If you were one of the Kickstarter backers for dinosaur survival title, The Stomping Land, but happened to forget, now's a good time for a reminder, as tomorrow the early access keys are being sent out to backers for Steam, so keep an eye on your inbox as you could …

The MSI A88X-G45 Gaming is a handsome AMD A88X motherboard that sports a long list of features including triple graphics slots. That explains the ‘Gaming' part of the name and as you would expect the A88X chipset means this MSI board supports the latest FM2+ range of Kaveri APU. There …

Despite being one of my most hotly anticipated games of the year and certainly one of the best teased in recent memory, we still don't know a lot about Evolve. We know there's more than what we've seen with extra monsters, hunters, maps and modes, but there's a lot still …

Dealing with hackers and cheaters is an endless battle for those running online multiplayer games. FPS titles are often some of the worst hit due to their popularity, with wall-hacks and aimbots sometimes ruining gameplay for large numbers of players, but these hacks are present in other genres too. In …

If you visit online auction site Ebay this morning, you'll be prompted to change your password due to what the site describes as a “cyberattack,” that occurred earlier this year, giving the nefarious individuals behind it access to encrypted passwords and other account data. While it said that everyone's passwords …

Marvell, one of the world’s leading developers of SSD controllers, on Wednesday unveiled the industry’s first controller for solid-state drives that officially supports SATA Express interconnection technology. The Marvell 88SS1083 controller supports PCI Express 2.0 x2 as well as SATA Express interconnection and thus can power solid-state drives with up …

After accusing John Carmack of stealing intellectual property earlier this year, ZeniMax on Wednesday started a legal battle against Oculus VR, which is about to become a subsidiary of Facebook. When John Carmack was asked why he left id Software (which is owned by ZeniMax Media) last year for Oculus …

Valve Software on Wednesday introduced in-home streaming for video games, a new feature of Steam software distribution service. The technology will let users to stream games from a gaming PC to an HTPC [home theater PC], a laptop or even a tablet. Many people have multiple personal computers at home, …

VisionTek this week announced a $100 (€73, £59) discount on its CryoVenom R290 and CryoVenom R290LE graphics cards that come with water-blocks and are designed for enthusiasts, who assemble custom cooling solutions. With a $100 discount, the custom-built graphics cards look rather attractive. From now on and until the 3rd …

Ever since Apple started to sell its iPad media tablet four years ago, many observers have wondered whether and when slates from well-known brands be available for $100, an important psychological price-point. This week Hewlett-Packard finally started to sell a tablet that costs only $99.99 in the U.S. Separately, HP …

Batman is looking to even the odds in Gotham City later this year in the final game in Rocksteady's Akrham trilogy according to a brand new in-engine trailer. It's immediately clear that Rocksteady has been hard at work since Arkham City as the new graphics look stunning. The two and …

Most bank robbers would probably try and lay low or get as far away as possible after committing a robbery but not this 19 year old, instead he drove straight to Wallmart with $1300 to buy himself a new games console- which then led to his arrest. 19-year-old Tyler Matthew …

The decision has been made by the display industry. The next big tech trend to get us to buy an upgraded version of what we already have isn't 3D and it's not VR (not yet anyway), but 4K. However, the age old problem of getting the cost of these displays …

Today we look at a new rig from system builder Cyberpower. The Achilles Pro incorporates the latest Intel i5 4690 processor, alongside a Gigabyte GTX780, Gigabyte Z97 Gaming motherboard and a 256GB Plextor PCIe SSD. Cyberpower have decided to adopt the exciting new In-Win 904 case as well in this …

While it might not have the prize pool of The International 2014, G Skill's World Cup for overclockers is heating up, with the six finalists announced right alongside a $10,000 cash prize for the champion. Set to compete are: der8auer from Germany, ZeR0_Dan from China, Hero from China, Xtreme Addict …

Nvidia revealed the $3000 Titan Z graphics card all the way back in March, which was some time ago. Since then,  the company has been pretty quiet on its dual graphics solution, which sparked rumours of cancellation or an indefinite delay. However, it seems the rumours weren't true as Nvidia's …

Many people might still see climate change as something that's up for debate, but rising sea levels are not. A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (which sounds like a worrisome lot) has predicted that before long, five of NASA's most important facilities, including launch pads and astronaut …

Poor old Windows 8. It's not had the easiest time of things since it's launch back in 2012, getting slammed from all sides by gamers and pretty much anyone that wasn't using a tablet. Since then it's regained some momentum, especially with its 8.1 release, but continued to remain the …

Are you heading to Los Angeles between the 10th and 12th of June this year? Are you a Smash Bros. Veteran with hundreds of stomping, brawling, melee-ing hours under your belt? Then consider stopping by E3 while you're there, as Nintendo has announced that it'll be holding the first tournament …

Sales of the DotA 2 Internationals Compendium have been continuing over the past few weeks and once again we've hit a milestone in prize pool size for a single Esports tournament. $6 million is the latest threshold to be burst through, with the current total sitting at $6,123,272 at the …

Crucial, a division of Micron Technology, plans to introduce the world’s first solid-state drive based on Micron’s NAND flash memory made using 16nm process technology early next month. The new SSD will reportedly be showcased at Computex Taipei 2014 trade-show. The fresh drives promise to be significantly less expensive than …

While Samsung Electronics was not the first to market with its own smartwatch, it managed to capture 70 per cent of the smart-watch market in the first quarter of this year, according to Strategy Analytics. While the market of such devices is on an early stage of development, it is …

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday introduced its all-new Surface 3 Pro tablet aimed at business users and enterprises. The slate is extremely thin and light, yet, it has a high-definition retina-class 12” display, is based on a high-performance x86 microprocessor and sports Windows 8 Pro operating system. Microsoft claims that the …

Perhaps, the first-generation SATA Express (SATAe) implementation that relies on the PCI Express 2.0 technology is not truly revolutionary and does not bring a dramatic performance boost compared to Serial ATA-6Gb/s. Nonetheless, SATAe is a part of the future, which is why companies like AMD need to support it in …

Sitting in the middle of ASRock's current Z97 gaming motherboard line-up, the Fatal1ty Z97X Killer targets the fierce sub-£130 marketplace. Can its feature set, overclocking capabilities, and general performance allow it to stand out in a hotly-contested segment of the market? ASRock supplies its Z97X Killer with a number of popular …

The main selling point for consoles is usually exclusive content, Sony and Microsoft have been known to make deals for platform exclusive content or timed exclusive DLC but luckily for Witcher fans, development studio CD Projekt Red, doesn't believe in favouring one platform over the other. The Witcher 3 won't …

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday introduced its new family of embedded accelerated processing units (APUs) and central processing units (CPUs) with heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) capabilities. The new chips code-named “Bald Eagle” are based on the design known as “Kaveri”, which is already available for desktops. The fresh family of …

Games for Windows Live is shutting down and as a result, many publishers have had to find new services to keep games online. So far Namco Bandai has been pretty quiet on the subject of future Dark Souls support as its multiplayer runs on GFWL and since Dark Souls II …

The MPAA and other media lobby groups have seemingly tried everything when it comes to getting file sharing sites shut down. They've tried shutting down the servers, they've tried blocking the domains and they've tried bringing legal action against the owners and the users, but now they're taking a new …

It's been a while since we've had any Steam OS or Steam Machine news. Valve is still working hard on its OS and there is very little mystery surrounding most upcoming pre-built computers, however, Alienware has been keeping its cards close to its chest and hasn't given very much away …