It is pretty common knowledge by now that 343 Industries botched the launch of the Halo Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One late last year. It has taken a long time to fix but the matchmaking patch has finally landed and should hopefully fix the bulk of the multiplayer …

Huawei announced its own entry in to the smartwatch arena earlier this week, showing off a sleek design, circular watch face and Android Wear integration. Unfortunately though, all of this could come at a serious price as the watch may go for as much as $1000 once released. The device …

When Valve announced the Source 2 engine and began showing off its VR headset at the Game Developers Conference, many were hoping that we would finally see a new game as well. Well it turns out that Valve did demo something new at GDC, it was a Source 2 version …

Advanced Micro Devices uses yet unannounced Radeon R9 graphics card for a virtual reality demonstration at the Game Developers Conference, the company confirmed on Thursday. The GPU developer reveals no details about its new flagship graphics card, but those, who have seen it in action, notice impressive performance. Although AMD …

Even though the battle between iOS and Android smartphones has been fought for years here in the ‘West,' in China, that war was lost long ago. With over 90 per cent of the country's smartphones running Android, you would think it's clear who the victor was, but in-fact it isn't …

Rock Band 4 has officially been announced for release on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 later this year. The latest addition to the series has been hinted at for a little while now as Harmonix began pushing out new DLC for Rock Band 3. The new title will support …

The House of Lords EU Committee wants to see more restrictions placed on the use of drones in the UK, with users forced to register their ownership. This would include both commercial and personal uses of the technology, which is counter to American legislation which recently gave the thumbs up …

Sources with knowledge of Advanced Micro Devices’ roadmap have revealed that the company plans to introduce its new family of Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards closer to Computex than CeBIT, as originally planned. AMD had hoped to push out one or two new cards in March and then re-brand many …

With the Game Developers Conference in full swing at the moment, it's time to take a step away from all the VR news to talk about games that aren't coming soon, but were released last year. In-fact it's time to honour some of them with the GDC Choice Awards which were …

While Intel Corp. is going to release its code-named “Skylake” processors a little later than expected, the company keeps the plan to introduce its new micro-architecture for virtually all segments of the market continuum this year. Intel will roll-out “Skylake” central processing units for tablets, 2-in-1s, personal computers and servers …

When we previewed the MSI GS30 Shadow and GamingDock at the end of 2014 we were blown away by the combination of Core i7-4870HQ CPU in the laptop and the desktop GTX 980 graphics card in the GamingDock. The concept of using an external dock to add proper gaming graphics …

Before I and I'm sure many of you, were tapping away at keyboards and gaming away on CRT screens with roller ball mice, people like our fearless leader Zardon had a different take on computing altogether. Yes way back in the 80s, while the Commodore 64 was tearing it up …

If you played and were somewhat disappointed by the latest SimCity, DarkSpore or Spore, then chances are you won't be too bothered by the news that EA Games is shutting down Maxis Emeryville, the developer that brought us all of those over the past few years. However even though the …

Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its upcoming GeForce GTX Titan X graphics cards in its booth at the Game Developers Conference and allowed the press to take pictures of the board. Just like its single-chip predecessors from the ultra-high-end league, the novelty uses an ultra-quiet cooler, is multi-GPU-capable and is not very …

Advanced Micro Devices now commands only about 2 or 3 per cent of the server market because of various reasons and the company is not going to regain its positions with the current Opteron offerings. Nonetheless, the chip designer seems to pin a lot of hopes on its “Zen” micro-architecture …

Nvidia Corp. unexpectedly unveiled its highest-performing single-chip gaming graphics card at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday. The new GeForce GTX Titan X will emerge on the store shelves in the coming weeks and will be the pinnacle of the “Maxwell” architecture. Let’s recap what we already know about the …

Microsoft had another presentation today, this time at the Game Developers Conference, revealing some more on its plans for the future of Xbox and PC gaming. One of the bigger announcements to come out was cross-buy support for Xbox One and Windows 10 PC titles. Phil Spencer took to the …

Nvidia has announced the Titan X graphics card at the Game Developers Conference today. Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang made a surprise appearance at one of the presentations, showing off the company's most advanced single graphics card yet, with 12GB of VRAM and eight billion transistors on board. The company just …

Bethesda has just announced a standalone prequel for last year's Wolfenstein: The New Order, it is called Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and will feature an expansion sized story that sees Blazkowicz return to battle. The prequel will be set in the year 1946, with the Nazis on the brink of …

HTC has apologized after teasing a new Half-Life game for the company's upcoming virtual reality headset, ‘The Vive', which was developed in collaboration with Valve. The drama all kicked off yesterday when HTC Chairwoman, Cher Wang, suggested that a new Half-Life game was on the way in an interview with …

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is on the way this September. The 1st of September release date was announced today for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and the last generation consoles. The PC platform will be getting the game after, on the 15th of September. The release date …

The Apple Watch is widely expected to bring wearable technology to the mainstream but it seems that Samsung isn't in a rush to compete this time around. Samsung is taking on a new strategy by cutting down on releases and going back to the drawing board. Samsung isn't shrinking down …

Nvidia has expanded its Shield lineup with a new Android TV console featuring the new Tegra X1 processor. The new set-top box was revealed at the Game Developers Conference over night and like the rest of the Shield lineup, its primary purpose is to stream games. You will be able …

It's no secret at this point that every member of the Five Eyes spying network (essentially every English speaking nation) has been snooping on not only their citizens, but everyone else's over the past few years, under the guise of anti-terrorism efforts. Despite this though, new revelations every few months …

Even though it barely seems to be operational these days, The Pirate Bay is the most iconic torrent search site in the world and is frequently cited by media lobby groups as a URL that ISPs should block – often with the courts backing that decision. While some ISPs might …

Combining the market's current bang-for-the-buck kings, Chillblast builds its Fusion Barbarian gaming system around the Devil's Canyon Core i5 4690K processor and Gigabyte's G1 Gaming GTX 970 graphics card. Backing up the powerful frame-rate generators are 16GB of DDR3 memory and a 120GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD. How does the …

US President Barack Obama has criticised Chinese plans to implement new anti-terror laws which would see all tech firms doing business in the country forced to hand over encryption keys and to provide back doors in software to allow the military to gain digital access to whatever they want.  While …

Harmonix might be most well known for kickstarting the rhythm game trend in the latter half of the ‘oos, but it's been working on many other games since Rockband died off. Whether it's the Dance Central series though or an interactive version of Fantasia, Harmonix is always working with music, …

Games Workshop has a bit of a history of hiring on odd choices or relative unknowns to make its games, but it's gone a different route with the upcoming Skaven slaughter simulator, Warhammer End Times: Vermintide by having FatShark do it. Although that developer is hardly as well known as …

Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled a new prototype of its code-named project Morpheus virtual reality headset at the Game Developers Conference. The new version of the device should improve user experience by enabling improved picture quality and tracking. In addition, Sony said that it will release its VR gear commercially in …