NVIDIA streamed a long event last night as part of their Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 announcements. NVIDIA announced an expansion to their SHIELD line of gaming hardware and the commercial availability of their GRID service. NVIDIA has had their SHIELD portable and SHIELD tablet out for a couple of years now and with last night's announcement, they are adding an … [Read more...]
YouTube Kids app brings safe videos to little ones
YouTube introduced a new app for Android and iOS devices specifically built from the ground up for kids. The app provides safe video content for kids in a layout that is easy to navigate and browse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUmMAAPX6E8 YouTube's approach for the new app included a new design with large images and icons. It also offers built-in voice search to even help … [Read more...]
YouTube introducing multi-view videos
YouTube is introducing videos with multiple angles. The new experience is being dubbed Choose Your View and is available as a separate tab on a YouTube channel. During playback of a video with Choose Your View capability, you can click on the thumbnail to switch to that camera angle. Alternatively, you can use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard or the number 1-4 to … [Read more...]
Minecraft now allows you to change your in-game name
Mojang will now allow you to change your Minecraft name. This new capability went live today. You can change your name by visiting your Mojang account page. With the name change capability, there are still a few rules in play - names have to be unique and you can only change your name every 30 days, even to change it back. You can change the capitalization of your name while … [Read more...]
Dimmdrive brings a RAMdisk to gaming
We have previously written about a RAM disk with StarWind RAM Disk. The software essentially tricks your computer into treating an amount of RAM similar to a hard drive where you can temporarily store and access files at really high speeds. Another product has come along called Dimmdrive which offers a RAMdisk tailored to gamers. The software has been available previously but … [Read more...]