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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, the 1997 classic adventure game is currently available to download for free on Steam. Once you hit install game, it will be added to your account and be yours forever, though you only have a limited time window to do this in. The offer ends at 6PM …

Asustek Computer this week introduced its Z170I Pro Gaming mainboard, which is desinged for Intel Corp.’s latest microprocessors code-named “Skylake” and provides ultimate feature-set. The platform not only uses high-quality/high-performance components and has rich expansion capabilities, but even features advanced overclocking functionality. The Asus Z170I Pro Gaming is based on the Intel …

At the GPU Technology Conference in Japan, Nvidia Corp. once again revealed key features of its next-generation graphics processing architecture code-named “Pascal”. As a it appears, the company has slightly changed its plans concerning memory capacity supported by its upcoming GPUs. As expected, Nvidia’s high-end graphics processor that belongs to …

Microsoft Corp.’s DirectX 12 application programming interface promises to significantly improve performance of video games in Windows 10 operating system thanks to efficient usage of modern hardware. However, Valve Software believes that it makes no sense to use DX12, but to utilize cross-platform Vulkan API instead. Modern application programming interfaces – …

XFX is gearing up to release a Radeon R9 Fury-based graphics adapter featuring a liquid cooling system. The card will feature overclocking potential on par with AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X, which will help to at least partially close performance gap between the “Fury” and the “Fury X” products. The …

Sales of personal computers have been sluggish in the recent quarters, which decreased revenue of PC makers and PC hardware manufacturers. Apparently, Intel Corp. has prepared for slow demand for PCs and significantly reduced shipments of its central processing units in the first half of the year, draining inventory at …

One of the best games to come out in 2014 was Wolfenstein: The New Order. The game released to great acclaim from both fans and critics, so now, it looks like Bethesda is planning for the future of the series. Professional voice actors often spill the beans on projects before …

A US federal judge has ruled that all copyright claims on the song ‘Happy Birthday To You' are now invalid. Music publisher, Warner/Chappell can no longer charge licensing fees for its commercial use and as long as the ruling holds up, the song will enter the public domain. The original copyright …

Bethesda is gearing up for Fallout 4 in two months time and in order to keep the hype train going, the company has given its new video series its début. It's known as the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Video Series and as you would imagine, the aim of each video is to go …

Apparently Apple is ramping up its efforts to create its own electric car. The company has been rumoured to be working on its own car for a while now and the latest stirrings seem to point towards Apple dedicating employees and resources to the project in order to have it …

The Commission for the Protection of Privacy (CBPL), Belgium's data authority, has been investigating Facebook and has now accused it of NSA-style snooping. The Commission has been looking in to the social network for quite some time now and things have only gotten worse since the Snowden revelations. Back in …

Street Fighter V is heading our way in 2016 and for those who plan on picking it up on the PC, you can now see if your rig meets the system requirements. The game isn't too demanding judging by the specs, so most should be able to play the game …

The “Zen” micro-architecture is a tremendously important project for Advanced Micro Devices. If the new technology is successful, AMD will become a viable developer of central processing units again. If not, the company will have troubles with surviving. Fortunately, “Zen” is a completely new micro-architecture that promises to be very …

This week, Imgur discovered a vulnerability in its system that made it possible for people to inject malicious code in to an image link from the site. These links were then used to leverage genuine user's browsers in order to send a DDOS attack out to the sites 4Chan and …

It looks like Warner Bros, Rocksteady and Nvidia's own team of developers are close to finally getting Batman: Arkham Knight up to scratch on the PC. As a result, the game will soon be available to buy once again on Steam and the final patch should launch for those who …

Samsung Electronics is working on a new solid-state drive with 4TB capacity. The SSD will be available in early 2016, but its performance and pricing are yet unknown. Samsung 850 Pro solid-state drive with 4TB capacity will be based on the company’s third-generation 48-layer 3D V-NAND memory, reports AnandTech. While …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has successfully produced the first samples of Nvidia Corp.’s code-named GP100 graphics processing unit. Nvidia has already started to test the chip internally and should be on-track to release the GPU commercially in mid-2016. 3DCenter reports that Nvidia has sent the first graphics cards based on the …

Foxconn Electronics, the world’s largest contract maker of electronics, is reportedly mulling to acquire LCD business from Sharp Corp. The company may even team up with Apple in order to take over Sharp’s display business. The move could help Foxconn to expand its business, whereas Apple will guarantee stable supply …

Samsung Electronics has introduced its new family of solid-state drives that offer extreme performance and moderate pricing. The new SSDs come in M.2 form-factor, fully support NVMe protocol and use the company’s second-generation 3D V-NAND flash memory. The Samsung 950 Pro-series solid-state drives are based on the second generation MLC …

We review many complete system builds here at KitGuru and one company we are consistently impressed with is DinoPC, so much so that we chose them for our hardware test systems last year. This week, DinoPC gave its website a fresh coat of paint, delivering a pleasant browsing experience. DinoPC …

IO Interactive was due to launch a new Hitman this December, with a confusing release scheme that would see a portion of the game come out at launch, with updates added over time to finish off the story and keep people playing. However, it seems that more time is needed and …

System Shock, the classic first-person PC title has been officially re-released on GOG with a new Enhanced Edition, bringing new features to the game. System Shock originally launched over twenty years ago now and this enhanced edition gives it a few warranted updates. New features include mouse-look control and support …

Gaming Notebooks have come a long way over the last few years, they have gotten thinner, lighter and now they are going to come with full-blown desktop-grade GPUs packed inside. Nvidia has today revealed that it has managed to cram a fully spec'd GTX 980 in to gaming notebooks. This …

It looks like Google is preparing to return to the Chromecast soon, with a newly revised dongle, featuring a new design and faster components. The new rumours come from leaked documents, which talk about different colour options, improve WiFi performance and something called ‘Fast Play', which will be a new …

Unity, the firm behind the engine of the same name has revealed that between April and the end of July this year, developers created more than 174,000 games using the Unity engine, which is quite a scary number. The number was revealed by CEO, John Riccitello at the Unite Boston …

Last week, a bug was discovered with Apple's Watch OS 2, just two hours before it was set to be put out for users to download and installed. As a result, the update was delayed, though at the time, Apple had yet to announce a new launch date. Now, Watch …

Skype has had its service restored back to normal, following yesterday's widespread outage that affected users across the world. Skype initially went down early yesterday morning, though the team behind the communication app were quick to work on it, though it took most of the day. Skype announced that its …

A few weeks ago it was revealed that DICE's take on Star Wars Battlefront wouldn't come with its own server browser, favouring a matchmaking service instead. However, that doesn't mean that the game won't run on dedicated servers, which should be good news to many. Dedicated servers were confirmed by …

As developers of graphics processing units start to use high-bandwidth memory (HBM), manufacturers of graphics cards cease their ability to buy memory directly from DRAM makers. A good news is that Nvidia Corp. intends to buy second-gen HBM from two suppliers, which potentially means flexible pricing. Nowadays manufacturers of graphics …

The market of solid-state drives is growing exponentially. In fact, total available market of SSDs hit $15.1 billion in 2014, if the numbers from Transparency Market Research are to be believed. Moreover, SSD sales are expected to grow by 40 per cent next year. According to a new market report …