Hey welcome to Zach's Tech Turf and our 100th episode of Weekly Download.
I can not believe we're already on episode 100, that's crazy.
I don't really have anything special planned, sorry for that.
But in today's episode I'm gonna be playing my new addiction Diablo 3 while I give you
the news, I got my cup of coffee right there, make sure you guys let me know what you're
sippin on, let's get into it.
To start off the tech news for the week, more and more rumors are starting to pile up indicating
that Google is trying to jump into the gaming industry, something that they surprisngly
haven't done yet, by making their own console.
I don't think we are anywhere close to getting any real announcements about this, but apparently
they are looking to acquire some major gaming companies and creating a streaming based console.
This would be similar to something like Nvidia's GeForce Now, make sure you check that video
out if you haven't by the way, but either way, these are just rumors.
Speaking of rumors apparently there was a naming leak at Intel that indicate their plans
for the next generation of mainstream CPUs.
In this list of leaked names was a core i9 9900K, i7 9700k, and an i5 9600K.
If ture, this is actually pretty crazy because this means that Intel plans to bring their
Core i9 CPU to the mainstream seres.
The list also suggests that it's an 8 core 16 thread chip and that's pretty much all
we know about it so far.
Next up a startup company called Plexus is working on creating Virtual Reality gloves
for the Vive and Rift that will bring individual finger control to a whole new level.
Priced at just $250 these look like they could provide about as realistic of a motion as
possible and the cool part is that they aren't actual gloves that will make your hands get
all sweaty.
This is still being development and has a ways before it's implemented but I'm definitely
rooting for this.
Moving on to something I'm definitely not rooting for, an article floating around has
indicated that Nvidia's new G-Sync HDR module chipe will add a $500 price tag to monitors.
As I'm sure most of you know by now, the two main types of adaptive sync in monitors
are Free Sync and GSync.
GSync monitor usually costs anywhere from $200-$300 more purely because the chips are
only sold by Nvidia, and this is why most people tend to go with a FreeSync monitor,
even if they have an Nvidia graphics card.
Well now that HDR is getting more mainstream, the GSync HDR chip is looking at a $500 bump
up in price which is just absolutely insane and probably something that I'll personally
never buy.
And to wrap up the tech news fo the week, Corsair announced this week that they acquired
the Elgato gaming division.
There's not much to report here, you probably know these 2 companies very well, and it definitely
seems like a good purchase for Corsair.
Corsair has been really stepping up their game lately with peripherals, and Elgato has
been dominating in their consumer friendly game streaming products as well.
I'm actually gonna review the Elgato HD60 here soon on the channel, I know I'm late
to the party but this thing has completely changed my workflow and I need to share this
with you guys.
To start off the PC gaming news for the week, it seems like Blizzard hit the nail on the
head with this latest Overwatch patch that added an LFG tool and endorsements.
To combat the toxicity that's been floating around Overwatch, and pretty much every competitive
game at this point, the LFG tool allows you to find other like-minded players to play
with, and then you can use the endorsement system to rate players on their behavior.
Apparently the community is really happy with this and it sounds pretty great.
Next up, Showtime announced this week that they purchased 10 episodes of a Halo live
action series which means we will finally see some Halo action on the TV.
The Showtime CEO even said that "Halo is our most ambitious series ever and in the
history of televesion, there simply has never been enough great science fiction."
I don't know too much more about this, I know people have been trying to get this green
lit for almost a decade now, but either way I'm kinda excited.
And to wrap up our very short week of PC gaming news, not much really happened this week to
be honest, and that's why I'm reporting some very boring news that PUBG Corp has is
no longer suing Epic Games for the whole PUBG/Fortnite thing and that may just be the end of that.
Sorry guys, did I miss anything newsworthy in PC gaming this week?
Let me know.
Well that wraps up Weekly Download episode number 100.
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