Rainbow Six Siege is coming out in about two weeks time, but that doesn't mean that the studio is completely done just yet, as there will be another beta test taking place next week to ensure all of the servers are up to scratch for launch and possible seek out …
Read More »Sapphire Trixx unlocks AMD R9 Fury X voltage and HBM
When the AMD R9 Fury X launched this year, reviewers quickly found out that there would be limited overclocking potential due to voltage locks, as well as limitations placed on the speed the card's high bandwidth memory (HBM) could run at. Now, it looks like things are loosening up a bit, …
Read More »Deus Ex: Mankind Divided just got pushed back to August 2016
This year, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal finally unveiled Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a direct sequel to 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The game was supposed to release on the 23rd of February next year and a now cancelled pre-order scheme even offered five days early access to the title. …
Read More »Green Man Gaming now shows where its game keys come from
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding grey market key sellers over the last couple of years and slowly, publishers have been trying to clamp down on the practise. One of the more reputable key sellers, Green Man Gaming, was accused of grey market practises this week, so in …
Read More »Crytek’s Dinosaur Island VR game is free on Steam now
Earlier this year, Crytek impressed us all with its Dinosaur VR demo. Now, you can play it for yourself, as the studio has released Back to Dinosaur Island for free on Steam. The game has been built from the ground up to take advantage of the Oculus Rift, so you …
Read More »Fallout 4 PC game performance analysis
Fallout 4 has been out in the wild for one week now and we have been hearing a lot about the PC port. We already took a quick look at it on launch day, using a GTX 980Ti to analyse the port and seek out any issues. Now, we have …
Read More »Details of Intel’s upcoming Kaby Lake CPUs surface online
Earlier this year, we learned that Intel would be delaying its first 10nm CPU, codenamed Canonlake, until late 2017, paving the way for Kaby Lake, another 14nm architecture, in 2016. We haven't heard much about Kaby Lake, but some newly leaked slides seem to give us some idea of what …
Read More »This iPhone case doubles as a virtual reality viewer
Virtual reality is growing and there is a big push for it on smartphones, thanks to products like the Samsung GearVR and the Google Cardboard. The YouTube app even supports virtual reality headset viewing from smartphones now, something that Figment is looking to help push with its iPhone case, which …
Read More »Button remapping is now available on all Xbox One controllers
Back at E3, Microsoft announced the Xbox One Elite controller, which offered a ton of features, including additional buttons and the ability to remap the entire controller. Now, that same button mapping functionality has been made available for the standard Xbox One controller as well, on the Xbox One and …
Read More »AMD is giving away Star Wars: Battlefront with R9 Fury GPUs
AMD has announced that it will be giving away copies of Star Wars: Battlefront on the PC with purchases of Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards. The latest shooter from EA and DICE launches this week, just in time for the new Star Wars movie. The game features plenty of game …
Read More »iPhone 6C rumours resurface
Apple's iPhone 5C didn't do too well, media speculation and ‘leaks' prior to its announcement all pointed towards it being a cheaper, plastic iPhone. Unfortunately, instead what we got was a fairly expensive plastic iPhone, at least that is how it was at launch. Things have settled down since then …
Read More »Pillars of Eternity: The White March expansion ends in January
Obsidian Entertainment's crowd-funded classic RPG, Pillars of Eternity, got its first expansion earlier this year known as ‘The White March: Part 1'. That has been out for a little while now so those who played it are probably wondering when they'll be able to get their hands on Part 2. …
Read More »Google Glass 2 may ditch the display
Google Glass is still alive and well behind the closed doors of Google X. However, even with development now taking place behind closed doors, that isn't stopping us from getting any information on what could be coming. The latest news seems to be that one of Google's Glass 2 variants …
Read More »Nvidia is bringing the Shield Tablet back in time for Christmas
Last year, Nvidia stepped in to the tablet arena with the Nvidia Shield, featuring a powerful Kepler based graphics chip, a 1080p display, along with some unique features. However, in recent months the tablet has been rather hard to find due to a recall that took place. Now, those issues …
Read More »Vertagear SL4000 Gaming Chair Review
We have been asked for our opinions on gaming/racing chairs plenty of times throughout the year, though we had yet to review one. Today, that changes as we are taking a look at the SL4000 Racing Chair from Vertagear – a newcomer to the market. Is the chair worth its £215 …
Read More »AMD promises two new GCN GPUs for 2016
