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Intel Corp. on Tuesday disclosed its financial results for the second quarter of the year. The company reported revenue of $13.8 billion, net income of $2.8 billion and gross margin of 64.5 per cent. As expected, Intel’s results improved because of better sales of personal computers and continued strong sales …

Chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. has already implied on strategy changes at the software giant. As it usually happens, strategic shifts happen in a combination with massive layoffs. A media report suggests that the job cuts will be announced as soon as this week. After Microsoft added 30 thousand …

The Stomping Land was a project that we've been quietly excited about for some time. It features an open world survival system where you tame and fight with dinosaurs. You can even ride them if you survive for long enough. It also recently released on Steam, so some of you …

Sony might be looking to revive old Playstation franchises such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and even Jak and Daxter in an effort to return to the brand's roots. Sony Computer Entertainment President and group CEO, Andrew House, hinted at possible character revivals in an interview with The Telegraph: “In concept, it …

Google's modular phone project is well underway as the company has announced plans to start sending out Project Ara hardware to developers this month. The company has previously stated that it hopes to have a finished product out on the market during the first quarter of 2015, meaning that this time …

It looks like the situation over at Crytek isn't getting any better as it has been reported that the Director for Homefront: The Revolution has left the company. This follows on from recent reports of unpaid wages, employees leaving and others just not showing up to work at all anymore. …

Runescape might be the game we all cut our teeth on back before we could afford to pay for our games, but it's still going incredibly strong, with a massive player base and a constantly evolving game world. The developers are looking to leverage some of that popularity this week to …

Stories that ignite hatred for EA never seems to be too far from our front page, but give it some credit, it does seem to have a strategy moving forward and it's sticking with it. Seeing its games as an ongoing “service,” to consumers beyond anything else, the publishing giant …

Fabian Giesen is a programmer and he worked at Valve as a contractor through nine months in 2012 and a further three this year, helping it develop virtual reality technology. With a gig like that, you'd expect him to be champing at the bit to see VR hardware like the …

The original Raspberry Pi miniature system birthed a bunch of exciting projects around the world, from teaching children the basics of programming and integration, to building quadcopters, MAME machines, time-lapse cameras and a host of others. Now though a new version has been launched, with the creators keen to point …

At its annual worldwide partners conference Microsoft Corp. said that later this year its partners will release ultra-affordable devices running the company’s Windows operating system. The family of such devices will include notebooks that cost $199 – $249 and tablets that are priced at $99. Microsoft’s most important rivals these …

A web-site has published the first details regarding Intel 100-series chipsets that will power personal computers based on the code-named Skylake microprocessors. As expected, Intel’s next-generation core-logic sets will support SATA Express as well as some other innovations. What is interesting is that the new chipsets will also support enhanced …

Micron Technology on Monday introduced the industry’s first monolithic 8Gb DDR3 memory component. Previously 8Gb memory chips were made by stacking together several 2Gb or 4Gb devices. 8Gb monolithic components will enable cost-effective, high-capacity solutions for servers. “The ability to scale with our customers' accelerating memory demand was a key …

One of the advantages that some of Intel Corp.’s integrated graphics processors (IGPs) have compared to AMD’s IGPs is a large level four cache that is used to store frequently used data. While at present AMD’s integrate graphics adapters are still faster compared to Intel’s, in the future the latter …

Phison Electronics, an independent developer of controllers for solid-state drives (SSDs), may lower prices of its products in a bid to boost shipments. The company needs to gain market share since large SSD producers tend to use their own controllers inside its drives nowadays, as a result, going forward it …

Some of the world's biggest tech companies have banded together to stand against the growing acceptance of internet fast lanes and the end of net neutrality. We've already seen companies like Verizon throttle traffic to their services, despite a premium being charged and it's only set to get worse. Those …

Take this with a giant hunk of salt as there's little to go on with this one but some speculation from a random blog, but Nintendo might be working on a new Diddy Kong Racing. The person behind these rumours makes claims that can't be verified of course, but they …

British Broadband is not up to scratch, according to the Federation of Small Businesses. While much of the country's bigger cities may be enjoying the benefits of high speed fibre optics, be it to their home or to the cabinet down the road, the statistics that the federation have come …

EA might not have been this year's most hated company, but it looks like it might be gearing up to win next time around, as some redditors have discovered what appears to be covert snooping by the company's Origin client, as it looks through programs you've been running recently. EA …

One of the main reasons that rates of piracy are so high in Australia, is because the legal ways of getting access to media are either non-existent, or monopolised and criminally expensive and yet News Corp, one of the company's that ‘suffers' the most from people pirating its shows, is …

No this isn't a case of me getting my military technologies confused, the US army really is running tests on some of the world's smallest missiles – ones that can be fired right from a .50 calibre rifle and then guided, after leaving the barrel. Known as Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance …

Heihachi, Kazuya and a bunch of pandas and kangaroos have been beating the crap out of each other for a long time now in the Tekken universe and it looks like they aren't quite done yet, as a new game in the series is on the way, teased in a …

A crew of filmmakers covering this years DotA 2 International for GameFy.cn, have come under fire for capturing footage of Team DK's drafting strategy while filming their player area without permission, outing their plans to all of the other competitors at the event. While Team DK is winning enough to stay …

Microsoft Corp. may be just one step before of another major strategy shift. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of the company, said that giant's goal is not only to provide devices and services, something that his predecessor wanted to do in 2013, but to provide productivity opportunities in the new …

Intel Corp.’s Quark microprocessor for ultra-low-power systems, wearable electronics and smart appliances, has not yet gained any traction on the market, but the world’s largest chipmaker is already working on its replacement that will be available in 2015. The new platform is code-named “Dublin Bay” and at present not a …

In a bid to convince its partners and investors that it is on-track with its Tick-Tock strategy, Intel Corp. reportedly plans to showcase several yet-unannounced products at the Intel Developer Forum event this September. While the company will demonstrate certain new things, it does not mean that everything goes truly …

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Wolfenstein: The New Order. It means you can …

Update: Youporn recently tweeted to a few showing interest, that if you have a team and you want sponsorship, email your details here: [email protected] Original Story: Are you an aspiring eSports team or player of games like Starcraft II, League of Legends, DotA 2 or Hearthstone? Have you struggled to get …

If you just missed out on our giveaway for 500 keys of the new Orcs Must die: Unchained, then never fear, as you can put your name in the hat for something else, something more hardware related. Our pals over at BeyondTech are giving away three prize packs worth £900 …

Update: They keys are now all gone. Sorry if you didn't get your message in yet, but keep your eyes peeled as KitGuru is always holding new competitions. Original Story: Anyone up for some pre-release orc slaying this weekend? We sure are, which is why we've teamed up with the …