Asus is turning 20 this year and in order to celebrate the occasion, it is launching a 20th Anniversary Gold Edition graphics card, more specifically, a GTX 980Ti. Asus has gained a lot of experience with GPUs over the years, with several excellent custom cooler designs under its belt. This …
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The Rainbow Six Siege open beta has been delayed
Rainbow Six: Siege was due to kick off another beta test today, though this time it would be open to everyone. That is concerning enough given that the game actually releases next week but now the beta itself has been pushed back due to issues on the PC, Xbox One …
Read More »Killing Floor 2 is getting microtransactions too
Right on the back of the PayDay 2 microtransaction backlash, Tripwire Interactive has revealed that it will be putting microtransactions in to its Early Access title, Killing Floor 2. As you can imagine, a lot of players aren't too happy about it, despite the fact that Tripwire is only offering …
Read More »EKWB EK-XLC Predator 240 All In One Watercooler Review
You might be surprised by the news that EKWB has entered the All In One liquid cooling market with the Predator 240 and Predator 360 systems. After all, EKWB (Edvard Konig Water Blocks) is a specialist liquid cooling company that sells components for custom cooling loops, rather than full systems, …
Read More »Quantum networks take big step with 1.2 mile photon message
Researchers at Sanford University have taken a big step in the further development of quantum networks, utilising photons to carry a message between entangled electronics over a mile apart for the first time in history. This has the potential to allow for the secure transmission of data over vast distances, …
Read More »Uber to push ahead with ride sharing in London
Uber has been facing off against Transport for London for some time now, but despite the transport authority discussing possibly adding minimum wait times for ride hailing, it has ploughed on doggedly. In its latest venture, it plans to shake up the landscape of travel in one of the world's …
Read More »Apple buys up marker-less motion capture firm, Faceshift
It's looking more and more that Apple is looking to enter the VR market with content, if not eventually hardware too, as it's been confirmed that it has purchased Faceshift, a company that's motion capture tech is being used in the new Star Wars film. That capture technology is unique, …
Read More »Elon Musk tells Amazon CEO: Space X did it first
Space X CEO Elon Musk has been talking space again on Twitter, but this time he's been using it to point out his own company's achievements in the wake of Amazon's successful Blue Origin launch. Although that was quite an achievement, he pointed out that Space X had been performing similar …
Read More »The Legends wants to turn pro-gaming into a drama series
As the popularity of Esports continue to grow around the world, it's becoming more and more apparent to more people that there is a lot of tension involved in training for 12 hours a day, living with your team mates and eventually, maybe winning a championship. So no wonder someone …
Read More »Bethesda warns Fallout 4 PC console could easily corrupt saves
It is common for PC gamers to use the developer command console within Bethesda games to access certain things, like secret rooms filled with every item in the game, or cheat a little by unlocking a door or adding a few extra experience points to your character. However, with Fallout …
Read More »Sandisk and Gigabyte have teamed up for motherboard/SSD bundles
This is a big week for sales, particularly with Black Friday happening, and it seems that SanDisk and Gigabyte are fully prepared for it, with some Z170 motherboard and SSD bundles, offering pretty great value for money if you're shopping around for PC components. Right now, you can pick up …
Read More »Radeon Software: Crimson Edition is here
Today marks the beginning of a new era for AMD, as the Catalyst Control Centre is being put to rest and we push forward with Radeon Software: Crimson Edition, the first step in AMD's plan to double its driver support efforts. From now on, we can expect six WHQL driver …
Read More »Gigabyte GTX980Ti XTREME Gaming Windforce Review
If you have £600 burning a hole in your pocket then perhaps today's review product may interest you. The Gigabyte GTX980 Ti XTREME Gaming is a custom, heavily overclocked graphics card which features a semi passive three fan ‘Windforce' cooler. With a 12+2 Phase Power implementation and proprietary backplate, the …
Read More »Virtual reality motion sickness more of a problem for women
Although you would certainly be the odd one out in most social groups to suggest there was a good reason to treat the different sexes any differently, there are undeniable physical distinctions. One of them appears to be that virtual reality motion sickness is more keenly felt by women than men, …
Read More »Nvidia pretends to drop a living room from a plane
Nvidia is looking to push its Shield set-top box once again, with a promotion and accompanying video that showcases the CG potential of Nvidia hardware. It appears to drop a living room from a plane, including gamer, TV, and Shield, but Nvidia wants you to guess whether it's really happening, …
Read More »Ex-Defence Secretary: Trident replacement vulnerable to hackers
As the debate rages on whether the UK should spend upwards of £31 billion on a replacement for its current fleet of Trident-equipped nuclear submarines, ex-Defence Secretary Desmond Browne, has warned that any future solution would be vulnerable to attack by hackers, if certain “weak spots,” were not protected. It …
Read More »Do you want your digital assistant to be sassy?
