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Capcom will be bringing Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, over to Steamworks early next year. The three games currently reside on Microsoft's widely unpopular Games for Windows Live service. The publisher said that the move has come around due to fan demand: …

Chances are that if you're planning an X99 build, then you're not too worried about money. However, it's still worth shopping around for the best deal just in-case, right now Asus has teamed up with Samsung to offer customers up to £100 cash back if they purchase an Asus X99 …

Tonight we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Middle Earth: Shadow Of Mordor (out soon on PC!). …

Evidently fed up with driving sales to every corner of the web without being able to take much credit, Twitter has implemented a way to buy products directly through the social network, thereby scoring itself a small portion of the profit. Not for every product mention though and not for …

Nine months after putting its new-gen console on sale, Sony has managed too sell a million units in the UK alone. This makes it one of the fastest selling consoles ever, putting it just behind Nintendo's Wii which managed to hit the same milestone in just over eight and a …

Professional gamers have gained a lot of attention in the past couple of years, as prize pools have exploded, competition has increased and the world at large has begun consuming their games with an ever increasing appetite, but we've also seen them at their more humble and heartfelt in documentaries …

Since the official NASA update to Kerbal Space Program, many people around the world have gotten their taste for how difficult it can be to land on anything smaller than a planet in the game, making it even more impressive that we're looking to do the same thing in real …

Intel Corp. and Fossil Group, a global design, marketing and distribution company specializing in fashion accessories, have announced that they will be collaborating to develop wearable technology for the fashion industry. The collaboration will help the companies to wed leading-edge electronics with advanced design. The companies plan to work together on …

Samsung Electronics has announced that it would fight Nvidia Corp. in court and will not give up. The consumer electronics giant did not outline any special plans, but it looks like the company is ready for a long legal battle against Nvidia. Samsung said it would take “all measures necessary” against …

Dell on Monday introduced its first display with ultra-high-definition 5K (5120*2880) resolution. The monitor is designed for professionals and will become available later this year. Those who work with UHD video will clearly take advantage of “extra” pixels. The Dell UltraSharp 27 Ultra HD 5K Monitor is the world’s first …

Advanced Micro Devices has significantly reinvented itself in the recent years. The company changed its strategy and improved its execution. Still, in order to be successful and profitable the company needs new competitive products since currently AMD cannot compete against Intel on the market of high-performance microprocessors. Unfortunately, brand new …

Intel Corp. has revealed detailed specifications of the first Core M microprocessors based on the “Broadwell” architecture. While the new processors will clearly not be performance champions, they will consume significantly lower amount of energy compared to existing chips and will enable extremely thin tablets, 2-in-1s and laptops. “We've been …

Batman Arkham Knight, Rocksteady's highly anticipated conclusion to the Arkham series, has been delayed, again. The title was originally slated to come out this October for the PC, Xbox One and PS4, it was later pushed back and listed for a February 2015 release by several retail outlets, including Steam. The …

T-Mobile has filed a lawsuit against Chinese firm, Huawei, after its staff attempted to sneak in to T-Mobile offices and steal software and technology behind the carrier's phone testing robot, which is nicknamed ‘Tappy'. Huawei employees allegedly stole the software and specifications for the robot, they also took secret photos …

Bungie is offering a free digital upgrade to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Destiny if you buy the game on the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 and later decide to upgrade to a current gen console, effectively giving buyers an extra copy of the game for free. This offer is …

It's no secret that several big publishers have attempted to break away from Steam, EA switched to its own Origin service, Ubisoft released uPlay and now it looks like Warner Bros might be getting in on the action with its own digital distribution platform. Warner Bros is behind several big games …

Last week Samsung announced the Gear VR, an Android virtual reality headset developed by the guys over at Oculus. According to John Carmack, getting virtual reality running on Android was no easy task and due to the lack of native code development, creating applications for the platform is “no fun …

4K monitors are only just beginning to gain traction in the market amongst consumers but Dell is set to outclass them all with its upcoming ultra sharp 5K monitor, which contains nearly double the over all pixel count of a standard 4K screen. The new monitor is expected to launch …

Microsoft is set to shift focus back to the MSN brand, just one week after it announced that the messenger service would be shutting down for good later this year. Several Bing apps, including News, Sports, Travel, Weather, and Finance, are set to be re-branded under the MSN name. Additionally, each app will …

Crytek has lowered the recommended system requirements for the PC version of Ryse Son of Rome. Initially, the company had posted the requirements to play the title at 4K, rather than 1080p. The spec revision makes the game much more accessible to low end/midrange system users. In an update on …

Dark Souls is largely considered to be one of the most difficult games around, beating the game is already an impressive accomplishment but beating it with a Rock Band guitar controller? That's a whole new feat in and of itself. Dark Souls player, Benjamin “Bearzly” Gwin, recently completed his run of …

Since I previously reviewed the Kingston HyperX Cloud headset earlier this year – giving it a good score too – I was a little surprised to receive another through the door. Of course though while this new one is almost identical to the original, it does feature a brand new …

This week Advanced Micro Devices and Origin PC, a boutique computer maker from the U.S., officially buried the hatchet and resumed collaborative work after a year-long hiatus. Last year Origin PC officially said it would only use Nvidia GeForce graphics cards for its systems. Thanks to renewed approach and some …

Nvidia Corp. is set to unveil its new-generation high-performance graphics solutions based on the code-named GM204 graphics processing units in about two weeks from now, but so far there have been no leaks indicating performance of the GeForce GTX 970 and the GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards. Luckily, a staff …

G.Skill this week added two new DDR4 options into the lineup of its memory modules. The new quad-channel memory kits for Intel Corp.’s latesthigh-end desktop “Haswell-E” platforms run at industry-leading frequencies of 3300MHz/3333MHz. The new “extreme high-end” Ripjaws 4-series DDR4 memory modules come in 16GB quad-channel kits. G.Skill's latest DDR4 memory …

Overclockers UK are selling 100 Sapphire R9 295X2 graphics cards for £699.99, a huge dip from the usual £1039.99 price point. The watercooled dual GPU recently received a price cut over in the US so to celebrate #AMDFriday, OCUK is doing the same. In addition to this deal, you can …

Music Industry group, IFPI, has sent not one, but two take down notices to Mega, asking the site to remove Kim Dotcom's very own album, casting doubt on the accuracy of record label take down notices. Kim Dotcom founded cloud storage service, Mega, in the aftermath of the Mega Upload court …

Microsoft doesn't have permission to run adverts on the Xbox One version of Destiny- so it isn't. Instead it is taking a fun little jab at Sony's exclusivity deal with Bungie by launching Destiny the fragrance- an unofficial marketing campaign in order to make sure people know that Bungie's next big …

While Apple denies that it was a flaw in its iCloud system that allowed hundreds of private celebrity photos to be leaked on to the web last week, it has admitted that it could do more to protect its users and will introduce additional security measures within two weeks. Apple's …

Google is set to pay out at least $19 million to refund parents who were billed for in-app purchases made by children that weren't authorized to do so. The case has been going on for some time now but it looks to be coming to a close as Google considers …