When: 11am to 6pm, October 15th

Where: Dolby Theatre, Soho Square, London

What: open(London) is a unique gathering of developers, publishers, chip designers and device makers who share a common goal of improving mobile gaming. Confirmed speakers include people from ARM, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Thumbstar, Unity and more.

Check out our event page to learn more and book your tickets, which you can get free if you're an indie dev or TIGA member. Also, we still have two slots free for game showcases, which will give indies a chance to show off their latest game on the big Dolby screen, talk about the performance challenges they've faced and meet potential supporters on the hardware side of the industry. Get in touch with sharif@gamebench.net if you're interested. 

Event page: GameBench presents open(London) 2015

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• GameBench Staff
• 14. September 2015

• gamebench, open(london), event

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When it was first unveiled, the LG G4 made a great first impression as an all-round smartphone. It came with a nice leather option, a rich and extremely high-resolution “Quantum Display,” plus a sophisticated rear camera that has been much raved about by mobile photography gurus.

But gamers and hardware enthusiasts probably found that their eyes settled on a different characteristic of the G4: its relatively uncommon Snapdragon 808 processor. There were fears that this chip was somehow a last-minute compromise, perhaps made in response to rumours of overheating issues with the higher-end Snapdragon 810. Whatever the reason behind LG's choice, many prospective buyers have asked whether this supposed downgrade of the chipset might hurt gaming performance, and that's precisely the question we're going to try to answer using the real-world tests below. 

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• GameBench Staff
• 10. August 2015

• performance, ios, android, frame rate, gamebench, lg g4, battery, snapdragon 808

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