Although the digitally entrenched future shown to us in the movie Her seems like it's still at least a decade from becoming reality, companies like Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are all developing and pushing their digital assistants upon us. This has to led to a number of interesting questions about …
Read More »Fnatic Esports team launches own range of gaming peripherals
One of the big trends for gaming peripheral makers in recent years has been to recruit a famous Esports team and have them endorse your gear. Often that same team will be ‘involved' in some capacity during the development, offering pointers on features or aesthetics, but a lot of end-user …
Read More »Asus shows off Maximus VIII Hero Alpha motherboard
Asus is expanding its Skylake lineup with its new Maximus VIII Hero Alpha motherboard, bringing some important additions to the feature set, including a new USB 3.1 controller, support for memory speeds over 3800MHz, five-way optimisation and for the first time, RGB strip headers. Other key changes over the previous Maximus …
Read More »Google asked to take down 1500 links per minute
Media companies have lumped Google with a lot of responsibility when it comes to fighting piracy, so much so that Google now handles two million takedown requests every single day. According to Google's own transparency report, the company received 65 million takedown requests in the last month alone. The math …
Read More »Overkill apologises over recent Payday 2 updates
These last few weeks haven't been great for Overkill Studios. The team decided to silently put microtransactions in to the game, which caused a lot of uproar amongst players. Then things got worse when additional bonuses were added to the new microtransaction system, which caused the game's Steam Forum mods …
Read More »Valve to remove flash and daily deals from future sales
One of the hallmarks of PC gaming over the years has been the Steam sales. Over time, Valve has increased the amount of sales that take place and has even experimented with things like mini-games, flash sales and ‘Encore' weekends. However, this year's Autumn and Winter sale will change a …
Read More »Sony is working on PS2 emulation for PS4
Microsoft surprised us all at E3 this year with the announcement that it had managed to get backwards compatibility working for Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. This was a great step for the company, especially since Sony had seemingly abandoned backwards compatibility in favour of starting up a …
Read More »LG pulls Watch Urbane 2 smartwatch due to hardware fault
The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition was the first smartwatch to feature LTE 4G connectivity. However, it seems that a hardware fault with the device has been discovered and now, the watch is being pulled from sale and refunds are being offered. LG confirmed that the hardware issue “affects the …
Read More »Apple is working on fixing major iPad Pro bug
Earlier this week, we learned that quite a few early adopters of the iPad Pro, Apple's new 13-inch tablet, were facing a bug where every time the device charged for more than an hour, it would become completely unresponsive and fail to wake. The only work around for this so …
Read More »Nvidia launches two SDKs to bring GameWorks to VR
Nvidia has been increasing its focus on virtual reality this year and now the GPU maker has launched two new software development kits known as GameWorks VR and DesignWorks to help developers build VR experiences. These SDKs include technology capable of bumping up performance as much as 50 percent in …
Read More »Dotcom case ends, U.S. attempts last-minute evidence submission
The long awaited extradition trial of legally-embattled Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants has finally come to close, but not before the prosecution attempted to submit a last-minute piece of evidence, despite its side of the case having ended weeks ago. Regardless, this marks the beginning of the end of a …
Read More »Space X gets go ahead from NASA for manned ISS mission
In a landmark moment in the history of space travel, a company has been selected to transport humans from the bounds of Earth, into the cosmos above, in its own capsule design. Space X, the company founded by Elon Musk in the early '00s has finally come of age and …
Read More »Will Zuckerberg’s paternity leave change his opinion on privacy?
Mark Zuckberg is one of those figures in the world of tech, who has had an enormous impact on the way the world works. Facebook has changed social interactions, the way we find information and online activity; whether you believe it's for the better or not. His stance on personal …
Read More »VR and Google Glass helped surgeons in pioneering operation
Polish doctors have become the first in the world to use virtual reality and a custom built application to help unblock a coronary artery. Instead of traditional catheter based percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) which uses 2D X-Ray images for guidance, surgeons were able to look at a 3D representation of the …
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