For many years, Mac buyers have been used to the name ‘OS X' but this year, it looks like Apple might be planning to change things up a bit with a re-brand for its desktop operating system for the first time in 17 years. The future re-brand was first spotted …
Read More »GOG’s summer sale has kicked off
If you are looking to boost your DRM-free game library, then you might want to keep an eye on GOG over the next little while as the store's summer sale kicked off yesterday, with new bundles and daily ‘highlight' deals, which for today include 50 percent off the Witcher 3 …
Read More »id Software is making some additions to Doom multiplayer on PC
While most critics have been in full agreement that DOOM's campaign is fantastic, the multiplayer hasn't impressed quite as many people. However, id Software will be making some changes and adding new features over the next few months to keep players coming back, including new custom game settings, private matches …
Read More »Report claims AMD and Intel targeting CES 2017 launch for new CPUs
While many of us have been expecting AMD's new Zen architecture CPUs to launch during the second half of this year, with some rumours pointing towards an October launch, a new report this week citing industry sources claims that due to “serious inventory issues” we may not see Zen until …
Read More »12 Overclocking records were broken at G.Skill OC World Record Stage
G.Skill hosted the 5th annual OC World Record stage at Computex this year and it seems that the event was quite the success as 12 records were broken across eight different benchmarks over the course of the week. For RAM, overclocker ‘Splave' managed to get some of G.Skill's own to …
Read More »WildStar is finally launching on Steam this week
It has been just over a year since we first heard that WildStar would be making the jump to the free to play business model and coming to Steam. While the game made the transition to being free to play quite a while ago, the MMO's Steam debut has taken …
Read More »Witcher 3’s Gwent card game is going standalone
One of the more surprising parts of The Witcher 3 has been Gwent, the collectable card game baked into the epic open-world title. While this has been rumoured for a while, it looks like CD Projekt Red is now gearing up to announce a standalone version of Gwent soon. The …
Read More »Rainbow Six: Siege is finally getting a ‘zero tolerance’ cheating policy
Rainbow Six: Siege has been out for around six months now but recently, Ubisoft has been implementing some changes to the game. Not only is there a cheaper ‘Starter Edition' of the game available to help boost the player count, but now there will actually be a zero tolerance policy …
Read More »Nvidia updates driver for Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst and GTX 1070
This week will see the launch of not just Mirror's Edge: Catalyst but also the GTX 1070, which hits retail on the 10th of June. In preparation for both of these launches, Nvidia has released its GeForce 368.39 WHQL driver, which brings support and optimizations for the new game and …
Read More »The HTC Vive now ships within three days of ordering
While both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive launched back at the end of March/start of April, there has been pretty high demand for headsets from both companies, resulting in a bit of a wait for early VR adopters. However, this week HTC announced that it has managed to …
Read More »There is a Battlefield Beta phishing scam doing the rounds
EA has committed itself to having public beta tests following on from the launch issues of Battlefield 4 and this year's Battlefield will be no different. However, if you are interested in signing up for the beta, it is important that you do so through the official site as there …
Read More »Samsung’s flexible smartphone once again tipped for 2017
Samsung has been demoing its flexible screen technology for a while now but it looks like the company may finally be gearing up to a flexible smartphone release some time in 2017. We have previously heard rumours that the first flexible smartphone from Samsung will arrive next year but now …
Read More »Skyrim Remaster, Prey 2 and more rumoured for Bethesda E3
E3 is going to be kicking off in just a week but it looks like we are already getting some idea of what to expect in terms of announcements at the conference. Today, reports began circulating, saying that Bethesda is set to announce a Skyrim Remaster, Prey 2, a new …
Read More »Computex: Final wrap-up
Computex is now over and our team have arrived back in the UK. However, given the sheer amount of news coming out of the show last week, a few smaller bits here and there did slip through the cracks- so we are going to go over those now in a small …
Read More »Mad Catz profit turns into $11 million loss following Rock Band 4
Last year's re-launch of the Rock Band franchise didn't turn out to be as successful as first hoped and it seems to have had quite the knock-on effect on peripheral maker, Mad Catz as the company has reported an $11 million loss following on from low sales of the game …
Read More »Google DeepMind wants a kill switch for AI
