Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs are coming up in early 2017 and according to recent reports, they may end up being a tad more powerful than initially predicted compared to Skylake. With that in mind, some of you already on the Z170 platform may think about upgrading and thanks to a …

Way back in July of 2015 Microsoft's head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, confirmed plans to bring mouse and keyboard support to the Xbox One. This was reiterated earlier this year at E3, though Spencer admitted at the time that support was still “months away”. Well, months have now passed and …

As far as mobile digital assistants go, Apple's Siri is often regarded as one of the best. However, Apple didn't initially come up with the idea, Siri began life as an app that was sold to Apple back in 2010. After selling the app, the original team behind Siri went …

Oculus Connect 3 is taking place today and while we are already expecting to hear more about the release of Oculus Touch and future games, it turns out that a bigger announcement could be on the cards as Mark Zuckerburg will be in attendance to reveal ‘something new'. Last night …

Last month, Bethesda let PlayStation 4 owners know that Sony wasn't playing ball when it came to bringing mods to the console. Given that Bethesda has had mods running for Fallout 4 on the Xbox One for months now, this news didn't go down well. Fortunately, it didn't take long …

Ultra HD monitors have been around for a few years now and while they still have time to take over the market, some companies are already looking to the future. This week at CEATEC 2016 in Tokyo, display maker Sharp began showing off its new 8K monitor prototype. If the …

Earlier this morning we learned that email provider, Yahoo, had been accused of secretly scanning the emails of all of its users at the request of the United States government. Using a specialised piece of software, Yahoo is said to have scanned the emails of all users for specific phrases …

Google has officially taken its first step into virtual reality hardware by announcing the Daydream View headset, bringing virtual reality to a wider range of Android smartphones at a lower price compared to the Samsung Gear VR. It still requires a smartphone for display and horsepower duties but at £69, …

Gears of War 4 kicks off its launch on Friday this week so to give PC and Xbox gamers plenty of time to sit through the massive 73GB download, Microsoft kicked off preloading last week. Unfortunately, on the PC side at least, the Windows Store doesn't seem to be cooperating, …

It has been almost a year since TalkTalk suffered a huge cyber attack, in which the personal information of over 150,000 customers was stolen. Now, the UK-based ISP has to face the consequences, as the firm has been fined a record £400,000 for poor security practices, which left consumer data …

AMD has already announced that it will be missing the 2016 launch window for its new processors built on the Zen architecture. However, we won't have to wait long for them to appear in 2017 as reports claim that AMD will be launching its new CPUs at CES in January, …

Google is expected to be announcing its first Daydream Virtual Reality headset today but it looks like we may have the details a little ahead of time. According to sources, Google's first Daydream headset will be announced today with a low $79 price tag, completely undercutting Samsung's GearVR and potentially …

Amazon has been clamping down on fake product reviews for a while now, even going as far as to file lawsuits against sellers for buying false endorsements. However, now the retailer is turning its attention to ‘incentivized' reviews as well, outright banning reviews tied to free or discounted products. In …

It looks like Apple is taking a page out of Microsoft's book with the launch of macOS Sierra today as it turns out that the update will download to upgradeable systems ahead of time as part of an automatic update. Downloads are being pushed out to users starting today, though …

Update: Dice is continuing to pump out new details on Battlefield 1. A couple of weeks ago we learned which game modes and maps we could expect to find in the game's multiplayer at launch and now, we have our first good look at the campaign mode, which is based …

Last month, we first heard that Nvidia would be preparing a GTX 1050 GPU for release sometime in October. That rumour expanded a week ago when talk of a GTX 1050Ti began doing the rounds. Now today the first die shots of the GPU surfaced, confirming the GP 107 chip …

Earlier this year in an effort to return the iPad to growth, Apple launched the iPad Pro, a bigger 13-inch iPad with beefier hardware and more features, including support for the ‘Apple Pencil' and programs like Photoshop. Now, it looks like we may see the iPad Pro line-up expand in …

It looks like The Carphone Warehouse has dropped the ball as the UK store just leaked the first official images and details for Google's next smartphone, which is set to be announced tomorrow. For starters, it looks like Google is retiring the Nexus name after all, replacing it with the …

Last month, Capcom tried out a new ‘anti-crack solution' to help prevent Street Fighter V piracy on the PC. Unfortunately, this was achieved by installing a hidden, completely insecure rootkit in Windows, leaving a huge security loophole in people's systems. This obviously led to a lot of complaints from those …

Activision is trying something different with Call of Duty this year. In an effort to boost the series' declining sales, it will be bundling in a download of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare remastered with deluxe editions of Infinite Warfare. While Modern Warfare will be a digital game, if …

It looks like Nvidia might have another high-end GPU ready for us by the start of 2017 as reports this week are suggesting that the GTX 1080Ti will be making its debut at CES in January. We are also hearing whispers surrounding the GPU's specifications, giving us an early idea …

If you were planning to buy Gears of War 4 on the PC, you may want to stay away from key marketplaces for now as it turns out that copies of the game are being revoked. This has come about after a significant loophole was discovered at some retailers participating …

It has been around two years since Amazon acquired Twitch and in that time, it has mostly been business as usual for the streaming service. However, it looks like Amazon is stepping up its involvement in the gaming world now, not only did the retailer announce three brand new games …

Right from the get-go, HTC/Valve and Oculus have had fairly different approaches to the virtual reality market. While Oculus has been trying to push things along by paying developers for timed exclusivity deals, Valve has remained against such tactics. Now, HTC has also weighed in on the topic, stating that …

At the end of last year, in the build-up to the Oscars, we saw plenty of films leak online, some of which could be torrented before they had even hit the cinema. One such film was The Revenant but it looks like the leaker didn't cover his tracks well enough …

It is no secret that Battleborn is in a tough position right now, with very few players still logging in to play the game regularly. This has led to speculation about the game going free to play and while reports this week claimed that it would very soon, it looks …

Earlier this year, we learned that Ubisoft would be giving the Assassin's Creed games a break this year to give the developers more time to make something truly great. That sentiment was echoed by the publisher's CEO this week, with Yves Guillemot stating that we might not see a new …

Razer's Kraken series of headsets have proven very popular over the years but today, Razer is kicking things up a notch with the launches of the Kraken Pro V2 and the Kraken 7.1 V2 headsets, featuring custom-tuned drivers, a unibody aluminium frame and extra padding for comfort. The Kraken Pro …

Update: Just last week Samsung confirmed that it has exchanged around half of the Galaxy Note 7 units that could be affected by battery failures. However, since then the company has continued to replace potentially dangerous units and now, over one million Note 7's have been exchanged, globally. While passing …

It looks like Apple's long-rumored dual-display Macbook Pro could be heading our way as soon as next month. A few months back, reports began suggesting that Apple's next Macbook Pro would feature a touch-sensitive display bar above the keyboard to display various shortcuts and bits of information and now this …