Earlier this year, after months of investigation, the European Commission formally accused Google of anti-trust practises, forcing the company to respond and give evidence that its business tactics aren't secretly squeezing out the competition. As you would expect, Google is arguing that the EU's allegations are “incorrect”. The European Commission's …
Read More »The next iPhone will be revealed on the 9th of September
Apple has gone ahead and sent out the press invites for its next iPhone reveal event, which will take place on the 9th of September. At the event, we are currently expecting to see a new iPhone 6S and an iPhone 6S Plus, with other possibilities including a new Apple …
Read More »Sony’s new speaker doubles as a TV remote
We have known for a while that Sony has been pushing for its Japanese employees to experiment a bit more with product ideas in order to try to turn its company financials around. We've seen Sony drones, paper smart watches and now, we have a speaker that also doubles as …
Read More »MacKeeper to pay $2 million in class action settlement
If you're an Apple user, then you may have heard of MacKeeper. It's one of those dodgy anti-virus programs that uses pop-up ads and scare tactics to trick the unsuspecting in to thinking their computers are infected and that they need to purchase the software to clean it up. Given …
Read More »Amazon is scaling back its hardware efforts
So, does anyone remember last year when Amazon attempted to release a smartphone? No? … I didn't think so. Since the Fire Phone flopped last year, costing Amazon as much as £100 million, the company has decided that it would be a wise idea to scale back its hardware efforts …
Read More »It looks like Fable Legends may not come to Steam
Fable Legends is on the way at some point this year as a free to play action co-op game. Up to this point, we have known that Microsoft is marketing this as a ‘Windows 10' game, though we did not know how the company intended to keep it exclusive to the …
Read More »Divinity Original Sin 2 Kickstarter goal reached in less than a day
Divinity: Original Sin 2's crowd funding campaign launched just yesterday and has already managed to surpass its $500,000 goal. At the time of writing, overall funding sits at around $660,000 with 33 days left to go. Right now, none of the stretch goals have been announced, though there will likely …
Read More »Microsoft’s Xbox One Preview Program has almost hit full capacity
Since the start of 2014, Microsoft has been working hard to take on fan feedback and incorporate new features in to the Xbox One. This was all helped by the Preview Program, which gave console owners access to beta features, like Xbox 360 backwards compatibility for instance. Unfortunately, it soon …
Read More »Cliff Bleszinski’s next game has been revealed
Gears of War creator, Cliff Bleszinski, has announced his brand new game today. It's called ‘LawBreakers' and is the début game from Boss Key Productions. LawBreakers is set in a futuristic world that has been changed by the destruction of the moon. The moon's destruction is an event that went down …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Syndicate PC will launch one month after consoles
Ubisoft really shot itself in the foot with PC gamers last year with Assassin's Creed: Unity and while most will likely remain untrustworthy this year, the publisher is attempting to make a bit more of an effort this time around. While the London-based Assassin's Creed Syndicate will launch on consoles …
Read More »Corsair teams up with Team Dignitas for special edition mouse and mat
Corsair has announced today that it has teamed up with eSports squad, Team Dignitas, to launch a special edition version of the Corsair Gaming Sabre mouse and the MM300 mouse mat. The new editions will feature the team's yellow and black colour scheme along with their logo. We have already …
Read More »Windows 10 has now been installed on 75 million PCs
Four weeks after the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has revealed that it has now been installed on 75 million PCs so far. Around 14 million of those installs took place within the first 24 hours, as we reported on at the start of the month. Microsoft's Windows 10 roll …
Read More »Facebook ‘spam king’ pleads guilty after sending over 27m messages
A man dubbed as the Facebook spam king has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and criminal contempt, having sent over 27 million commercially themed spam messages to Facebook users and then illegally accessing 500,000 of the accounts. The incidents took place between 2008 and 2009. The man behind the …
Read More »Apple loses German court battle on ‘slide to unlock’ patent
Apple just lost another fairly important court battle in Germany, over a patent for unlocking smartphones with a finger swipe. Judges yesterday ruled that the ‘slide to unlock' method isn't sophisticated enough in order to be awarded with patent protection. This could end up having an impact on another of …
Read More »You don’t need to pre-order Black Ops 3 for PC beta access
It's the 26th of August, which means that the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 beta has arrived on the PC. While it was initially thought that we would need to pre-order the game in order to play the beta this week, we now know a bit differently. It turns …