AMD has been making some moves these past few months, starting with forming the Radeon Technologies Group and more recently the company announced plans to move away from the Catalyst Control Centre in favour of ‘Radeon Software', which will feature a total overhaul for the driver. Now, AMD's Radeon Chief, …
Read More »Germany’s antitrust office investigating Apple and Amazon audiobook deal
Following on from complaints from booksellers in Germany, the country's federal cartel office is now investigating the relationship between Amazon and Apple. Right now, the Amazon-owned audio book service, Audible, supplies Apple with audio books, so this investigation will try to determine whether or not this deal restricts competition from …
Read More »MSI has two insanely powerful laptops on the way
Way back at the start of this year, MSI impressed us a lot with the GT80 Titan laptop, featuring SLI 980m GPUs and a full Cherry MX Brown mechanical keyboard. Now, MSI is upping the ante once again, with two new beastly laptops, the GT72 Dragon Edition and the GT80S …
Read More »Samsung’s Android Marshmallow update schedule has been revealed
Samsung's a pretty popular brand, so chances are that a few of you reading this own a Galaxy smartphone from the last couple of years. If you happen to be a Galaxy user, you might be wondering when you'll get your hands on the Android Marshmallow update, fortunately, the update …
Read More »Here is what the Star Wars Battlefront Season Pass will get you
We live in an age where season passes are the norm but quite a few of them offer very little for the cost, like the one for Batman Arkham Knight. However, some of them bring a bit more to the table. EA is about to have its biggest game launch of …
Read More »Microsoft has plans to prevent Xbox Live DDOS this Christmas
In December last year, a group of people launched a large-scale DDOS attack on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Different people involved had different opinions on why the attack went ahead, but the disappointing fact is that both services were down over the holidays, preventing many from enjoying their …
Read More »Tim Cook seems to think that the iPad Pro could replace all PCs
We have heard about PCs as we know them today dying out plenty of times over the years and our latest example comes from Apple. Tim Cook seems to be under the impression that the iPad Pro, Apple's new 13-inch tablet, could replace both desktops and notebooks: “I think if …
Read More »Major League Baseball planning legal action over Fallout 4 mod
Fallout 4 has only been out for a few days but mods are already starting to appear online, which is great to see, particularly after the success of Skyrim modding. Unfortunately for one modder, his creation has landed him in the legal sights of MLB (Major League Baseball) after putting a …
Read More »Tests show SteamOS can reduce gaming performance by 50%
Valve's scheme to get PC gaming in to the living room has kicked off with the Steam machines, all backed up by the Linux-based SteamOS. However, it seems that the operating system could be significantly hindering gaming performance, with early benchmarks showing games on SteamOS performing up to 50 percent …
Read More »Intel Broadwell-E specifications leak may reveal 10-core 20 thread CPU
Intel's Broadwell CPUs didn't really do too well on the desktop side and were quickly replaced with Skylake. However, that isn't stopping the chip maker from planning a Broadwell-E series of processors according to a new leak, which shows Intel's top offering coming with ten cores and twenty threads. These …
Read More »Apple is finally shutting down Beats Music
It was big news last year when Apple bought out Beats Music, but the service kept running for some time while Apple figured out what to do with the acquisition. Now that Apple Music is finally out and is steadily building up its own subscriber base, it is time for …
Read More »Firefox is finally available for iOS
Mozilla has been promising a version of its Firefox browser for iOS users for some time now, with the app initially announced way back in September last year. Now, Firefox has finally been made available on Apple's App Store, after public beta testing launched in September to help stomp out …
Read More »Microsoft admits a bug caused Windows 10 to install without permission
Since the launch of Windows 10, we have seen reports of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users finding their PCs upgrading to the latest OS without permission or knowledge. Microsoft has been avoiding the subject for a while but this week, it finally came clean and said that a bug …
Read More »Fallout 4 managed to ship 12 million copies day one
Fallout 4 has been subjected to an insanely high level of hype over the course of this year. Right now, Bethesda's latest RPG has had one of the highest concurrent player counts on Steam since its launch too, so it's not too surprising to hear that over twelve million copies of …
Read More »Payday 2’s microtransactions just got worse, forum mods quit in protest
The Payday 2 player base has been in uproar since a recent update to the game introduced microtransactions, despite the fact that Overkill Studios at one point said that they would never resort to them. These premium crates can grant gameplay bonuses to players, which many have taken issue with. …
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