EA and Respawn Entertainment have announced that Titanfall will be re-released at the end of this year, packing in all of the DLC that came with the season pass. Titanfall Deluxe Edition will be coming to the PC and Xbox One for $40 and $50 respectively. The three DLC packs …
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As Insomnia i53 kicks off explore its origins with Craig Fletcher: KitGuru TV
Multiplay's Insomnia event is the biggest LAN in the UK and it runs three times a year. Now in its 53rd iteration, it is bigger and better than ever. As it kicks off, we get 1-on-1 with founder and CEO Craig Fletcher to look at where it is now and …
Read More »Court rejects excessive $30,000 fine for pirating a movie
A federal court judge in Washington has gone ahead and rejected a $30,000 damages award against internet subscribers accused of downloading a pirated movie through a torrent client. The judge, Thomas Rice, expressed doubts that the filmmakers were really hurt that much and branded the $30,000 request as “excessive punishment”. …
Read More »Xbox One adoption rises and UK sales hit 1 million units
Microsoft is off to a good start this holiday season, the company recently announced that it is steadily catching up to the PS4, having managed to sell 10 million units worldwide and adoption looks to be increasing here in the UK, with sales finally toppling 1 million units to customers. …
Read More »LG is once again the world’s largest UHD panel vendor
LG has once again managed to become the world's largest vendor of Ultra HD TV panels, for the first time in 22 months according to a recent research report. Apparently last month, LG managed to shift 578,000 4K TV panels, securing 28.1 per cent of the market. Taiwan based company, …
Read More »Gorilla Glass 4 aims to stop screens from smashing
Corning is currently working on developing Gorilla Glass 4 with the aim of developing a solution that it strong enough to withstand sudden drops on to hard surfaces such as concrete, in an effort to stop phone screens from smashing so easily. Gorilla Glass has been embraced by almost every …
Read More »Asus to launch ROG Poseidon GTX 980
Asus Republic of Gamers has announced that it will be launching the Poseidon GTX 980 graphics card, featuring the DirectCU H2O cooler, which uses a hybrid solution for efficient cooling on air or water. According to the company's own tests, the Poseidon GTX 980 will run up to 27 degrees …
Read More »The Moto 360 2 might be coming out early next year
The original Moto 360 smartwatch has only been out for a few months but there is already rumors floating around, suggesting that the next iteration of the product could launch as soon as early next year, presumably during Q1. According to Lenovo Eastern Europe Vice President, Gleb Mishin, the original …
Read More »ASUS Strix Claw gaming mouse and Strix Glide Speed mat review
ASUS may be best known for their motherboards but they have a diverse portfolio including graphics cards, cases, peripherals alongside a new range of ‘wearables'. The technology giant has various product ranges – such as the Strix series, aimed at the enthusiast user and designed to supplement the Republic Of …
Read More »Valve updates Early Access rules for developers
Valve has sent out an updated copy of its terms and conditions to developers looking to use the Steam Early Access program. The new rules and guidelines are aimed to help consumers out a bit more with more transparency from developers on projects. The updated rules recognizes that unforeseen circumstances …
Read More »Apple reveals screen resolutions of Apple Watch displays
Apple revealed screen resolutions of its upcoming Apple Watch timepieces to software developers in the WatchKit SDK [software development kit] that was released this week as part of the iOS 8.2 SDK beta. Both 38mm and 42mm versions of the company’s smart-watches will feature retina-class displays, but with different resolutions. …
Read More »K|NGP|N overclocks GeForce GTX 980 to record-high frequencies again
Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido, a legendary overclocker who works with EVGA, has managed to overclock a GeForce GTX 980-based graphics card to record-high 2.20GHz/9GHz (GPU/memory) clock-rates and break a couple of world’s records in 3DMark FireStrike benchmark once again. In a bid to prove his world-class skills in overclocking, K|NGP|N pushed …
Read More »UK man wants to spend a month in Virtual Reality
A UK man has made plans to wear a virtual reality headset 24/7 for a month in an effort to experience life through another person's eyes. Mark Farid is currently calling the project ‘Seeing-I' and labels it as a social artistic experiment to seek out how much of a person is …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes PC requirements released
Earlier this year, Hideo Kojima won over PC gamers by announcing that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and its prelude, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros, would be coming to the PC platform. We now know what kind of a rig you will need to run the games. …
Read More »Walmart changes price-match policy following $50 PS4 scam
Walmart has officially changed its price matching policy in an effort to stop shoppers from being able to abuse the system and end up purchasing Playstation 4 consoles for as low as $50. Several Amazon users were able to set up fake selling accounts recently in order to list consoles for …
Read More »We now know why the iPhone 6 doesn’t have a sapphire display
