The Nvidia GTX 1060 officially launched today, with reviews showing it offering similar performance to a GTX 980 at a more budget friendly price point. Now that retailers have some stock in, it is a good time to check the prices and availability of certain custom cards here in the UK. …

There are many high-profile people with huge followings on Twitter with the power to start trends and change the opinions of many. Sometimes, verified users will put out tweets that many will see instantly, only to be deleted minutes later to avoid accountability. Tweet archives like PostGhost and Politiwoops are around …

The developers behind sci-fi colony builder, RimWorld, have been forced to stop giving out Steam keys to those buying directly from their own store as too many people are charging back or buying with fraudulent payment information. This sort of tactic is often used by thieves looking to bulk-buy keys in …

Around a decade after its initial launch, the original Dead Rising is coming to the PC, giving us a chance to get better acquainted with Frank West and his first adventure. Capcom made the announcement that Dead Rising 1 would be coming to the PC for the first time this …

Now that Pascal is out in the open, the rumour mill has turned its attention to Nvidia’s next currently planned architecture on the roadmap, known as Volta. According to a report, Nvidia may be planning to stick with the same 16nm process used for Pascal for its next architecture jump. …

Media companies have been trying to battle piracy and online torrent sites for years without much success. However, NBC Universal recently been granted a patent that details new technology designed to detect and track those downloading torrents. The “Early Detection of High Volume Peer-to-Peer Swarms” system is designed to detect …

Over time, Apple’s relationship with Samsung has gotten pretty complicated but despite all of the lawsuits, the two companies still work fairly closely together on products like the iPhone year after year. However, that may change quite soon as reports circulating this week suggest that Apple may drop Samsung as …

At one point in time, there was talk of Google developing its own virtual reality headset, a high-end one in a similar vein to the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. However, it now seems that the company may have cancelled its original vision in order to pursue VR on smartphones, …

If you currently own a virtual reality headset like the HTC Vive, then you are probably keeping an eye out for interesting new experiences you can get your hands on. This week, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is launching for free, giving Vive owners the chance to wield a lightsaber …

Star Citizen might be the most successful crowd-funded game of all time but there are still quite a few who have yet to jump in and try out the parts of the game that have released so far. This week though, Robert Space Industries is holding a ‘Summer Free Fly’ …

Fnatic isn't just an eSports team anymore, these days they are also a producer of gaming peripherals. We have already taken a look at the Rush Gear Keyboard recently but today we are taking a look at Fnatic's mouse offering, the Gear Flick, featuring an ambidextrous design and all necessary …

The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets are now readily available and ship within days. However, the setup process can be a bit fiddly and not everyone is going to want VR sensors and headsets taking up desk space on a permanent basis. This is where MSI's new VR …

The console cycle has changed this year, not only is Sony coming out with a “high-end” PS4 at some point soon but Microsoft has also announced Project Scorpio, which will come out a lot later but will feature much more powerful hardware. During the console's announcement, Xbox head, Phil Spencer …

No Man's Sky is one of the most anticipated games of this generation so far and now, it will finally be coming out next month. In the build up to launch day, Hello Games' has begun putting out new videos focussing on what you'll be doing in No Man's Sky, …

Asus is once again expanding its excellent Republic of Gamers Swift line of monitors with a new 24-inch offering equipped with G-Sync and an ultra-fast 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time. The ROG Swift PG248Q promises seamless visuals and super-smooth gameplay thanks to its variable refresh rate capabilities and …

We already know that Apple is looking to make the jump to OLED displays and previous reports indicate that it has tapped Samsung and LG to help produce them. However, now it looks like Apple may also begin making iPhones with curved OLED displays in the future, similarly to Samsung …

Back when Windows 10 launched almost one year ago, Microsoft set itself a goal to have the OS running on one billion devices by 2018. Unfortunately, while things are off to a great start with 350 million installs, things on the mobile front have been moving very slowly and now …

Bethesda games tend to foster a hugely active modding community, with some mod creators taking on hugely ambitious DLC-size projects. Last year, before Fallout 4's release, a quest mod known as ‘Autumn Leaves' launched for Fallout: New Vegas and now an awfully similar quest titled ‘Brain Dead' has appeared in Fallout 4's …

Right now a group of large telecom networks in Europe are proposing a new 5G rollout plan for countries within the European Union. There is a catch though, these networks won't put down the investment for 5G by 2020 unless the EU agrees to ease up on net neutrality regulation. …

Virtual Reality is finally readily available to consumers, with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift now shipping out to buyers within days. However, there is still one big difference between these two headsets and that is room scale support. A lot of people seem to favour the Vive over the …

Microsoft and the US government have been butting heads in court over access to email data stored on servers in Ireland for a while now but this week, Microsoft had quite the victory, when a Federal Appeals court ruled that the US government could not force Microsoft to hand over …

While Sony has confirmed the existence of the PlayStation 4 Neo, it hasn't given its new console a proper reveal yet, which has opened the door for yet more leaks. We already know quite a bit about Sony's upgraded console but now, the Neo developer document has leaked online, which …

Astell & Kern has had a place in the high-end Digital Audio Player market for years now, with its top-tier model running up a hefty £3300 price tag. However, there are those out there who enjoy quality audio products but don't want to spend thousands of pounds on equipment and …

Earlier this week we got news that the System Shock remake in the works at Nightdive Studios managed to hit its $900,000 Kickstarter funding goal. Since then, some stretch goals have been announced and the funding keeps rolling in, with the project now surpassing the $1 million mark and on …

Earlier this week, Nvidia addressed some of the issues that virtual reality gamers have been having recently. For starters, the DisplayPort on Pascal GPUs was found to be incompatible with the HTC Vive headset and on top of that, many users found their GeForce graphics cards not using their boost …

These days, most people only use Internet Explorer/Edge to download another web browser, like Google Chrome or Firefox. However, it turns out that Microsoft's browsers are actually pretty good for Netflix, being the only ones to offer full 1080p streaming on PC. If you have been watching Netflix on Chrome and …

You know that huge lawsuit going on between Apple and Samsung? Well it's still not over. Last year, a court gave a final ruling stating that Samsung must pay Apple $550 million for patent infringement but since then, the Supreme Court in the US has agreed to hear Samsung's side of …

Sony will finally have a good use for its PlayStation Move controllers when its virtual reality headset comes out later this year. However, there are people out there that might still prefer to use a standard gamepad and those users won't be left behind on any game as one of …

The European Union already has two antitrust cases running against Google at the moment, one for Google Shopping and another for Android. Now, it looks like a third case is brewing as the EU has some fresh antitrust complaints against Google's advertising business. According to the statement of objections, Google's …

It has been a number of years since Awsomo made its debut in South Park but it looks like Hollywood may get its movie expert robot yet as researchers at MIT's Computer Science and AI lab developed had an AI watch 600 hours of TV clips, and using deep learning, …