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CeBIT: Thermaltake shows off new cases

CeBIT is under way this week and our man on the ground, Leo Waldock, has been reporting back to us with his interesting findings. Today, he popped by the Thermaltake booth to take a look at two of their new cases, the Core W and the Core X31. While the …

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Crytek launches CryEngine V with new business model

CryEngine has proven to be one of the more impressive graphical engines since its debut with version 1. Now today, Crytek is launching CryEngine V and has also announced a change in business model, allowing developers wanting to use the engine to ‘pay what they want'. “CRYENGINE V launches today …

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Microsoft will soon be testing Edge browser extensions

Back before the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft began talking about its new Edge browser and there has been plenty of talk about extension support but unfortunately, that got pushed back to 2016. Now, Microsoft is close to finally implementing extensions for the Edge browser, at first for Windows Insiders …

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Razer has just launched the new Blade Gaming Laptop

Razer has consistently impressed over the last few years with its 14-inch gaming notebook known as the Razer Blade and today, it has refreshed the laptop with new specifications. The new Razer Blade gets bumped up to Intel's latest Skylake Intel Core i7-6700HQ quad-core processor, it also gets a bump …

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Valve introduces ‘custom game pass’ for Dota 2

While Valve's brief paid mods stint with Skyrim didn't last long, Valve hasn't given up on coming up with ways to support custom content creators. Today, Valve announced the ‘Custom Game Pass' for Dota 2, which will allow those who enjoy custom game modes to support the creators directly. Custom Game …

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Sony is designing headphones that don’t touch your ears

Sony has been experimenting a lot with new products recently in an effort to crack the next big thing and return to profitability. This week, Sony's ‘Future Lab' showed off one of its new prototypes- futuristic looking headphones that don't touch your ears. The product is codenamed ‘Concept N' so …

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AMD rumored to launch 8-Core Zen CPU in October

AMD is set to take on Intel once again this year with the launch of its highly anticipated Zen architecture processors. While Socket AM4 is currently poised to launch for some APUs fairly early this year, Zen CPUs won't be arriving until a bit later, with current sources pointing towards …

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New Steam Controller update brings new features

Valve began rolling out a new Steam Controller update over the weekend, bringing along some welcome additions to functionality with new features as well as some bug fixes. Valve's Steam Controller was first announced way back in 2013 and finally made its way to market in October last year, bringing …

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Nvidia could debut Pascal ‘GTX 1080’ in May

Nvidia is gearing up to launch its new Pascal GPU architecture this year. While early rumours pointed towards a Q1 2016 release it is clear that the timeline has shifted a bit. The latest unofficial word on the street is that Nvidia may launch the GTX 1080 in May, with …

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge go on sale today

Samsung's new pair of flagship smartphones for 2016 are going on sale today. From today, you should be able to get hold of a Galaxy S7 or a Galaxy S7 Edge in the US, UK and Australia. If you have been following news on both devices, then you will likely …

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AMD announces XConnect, new feature for external GPUs

A couple of weeks ago, AMD began teasing that it was working on something new for external graphics cards and today, the company finally put its cards on the table, showing off XConnect, a new feature aimed to make external graphics solutions as good as they should be. Starting from …

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GALAX launches GTX 980Ti HOF GOC edition GPU

We have seen plenty of variants of the GTX 980Ti over the last 9 months or so but today GALAX has launched one that really caught our eye. Today marks the launch of the GALAX GTX 980Ti HOF GOC, an all white GTX 980Ti complete with a modified PCB and …

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Hitman won’t be releasing on disc until 2017

Square Enix and IO Interactive are taking a different approach with Hitman this year. The game comes out tomorrow but it will be released episodically for the first time, meaning content will be rolled out in chunks over the course of 2016. This has the knock-on effect of making Hitman …

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