You might recall that the iPhone 6 was supposed to have a super strong Sapphire display, it was heavily leaked and some popular tech YouTubers even managed to get their hands on it. However, the feature was scrapped and the supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, went bankrupt. Apple turned to GT …
Read More »Battlefield 5 to return to military setting
Battlefield 5 is currently penciled in to release towards the end of 2016 but we are already starting to hear some details about the game. For example, it turns out that the upcoming title will bring the series back to its military roots, taking a step away from Battlefield Hardline's approach, …
Read More »AMD announces ‘Carrizo’, ‘Carrizo-L’ APUs for laptops, AiO desktops
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday formally announced its code-named “Carrizo” and “Carrizo-L” accelerated processing units (APUs) that integrate the company’s next-generation general-purpose and graphics processing units. The new chips will arrive in the first half of next year and will target similar-class devices, including notebooks, 2-in-1s, all-in-one desktops and some …
Read More »Corsair Gaming H1500 USB headset Review
Today we review the latest in a series of peripherals to be released under the ‘Corsair Gaming' brand. The H1500 USB headset offers a pair of 50mm drivers, 7.1 virtual surround sound and a high level of comfort thanks to the memory foam padding and large ear cups. Corsair have …
Read More »Samsung to release first displays with AMD FreeSync technology next March
Samsung Electronics and Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed that the former will release its first displays featuring AMD’s FreeSync technology in March, 2015. Initially there will be five monitors from Samsung that will take advantage of AMD’s screen synching technology, but eventually a lot of Samsung’s displays will support AMD’s FreeSync. …
Read More »US government: Phone encryption will lead to child deaths
The US government is attempting to fight back against the new encryption technologies used on smartphones. An official at the US Department of Justice stated that tragedy would ensue if the authorities did not have unwarranted access to devices such as a suspect's phone. The Wall Street Journal reports that …
Read More »Frontier to offer refunds after canceling offline single player mode
Elite: Dangerous developer, Frontier Studios, is going to start offering refunds to those who are upset over the cancellation of the game's planned offline single player mode. The offline portion of the single player campaign was cut from the game as it featured a severely cut back world and didn't …
Read More »iOS drops the ‘FREE’ icon on F2P apps
Apple's iOS App Store will no longer advertise ‘free to play' or ‘freemium' apps as free, instead these applications will now have a ‘+ GET' icon beside them, giving users a better warning that an app likely has a heavy focus on micro-transactions. Apps such as Angry Birds, Candy Crush …
Read More »Thecus Berlin trip 13th November
Thecus, the Taiwanese NAS company, gathered a group of hacks in Berlin, Germany to announce three new models. These are the W2000, W4000 and W5000 – with the W standing for Windows. In this instance we're talking about Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials so this is a series of …
Read More »Jolla, former Nokia engineers, to ship crowd-funded tablet next May
Jolla, a smartphone developer from Finland that was established by a group of former Nokia engineers and managers, this week announced plans to launch the world’s first crowd-funded tablet based on the Sailfish 2.0 operating system and Intel Corp.’s system-on-chip. The tablet will ship next May and Jolla will ask people what …
Read More »AMD to drop prices of ‘Kaveri’ APUs, to discontinue A10-7700K
Advanced Micro Devices plans to lower prices of its A-series “Kaveri” accelerated processing units, according to a media report. The company wants to fight back some market share from Intel Corp. before the end of the year and will lower prices of popular APUs so that to make them more …
Read More »Eizo introduces square display with 1920*1920 resolution
Eizo, a leading producer of professional and consumer displays, has unveiled a rather extravagant square display with 1920*1920 resolution. The Eizo FlexScan EV2730Q monitor is intended for CAD/CAM/DCC/finance and other professionals, sports a number of professional features and is among the first square displays with 26.5” diagonal on the market. …
Read More »Samsung shifts resources from smartphones to other projects
Less than a month after reporting lower-than-expected revenues and profits because of challenges on the market of smartphones, Samsung Electronics is reconsidering its investments in development of handsets. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones and smartphones, has the broadest family of smartphones among all suppliers. While this …
Read More »OCZ introduces Vertex 460A SSDs with new NAND flash memory
OCZ Storage Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., this week introduced a new version of its Vertex 460 solid-state drives that is powered by Toshiba’s second-generation 19nm NAND flash multi-level cell memory with toggle DDR interface. The Vertex 460A SSDs are slightly faster than the original drives, even …
Read More »Shoppers managed to trick Walmart in to selling PS4s for $50
It looks like some shoppers won't need to wait until Black Friday to get a good deal on a Playstation 4 as people have been successfully scamming Walmart thanks to the store's price match guarantee. Under its current policy, if a customer comes in to the shop and finds a …
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