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Dell Alienware x15: The Thinnest Gaming Laptop on the Market

As Dell’s flagship gaming laptop model, Alienware has always prioritized specs more than portability and aesthetics. The previous laptop in the series, the Alienware Area-51m R2, was a 44mm-thick behemoth that weighs over 4kg, and the previous models were very similar in build. As such, this year’s ultra-thin Dell Alienware x15 laptop was a pleasant surprise. And what’s more impressive is how it performs nearly as well as its predecessors.

Everything you need to know about PlayStation Network cards

Did you know that you can top up your PlayStation Store wallet without using your credit card? Here is everything you need to know about PlayStation Network cards.

4 Games That Could Be The Next Big Game In Streaming

In 2020, Among Us showed us your game doesn’t have to be a revolutionary concept, be full of flashy graphics, have ray-tracing level fidelity, or even that much gameplay for that matter. It just has to be the right idea at the right time.

Qfusion 3D Open Source Game Engine

Qfusion is a 3D game engine. The project was begun by Victor Luchitz alongside a few others. It is written in C for use on Windows and Unix-based systems. The engine additionally supports the information of Quake III as guides, 3D models and shaders.

The K60 RGB Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Introduced by Corsair

Corsair has delivered its most up to date PC gaming keyboard, which has been named K60 RGB Pro; this keyboard has been worked for both style and substance, which includes an aluminum outline.

Direct3D Retained mode sample

Over here I’ll shove in some basics, like coordinate systems, world and object coordinate systems, etc. For now I’ll assume you’re at least a little familiar with 3D programming. Blah blah blah, differences between immediate and retained mode, etc etc.

DirectX Programming: A Sample for Microsoft DirectDraw

This is a very simple DirectDraw sample using Microsoft DirectX under Visual C++.

Palettes, Gaming Concepts & Double Buffering in DirectX

Screen modes come in several flavours, based on how many bits are used to store the color of each pixel on the screen. Naturally, the more bits you use per pixel, the more colours you can display at once; but there is more data to move into graphics memory to update the screen.