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SanDisk on Monday said that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Fusion-io, a leading maker of high-performance solid-state drives for enterprise and hyperscale datacenters. The takeover will help SanDisk to enter a new market and gain numerous technologies as well as new intellectual property. “Fusion-io will accelerate our …

A few minutes of footage from CD Projekt's upcoming open world RPG, The Witcher 3: Wildhunt, has appeared online, showing us a mixture of exploration, in-game cut scenes and combat. The engine also gets a good showing too, with plenty of up close shots showing serious detail in the faces …

Origin PC, a U.S.-based boutique PC maker, this week introduced one of the world’s first small form-factor (SFF) personal computers featuring Nvidia Corp.’s dual-chip GeForce GTX Titan Z graphics card. The system comes in the Silverstone RVZ01 case, which is very small and sleek. The company positions the new Chronos …

Turtle Rock and 2K haven't even taken to the stage officially or started their own tournament with the Nerdist crew, but already we've seen a lot of footage of their asymmetrical, coop, competitive shooter, Evolve, at E3. There was the initial quick glimpse of the new monster, The Kraken, in …

Xi3 Corp., a company that is mostly known for its small form-factor (SFF) Piston systems and its partnership with Valve Software, and Intel Corp. on Monday said that they would jointly work on next-generation mini personal computers. Xi3 also revealed plans to sell Intel’s NUC SFF systems. It is unclear …

Computer chatbots are always easy to spot aren't they? They repeat themselves, don't understand conversational tools like sarcasm or irony and are never, never funny, but it looks like that might not be the case for much longer. A pair of researchers have managed to create a computer that was …

Notch has finally made another game to sell. He's worked on a lot of other projects since the creation of Minecraft sure, but none of them have come from his brain and directly affected the wallets of gamers around the world since he first cloned Infiniminer way back when. Today …

Microsoft Corp. on Friday began to take pre-orders for the Kinect for Windows v2 motion sensor. The device is initially intended only for software developers who plan to take advantage of the Xbox One’s motion sensing capabilities on the PC. The software giant plans to start sales of the Kinect …

The upcoming systems powered by the Core M “Broadwell” microprocessors will certainly be impressive. But the real revolution awaits us sometimes in 2015 – 2016, when Intel Corp.’s partners roll-out devices based on the code-named “Skylake” central processing units. Those mobile systems are expected to be completely wireless and therefore …

A video showing some leaked beta footage of Battlefield Hardline has appeared online, giving us a much better idea of what gameplay will be like, what sort of equipment and vehicles we'll have access too and how the game plays without a load of jump cuts. Update: Thanks to Facebook …

The webOS operating system from Palm and Hewlett-Packard has not managed to become popular on media tablets and smartphones. However, it looks like it will be rather successful on TVs. LG Electronics on Monday said that it has sold over one million of TVs featuring the webOS since the launch …

THQ is one of the first companies that ever went down that I felt a little sad for. It's rare that the demise of a corporate entity can bring about emotion, but it did, because THQ was a company who's published games I grew up playing. So it's with a …

Today we are going to take a look at one of the latest wireless routers from Netgear – the R6300.  This offers the latest in dual-band wireless technology, supporting the 802.11ac specification.  This should offer significantly better throughput than a 802.11n network, theoretically up to around 1,300 MB/s.  We are …

One of the core gameplay elements of the RTS, is that it's in fifth person, or seventh – essentially, up in the sky looking down. You tend to have a HUD with extra information on it and there might be some advisory character in the corner telling you what a …

As much as I've talked about Evolve already, we still don't know a lot about it. Sure there's a few hunters we know by name and there's the hulking Goliath, but that's all we know about the opposing teams, who've only battled it out on the one map – so …

Designing VR games for Mac and Linux operating systems just got a whole lot easier, thanks to a new version of the Oculus SDK. It's version 0.3.2, so we're creeping steadily towards a final release, but for now it's just about getting other operating systems into the mix. The list …

Despite being one of my most hotly anticipated games of the year and certainly one of the best teased in recent memory, we still don't know a lot about Evolve. We know there's more than what we've seen with extra monsters, hunters, maps and modes, but there's a lot still …

Valve Software on Wednesday introduced in-home streaming for video games, a new feature of Steam software distribution service. The technology will let users to stream games from a gaming PC to an HTPC [home theater PC], a laptop or even a tablet. Many people have multiple personal computers at home, …

nDreams, the developer behind the Oculus Rift demo Sky DIEving, has announced that at the E3 expo in a couple of weeks time, it will be showing off its first, full virtual reality title, compatible with both the Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus. It's even released a quick teaser …

Creators of the recent FPS sensation Titanfall, Respawn, are doing the shooter equivalent of an MMO server merger, by removing some of the game modes from the PC version's playlist. From now on, only those that use private matches or Variety mode will be able to play Capture the Flag …

3D Realms hasn't had the best of luck in the past few years. After releasing Prey back in 2006 to much acclaim, it's mostly stuck to mobile remakes of its classic Duke Nuke'm titles and of course there was that business with Duke Nuke'm Forever that took a long time …

Titanfall has been a huge success, selling plenty of Xbox Ones along with countless copies on the PC, but no modern AAA developer is going to sit on just the original sales of the game, there's dollars in the DLC, which is why there's an upcoming trio of expansions, the …

Synology describes its new DS414j as the successor to the DS413. It’s a 4-bay NAS device, aimed at home users and SOHO environments requiring up to 20TB of storage, and they put the emphasis on the ‘retro looking black chassis, dual core CPU … and USB 3.0 which combine to …

With the first generation of Pokemon fans well out of the original targeted age group for the series, it's not surprising that Nintendo and Game Freak would want to try and draw them back by harkening back to the past, instead of just pushing forward into the future. It's also …

Markus Persson, better known as Notch, the creator of Minecraft, recently shed some light on his ten year plan for his company, Mojang. Once the Interview came out a lot of people on the Internet misinterpreted something he said in the article, assuming that Notch meant that he will shut …

HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., said this week that it would demonstrate a new open Ethernet drive architecture offering new flexibility and capabilities for developers and operators of OpenStack cloud software. The completely new storage hardware architecture will allow to expand datacenters easier than today. The open …

Samsung's Galaxy flagships have been defiantly plastic for years despite other manufacturers moving on to more premium designs like the metal body of the HTC One. However, it seems that the company is looking for change as it has replaced its Chief of Mobile Design, Chang Dong-hoon. Dong-hoon isn't losing a …

Now that Nokia Corp. got rid of its devices and services division which sold smartphones and mobile phones, it has three business units with which it needs to return to profitability and grow. While all three business units can potentially grow exponentially under certain conditions, the company clearly needs a …

Amazon Web Services, a service arm of Amazon and one of the world’s largest providers of cloud services, recently established silicon optimization engineering team (SOET) with the aim to create custom server platforms and microprocessors. The company has already begun to hire specialists to develop highly-tailored server platforms. Nowadays companies …

AMD's graphics API, Mantle, is entering a “new phase of its development cycle” by launching a private beta programme for game developers to test out the Mantle SDK. In support of the beta, AMD has launched a password protected web portal which will allow those who are allowed access to …