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 …
Read More »Latest Overwatch patch brings changes to Ana and McCree
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 …
Read More »Vertagear PL6000 Gaming Chair Review
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 …
Read More »Those Windows 10 upgrade notifications should go away in 72 hours
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 …
Read More »Oculus Rift market share sees growth while Vive stagnates
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 …
Read More »Xbox Live gamertags now expire after five years of inactivity
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. …
Read More »Cyanogen Android ROM failures lead to job losses
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 …
Read More »New mod aims to create The Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition
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 …
Read More »Report claims Nvidia’s Volta GPUs could launch next year
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 …
Read More »AMD Zen CPUs may be limited this year, full volume expected in 2017
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 …
Read More »Smartwatch market crashes as Apple Watch sales fall 55 percent
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 …
Read More »Gears of War 4 will have plenty of technical improvements on PC
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 …
Read More »Marvel: Ultimate Alliance remaster is coming to the PC tomorrow
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 …
Read More »AMD Zen Engineering samples are floating around, specs leak online
It has been a while since we’ve had any interesting developments in regards to AMD’s upcoming Zen processors. However, this week someone managed to get a peek at a few Zen engineering samples, giving us a good idea of what spec AMD is currently working with for its new line of CPUs. …
Read More »France takes a stand against Microsoft’s Windows 10 user tracking
Ever since the launch of Windows 10, plenty of people have had issues with Microsoft’s new policies when it comes to privacy and data collection. Now, it looks like France’s data protection authority also has a problem with it and has ordered Microsoft to “stop collecting excessive user data” within …
Read More »Samsung’s ‘Odyssey’ VR headset could rival Oculus Rift
Samsung and Oculus have a pretty close working relationship at this point, with Oculus being the ones to design the GearVR and power it through its own software. However, the two could end up becoming competitors in the future as Samsung is said to be working on something called ‘Odyssey’ …
Read More »Rocket League and Gwent could both be cross-play on PS4 and Xbox One
Not too long ago, Microsoft loosened up on its Xbox Live restrictions a bit and gave developers free reign to implement cross-platform multiplayer for games between Xbox One, PC and if Sony allows it, PS4 too. Now it turns out that there are two developers ready to roll-out cross-network play …
Read More »Sapphire supercharges Polaris with RX 480 Nitro+
Today marks the launch of the Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro+, combining features and a thoughtful cooler design to deliver the best value for gamers looking to upgrade to Polaris this year. The latest Nitro card comes with an improved Dual-X cooler, which allows for higher out of the box …
Read More »Intel begins shipping Kaby Lake CPUs to device makers
Intel officially began shipping out its Kaby Lake processors out to device makers this week, meaning we may see the 7th generation Intel Core CPUs popping up in PCs and laptops in a few months time. Intel confirmed that its Kaby Lake CPUs had begun going out to OEMs this …
Read More »Gorilla Glass 5 protects your smartphone from bigger drops
Corning has been refining Gorilla Glass for years and its latest iteration is the toughest yet. The glass-making company is now showing off Gorilla Glass 5, which aims to protect smartphones from damage when landing on rough surfaces as high as 1.6 meters, or somewhere between average waist and shoulder …
Read More »Alleged founder of KAT arrested with help from Apple and Facebook
The alleged founder of KickAss Torrents (KAT), one of the largest torrent sites on the web, has been arrested in Poland this week following an operation spearheaded by the US government to track down the head of the site. More interestingly, the US was able to track him using information …
Read More »Square Enix is making an Apple Watch exclusive RPG
The Apple Watch has a number of everyday life uses but so far, gaming hasn’t really been considered by big publishers. Square Enix is changing that this year with the announcement of Cosmos Ring, an RPG designed exclusively for the Apple Watch. This week, Square Enix launched the official website …
Read More »No Man’s Sky is facing more legal issues
Just recently, the team behind No Man’s Sky managed to escape a worrying three-year long legal battle with BskyB over the use of the word Sky in the game’s title. This was a big relief at the time but unfortunately, it hasn’t been smooth sailing for long as No Man’s Sky …
Read More »Drobo’s new DroboPix app gives iOS users their storage fix
This week, Drobo, a company that specialises in storage solutions, launched an app for iOS users to give them their storage fix. Due to Apple's lack of expandable storage on the iPhone and iPad, many people often find themselves running out of storage space but the DroboPix app will help with …
Read More »Asus launches ROG Strix RX 480 and GTX 1060
The first waves of custom AMD Radeon RX 480 and Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics cards are starting to land and Asus is diving straight in with its new ROG Strix offerings, which promise higher levels of performance and much better cooling compared to the reference versions of these GPUs. First …
Read More »Mysterious Nvidia tablet passes FCC certification
Nvidia first launched its original Shield Tablet back in 2014 and since then, it has been supported with regular updates and features like Game Stream and GeForce Now have improved significantly. However, it is about time for a hardware update and it looks like there might be one on the …
Read More »Google used DeepMind AI to save on its electricity bill
Google’s DeepMind acquisition is already paying off as recently, the search engine giant used its DeepMind AI to cut down the company’s data centre electricity bill. According to DeepMind Co-Founder, Demis Hassabis, the AI was recently put in control of parts of data centres to reduce overall power consumption by …
Read More »Valve begins sending Cease and Desist letters to CSGO gambling sites
After a few lawsuit filings and a scandal or two involving highly popular YouTubers, Valve officially put its foot down on CS:GO gambling. The announcement that the company would take legal action if necessary was made last week and sure enough, Cease and Desist letters are now starting to roll …
Read More »The Witcher 3 is now the highest rated PC game ever on Metacritic
Just over a year after its release, The Witcher 3 has gone on to become the highest rated PC game of all time on Metacritic, sitting at a 9.3 average rating and edging out titles like Portal, Counter-Strike and the original Deus Ex. Another impressive feat is the fact that Blood …
Read More »Seagate’s new HDD could probably hold your entire Steam library
If you're the type of person that doesn't like to uninstall games, or delete parts of your media collection, then you may want to keep an eye on Seagate as it just launched a trio of hard drives with a huge 10TB capacity, which should probably be enough for that …
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