The Nintendo Switch is off to a fantastic start for Nintendo, with sales on track to eclipse the Wii U within the first year. Unfortunately, successful products usually bring the patent trolls out from the shadows. This week, accessory and peripheral maker ‘Gamevice’ filed a lawsuit against Nintendo over the …

After some deliberation, the highly respected Consumer Reports magazine has stripped its ‘recommended’ badge from Microsoft’s entire lineup of Surface PCs, finding that the hardware is “significantly less reliable” than other brands. Consumer Reports came to this conclusion after surveying around 90,000 laptop and tablet owners, finding that around 25 …

It has been just under two years since Bethesda first launched Fallout 4. During that time, many patches have been released and a good number of DLCs have been made to bring more content to the game. As a result, Fallout 4 will finally be getting its Game of the …

EA Access and Origin Access are about to get a big push this week, as Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 have officially joined the vault. This means those who subscribe to EA Access (Xbox) or Origin Access (PC) will get free access to both of EA's big 2016 shooters. Titanfall 2 …

Earlier this year, we learned that Intel would be acquiring the self-driving car firm ‘Mobileye’ for $15 billion, signalling increased interest in autonomous vehicles. Now, the chipmaker is expanding on its self-driving car ambitions, with plans to build and test 100 autonomous vehicles on the streets before the end of …

Nvidia is no stranger to recalls when it comes to its Shield products. However, this time around things are much less severe. After receiving single digit reports of Shield tablet and Shield TV European wall adapters breaking, a voluntary recall is being issued for replacements. The voluntary recall only affects …

In the July update for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, first-person only servers were introduced to the game. At the time, this feature was reserved for those playing in solo or duo games but now, the intense first-person experience is being rolled out to squad games too, so full four-man teams can get …

Blizzard is well on its way to launching the Overwatch League later this year, as two more franchises have signed on for spots on the league. Cloud9 has become the first UK-based franchise to be taking part, meanwhile, another Los Angeles based team has also been added to the roster, …

Back in June, Kaspersky Lab filed a big antitrust complaint against Microsoft and its revamped Windows Defender for Windows 10. Now, the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm appears to be backing off, having withdrawn the complaint in Europe after further discussion with Microsoft. Initially, Kaspersky had complaints surrounding how Microsoft delivered security …

Earlier this year, we learned that Kingston was getting closer to leading the pack when it came to the SSD market, coming in second to Samsung in 2016 sales. Now this week, Kingston has hit a new milestone, having shipped over six million SSDs worldwide using Marvell controllers. These Kingston …

Microsoft has received plenty of criticism for some of its Windows 10 policies over the last couple of years. Most notably, the company’s data collection and privacy policies have caused a stir online. However, with this year’s Creators Update, Microsoft aimed to revamp its privacy settings and so far, the …

Last week, ArenaNet officially unveiled the next expansion for Guild Wars 2. It’s called Path of Fire and it aims to ramp up in-game content, rather than introduce new mechanics. The expansion will see the return of some areas from the original Guild Wars and this weekend, you will have …

For the last couple of years, Netflix and Disney have had a streaming partnership, with Netflix obtaining exclusive rights to stream new movies after they leave the box office. Unfortunately, this deal is going to come to an end in 2019, as Disney wants to cut out the middle man …

While No Man’s Sky didn’t turn out to be the game many thought it would be, the backlash and poor public reception certainly hasn’t deterred Hello Games from carrying on. Since launching last year, No Man’s Sky has received some patches but this week, the game will be getting a …

Yesterday, one of the biggest news stories in gaming surrounded Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Upon the game’s release, a non-optional save wiping mechanic was discovered, with the game explaining that should Senua die too many times, all progress will be lost. At the time, there was plenty of debate surrounding whether …

Earlier this year, Qualcomm filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission requesting a ban on iPhone imports due to several alleged counts of patent infringement. Things went quiet on that front for a little while but now this week, we have learned that the ITC is going to …

Last night, Valve’s annual Dota 2 tournament, ‘The International’, kicked off and it seems the studio had something rather special to show off- a brand new game. It’s called Artifact: The Dota card game and unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be quite what the audience wanted as the initial reaction …

Intel has been pushing its storage division quite a bit this year. Not only have we seen the launch of Optane Memory and new SSDs based on that but today, Intel has unveiled its new SSD form factor dubbed ‘The Ruler’. This new extra long SSD is designed to bring …

Rumours surrounding the 2017 iPhone have been rampant for over a year at this point. While we have seen plenty of leaks up to this point, one of the forgotten and overlooked features of this year's iPhone has been the return to a glass-back design, similar to the iPhone 4/4S. …

Intel planning to livestream its Coffee Lake unveiling. CPUs will roll out before the end of the year.

After years of development, today Ninja Theory’s brand new game ‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ releases on PC and PS4. Many reviews so far have been positive but there is one part of the game that is proving particularly divisive. Hellblade features a unique, mandatory permadeath mechanic that deletes your save file …

After a long waiting period, Rick and Morty Season 3 officially began airing in the US late last month. At the time, Netflix announced that its UK subscribers would get new episodes of this season every week, the day after it airs in the US. Unfortunately, Netflix didn’t plan for …

Last week, one of the biggest stories in entertainment revolved around the HBO hack. Similarly to when Sony was targeted, the attackers got away with a ton of files, including emails, documents, scripts, episodes of shows and more. To show they were serious, last week they leaked a Game of …

Yesterday, Ubisoft announced that in the next few weeks, Operation Health would be coming to an end but that wasn’t all the publisher had to share with us. Ubisoft also began discussing Rainbow Six Siege’s next patch and it seems to be the biggest one yet, hitting up to 42GB …

Last week, an Intel presentation slide leak brought us new details on Intel’s upcoming Core i9 lineup, including its new 12-core, 14-core, 16-core and 18-core processors. Now today, Intel has made everything official, unveiling the final spec-sheet itself and giving us release dates for these higher core count X299 chips. …

Rainbow Six: Siege has been out in the wild for over 18 months at this point and while the game has had its share of issues, the shooter is still quite popular even now. Operation Health has slowed down DLC plans a bit but even so, Rainbow Six: Siege has …

The world's first 4K/144Hz display is still arriving this year!

At the end of last week, we learned that the 23 year old security researcher responsible for halting WannaCry had been arrested by the FBI, with the feds claiming that he wrote and sold a piece of banking malware on the dark web. Since then, some new details surrounding the …

When the Oculus Rift first launched, Oculus attracted some criticism for its closed platform approach to virtual reality. Since then though, things have been opening up and now, the Rift is more friendly for Steam users than ever before, with a software update allowing you to launch non-Oculus Home apps …

The Google Pixel is still a great smartphone but sooner than later, it will be replaced. Over the last couple of months, rumours surrounding the upcoming Pixel 2 have been swirling and now, Google has given the original Pixel a big $200 price cut, in a move that appears to …