Featured Tech News

Over the last few months, there has been plenty of talk surrounding Intel’s CPU shipment troubles, with 14nm processors hitting a supply issue. Last week, Intel published a letter addressing the problem, apologising for the prolonged struggles. However, Dell still isn't pleased with the situation, blaming the shortages for impacting …

In late 2017 and over 2018, Intel went on quite the hiring spree for its graphics division. Raja Koduri switched over from AMD to begin developing the Intel Xe discrete GPU architecture, while Chris Hook left AMD's marketing division to help Intel's GPU marketing. Now, there seems to have been …

Back in October, it was announced that the Humble Monthly bundle would soon be changing to ‘Humble Choice‘, a new version of the subscription that offers up to ten games and allowing users to choose the ones they want each month. We don't have an announced date for when this …

When No Man’s Sky first released in 2016, the game was mired in controversies surrounding alleged broken promises made by the game's developer ‘Hello Games’. Since then, the studio has released multiple large free updates, each one adding new content, refining features, and improving the overall experience. The latest free …

It has been one week since Valve officially announced Half-Life: Alyx, complete with a gameplay trailer showing off VR gameplay. Such a huge game announcement was always bound to sell some VR headsets and it looks like a lot of people are even opting for the more expensive hardware, with …

Man of Medan, the first title in The Dark Pictures Anthology by Supermassive Games, is receiving an update in the form of a free Friend’s Pass. Available on PlayStation, Xbox and PC, the update will allow for those who own the game to play online with another friend, without them …

Xbox announced its upcoming free Games with Gold for the month of December. The games that will be available to Xbox Live Gold, and Game Pass Ultimate members, are: Insane Robots, Jurassic World Evolution, Toy Story 3, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD. These games are …

Many of today’s devices including smartphones, computers and servers contain multiple smaller chips sealed inside a larger, usually rectangular package, communicating with each other via a complex multi-layered piece of silicon no bigger than a grain of rice. In the case of Intel powered devices, this communication between chips including …

PlayStation has announced the free games that will be gracing the systems of PlayStation Plus subscribers for the month of December. The two games that will be available to download are Titanfall 2, and Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame. These two games will be replacing November’s line-up of …

One of the big selling points for cloud gaming services is the removal of update downloads, as all patches are applied server-side, removing the need for players to sit around waiting. Unfortunately, it looks like somebody forgot to tell the NBA 2K team about this, as the game continues to …

Ever found yourself reaching the critical point in a PC gaming session, only to realise you have to pop out for an important engagement and leave the game behind, or even worse, lose your progress completely? Well, Samsung has come up with a new app that allows gamers to continue …

Cherry, a well-known manufacturer of computer input devices and mechanical switches, has announced the release of its new keyboard, the Secure Board 1.0. This keyboard was designed with security in mind, introducing various security features to reduce risks and threats to its users. The Secure Board 1.0 comes with a …

While Nvidia may still announce the 2080 Ti SUPER, it seems some people don't want to wait for that to happen...

We are heading towards the end of November and all of the deals are starting to roll in. Today, we caught on to a brand new gaming bundle from RAZER, packing together a gaming keyboard, mouse, headset and mouse mat for £110.  The RAZER Epic Gaming Bundle is now available …

Back in October, Rockstar announced Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC, with the game starting off as available on the Rockstar Games Launcher and Epic Games Store, with a Steam release planned for December. In keeping with Valve's new T&Cs on store exclusives coming to Steam later, the game will …

Infinity Ward has done well with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare so far and with paid map packs and loot boxes now out of the picture, the game is transitioning to a ‘seasonal' model for content. There will be a battle pass, but if you don't want to pay, the …

As far as custom RX 5700 XT's go, Sapphire's NITRO+ edition has been one of the best so far but there are still more improvements to come. Today, the Sapphire RX 5700 XT NITRO+ Special Edition has been announced, bringing impressive boost clock speeds, overclocked memory and ARGB fans. With …

Google’s new cloud-based gaming platform Stadia may not have got off to a great start and has received some negative press since launch. However, Google has announced that it will be trialling a new method of information delivery this week to improve communication. An announcement was made via Reddit on …

Overwatch, the popular first-person, team-based hero shooter by Blizzard, is currently offering a free trial week for users across PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is currently free to play until the 4th of December. Users on PlayStation or Xbox will require a PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live …

The Elder Scrolls: Blades was first announced at E3 2018. The game was said to be an Elder Scrolls game which could be played on mobile. Alongside the mobile release, a port for the Nintendo Switch was promised. While the game released on mobile in early 2019, news of the Nintendo …

Nvidia may have conceded defeat in the variable refresh rate battle, as the company has announced it will open up its G-sync capable monitors to support variable refresh rate over HDMI, enabling the use of the technology with AMD graphics cards on G-sync monitors. Back in January, Nvidia announced that …

Valve’s first foray into designing its own hardware brought the Steam Link and Steam Controller into the world. Both devices were designed with the goal of tackling PC gaming in the living room. Nowadays, Valve's primary hardware focus is virtual reality and the older devices are being left behind. The …

Popular benchmarking and stress testing software AIDA64 has received an update, the software developer Finalwire has announced AIDA64 v6.20 which includes AMD Renoir benchmarks, support for AMD RX 5500 GPU series and more. All the major products in the AIDA64 catalogue are updated to v6.20 including Extreme, Engineer and Business …

Ever since its initial release in 2018, the rhythm-based, indie VR title, ‘Beat Saber’ has become a success, selling over 1 million copies, being ported to multiple devices, collaborating with mainstream artists, and winning various awards. Facebook announced yesterday that they would be acquiring the studio behind the game, with …

When Google Stadia was first announced, it was promised that pro users of the service would receive free games on a regular basis, similar to Xbox Live Games With Gold, or PlayStation Plus. At the time, Google didn't clarify how often that would be. It seems that we now have …

Intel has launched its second generation QLC 3D NAND SSDs, succeeding the 660p series with the 665p series. The new Intel SSD 665p series is the “first 96-layer QLC-based PCIe SSD” to be manufactured. The 665p series comes with in a 1TB or 2TB capacity, offering “great value for everyday …

Nvidia has expanded its lineup of datacenter graphics card with the new Tesla V100s. This new GPU is designed for AI acceleration, high performance computing (HPC), data science and graphics, much like the previously released Tesla V100, which was hailed by the company as the most advanced datacenter graphics card. …

Rockstar has been steadily patching up Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC in an effort to tackle instability issues, crashes etc. This week, update 1.14.1 began rolling out, fixing 12 crashing errors and Vulkan stability, which should further smooth out the stuttering errors. Now we just have to hope that …

Last weekend saw a Q&A session take place in Warsaw with the developers of Cyberpunk 2077, the much anticipated upcoming RPG from CD Projekt Red. The session revealed an abundance of information, including the comparative length of the game, day-night cycles, the depth of side quests, and the fact that …

We are just one week away from Halo: Reach coming to PC after a lengthy stint as an Xbox exclusive title. In preparation for the big release, Nvidia has begun rolling out the Game Ready driver with optimisations. In addition, Quake II RTX has had an upgrade to further improve …