Prepare yourselves guys, once again video games are being used as a scapegoat for real-world violence, this time in Germany. Following the recent shooting in Munich, German TV channel, ProSieben, has announced that it will not be televising any more Esports matches, including the planned ELEAGUE CS:GO coverage this week. …

While AMD announced the its new RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards some time ago, neither card is available just yet and reviews haven't surfaced. However, it looks like we now have the official specs for each card, along with some performance numbers from AMD's own tests on several …

Earlier today, Epic Games head Tim Sweeney made headlines once again by continuing to bash Microsoft's new Universal Windows Platform initiative. This time, Sweeney claimed Microsoft might make Steam worse over time to try and push studios to use UWP more. Now, Microsoft has issued a comment of its own, …

We supplement our analysis of AMD partner RX 480 cards today by looking at the two Sapphire Nitro+ OC models, in 4GB and 8GB capacities. The Sapphire cards ship with custom cooling solutions, out of the box clock enhancements, LED lighting and PCB improvements. At price points of £199.99 and …

It looks like LastPass is facing a security issue as a dangerous zero-day bug has been found, which can apparently completely compromise user accounts according to reports this week. Right now, millions of users trust LastPass as a safe tool to store and generate secure passwords, but password vaults could …

If you still happen to be playing Rainbow Six: Siege, then soon you will have a new map and two new operators to look forward to. Operation Skull Rain is the latest DLC for Ubisoft's shooter and it will take players to Brazil. The new map is called Favela, which …

Blizzard is continuing to take in player feedback and address Overwatch's hero balance. This time around, there is a patch coming to address the game's newest hero, Ana, but there will also be some additional changes to McCree, who had already been tweaked in a previous patch a few weeks …

Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney has been a vocal opponent of Windows 10 and its Windows Marketplace, which he sees as Microsoft's attempt to lock down the entire ecosystem. Although his comments are often factually debatable, he's still not a fan of either and thinks Microsoft could drop W32 to try …

As popular as Pokémon Go has been in the past few weeks since its release, that's not translating to a massive influx of cash for Nintendo. While we know it only takes home a licensing fee and a small cut of the profits, it was expected to have more impact …

The last few days have seen a few crazy graphics cards announced, with the likes of Nvidia's Quadro P6000 offering ridiculous levels of performance at a hefty price tag. You haven't seen anything yet though, as AMD's Radeon Pro Duo Solid State Gaming (SSG) GPU, comes packing a pair of …

Late last year we took a look at the Vertagear SL4000 gaming chair and while we were impressed by its comfort, we did run into some quality control issues with the build. Vertagear has since taken feedback from its early chairs on board and now, it has moved on to …

The next update for the Oculus Rift will make it possible to use more than one infrared camera to detect your presence in the real and virtual world, massively improving its tracking accuracy and potentially making room scale much more viable. As expected however, two sensors is likely to be …

Although the movie adaptation of The Division might be one Ubisoft is keen on shopping around to studios, it's biding its time and taking things slowly. It wants to get all its ducks in a row before pitching it, so the fact that Interstellar and The Martian star Jessica Chastain, …

Space X is looking to build two new landing pads at the Cape Canaveral Air Force base in California, so that it can attempt to land all three Falcon 9 rockets used to make up a Falcon Heavy launch. However, it needs to receive approval first and as part of …

Facebook has been accused of deliberately blocking links to Wikileaks after it revealed secretive collusion between U.S. democratic presidential hopeful, Hilary Clinton and the Democratic Party. This lead many users to accuse the social network of censorship, though Facebook has now claimed it was an accident. Although the general election is still months …

Yahoo is a name that many of you might not have heard for some time, but it was once one of the biggest players in the online world. But like many of those old guard, it too is now somewhat irrelevant, so it is perhaps fitting that this week it has …

Nintendo's next generation console may blend the future with the past, as a number of rumours are now suggesting that it will support cartridges for games. That tie to the past won't mean you're tied to your living room though, as the NX is also said to be a portable console …

Nvidia has debuted a new pair of graphics cards as part of its Pascal line up, but these ones aren't designed to give you ungodly frame rates in the latest and greatest games, these ones are for the business users. Workstations, renderers and situations that require more power than a …

AMD launched their RX 480 at the end of June and I was on hand to offer my analysis of the reference card at the time. Today we present our review of the new Asus RX 480 Strix Gaming OC, a custom solution featuring enhanced clock speeds, a modified triple …

We are approaching the 29th of July, which will mark exactly one year since the launch of Windows 10 and Microsoft's increasingly invasive campaign to get Windows 7 and 8.1 users to upgrade. If you really don't want to upgrade, then the good news is that in 72 hours, you …

Earlier this year, the Steam Hardware survey showed the HTC Vive outselling the Oculus Rift by quite a bit, with around 100,000 headsets already out in the wild. However, since then Oculus has sorted out its stock issues, fulfilled all pre-orders and is now preparing to jump into room-scale VR …

Earlier this year, Microsoft reclaimed one million inactive Xbox Live gamertags and put them back into the wild for current Xbox players to claim. Now going forward if you want to keep your Xbox Live gamertag you need to sign in once every five years, or your account will expire. …

It would seem that trouble is brewing over at Cyanogen, who have reportedly cut jobs from the Android ROM section of the business after failing to gain mainstream popularity through partnerships with the likes of OnePlus and Microsoft. There is also word of Cyanogen shifting its focus from its OS …

CD Projekt Red’s content updates for The Witcher 3 have officially wrapped up and while we are getting a Game of the Year Edition next month, we won’t be getting the ‘Enhanced Edition’ that a few series fans had hoped for. However, one modder has taken things into their own …

Nvidia's GTX 1060 is now available to buy and while the reference design (Founders Edition) is an interesting choice, it's the customised variants from Nvidia partners that should offer the best cooling, performance and feature set. The ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX is the first of the custom GTX 1060s to …

We may have only just got our first batch of Pascal graphics cards over the last couple of months but that isn't slowing the rumour mill down at all, with attention now turning to Nvidia's Volta architecture. According to reports this week, the first Volta graphics cards may end up …

We have been hearing about AMD's upcoming Zen architecture for some time now and over the last few months, news has ramped up a bit. Right now, official information still points to a late 2016 release date for AMD's first desktop Zen CPU but according to reports this week, availability might …

With the launches of Android Wear and the Apple Watch, for a while it looked like Smartwatches might become the next big thing. However, that has yet to happen and the smartwatch market just got hit with its first decline, which was largely caused by a big drop in sales …

Microsoft made its biggest push for PC gaming in years at E3 2016, with one of the bigger announcements being that Gears of War 4 will be coming to the platform alongside the Xbox One release later this year. Since then, the team behind the game have spoken out a …

Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Ultimate Alliance 2 are getting the remaster treatment this week, with both superhero themed action RPGs coming to Steam, Xbox One and PS4 tomorrow. Marvel Ultimate Alliance first launched way back in 2006 and was well received by fans and critics. It has been quite a …