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This past week, the 2020 BAFTA Game Awards ceremony was live-streamed online-only for the first time in its history, because of the current pandemic situation. Although “Control” and “Death Stranding” were the most nominated titles, “Outer Wilds” and “Disco Elysium” proved the biggest winners on the night. Outer Wilds received three …

Lenovo has announced plans for its next-generation Legion gaming rigs this week. The new range of mobile gaming systems from the company will be equipped with Intel 10th generation Core H-series processors and up to Nvidia RTX 2080 Super graphics. Next-generation Lenovo Legion laptops will deliver a more immersive gaming …

Nvidia updated its GTX 1650 product page this week to inform customers that GDDR6 VRAM will be an official option for the series going forward. Since then, various graphics card manufacturers have outlined their intentions with new GDDR6 equipped GTX 1650 cards being launched. One of those manufacturers that are …

Acer has announced a new range of Predator Triton 500 and Nitro 5 gaming notebooks featuring Intel’s latest 10th generation Core processors with Nvidia RTX Super or GTX graphics and advancements in thermal performance. The new Predator Triton 500 gaming laptops aim to provide top of the line performance while …

Edifier has announced that it will be bringing an update to its TWS1 earbuds, giving the series a range of new lifestyle colour options to choose from including dark blue, pale pink and a new mint green version. TWS1 from edifier is an entry-level true wireless Bluetooth earbud solution that …

Sony has announced pricing and availability of its 2020 series of LCD HDR TVs for the UK and Ireland this week. This year’s LCD Sony TV line-up will include a wide selection of screen sizes for customers to choose between, ranging from 43-inch up to a huge 85-inches. Both the …

One of the greatest challenges manufacturers face when creating powerful gaming laptops is keeping the device cool during intensive workloads. With their high-performance processors and GPUs, gaming laptops emit heat that can be difficult to control and when the temperature rises, core frequencies automatically lower to prevent damage which affects …

Aside from shooters, auto-battlers and a new fighting game, Riot has also been working on Legends of Runeterra, its very own strategy card game based on the League of Legends universe. The game has been in beta on PC for a while now and soon, it will be freely available …

Asus has become masters of implementing RGB lighting into its huge range of devices and peripherals. However, PC enthusiasts and gamers are always searching for other ways to express their personalities through their rigs, so Asus ROG has come up with a new way to make that happen without having …

Motorola has launched its latest cost-effective smartphone handset, the moto g8 power lite is equipped with a massive battery that can provide over two days of continuous use without having to stop and recharge. The new moto g8 power lite handset from Motorola features a colossal 5,000 mAh battery that could …

Users who spend long hours at the desk working can often find that an uncomfortable chair makes the hours drag on and potentially unearths all kinds of aches and pains in the back, neck and even the wrists. Thermaltake has an answer to this problem with its new CyberChair E500 …

InWin has rolled out a new mid-tower PC case this week that features an understated yet premium looking appearance. The InWin 216 is equipped with brushed aluminium front panel accents and space inside for installation of motherboards up to E-ATX format. The bulk of the InWin 216 design is made …

Just last week, we saw HTC release the new Vive Cosmos Elite VR headset package which includes the Cosmos Elite HMD headset, base stations and Vive controllers. HTC has announced now that it will offer the HMD as a standalone headset option. After listening to feedback from existing Vive owners, …

According to an update on its website blog page, SK hynix will start mass production of its 10nm-class 16Gb DDR5 memory chip this year and is expecting DDR5 to account for 22% of the total DRAM market by 2021 and up to 43% of the market by 2022. DDR5 aims …

Amazon has been quietly amassing a collection of game studios and working on first-party video games for a long time now. Alongside that, a lot have expected Amazon to compete with other tech giants in the cloud game streaming space. Now, it looks like that may happen as soon as …

Just last week, Nvidia promised to bring new games to GeForce Now every Thursday, bringing consistent updates to the library. Last week's headlining game was of course, Control, which also takes advantage of real-time raytracing over the cloud. Now this week, Nvidia is focusing on Indie game hits, adding support …

Final Fantasy VII Remake is officially coming out next week, which means it is time for one final trailer. Square Enix has packed together four minutes of new footage, showing off brand new parts of the game and even a few potential spoilers for new plot points.  Of course, if …

Rivet Networks’ Killer series has forged a niche in the networking market, aimed at gamers that want to obtain better performance with faster networking. The latest addition to the Rivet Networks product line is the Killer E3100 Ethernet controller. Rivet Networks has introduced many technologies over the last few years, with the aim …

Over the last year, Microsoft has been making an effort to bring more of its games to Steam, leaving behind the Windows Store exclusive strategy. While games like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Gears 5 were quick to make it over, others have taken a bit longer. Recently, State …

Spyjinx is a mobile game published by Epic Games and developed by Bad Robot Games. Bad Robot Games is the games division of Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams's production company known for its work on movies such as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Mission: Impossible – Fallout. In Spyjinx …

Gigabyte has readied a new range of laptops for both gamers and content creators. Gigabyte claims it will be “the first in the industry” to launch laptops carrying the 10th Gen Intel Core i9 and i7 H-series CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX 20-series GPUs. Gigabyte has partnered with G2 Esports …

Razer is set to release its updated Blade 15 series of laptops, coming with the new 10th Gen Intel i7 processors with up to 8 cores, Nvidia RTX Super GPUs for mobile platforms, and the choice of a FullHD 300Hz display or a 4K OLED display. There will be two …

We look at Vulkan vs DX11 performance in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, across a range of GPUs

The Federal Communications Commission – or FFC for short – is perhaps best known this side of the pond for its controversial stand in regard to net neutrality – with the FCC wanting to eliminate said net neutrality. However, the FCC is now working hard on improving Wi-Fi standards and has published a …

We've been hearing plenty of rumours about the iPhone SE 2 (or was it the iPhone 9?) over the past few months, and at one point it looked like a Q1 2020 launch was going ahead. Now it's reported that Apple's launch of the new ‘iPhone SE' might happen as soon …

The Last of Us Part II was seemingly closing in on release but unfortunately, due to the current coronavirus pandemic, Sony Interactive Entertainment has made the decision to delay both The Last of Us Part II and Iron Man VR. Sony confirmed the delays in a tweet today, saying: “SIE …

It has been around three years since Microsoft cancelled Scalebound and while PlatinumGames has been staying very busy ever since, a lot of fans still have hope that the game will return someday. Unfortunately, according to Xbox head, Phil Spencer, that won't be happening. On the latest episode of IGN's …

We are just two weeks away from Fallout 76's long awaited ‘Wastelanders' expansion, which means the game is also going to be heading to Steam this month after a lengthy period as an exclusive for the Bethesda PC launcher. In an effort to win some old players back, owners of …

The Epic Games Store is continuing to offer free games to its users each week. Over the past couple weeks however, the storefront has been adding surprise titles to its list of free games. Last week saw World War Z being added. This week, joining the – already announced – …

Intel's Comet Lake-S processors still don't have a set launch date, but that hasn't hindered people from publishing information about the upcoming CPUs. Specs and approximate pricing have already been leaked and speculated on. Now a Chinese site has published reviews of Intel's Core i7-10700, i5-10600K, i5-10500 and i5-10400. Reviews like these are best …