I do, I do! My wife will too, for sure. Granted it doesn't come down to much more than painting them red or green and sticking a M or L over the speaker port, but this is something Nintendo should have been doing for a long time. Announced yesterday as …

Are you an Xbox user that doesn't appreciate all the features that the Xbox Life platform has to offer? Well Microsoft is hoping to change that, by offering you a free weekend of Live Gold access and it's doing it around the world – though the rollout will be staggered …

You'd think they'd be grateful to the man that helped the long term ones build their fortunes, but it looks like some of the biggest investors in Microsoft don't want just Steve Ballmer to step down, but his pal and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates himself. While it seems …

A little while back we reported on Mighty No. 9 hitting $2.2 million on its Kickstarter campaign and would now come to current generation consoles. Since then, Mighty No. 9 has shot up to $3.5 million and as a result, it will come to next generation consoles as well as …

In a move that could rival Valve's recent spate of announcements for its ability to excite the gaming populace, the Steam developer has gone and done it: it's trademarked Half Life 3. Of course with a headline like that, we can expect most of the comments to this piece to …

Nintendo held a direct conference today, showing off some new games and updates for the Wii U and 3DS. The stream lasted about 30 minutes showing off trailers for all of the new games announced and some game-play. First up on the agenda were the Wii U announcements, starting off …

Seasonic recently released a new range of power supplies targeting the cost conscious audience who want a quality product without paying premium prices. We have already looked at the 360W and 550W model before, but today we look at the higher capacity 650W model. Is it worth the asking price? …

Aerocool has today debuted a new chassis, known as the Dead Silent Gaming Cube. It'll be available in a variety of different colours, ranging from black, through beige, white, orange and red and offer a small form factor, enthusiast orientated case to build your system in – as you might …

Nvidia has just announced a new partnership with its system builders, to provide a standardised gaming PC package packing super high end hardware, offering outstanding performance. Known as the Battlebox™, these bundles will combine Intel Haswell CPUs, a 4K resolution monitor (running at 3840×2160 resolution) and a pair of GTX 780s …

AMD has just announced that for the foreseeable future, GPU partner Sapphire, will be the exclusive provider of AMD FirePro professional GPUs. Sapphire will begin distribution as of today, 1st October, though AMD has said that if any OEM partners wish to do so, they can still purchase FirePro products …

EA games and Maxis made a monumental announcement for its online only, city building simulator, SimCity, this week, by suggesting that in the future it may allow players to utilise mods, which would open up huge possibilities for gameplay. However, both companies are clear, that any mods they do allow, …

Grand Theft Auto is a massive franchise, but even by its standards, the series has blown up in popularity with this latest release. Suddenly everybody is talking about GTA again and more importantly everybody is playing it. With GTA Online set to launch here in the UK at noon, we're …

This week 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 funny Facebook comment thread over here and give a caption to the image. It means you can put all your spare …

Xi3 made a bit of a splash yesterday, since the countdown timer on its site officially came to an end – for some of us though, much sooner than expected. I ended up sitting there hitting refresh shortly after 11AM when it rolled over to 00:00:00 and nothing happened. Xi3 …

Sony has filed a new trademark, but not for some new version of the dual shock controller, or for some potentially in-development first party title, but for Psygnosis, the UK developer that created such franchises as the Wipeout and Destruction Derby. It's possible that this filing means we're going to …

As we all know, both Sony and Microsoft chose to release next gen systems with 500GB HDD's. That doesn't sound so bad at first, but UK managing director of Sony, Fergal Gara, has just revealed that Killzone: Shadow fall will require 50GB of space to install. That's huge by anyone's …

Today we are taking a look at the Gamer Storm Lucifer CPU cooler. With six 6 mm heat pipes, a mirror finish copper base and a fanless design the Lucifer promises to “devour the heat”. The big question is, can this cooler hold its own against cooling giants such as …

More than two thirds of IT professionals agree that hiring an ex hacker to handle cyber security for a business is the way forward. Research by recruitment firm CWjobs makes for interesting reading. 40 percent of those surveyed said that there was a lack of skilled candidates available to fill …

Are you sick of running out of power on the move? Then the Mipwr Dynamo team may have just the answer. It is an iPhone case with a hidden lever that can be pressed down repeatedly to charge the battery, but remains thin enough to fit in a pocket. The …

BBC iPlayer has been going from strength to strength in recent months. According to the corporation themselves, their demands soared by 19 percent.  Mobile and tablet requests made up 32 percent of total BBC iPlayer requests. This matches the record which they set in June 2013. The BBC said that …

We posted about the Hudl last week but now it is available both online and in store across the United Kingdom. The new 7 inch tablet is Tesco's own brand competitor to battle the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Google's Nexus 7. The Hudl only costs £119 with 119 Tesco …

Microsoft Windows Phone platform has reached a 9.2 percent share in the smartphone operating system market in Europe. Much of the success is due to Nokia's low and mid range models according to Market Research firm Kantar. In the three months running up to August the Windows Phone platform reached …