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Since 2014, Australia's consumer rights group, the ACCC, has been hammering down on Valve due to the ‘no refunds' policy that was enforced on Steam prior to June 2015. In fact, this court case is likely one of the major catalysts that forced Valve into implementing its current refunds policy. …

HTC's position in the smartphone market has been on shaky ground for a couple of years now, especially after the HTC One M9 failed to meet sales expectations, falling well below the One M7 and One M8. While HTC has continued releasing smartphones and is even working with Google on …

It looks like Three has suffered from a security breach as the UK-based mobile network has confirmed today that the accounts of over 130,000 customers were breached recently. Three people were reportedly involved in the breach, using official employee logins to access the mobile network's database of customers, with 133,827 …

Final Fantasy XV is releasing in just over a week but if you are trying to avoid spoilers, you may want to be extra careful over the next few days as some retailers have broken the game's street date and those who have managed to get the game early are …

Samsung has had a difficult time of things the past couple of months. Despite a much publicised recall, the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone it released just kept overheating and exploding. Ultimately it had to scrap the entire launch and call in millions of handsets, costing it billions. Looking to rebound …

The Open Rights Group has warned that the UK's recent push for age verification on pornography sites as part of the Digital Economy Bill, could lead to more people being at risk of credit card and identify fraud. Although credit card checks exist for purchases, age-gates that use credit cards …

Although Augmented Reality isn't a technology that's particularly widespread just yet, it is gradually seeping into the real world. One area where it's starting to make a big impact is in children's books, where augmented reality visuals can be shown through a smartphone to bring the novels to life. Good …

HTC has found another disciple for the glory of virtual reality in the form of Korean firm NEXPERIENCE. Known for building and developing projection-based golf simulators, NEXPERIENCE has partnered with HTC to help build new experience stations in Korea, as well as popularising what it calls “VR culture,” throughout the …

A new report from Intel Security has suggested less than two thirds of all consumers take the time to properly secure their new gadgets and with the Christmas period coming up, that likely means a lot of unsecured devices joining the Internet of Things. So at this busy time of year …

Nvidia and Ubisoft have teamed up for graphics card promotions plenty of times in the last couple of years, so it may not be a total surprise to learn that Nvidia might be teaming up with the publisher once again this year to offer a free copy of Watch Dogs …

While everyone has heard of giant public torrent trackers like The Pirate Bay and KAT, there are some pretty massive private sites too, with some specialising in just one area, like ebooks, TV shows or music. This week, we saw the closure of the world's largest music tracker, What.CD, a …

As ambitious and awesome as Star Citizen sounds, the crowd-funded game has drawn quite a bit of criticism over the last couple of years, especially when it comes to module delays. Over time, the game has grown bigger in terms of scope and as a result, development times have increased …

January is approaching fast, which means we are very close to AMD's rumoured Zen launch. We have seen little pieces of information about AMD's upcoming 8 Core/16 Thread CPU over the last few months and this week, one of AMD's Chinese partners, MAXSUN, reportedly let it slip that we may …

Since earlier this year, some iPhone 6 Plus users have been complaining about something known as ‘touch disease', an issue that has caused iPhone 6 Plus displays to become unresponsive to touch. Apple has kept silent on this problem for months but this week, the company finally acknowledged it for …

WhatsApp has gone ahead and put a stop to its user data collection activities in Europe after growing pressure from privacy watchdogs in multiple EU countries. The policy change means that the messaging app will no longer be relaying personal information, like phone numbers, over to Facebook though this may …

Back in 2014, we saw Disney acquire the YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million, a huge move and the first time a major studio acquired a YouTube network. Now, Warner Bos. is following that lead and is acquiring full control of Machinima, who are best known as one of …

Dishonored 2 has unfortunately launched with a range of issues affecting many but not all PC users. The worst issues appear to be random crashes and a frame rate that fluctuates widely, as we found in our own analysis of the game. Since then, Arkane Studios has been working on …

Customers of the Three mobile network are being urged to watch out for potential fraud or identity theft following the arrest of three men who have been charged with breaching the mobile provider's upgrade database. Although the purpose of the breach was to ‘steal' free phones, it also gave them …

The Mega file locker has admitted that some of its corporate data, specifically relating to its blog and help-centre system was stolen by hackers. However, it categorically denies claims that its main file locker system has been compromised, and promises users that their data is safe and secure. When initially …

In a continued move to have all of its customers use as many of its products as possible, Amazon is now offering unique deals to those who order products using their voice. If you have an Alexa based device like Amazon Echo, Dot, Tap, Fire Tablet or Fire TV, you …

Peggy Whitson was the first woman to ever command the International Space Station when she took over control in 2007 and now she's about to break records again. After launching late last night, she'll take control of the ISS for the second time in February and by the time her …

Looking to upgrade your business networked storage and back up solution? QNAP's new quad-core, 16-bay, twin 10 GbE SFP+ NAS is now available and it comes packing a whole host of features. With support for up to 16GB of internal RAM, hardware accelerated encryption and support for all of QNAP's …

While Samsung and Qualcomm may have had their differences back when the Snapdragon 820 launched, it seems the two companies have since patched things up and going forward, they will be collaborating with Samsung set to manufacture Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chip based on the 10 nanometer process. Samsung's chip manufacturing …

As interesting as the new MacBook Pro is, particularly the Touch Bar model, it seems that Apple has made things under the hood more complicated than ever before, making the laptop practically impossible to effectively repair. The new design changes also make upgradeability of system RAM or the SSD impossible, …

Black Friday might not be taking place officially until the 25th of November but at Overclockers UK, the festivities have started early with a range of deals hitting the site ahead of time today. Starting at 5PM, OCUK will be going live with its Black Friday sales, offering a range …

While EA doesn't appear to be as worried about Titanfall 2 sales as the rest of us, it seems that Respawn might be, as the studio is currently unsure whether or not it will continue the franchise by making a third game. Titanfall 2 has been a huge success in …

A few weeks ago we reviewed Cooler Master's new pair of 120mm and 140mm MasterFans. However, that review also doubled as a sneak peek at another upcoming product- the MasterCase Pro 5 NVIDIA Edition, which we can now tell you a bit more about as the case has launched today. …

As well as trying to get the first human feet on Mars within the next decade, Space X has also been quietly working on a project which could deliver several thousand satellites into orbit, to provide global, high-speed internet access. Taking another step in that direction, Space X is now …

Augmented reality has a lot of potential to help us learn new skills, experience new entertainment and even shop. The problem with the latter though is it often requires the use of a third party applications; not with Augment for Retailers though. The AR SDK makes it possible to natively …

As much as I love virtual reality, there aren't that many must-play VR experiences just yet. Sure there are hundreds of apps and games and many really cool ones, but Google Earth VR is one of the first that you feel the need to show everyone. Freely available on Steam, …