Read More »Logitech G303 Daedalus Apex RGB Mouse Review
Earlier on in the year we took a look at the Logitech G302, the first mouse from the company to use its new spring tension system for more responsive button clicks. However, it did have some limitations with a low DPI setting and a lack of lighting customization. Today, we are …
Read More »Photos of the AMD Radeon R9 Nano appear online
New photos of AMD's upcoming GPU, the Radeon R9 Nano, have surfaced online, giving us a detailed look at the full card. AMD has shown off the Nano once before, though we had only seen the front of the card up to this point. As we have already seen with …
Read More »Microsoft Office 2016 to launch next month
Microsoft announced Office 2016 earlier this year, though the updated Office suite has yet to launch just yet. Though apparently Microsoft has a release date pencilled in for next month, after releasing the Mac version back in July. According to a new report, Office 2016 will be arriving on the …
Read More »Starbound’s next big update has been detailed
One of the most successful games so far on Steam Early Access is Starbound, a 2D sandbox style game, sort of like a sci-fi version of Terraria. Those who own the game can expect a big update soon, which will add in colonies, allowing you to populate the various worlds and …
Read More »John Smedley steps down from Daybreak to head new company
Its official, John Smedley has left Daybreak Studios for good, after stepping down as President in order to take some time away following a series of personal attacks alongside some high-profile DDOS attacks on the company's game servers. It was initially thought that Smedley would return to the former SOE …
Read More »GOG Galaxy gets its first major update
GOG's first major update for its Galaxy game client has launched, adding in some new useful features. The Galaxy client was launched earlier this year as a Steam alternative for DRM free games and so far, it has been positively received by quite a few of its users. The standout …
Read More »The Galaxy Note 5 S-Pen feature can be broken quite easily
It seems that a fairly significant design flaw has been discovered with the newly released Samsung Galaxy Note 5. While in past Galaxy Note devices, the S-Pen could only be inserted one way, this time around, it can be placed in backwards, which unfortunately makes it very easy to break …
Read More »Cortana for Android is now in public beta
We have been hearing about Cortana's eventual arrival on Android for months now. While an early version of the digital assistant for Android leaked just ahead of the Windows 10 launch last month, you can now get your hands on the app officially, as Microsoft has launched the public beta. …
Read More »Cooler Master announce Pitch Pro in-ear gaming headset
Cooler Master is set to launch the successor to its CM Storm Pitch gaming ear buds, it has been announced. The new CM Storm Pitch Pro in-ear headphones aim to deliver clearer sound and more bass thanks to an overhauled design powered by new 10mm drivers. Build quality is still …
Read More »Here is the list of instruments compatible with Rock Band 4
Rock Band 4 and Guitar Hero Live are on the way this year. While the new Guitar Hero won't be supporting older peripherals, Rock Band 4 will be picking up the slack, supporting instruments from the last generation Rock Band games as well as the older Guitar Hero titles. We …
Read More »Trine 3 studio speaks on budget troubles during development
Earlier this year, Frozenbyte launched Trine 3 on Steam Early Access and after a few months of open development, the game was completed a few days back. Unfortunately, it seems that quite a few fans were disappointed in the story's length as well as the ending to the game, causing the developer …
Read More »Apple is recalling some iPhone 6 Plus models due to bad camera
Apple has announced that it will be recalling some of its iPhone 6 Plus models after a camera defect was discovered in a particular batch of units. The company revealed its replacement plan in an updated support page, which explains that the reason for the recall is a bad iSight …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid V’s multiplayer is not locked behind a paywall
GameSpot caused quite a stir today when the site published an article claiming that Metal Gear Solid V's PvP multiplayer mode was locked behind a paywall. The mode is known as ‘forward-operating-base, or FOB for short, at the time, the site claimed that in order to access this mode you …
Read More »Here are the first potential images of Huawei’s Nexus 6
Google's next set of Nexus smartphones are just a couple of months away. At the moment we are expecting a Nexus 5 from LG, which we have already seen one image of, along with a new Nexus 6 from Huawei, which we may also have got a glimpse of today. …
Read More »Nintendo’s next system may ditch the disc-drive
Earlier this year, Nintendo revealed that it is already planning its follow-up to the Wii U, currently known as the Nintendo NX. While the company isn't ready to publicly say more about its future console until next year, this recently filed patent may give us a peek at its plans. …
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