DreamHack is the world's largest LAN party with over 56,000 visitors, 23,425 unique devices in the network and close to 10,000 visitors who enjoy DreamHack with their own computers. This winter GIGABYTE is making its DreamHack debut with a bang, hosting one of the biggest booths packed with non-stop fun, excitement and tons of prizes for everyone!
Started in September 2016, a group of PC mod enthusiasts in the GIGABYTE gaming team embarked upon a mission to build a badass custom gaming PC desk from scratch. After two short months, here it is. Let us witness the beauty of this awesome modding materpiece inside and out!
Look up! The titans are going to fall from the sky, again. Titanfall 2, the sequel to the well-acclaimed FPS hit in 2014, has been released in the end of October. Best known for its dynamic and fast-paced multiplayer gameplay, it now has added the single-player story campaign, featuring the plots developed between the protagonist and the Mech, and thusly delivering the whole new experience of the franchise. Just as a good pilot cannot fight without a Mech, an AORUS gamer must not play without a graphics card. Below we present you the latest performance analysis, to find out the best gear for you.
This year GIGABYTE is bound for Sweden to join the largest LAN party of the world - DreamHack Winter. Here at GIGABYTE, we are busy packing up as we count down to our pilgrimage to the festival. BYOC attendees, are you guys ready to roll as well? Here we lay out a pack list and some useful tips for attending BYOC at DreamHack or basically any other LAN parties elsewhere. If you are a veteran, you could use it as a checklist to remind yourself whether there is anything you forget to pack. If you a first-time player to BYOC, this list serves as an ideal quick guide to tell you what to bring for maximizing your fun at DreamHack.
After the overnight gaming spree, BYOC gamers on site became even more excited about the upcoming event. As the emotion turned high, so did the sky turned bright. The second day of WirForce 2016 was also Friday, and GIGABYTE's booth was swarmed with even bigger crowds, longing for a close trial of the best gaming experience powered by Xtreme Gaming.
WirForce 2016, the grand year-end event for gamers in Taiwan and the largest Lan Party in Asia, has finally opened on the 10th of November. As one of the closest supporters of gaming entertainment, GIGABYTE Xtreme Gaming presents with the largest booth on site to show the commitment to gamers.
With the recent VRM cooling debacles, many of you who bought GIGABYTE GTX 10 series graphics cards are also curious about what exactly it is like below the heat sink of your cards and whether the internal components are properly cooled. To answer to your requests, we summoned all of our GTX 1080, GTX 1070, and GTX 1060 graphics cards and had the heat sinks removed for a full-scale showcase, providing a close look at the cards' internals to satisfy your curiosity at once.
As one of the very first “Xbox Play Anywhere” games, Gears of War 4 is definitely the most anticipated title for Third-Person Shooter fans in the winter of 2016. With this fourth main installment of the franchise, you get to play as J.D. Fenix, son of the legendary Marcus Fenix, and fight for the survival of all humanity on the planet Sera. We’re all familiar with the saying, “Like father, like son.” But how well in fact do the latest GTX 10 series and AMD RX series outperform their predecessors? And what’s the best “Gears of War”? Let’s find out!
Since its first introduction at E3 2014, “No Man’s Sky” has been pinned on top of the list of the most anticipated games. Yet, the long wait turned out to be the biggest disappointment in 2016 somehow. Soon after its launch in August, the community quickly find themselves misled by false advertising, and the should-be-star ended up a tragic meteor. However, No Man’s Sky is indeed groundbreaking in game design, in spite of the failure in business. Therefore, we present you this simple benchmark, to see how it takes to baldly go no man has gone before.
As the 3rd major sequel in the well-acclaimed RPG series, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has finally been released in late August. It was also a grand debut of the Dawn Engine, which was built for “PCs and the new generation of consoles” according to the developer, Eidos Montréal. Yet, the initial version was only compatible with DX11, and not until early September was it patched to run in DX12. So it’s time for AORUS Lab to test how it performs with the latest generation graphics cards, and to find out which does the better job: DX11, or Dx12?
After a 7-day open beta, the short and brief tour in the world of Battlefield 1 has come to an end on September 8th. And now we have to wait one and a half month until the full content is finally unveiled before us. But, seriously, how can you be sure that you're ready for the upcoming battles? Yes, we're all aware of the famous quote, "Wars are won by soldiers." Yet no soldiers can fight without equipment and gears. Fine gears, especially. Since there's a plenty of time before the troops set off, AORUS Gaming Blog features this performance analysis for you to figure out what's the best weapon for the Great War ahead.
Check out some of Voyboy's best and funniest moments at GIGABYTE booth during Computex 2016.
Overwatch, Blizzard’s latest and first FPS game, has been immensely popular since its launch. Since it’s being a phenomenon these days, XG Blog decided to feature this column as a summary of what happened in the community of Overwatch every last week.
Remaking, or remastering, has been a widely common solution to modernize those classic titles for the latest hardware with the original gameplay and story, yet way better graphics. Generally speaking, the larger the audience of the title is, the more likely it is to be remade /remastered. Recently a couple of remakes of some classic titles have been announced. Thus Xtreme Gaming Blog features this story to cover the most anticipated upcoming remakes in the near future.
Overwatch, Blizzard’s latest and first FPS game, has been immensely popular since its launch. Since it’s being a phenomenon these days, XG Blog decided to feature this column as a summary of what happened in the community of Overwatch every last week.
Community Effort Orlando (CEO) 2016, held June 24th through June 26th at Orlando, Florida is over and for the 3rd time in the Capcom Pro Tour 2016 season the Grand Finals was between South Korea's RZR|Infiltration and Japan's Tokido.
Overwatch, Blizzard’s latest and first FPS game, has been immensely popular since its launch. Since it’s being a phenomenon these days, XG Blog decided to feature this column as a summary of what happened in the community of Overwatch every last week.
This amazing work of art is created by Suchao Prowphonga, a case modding master from Thailand. Based on the concept of futuristic war machines, the flying battleship mod was built from scratch and specially designed to show off the beauty of our GIGABYTE graphics card in its entirety.
Leave your Mega Man behind. It’s time for Mighty No. 9! Since Capcom has no plans on Mega Man currently, its former producer Keiji Inafune however succeeds the franchise’s spirit, and presents now the new title to the fans of the blue combat robot.
When it comes to the best Metroidvania-type games, Castlevania is definitely on the top of the list. Though we haven’t heard much news of the franchise lately from Konami, its spiritual successor is yet on the way. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is not only inspired by Castlevania, but actually led by its former producer, Koji Igarashi.