Epic Games has been teasing a new flagship title called Paragon for a while now. We've met some of its stand-out characters over the last few weeks, detailing their strengths and powers, but without the context of what the game was about, it didn't make much sense. Now it does, …

In a wonderful parody of the typically sickly sweet Christmas adverts that populate TV and web-videos at this time of year, PornHub has released its own. While it does poke fun at the way these sorts of adverts are usually handled though, it is also trying to sell you a …

As much as many of you could be considered hardware enthusiasts, who love building, tweaking and overclocking for the pure fun of it, the majority of us also use those systems for gaming. Which means it's always nice to get a free title when you buy some new hardware. That's what's …

Have you ever felt that the endless bundle and impulse buys during sales have left your Steam library cluttered and full of games you are never likely to play? Although organising them into categories can help, some would rather just do away with the games altogether, and now you can, …

Ask any PC gamer what their system specifications are and they will be able to rattle off a detailed list of numbers and brand names … however there is a good chance they will still using onboard sound. For some reason sound cards are not seen as a particularly exciting …

Another big announcement at last night's Game Awards 2015, was that Oculus and Harmonix are working on a virtual reality version of Rock Band. Players will get to strum away on plastic guitars to audiences that they can see and feel right in-front of them, and to help make sure …

The international Game Awards ceremony took place last night at the Microsoft Arena in Los Angeles California, so along with all of the gossip and tidbits of information flying around in its aftermath, we also have a few new game trailers. One of them is Ubisoft's Fary Cry spin-off, Primal, …

Ex-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer and still the company's biggest share-holder, has called the numbers Microsoft revealed as part of its recent annual shareholder meeting, “bulls***.” Although Microsoft released its run rate – extrapolating results from a single point throughout the year – Ballmer wants to see real revenue numbers, …

Although Nokia's Ozo 360 degree camera rig has us all excited for experiencing real events from the comfort of our own home, what's to say that the performers even need to go to a venue? That's what happened yesterday in the VR social application, AltSpaceVR, which hosted its first stand-up …

Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has called on students and citizens to lobby their government to introduce a ‘carbon price' to help hurry along commercial industries in making their businesses cleaner and to encourage the development of new renewable energy sources. Removing subsidies for traditional energy would cut …

Although the United States and China have been covertly trying to hack each other's digital systems for a long time at this point, it looks like the two cyber-super-powers are now going to be working together; a little. Following weeks of joint meetings, the countries are going to conduct what …

Although the USB 3.1 standard had some exciting features for us all to enjoy, Type-C was perhaps the biggest recent development, as it promises a reversible header. As the WinnerGear guys said in their IndieGoGo campaign though, it's going to be some time before that's common in our hardware. How …

One of the biggest pieces of contention in the Kim Dotcom extradition saga, has been whether the MegaUpload founder should have access to the money he made during the file-locker's life. While not all of it has been returned to him, the New Zealand High Court has now given access …

Yahoo is an entity that despite having lost its status as a household name perhaps as long as a decade ago, is still a monstrously successful company. At the time of writing it still has total assets worth more than $60 billion and a yearly revenue in excess of $4.6 …

G.Skill impressed us when they sent over their new keyboard design recently and today we get to look at the latest release in the Ripjaws line: the SR910 “Real” 7.1 gaming headset. It is big. It is black and it does come packing a full 7.1 surround sound set up, which not …

Hong Kong based toy-company, VTech, has admitted that the details of more than six million children and their parents were revealed in a recent hack of its Innotab child-friendly tablet. The hack revealed not only names and addresses, but often photos that the children had taken, as well as messages …

Mark Zuckerberg is one of this millennium's biggest success stories. In less than a decade he went from a college kid to one of the richest people in the world, running a website with a bigger audience than any other medium ever. But now with a net worth closing in …

AMD put a lot of effort into the development, launch and popularisation of its new Crimson driver that replaced the Catalyst Control Centre. It changed the aesthetic and function of AMD's drivers in many ways, but seemed to cause some nasty issues with fan-speed settings too. Fortunately AMD responded rather …

The UK has been home to some wonderfully mocked anti-piracy campaigns. The “you wouldn't steal a car,” campaign birthed many memes and the push for letters warning of piratical activity hasn't had much of an effect on the sharing landscape. Still, they're trying and a new campaign, titled: “Get it Right …

Nokia isn't a company that's been particularly relevant for some time now, only really breaking headlines in recent years when it sold its smartphone division to Microsoft in 2013. However now it's looking to reinvent itself with the launch of a virtual reality camera known as the Ozo, which delivers …

We're not blowing anyone's minds when we say that some people can be dicks online. Racism, sexism, homophobia – often the internet feels like it brings out the worst in people, even if there are many pieces of evidence to counter that point. Still, Brazil is looking to change people's …

Sharing pictures and videos of your celebrating family and friends may be a little harder around Christmas according to OfCom, as those fairy lights that we add to trees and other parts of our homes, could have a negative impact on your Wi-Fi speed. They join a long list of …

When it launched, Grand Theft Auto 5 was a pretty game on even older generation consoles, but it shone when given the extra grunt of the new generation to play with, and even more so when PCs were allowed to take a crack at it. As you might expect too, …

As much as we're excited by the ventures of Space X and Amazon in making travel into space and the transport of materials into orbit that much cheaper with their re-usable systems, they're not the only ones looking to revolutionise space travel. British company Reaction Engines has designed a new …

The use of big-data has exploded in the last few years, allowing for new weather prediction algorithms, Netflix suggestions and more targeted advertising among many other uses, including some controversial ones. Take for example its use in predicting criminal activity. Could this one day lead to a Minority Report-like pre-crime …

Although it has always lacked the licenses for the Premier League and Bundesliga, Pro Evolution Soccer has always been a strong rival for the FIFA football crown and now it's becoming even more competitive. Starting in just over a week's time, there will be a new “entry level,” free-to-play version of …

Hiring on the Top Gear crew after the unceremonious end to their long running TV presence, was a real win for Amazon, even if it did purportedly cost the online retailer upwards of £160 million. Part of that price tag however means you can utilise that new talent for other …

If the Steam Hardware Survey is anything to go by, most of you are running between four and eight gigabytes of RAM in your system. That's enough for most games, though some video editing and Photoshop pros may like a few more Gigabytes tacked on there too. Samsung clearly wants us all …

In the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, obfuscating systems like encryption, the Tor browser and virtual private networks (VPN) have been championed by privacy advocates the world over as the best ways to protect your data online. However, that latter step may not be as useful as initially thought, …

As much as the modern world is all about doing things as instantaneously as possible, there are always a few who ruin it for the rest of us. That's why Valve is soon set to instigate a mandatory three day wait for trades made on Steam, to help prevent those that …