on 26 Aug
If you’ve been dying to try out the upcoming Call of Duty’s new multiplayer mode but don’t have a PlayStation 4 console, you may not breathe a sigh of relief. As long as you have an Xbox One or at least a PC, that is. Activision has just revealed the schedule of the open beta of Black Ops’ multiplayer mode across all supported platforms. While PS4 gamers will indeed get to taste it earlier, other gamers won’t be far behind, following just seven days later. This preferential treatment for the PS4 is being credited to Activision’s closer ties with Sony. And it isn’t just this multiplayer beta. Sony’s console will get the first dibs on everything, like new content. This is a rather drastic change from the special favors that Microsoft’s Xb...
MGS V to be Bundled With Nvidia GPUs
Nvidia is the replacing Batman Arkham Knight bundle with Metal Gear Solid V: the Phantom Pain. Nvidia bundles The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman: Arkham Knight with the GTX 970 and 980. But they have apparently decided to let go of Arkham Knight because of the massive disappointment that the PC port was. They have not announced this, but Newegg leaked it accidentally. Afterwards, a Newegg spokesman said “Hi everyone! We had a little slip up and posted this deal ahead of schedule. It is not currently available, but stay tuned, it will be soon!” MGS V The Phantom Pain comes out in two months, and is readily anticipated by fans, while Batman: Arkham Knight is still plagued with numerous issues and is still off of the shelves. Rocksteady and WB are fixing the PC version, with a patch co...
Patches! Gitch’yer Patches ‘ere! Arkham Knight, GTA V and Witcher 3
This week’s major updated games are: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman Arkham Knight. Batman Arkham Knight‘s PC version is still not fixed, and after delaying the Batgirl DLC, WB has announced that the latest patch for the game is coming on July 27th. No fixes have been detailed yet, but prepare for one massive patch notes section this time. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt got a patch this week, the Patch 1.07, and it adds quite a bit, but it also reportedly causes performance slowdowns in consoles. CDPR is already calling it the “Largest patch for the game yet”. The patch is 7.3 GBs on consoles and around 2.2 GBs on the PC. The PC version is just a prep patch and apparently doesn’t do much, with the proper patch arriving soon. You can find a (rather too complete f...
AMD Refreshes Their APU Lineup with the A8-7870K
AMD launched the A8-7670K APU in their Godavari line of APUs, featuring native Windows 10 support and unparelleled performance at the budget. For the people not in the know, an APU combines a CPU and a proper GPU in one die. This APU has 10 computational cores: 4 CPU running up to 3.9GHz + 6 GPU running at 757MHz. The integrated GPU in this case is an unspecified Radeon R7 class GPU, which, while not on par with proper dedicated mid-range GPUs, outperforms embedded solutions by a country mile. An upscaled version of these APUs are most famously present in the Xbox One and PS4. The A8-7670k comes packed with all the Radeon goodies: AMD Eyefinity for multi-monitor setups, FreeSync, AMD’s Gaming Evolved, which allows game footage capturing and automatic game optimisation, Virtual Super ...
Easter Egg in Ground Zeroes Sheds Light on Kojima-Konami Split
GamesRadar‘s Leon Hurley discovered an Easter egg in the PS3/4 (timed) exclusive mission Déjà Vu, and it’s rather unsettling: in it, you erase games directed by Kojima himself with your UV light (and only those: games not directed by him are unaffected) and then a message, seemingly by Kojima himself, plays. You can see a somewhat condensed run-through of the easter egg bit below: (note the classic Snake model from Metal Gear Solid) (video courtesy of timesplitter88) This puts a rather interesting take on the whole Kojima-Konami split, mainly that Kojima knew that it’s going to get ugly and tried to get the word out. The fact that it was in the Déjà Vu mission, which was marketed to fans of the franchise (it was released on PS3/4 first and was a timed exclusive to ...
Shenmue III Gets a New Trailer
After famously appearing on Sony’s E3 showfloor out of the blue, Shenmue III released a new trailer on Wednesday. The trailer, called Lake of the Lantern Bugs, shows Shenhua and Ryo by a lakeside. It’s barely a half-minute long and comes near the closing of the Kickstarter campaign. At the time of writing, the Kickstarter has over five and a half million dollars and a day to go. It’s original goal wa two million dollars and the highest stretch goal is ten million dollars. For all the latest news, keep checking back at Gaming Central.
FNAF 4 Gets a New Trailer, Release Date and Expansion
Scott Cawthorn announced the fourth Five Nights at Freddy’s game to YouTuber Dawko, who promptly leaked it on Reddit. In the e-mail (pictured below), Scott said that he planned to release the game on August 8th, the one year anniversary of the original FNAF and will have a free update with extra content on October 31st (Halloween) For more gaming news and reviews, stay tuned to Gaming Central
Reports: Arkham Knight Won’t Come to Steam Until Autumn, DLC Delayed
Kitguru reported that Arkham Knight won’t come back to Steam until maybe this fall. This comes hot on the heels of the official update on the Steam page by WB, in which they apologised for the debacle again and told that they are “modifying the internal review process for all of our games” and reassured the community that they are “working on [the updated version of the game on PC] every day” and “for the players who are continuing to play Batman: Arkham Knight on PC, fixes are continually being made to the game as we await the final updated version” They also announced that “Batman: Arkham Knight – Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC will not be available on July 14 for those who are currently playing the PC version of the game” to “...