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Steam Workshop makes creators $50 million richer

Valve's Steam Workshop was first launched in 2011 for Team Fortress 2 items and allows players of Valve and Steamworks-enabled games to download user-created content for their games. In Valve's own games you can also pay for some of these items and it seems that this can now be considered a success, …

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Nvidia vows to boost GeForce GTX 970 performance with driver update

FOLLOW UP: Nvidia: We will not boost GeForce GTX 970 performance with drivers. Nvidia Corp. admitted early this week that it initially published wrong specifications of the GeForce GTX 970 and did not correct its mistake until recently after numerous people reported issues regarding usage of onboard memory. The company promised …

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Tesla P85D gets going fast with new ‘insane’ mode

Tesla P85D

Tesla's electric powered cars, have always bucked the stereotype that having an all-electric car meant it would be slow and have terrible acceleration. The new Model S P85D is no exception to this rule and with several changes from the regular P85, one of which is a new “Insane” mode, …

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LG may sue Qualcomm over special Galaxy S6 Snapdragon 810

Apparently LG may sue Qualcomm if the company chooses to provide Samsung with a revised version of the Snapdragon 810 processor for its upcoming flagship device, the Galaxy S6. Samsung believes that the current Snapdragon 810 chip runs too hot and is therefore planning to use its own made Exynos …

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Apple has posted the biggest quarterly profit in history

Apple has managed to break several records this week with its first fiscal quarter earnings report of the year, managing to post the biggest quarterly profit of any company ever in history. Over the last several months, Apple managed to generate a profit of $18 billion. This beat out the previous …

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Evidence suggests that Spartan will support Chrome extensions

Microsoft officially revealed its new web browser, currently code-named ‘Spartan', at its Windows 10 press event earlier this month. Since then, there has been much speculation surrounding the browser's extension compatibility. However, evidence suggests that Microsoft's new browser will support Chrome extensions. Originally, it was a report from Neowin that …

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Fallout at TPB, admins and moderators jumping ship

The past month has seen many a file sharer await with baited breath the return of the infamous Pirate Bay torrent search site. Since its downing late last year, its future has been up in the air, but in February at least, it looks likely to return. However, according to …

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EFF wants to teach everyone how to avoid surveillance

As of late, it's become apparent that specific rights to privacy and freedom of expression are being clamped down on by the world's intelligence agencies, as they collect data on the public, often without their knowledge. This makes the job of the The Electronic Frontier Foundation, very difficult, as it's main …

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Ghostbuster’s reboot will feature all female cast

The Ghostbusters are coming back, but not like you've seen them before. In a surprising turn, the third movie in the franchise will be rebooting it and will feature an all female cast. While several of the actresses said to have been approached over the roles for the lead characters …

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Unreal Engine 4 can look stunningly real

While Benoît Dereau doesn't need to impress anyone in the gaming industry, having worked on the beautifully realised Dishonoured and developed some custom campaigns for Half Life 2 and Left 4 Dead, he has managed to wow a lot of people in the last 24 hours, by releasing one of the …

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Samsung to expand DRAM production capacities – report

Samsung Electronics may want to increase its share of the market of computer memory as it is planning to expand DRAM production capacity, a media report claims. The expansion will unlikely negatively affect prices of dynamic random access memory in the second half of the year, but the fact that …

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Apple: Apple Watch will ship in April

Apple announced on Tuesday during its earning call that it will start commercial shipments of its highly-anticipated Apple Watch device in April. While the company will start shipments of its new gadget later than expected, its management believes that the new product will become popular both among end-users and among developers. “Development …

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The White House isn’t all that drone proof it seems

White House DJI

Last Monday a small civilian drone crashed into the grounds of the White House, causing quite a stir over exactly how secure the White House actually is against drone attacks. It has now been revealed that the drone in question, a DJI Phantom quadrocopter, was actually being flown by an …

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AMD preps ‘Bristol Ridge’ APUs: ‘Carrizo’ for desktops

Although Advanced Micro Devices does not have plans to bring the code-named “Carrizo” accelerated processing units to the market of traditional desktop computers, it is expected that a similar chip will actually make it into desktops. Unfortunately, this will happen only next year and it is unlikely that it will …

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Xbox One controller update reduces connection times

Microsoft is in the process of testing a new Xbox One controller firmware update, which will halve the time it takes for the gamepad to connect to Xbox One consoles. The current controllers currently take around five seconds to sync up with the main console. However, the new update will shrink …

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You can now take selfies in World of Warcraft

The latest patch for World of Warcraft adds more than just Twitter integration to the game, players can now also access the S.E.L.F.I.E camera, which does exactly what you would assume it does- take selfie pictures of your in-game character. Patch 6.1, which is currently being sent out to the …

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Razer announces Razer Arena competitive gaming software

Razer has revealed its new ‘Razer Arena' software, which will allow users to automate the process of finding competitive gaming servers and then tracking your progress.  The community will also be able to organize their own competitions and tournaments. First of the software's functions is automatic match creation and reporting, …

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Oculus VR has its own movie production studio

Oculus VR has been expanding its focus beyond games for some time now but it seems that movies may play a larger role in the company's plan than originally thought as it has been revealed that there is an internal movie production studio at work. The internal production studio is …

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