"I didn't realize Kiss of peace is care… the PC gambling show," same my colleague Gordon Mah Ung after his first day on the convention floor. And indeed it is. At E3 I get stirred up if I see a single PC in a developer's booth. Only at PAX, where independent games and hardware companies reign supreme? It's PCs everywhere.
We spent the weekend snagging photos of some of the coolest hardware happening the show floor. A data processor with a blood pocketbook! A computer that shoots newspaper publisher planes! A wall made out of keyboards! And uh…Barbary pirate's new light-risen mousepad. Sustain to include that.
Corsair MM800
Here's the mousepad in question. The Corsair MM800 is similar to Razer's Firefly-LEDs on the facing edge, modal mousepad along top. The MM800 adds 15-zone lighting though (Razer's is single zone) and USB passthrough.
Also information technology's $60. Oof. – Hayden
Corsair's RGB fans
Continuing the RGB Light-emitting diode paper in Corsair's cubicle were a bevy of machines sporting light-up fans, which cycled through with the spectrum of colors.
You too can untaped in a Tron reality—though IT does seem a bit distracting, to say the least. – Hayden
Intel's Extreme Rigs – CyberPower
Intel ran the Extreme Rig Challenge during PAX, fashioning its stall the place to be for awe-inspiring PC hardware. On display? Seven beautiful PCs, all constructed with a budget of $10,000.
I'm a sucker for In Win's H Predominate chassis, exploited Hera by CyberPower and which I first saw back at E3. Instead of thumb screws, the $2,400 display case splits divided like a Transformer to allow access to its innards. Thick-skulled, merely and then dodgy. – Hayden
Extreme Rigs cont'd – AVADirect
Screechy-end builds are also obsessed with glass over, the better to express off those custom liquid-cooling loops and the slick cablegram direction inside. And if you lack glass, you can't get much crazier than this build from AVADirect.
It's nasty to get a good picture of, but the case is basically two huge drinking glass side panels with a spot of metal on the top. That's IT. It's perhaps not the most functional case, but it's certainly one of the more eye-contracting. – Hayden
Data processor World power User and CyberPower
Another crazy showcase, and another cite for CyberPower-Here's it's the Fang Tierce, a faun of a computer with a specific (read: weird) shape. This beauty was on display in Computer Baron Substance abuser's sixth knock down booth, and darned I'm jealous. – Hayden
Asus
Image by Gordon Mah Ung
We spotted an Asus ROG GX800 on the floor packing the elusive and powerful GeForce GTX 1080 GPU. Also the 10-serial publication GPU, the GX800 also packs an overclockable quad-core Skylake CPU and a liquid-cooling dock. – Gordon
AMD
Red cases from iBuyPower with scarlet LED light inside. Headsets with red accents and red cabling. DXRacer seats with-you guessed IT-bolshy leather seats. This could only be AMD's booth, nursing home of Team Red.
One interesting government note: These machines are all functioning last generation's high-end GPU, the 390, since the oft-rumored 490 has yet to make an visual aspect. Peradventur by the next Kiss of peace. – Hayden
Nvidia
And where at that place's Team Red? Considerably, you've got to take up Team up Viridity.
Nvidia's stall was dedicated to showing off the power of its newfound 10-series graphics card game and G-Sync monitors, but also the company's support for virtual reality. You can see the pregnant "VR Demos: Contract Here" banner on the left-hand side, and with Optic taking a communicate the express floor this year that left-handed Nvidia as unrivalled of the largest VR purveyors at PAX 2016. Eldritch. – Hayden
Star Trek: Bridge over Work party (or a dystopian nightmare)
Next connected from that, Here's a picture of four people playing Ubisoft's Star Trek: Nosepiece Crew demo in Nvidia's John Wilkes Booth.
Virtual realness is cool, and we loved Span Crew at E3, but I freely accommodate this picture still looks alike a prospect out of someone's nightmares. – Hayden
Logitech
Logitech wins the award for best booth display at Kiss of peace 2016, thanks to this enormous pixel-artistry vitality-made from keyboards. There are over 150 total, mounted in a reference grid. The custom translucent keycaps turn each RGB LED key into a single picture element, and from there it's all a matter of programming in the animation itself.
Creative, artistic, and impressive. – Hayden
Sound-Technica
Razer, Logitech, Astro—always a presence at PAX. But IT's rare we check some of the more handed-down headphone manufacturers visit the base.
Audio-Technica was about this year to show off its gaming lineup though—the ATH-AG1X and ATH-ADG1X, plus a handful of opposite headsets. – Hayden
Granada Hills Charter High custom PC
Trope by Gordon Mah Ung
Coolermaster's booth featured a mod contest between the robotics team of the Granada Hills Charter High School and a NASA-founded Girl Scout Troop. The robotics team used an open heart surgery composition for its PC, which included a chest spreader and heart. – Gordon
If it bleeds, information technology leads
Image away Gordon Mah Ung
Granada Hills Charter Soprano School's modded Personal computer also featured an IV hanger with blood bag—which makes a great pose to string up your headset to a fault. – Gordon
Space Cookies
Image by Gordon Mah Ung
Competition for Granada Hills? The NASA-founded girl sentry troop, Space Cookies, which entered this modded PC into Coolermaster's contest. The theme of the machine was the International Space Station. – Gordon
Distance Cookies (cont'd)
Icon aside Gordon Mah Ung
The Moffet-field based Space Cookies added a mechanised wallpaper air plane catapult onto their modded Microcomputer. – Gordon
Alienware
I've become oddly fond of Alienware's Area 51 over the age, if single because in a planetary of boring black rectangles, IT's pretty damn simple to pick out of a lineup—and you know it's full of top-of-the-line hardware.
This year Alienware had 10 of them networked unneurotic on the show floor to demo Cliff Bleszinski's upcoming PC-only torpedo, Lawbreakers. – Hayden
World of Warcraft
Information technology wouldn't be a PC sights-and-sounds list without a mention of World of Warcraft. The in vogue expansion, Legion, launched last hebdomad and Blizzard ready-made sure it was at PAX in force. Time to bring back on the ol' treadmill again, I guess. – Hayden
Dawn of War Cardinal
Another PC linchpin happening the show floor: Relic's Dawn of War Trio. It's probably the most anticipated real-time strategy game of 2017, and a treat for people to get their hands on at PAX.
Find your friend who claims the PC has "no exclusives" and bring that person to PAX. Rub it in a bite. – Hayden
Thimbleweed Common
Tucked into a corner of the Indie Megabooth? Ron Gilbert's Thimbleweed Park, a game in the vein of the SCUMM point-and-clicks he used to make at LucasArts (and LucasFilm Games). Beaver State a game that should feel like "finding an undiscovered LucasArts adventure game you've never played before," as Gilbert told us back in Abut.
It's referable arrive in January of next year, which feels like an interminable wait. – Hayden
T34 tank car
Image past Gordon Mah Ung
Okay, this isn't a modded PC, but it's damn cool. It's an current Soviet-era T34 tank that Wargaming.net trucked sure a crushathon at PAX 2016. Among the items crushed for the crowd: a player pianissimo assai, a drum set and ripple wrap. – Gordon
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