Valve's journey into producing its own hardware started all the way back in 2013, when it first revealed the Steam Machines and Steam Controller. The controller itself went through many changes in the two years leading up to release but it seems that quite a few were interested enough to …

We had a chance to catch up with Ozone this week at Computex, taking a look at their new range of peripherals, including colourful new headsets, some new gaming mice and a brand new RGB keyboard that makes use of Cherry MX switches.   First up is the new Rage …

We are back with another gaming chair review! This time around we are taking a look at the Epic Real Leather Gaming Chair from noblechairs. This is pitched as the first gaming chair in the world to use real leather but is it worth its considerable £450 asking price? Let's …

Over at the Asus Republic of Gamers booth at Computex this year, we ran into 8Pack, showing off a stunning new system known as Orion X, featuring brand new Broadwell-E hardware, along with triple GTX 1080s and an impressive liquid cooling set up to boot. In this £18,000 build you …

Phanteks brought quite a lot with it to Computex this year, including a few new cases and even some of its own liquid cooling blocks for CPUs and GPUs.   Kicking things off is the Phanteks Enthoo Elite, a big budget case for big budget builds. The Elite comes priced …

While a lot of people continue to use Steam on a day to day basis, there are those out there that would prefer DRM-free access to their games. GOG has offered DRM-Free games for some time now but it would often require you to re-buy your Steam games on the …

Update: It looks like Blizzard has had to push back its estimate for Overwatch's Competitive Mode content update. Around the time of Overwatch's release, the game's director, Jeff Kaplan speculated that the update would be ready for the last week or so of June. However, he did not give a …

Our Computex coverage continues today, with Leo stopping by the EVGA booth, where we got a good look at a new laptop, some new graphics cards as well as new motherboards and power supplies.   First up is the SC17 gaming laptop, which comes with a 17-inch screen, which we …

Today, AMD arrived at Computex armed with its brand new 7th generation ‘Bristol Ridge' APUs, featuring up to a 50 percent compute performance improvement over 2014's Kaveri offerings and up to a 37 percent GPU performance improvement over last year's Carrizo APUs. These new Bristol Ridge APUs feature four Excavator …

As great as Overwatch is, the ‘Play of the Game' system can often seem a bit hit or miss and now we know why, as one of the game's developers has explained how this particular system actually works. The idea behind Play of the Game is to capture moments that …

Computex is under way right now and tech companies from all over the world are showing off what they have in the works for the future. This year, G.Skill has been showing off just how far you can push its DDR4 RAM modules on X99 and Z170, with extremely high …

Last year at Computex, Cooler Master launched its new Master series products, aiming to bring brand new designs and innovation to its line-up. This year, Cooler Master has truly embraced the Maker spirit, showing off a whole new range of products set to arrive this year.   First up is the …

When it comes to 4K content, heavy copyright protection is used to combat piracy and while it is difficult to bypass HDCP encryption, it isn't impossible. One company known as Ace Deal began selling devices that could strip content of HDCP protection, causing Warner Bros and Intel to launch a lawsuit …

Last week, we got the rather disappointing news that Google's Project Ara, the modular smartphone, would not have swappable display, CPU, or RAM modules, crippling the ‘upgradeable' selling point of the device. Now, Dave Hakkens, the designer behind the Phonebloks concept that inspired Ara has spoken out on the direction Ara …

Just a few days ago, news broke that the highly anticipated and massively hyped space game, No Man's Sky, might be getting a last-minute delay. The game was only fairly recently given its June release date on both the PlayStation 4 and PC but today, Hello Games and Sony confirmed that …

While a lot of Acer's focus over the last year has been on the gaming monitor market, it looks like the company still knows how to design a sleek display for the office too. Today, Acer lifted the curtain on its 32-inch ‘Zero Frame' 4K monitor, featuring ultra-slim bezels, a …

Google had a very strong start in the tablet world with the Nexus 7 and while the Nexus 9 didn't quite live up to the same pedestal, it was still a well-received product but now, it has been discontinued. The Nexus 9 was built by HTC and featured Nvidia's Tegra …

While it seems that Rockstar has no plans for any single player Grand Theft Auto V DLC for the time being, the studio is continuing to bring content to GTA Online. Today, they revealed the new add-on “Further Adventures in Finance and Felony” which will be one of the biggest …

This is a big week for Warhammer fans, not only has Total War: Warhammer just launched but if you are more into the Left 4 Dead formula, then you can also try out Warhammer: End Times Vermintide for free on Steam this weekend. Vermintide is one of the better games …

Nvidia introduced something a bit different this year with the launch of the GTX 1080- ‘Founders Edition' cards, which use reference coolers and start at £619.99 here in the UK. This led to some concern about the pricing of GTX 1080s using after market coolers but as it turns out, …

At this point, many of you will have read the reviews for the GTX 1080 and some of you may also be planning on picking one up. If you're aiming to grab one on day one, then I am pleased to report that they will be in stock and available …

We have known about the GTX 1080 Founders Edition for a few weeks now and the reviews already paint a pleasant picture. However, what we have yet to see are custom cooled partner cards from the likes of Asus, MSI, EVGA or Zotac. Fortunately, some images have made their way …

It looks like we might see Microsoft turn the tables on Sony mid-generation this console cycle as both companies are currently rumoured to be preparing upgraded hardware versions of the Xbox One and PS4, but Microsoft's could end up being the more powerful of the two. When the Xbox One …

be quiet! has just launched its brand new flagship PC chassis, the Dark Base 900, aiming to provide as much modularity and flexibility as possible with a motherboard tray that can be removed for easier component mounting, singular drive cages that can be placed anywhere and plenty of support for watercooling …

This week, news broke that Foxconn would be shedding 60,000 jobs and replacing those factory workers with robots. Foxconn is known for having a hand in the making of devices like the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy and this week, it confirmed that its employee count would shrink from 110,000 down to …

If you were getting excited about the June 20th release date for No Man's Sky, then you may want to reel in your expectations as according to various sources, the ambitious space game is set to get a last-minute delay, which could push the title back as far as August. …

It looks like Google has quietly taken itself out of the TV set-top box game for now as it is no longer selling the Nexus Player on the Google Store. While the player can currently be found at a few places, some retailers have been out of stock for months …

Prey 2 was in the works at one point in time but after a troubled development cycle, Bethesda officially pulled the plug on the project back in 2014. However, since then there have been rumours suggesting that Dishonoured developer, Arkane Studios, could be working on reviving the project and now …

While we have already seen exactly what the GTX 1080 graphics card can do, Nvidia also has the GTX 1070 on the way next month and so far, we haven't seen much of it. However, this week, some benchmark numbers appear to have leaked on to the web, showing a …

It looks like Microsoft's Nokia acquisition didn't entirely go to plan. Windows Phone's market share is still in decline and since absorbing Nokia's former employees, Microsoft has had a fair few rounds of job cuts. Following on from last year's cut of 7,800 jobs to refocus the Microsoft Mobile division, the …