After a few months worth of waiting, the first public test for Halo: Reach on PC arrived over the weekend. Unfortunately, the first ‘flight’ was kept fairly low key, with fewer than 1000 Halo Insider members getting the invite. However, there is a full gameplay video floating around so we …

Aside from E3 dominating the gaming news cycle throughout June, we also had some major game launches in the last few weeks. Not only have we seen the likes of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, but Nintendo just released one of its biggest exclusives for the year- Super Mario Maker 2, …

It is no secret that the launch of the Zen architecture has brought plenty of competition back to the CPU market. AMD is about to make another leap with Zen 2, which will also introduce the first 7nm desktop CPUs to the market and put them in the hands of …

It looks like noblechairs has scored itself a new major partnership. Today, the premium gaming chair maker announced a new collaboration with Mercedes-AMG to launch the noblechairs EPIC Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Edition, built for Formula 1 enthusiasts. As the name suggests, this chair is based on the noblechairs EPIC series, …

After almost three decades working at Apple, Jony Ive has announced that he will be stepping down and leaving the company this year to start his own company. Ive has served as the Chief Design Officer at Apple for many years now and has been responsible for the design of …

While we have known about the VIVE Cosmos headset for quite some time now, HTC has been quiet on official details. That is now starting to change as we are approaching the Q3 release window. HTC’s next Oculus Rift competitor promises to be a big upgrade over the original VIVE, …

Prior to the announcement of Borderlands 3 this year, Gearbox started reinvigorating interest in the franchise with Borderlands 2 VR. The game has been exclusive to the PlayStation VR since its launch in December but it looks like the game is finally heading to PC. Borderlands 2 VR for Windows …

A lot of us PC gamers take great pride in our gear and setups but audio is often overlooked. On-board motherboard audio has improved over the years but having a dedicated headphone DAC still provides a better overall experience. Sharkoon hopes to capture the budget-minded crowd in this segment with …

Netgear has been one of the main driving forces behind Mesh WiFi adoption for years now. Providing a strong, speedy WiFi signal through all areas of a home or business can be a challenge, with some rooms getting weaker performance than others, which is something a Mesh router setup can …

There has been plenty of talk surrounding Apple’s future plans to develop its own in-house chips moving forward. Back in 2017, Apple split up with Imagination Technologies and started developing its own GPUs for future iOS devices. Now, we could be seeing Apple expand towards its own CPUs as well, …

PCI-Express isn’t the only technology getting huge upgrades at the moment. After several years, the DisplayPort spec is getting an upgrade, pushing bandwidth speeds higher than before and opening the door for faster refresh rates at higher resolutions. DisplayPort 2.0 has officially been spec’d out by the Video Electronics Standards …

The conversation surrounding video game developer crunch continues, this week with Treyarch in the spotlight. According to current and former studio workers bringing their concerns to the public, year-long crunch at Treyarch was sustained during the development of Black Ops 4 and QA testers are treated particularly poorly. As usual, …

Earlier this week, Valve raised concerns around Ubuntu and Canonical’s plan to remove 32-bit software support. Valve said that it would need to drop support for the popular Linux distro if this happened and would need to begin recommending something else for users. Since then, Canonical has said that it …

Glen Schofield has had quite the career up to this point. The industry veteran was instrumental to getting Dead Space off the ground at Visceral Games and later founded Sledgehammer and helped lead Call of Duty back to success with the release of COD: WWII. Back in early 2018, it …

Many major tech companies have been contacting the US government regarding its proposed tariffs on products manufactured in China. Up to this point, we have mostly been hearing from PC hardware and OEMs like Apple, Intel etc. Today, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo released a joint letter regarding these tariffs, strongly …

Over the last few years, Microsoft has been increasing its efforts on the PC gaming side and is now in a very exciting spot, with all future Xbox exclusives also planned for PC. Aside from us getting franchises like Halo, Gears of War and Forza on PC, Microsoft is also …

Alienware has been huge in the PC gaming space for many years now but it looks like Frank Azor, the co-founder and overseer of Dell’s gaming efforts, is leaving the company behind to take on “the next challenge”. That next challenge might very well be an executive position at AMD.

Earlier this week we learned that Black Mesa, a remake of Half-Life 1, was going to be getting a public beta for the Xen section of the game very soon. That time arrived even sooner than we could have hoped as the Black Mesa Xen beta went live last night …

Update (26.06.19): Following on from last week’s Nintendo Switch mini leaks stemming from a China-based console accessory manufacturer, more images of what this new console could look like are surfacing. The folks over at Lets Go Digital have taken elements from the HonSon leak and rendered a new look at the …

Just as previously leaked, the Steam Summer Sale has officially gone live today. As is the case during the sale season, the Steam servers are currently under heavy load and are being somewhat unstable for now. If you do manage to get it to load though, then you will be …

After many years of being a third-party exclusive studio for Sony, Quantic Dream is finally making the jump to multi-platform releases. Late last year it was announced that PS3/PS4 exclusives Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Detroit Become Human, would be coming to the PC platform and now, the first …

The launch of the Zen architecture back in 2017 brought some much needed competition back to the CPU market and AMD is about to hit a new milestone with the launch of Zen 2 next week, which will make the jump to 7nm technology. According to a report, the impending …

Dating back several months, there have been rumours surrounding Microsoft’s next-gen console plans. We know that there is a small army of first-party studios preparing new games and at one point, Microsoft was planning to launch into next-gen with two consoles at once, one being a higher power version at …

The Crowbar Collective has been working on Black Mesa for years now. Originally a free mod, the Half-Life 1 remake has now been available on Steam for quite some time, although it has remained in an early access state. Now, we are closer than ever to a full launch, with …

Earlier this year, Spotify filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Union, spurring an investigation into the platform cut Apple takes on purchases and subscriptions made through the iOS App Store. Apple has already explained its case in a public letter but now an official response has been …

For a long time now, Valve has been a bastion for PC gaming on Linux. While news on SteamOS seems to have slowed down to a crawl, in the last year Valve has released Proton, a compatibility tool that allows thousands of games to run on Linux without official support …

Monster Hunter World is an excellent game and for the most part, is equally as good when played in co-op. However, there has been one odd issue with Monster Hunter: World’s difficulty scaling since it came out, making some two-player hunts extremely difficult but perfectly fine in single-player or with …

Last week we learned that Apple was looking to move as much as 30 percent of its production out of China and into Southeast Asia in an effort to minimise the financial impact of the US government’s new trade tariffs. Now, Apple has officially addressed the current situation between the …

Microsoft has been rumoured to be working on a foldable Surface device for quite some time. Initially, this was believed to be a Surface Phone, something that Microsoft has explored the idea of in the past. Now, it looks like the project has taken on a new form and will …

Back in April there was a well sourced report claiming that Fortnite’s success had pushed Epic Games developers into a state of ‘endless crunch’. The studio was constantly working on and planning new updates to keep players interested in the game, leading to a gruelling work schedule. Now, Epic is …