{"id":68294,"date":"2014-08-27T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68294"},"modified":"2014-08-27T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:57:49","slug":"razer-cortex-wants-to-take-over-your-gaming-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/68294-razer-cortex-wants-to-take-over-your-gaming-pc","title":{"rendered":"Razer Cortex wants to take over your gaming PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Razer, which is more known for its mice, keyboards, and PC hardware, has launched a new software platform it hopes will become the centre of your PC gaming experience.<\/p>\n<p>Called Razer Cortex, the free service is in its early access period at the moment, and is scheduled to launch in September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do with Cortex, you ask? A few things, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manage your save games;<\/li>\n<li>Launch games from the platform;<\/li>\n<li>Share content online through Facebook and YouTube;<\/li>\n<li>Record video without watermarks or time, resolution, and frame rate restrictions;<\/li>\n<li>Deal finder &#8211; which tracks prices of digital PC games across multiple sales platforms, such as Steam, Amazon, GOG, Green Man Gaming, etc, and shows you who has the cheapest price;<\/li>\n<li>Game booster optimisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deal finder is arguably the handiest feature of the lot, although this might spell the end for <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/68136-this-weeks-best-gaming-deals-5.html\">MyGaming&#8217;s best gaming deals article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game booster function helps to ensure games are running well by streamlining the game&#8217;s settings &#8211; this includes calibrating visual settings to suit your hardware, tracking drivers and updates, and\u00a0defragmenting your hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in the service, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razerzone.com\/cortex\/earlyaccess\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68298\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Razer-Cortex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68298\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68298\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Razer-Cortex-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"Razer Cortex\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Razer-Cortex-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Razer-Cortex.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Razer Cortex<\/p><\/div>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/want-your-pc-games-to-cost-less-and-run-better-raz\/1100-6421933\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68048-hotline-miami-action-figures-need-your-help.html\">Hotline Miami action figures need your help<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/68064-this-weeks-epic-video-roundup-8.html\">This week\u2019s epic video roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68042-world-of-warcraft-subscriptions-to-increase.html\">World of Warcraft subscriptions to increase<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Razer Cortex will manage your save games, find the best gaming deals, and streamline sharing your content online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":68296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,807,12868,85],"class_list":["post-68294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-pc-gaming","tag-razer-cortex","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68304,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68294\/revisions\/68304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}