One week after the official GTX 780 and ShadowPlay announcement, nVidia's next big embargo has finally lifted, and this time, it's for the GTX 770.

Let's cut to the info you all want: Below, we'll explore the GTX 770's specifications, release date, pricing, memory bandwidth, and 770 vs. 780 benchmarks.

To bring something new to the MMORPG genre in 2013, Carbine Studios is heavily pushing a variation of the typical, streamlined character progression for its upcoming title, WildStar. Carbine recently organized a media QA in which they discussed their philosophy behind their “Paths” rewards system and revealed some more details regarding specific Path types.

For those of you unfamiliar with Carbine’s project, WildStar is a sci-fi/fantasy MMORPG that pits two factions competing for resources against each other, all based on planet "Nexus" (fitting). You can get up to speed on WildStar and Paths by checking out our PAX East coverage.

In an official press conference hosted by nVidia last week, the company made several announcements pertaining to video capture software, frametime optimization, and the GTX 700 series release dates, MSRP, and specs.

Supporting the expected GTX 700-series GPU announcements, nVidia surprised attending press with a redoubled focus on additional software packages and driver optimization. In this nVidia news coverage, we'll focus on ShadowPlay (similar to FRAPS), the GTX 780's release, GeForce Experience, and day-one drivers.

It feels like we've been posting a good deal of Small Form Factor products lately, and as I seem to mention in each of these posts, it's all on the heels of an impending HTPC / SFF revolution. Rather than use multiple 3rd-party boxes, faster internet speeds and the proliferation of streaming have encouraged more consumers to run home entertainment from a unified PC.

Like Lian-Li and SilverStone, ASUS acknowledges this and aims to tap-in to a developing market demand for high-power, SFF video cards. They've done so by shipping the smallest GTX 670 to-date, named the ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini Video Card. The new card comes complete with 2GB of on-card memory, a 256-bit memory interface, and 1344 CUDA cores, as we've come to expect from GTX 670 products.

When we met with Lian-Li at CES in January, we were presented with a series of all-aluminum cases (as the company is known for) spanning all major form factors. The range of mini-ITX/DTX form factor cases has been scarce and sporadic in both pricing and quality, but the growing HTPC interest has resulted in a boon to small form-factor products.

Alongside SilverStone, Lian-Li has made so me of the highest quality SFF cases we've seen to-date; the prices have generally been attainable, if a bit high, but cramming traditional mATX/ATX features into a smaller box tends to result in such price hikes. Lian-Li has now officially announced the release date of its PC-Q30 mini-ITX HTPC case, noteworthy for its angular shape and front-facing glass.