StarCraft 2 is one of the most popular modern real-time strategy games around and has even gone on to spawn a healthy modding community. Speaking of which, this week, StarCrafts mod released, a new graphical overhaul aimed at bringing out the silly side of SC2 by turning it into one …

Microsoft's Hololens has recieved a lot of interest from the tech community and while the augmented reality headset was previously only available to approved developers, a couple of months ago Microsoft did open things up a bit to allow anyone in the US to pick one up, providing they had …

Yesterday Samsung officially threw in the towel and cancelled production on the Galaxy Note 7, ending the smartphone's time on the market just over a month after its initial launch due to repeated battery overheating and fire issues. Now according to a new report, it seems that Samsung may not …

Earlier this year, Acer and Starbreeze teamed up to launch a new ‘StarVR' headset, featuring a significantly wider field of view and a bump in resolution compared to the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Due to the increased spec, StarVR is primarily aimed to be shown off in public venues, …

Virtual Reality has been in consumer hands for months now and while we have seen some impressive titles hit the likes of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, a lot of games have been shorter, demo-like experiences rather than full-blown titles that can match the scale of games not releasing …

The GTX 1050Ti has been a hot topic recently, with new details leaking out pretty much every week over the last month or so. If all of our previous coverage wasn't enough to convince you that the GTX 1050Ti is a very real thing, then maybe MSI can convince you, …

Western Digital has been well known for its hard drives for years now but this year, the company is stepping into the SSD arena. Following on from WD's acquisition of SanDisk, the company has launched new Green and Blue series solid state drives in 2.5-inch and M.2 form. Blue and …

Samsung has officially called it quits on the Galaxy Note 7 today, ending production entirely and telling carriers to stop selling the model for good. Things started going bad back in early September, with some Note 7 units shipping with defective batteries that were prone setting on fire. While a …

It has been just over a month since we first got news of the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti. We've seen die shots, images of the PCB and we've even seen leaked specifications for the upcoming GP107 powered card but now, we've got some performance benchmarks too, ahead of launch, …

The lawsuit battle between Apple and Samsung is finally edging towards a conclusion. Last year, Samsung was ordered by a US court to pay Apple $550 million for patent infringement but the Korean device maker had one more trick up its sleeve and managed to convince the US Supreme Court …

Blizzard has been teasing a new Overwatch character, currently known as ‘Sombra', for months now. In fact, teases for Sombra began popping up well before we even saw Ana, the game's medic sniper and first new character addition. However, it looks like it is almost time for the full reveal …

While Google has talked about reducing the amount of memory its Chrome browser eats up in the past, progress has been fairly slow. Back in mid-2015, a Google engineer admitted that the Chrome team was looking into fixing RAM usage but this week, we finally got an update on the …

While EA and Bioware have been taking their time to publicly commit to a new release date for Mass Effect: Andromeda, it looks like Dark Horse Comics is a little more keen as pre-orders for the game's art book kicked off today. Dark Horse claims that its art book will …

We have been hearing murmurs of Final Fantasy XV coming to the PC for a while now. Back in February some traces of a PC version were discovered in the source code of the game's official website and then in March, Square Enix said that it would be ‘looking into' …

As the founder of Oculus, we have gotten used to seeing Palmer Luckey at various events over the last few years, talking up the Rift and making new announcements. However, at Oculus Connect 3 this week, Luckey was nowhere to be seen, whether it be on stage or on the …

Update: While there was some initial excitement for the HD-remasters if Bioshock 1 and 2, PC gamers were greeted with some issues at launch. At the time, 2K promised that a patch would be coming to address any shortcomings in the PC version and now, that update has arrived, bringing …

Back at the start of 2016 it was starting to look like Microsoft had completely forgotten how to deliver a solid PC game. Efforts like Quantum Break underperformed on PC hardware and the early days of the Universal Windows Platform were riddled with missing features. However, today might mark the …

Mafia 3 launched on the PC today so in preparation for our full game analysis and benchmarks, I sat down to play the game this morning and get started on forming my first impressions. Unfortunately, the problems with Mafia 3 on the PC are immediately apparent with a very limited …

Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs are coming up in early 2017 and according to recent reports, they may end up being a tad more powerful than initially predicted compared to Skylake. With that in mind, some of you already on the Z170 platform may think about upgrading and thanks to a …

Way back in July of 2015 Microsoft's head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, confirmed plans to bring mouse and keyboard support to the Xbox One. This was reiterated earlier this year at E3, though Spencer admitted at the time that support was still “months away”. Well, months have now passed and …

As far as mobile digital assistants go, Apple's Siri is often regarded as one of the best. However, Apple didn't initially come up with the idea, Siri began life as an app that was sold to Apple back in 2010. After selling the app, the original team behind Siri went …

Oculus Connect 3 is taking place today and while we are already expecting to hear more about the release of Oculus Touch and future games, it turns out that a bigger announcement could be on the cards as Mark Zuckerburg will be in attendance to reveal ‘something new'. Last night …

Last month, Bethesda let PlayStation 4 owners know that Sony wasn't playing ball when it came to bringing mods to the console. Given that Bethesda has had mods running for Fallout 4 on the Xbox One for months now, this news didn't go down well. Fortunately, it didn't take long …

Ultra HD monitors have been around for a few years now and while they still have time to take over the market, some companies are already looking to the future. This week at CEATEC 2016 in Tokyo, display maker Sharp began showing off its new 8K monitor prototype. If the …

Earlier this morning we learned that email provider, Yahoo, had been accused of secretly scanning the emails of all of its users at the request of the United States government. Using a specialised piece of software, Yahoo is said to have scanned the emails of all users for specific phrases …

Google has officially taken its first step into virtual reality hardware by announcing the Daydream View headset, bringing virtual reality to a wider range of Android smartphones at a lower price compared to the Samsung Gear VR. It still requires a smartphone for display and horsepower duties but at £69, …

Gears of War 4 kicks off its launch on Friday this week so to give PC and Xbox gamers plenty of time to sit through the massive 73GB download, Microsoft kicked off preloading last week. Unfortunately, on the PC side at least, the Windows Store doesn't seem to be cooperating, …

It has been almost a year since TalkTalk suffered a huge cyber attack, in which the personal information of over 150,000 customers was stolen. Now, the UK-based ISP has to face the consequences, as the firm has been fined a record £400,000 for poor security practices, which left consumer data …

AMD has already announced that it will be missing the 2016 launch window for its new processors built on the Zen architecture. However, we won't have to wait long for them to appear in 2017 as reports claim that AMD will be launching its new CPUs at CES in January, …

Google is expected to be announcing its first Daydream Virtual Reality headset today but it looks like we may have the details a little ahead of time. According to sources, Google's first Daydream headset will be announced today with a low $79 price tag, completely undercutting Samsung's GearVR and potentially …