Google's Artificial Intelligence researchers at DeepMind have proposed that a ‘kill switch' be built for AI to prevent machines from outsmarting us and taking over. The idea is to create a way to “repeatedly safely interrupt” an algorithm, according to a new paper created in association with the University of Oxford …
Read More »The Division’s first paid expansion arrives this month
The Division has been out for a little while now and at this point, veteran players are likely looking forward to the first of the paid DLCs that come with the game's season pass. Fortunately for them, it looks like the wait won't be too long as according to an …
Read More »An unlicensed remake of cancelled Battlefront III to land on Steam
Earlier this year, a Russian developer by the name of FrontWire announced that it would be remaking Star Wars Battlefront III- the cancelled game that was initially in development at studio ‘Free Radical Design'. The remake is now titled ‘Galaxy in Turmoil' and apparently, even though it is a totally …
Read More »Titanfall 2 to launch in the middle of Battlefield and Call of Duty
As popular as Titanfall was when the series first launched in 2014, it hasn't proven to have the staying power of a big franchise like Battlefield or Call of Duty. However, that isn't going to deter EA this winter as Titanfall 2 will be launching within three weeks of Battlefield …
Read More »Someone figured out the drop rates for Overwatch loot
If you have been wondering how lucky you need to be to grab a legendary skin from a loot box in Overwatch then now you can see the drop rate percentages as someone went through the trouble of working it all out. Reddit user, Ourobouros went through several videos that …
Read More »Student arrested for live streaming a movie to Facebook
A student in Chicago managed to get himself arrested after going into a cinema and live streaming the film to Facebook. As you might expect, a smartphone was used to handle the streaming but the guy only got caught because an anti-piracy outfit in India saw the stream and reported …
Read More »Nvidia said to skip GTX 1080M, will use desktop 1080 for notebooks
Earlier this week, reports began circulating suggesting that Nvidia may skip a high-end mobile graphics chip this year and just cut straight to implementing the desktop GTX 1080 into notebooks. Nvidia did something similar last year, when it successfully began putting desktop GTX 980 chips into gaming notebooks. The initial …
Read More »Overwatch already has over seven million players
It seems that quite a few of the 9.6 million people that tried out the Overwatch open beta have gone on to buy the game in its first week as right now, over seven million people are playing Blizzard's new shooter. “Over the months and weeks leading up to release …
Read More »Computex: Aerocool introduces new ‘Project 7’ range
Aerocool introduced us to a brand new line of products at Computex this year known as ‘Project 7', which spans across new power supplies, fans and all in one liquid coolers. Aerocool has some new watercooling parts in, including the P7-W240 Pro (pump on reservoir mounted on the radiator) …
Read More »Computex: SilverStone focuses on silence with new chassis
SilverStone had quite a bit to show off at Computex this year, including some new prototype cases, power supplies and even a Virtual Reality demo using the HTC Vive. As far as cases go, we got a look at the PM-01 ATX chassis as well as a PM-01 RGB prototype. Then …
Read More »Computex: FSP introduces new Dagger and home server PSUs
FSP arrived at Computex this week armed with a new range of power supplies falling under the ‘Dagger' name. There is also a new line known as ‘Twins' which is a new concept of power supply that packs two PSUs into a single ATX chassis, aimed at home servers. …
Read More »Computex: Super Micro taps in to the force with modded gaming chassis
We managed to spot Super Micro at Computex this year showing off a brand new computer chassis. This case is known as the Super Micro S5 and is the company's second attempt, putting a new emphasis on modding and liquid cooling options. There was just one S5 on show …
Read More »Computex: Deepcool launches new cases, AIO units and lots of RGB
Deepcool had quite a bit to show at Computex this year, including some new cases, one of which is Republic of Gamers certified, along with a new RGB air cooler and all-in-one liquid cooling units. Deepcool is showing a variant on Genome called New Ark, which now has support for …
Read More »Computex: Gigabyte pushes Broadwell-E, Pascal and Thunderbolt
We managed to catch up with Gigabyte at Computex today to check out their entire floor. Gigabyte's focus for 2016 so far is laptops with Skylake, new Nvidia Pascal graphics cards, new X99 motherboards for Broadwell-E, a brand new BRIX PC built for gaming and Thunderbolt. In order to …
Read More »Amazon is suing sellers for buying fake reviews
Amazon has begun taking legal action against sellers that pay for positive reviews on their products. In part of its effort to stop sellers from using these shady tactics on the Amazon marketplace, the company has launched lawsuits at three separate companies, using fake Amazon accounts for positive reviews. In …
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