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Wistron, a leading contract maker of consumer electronics from Taiwan, has landed orders to produce Hudl 2 media tablets for Tesco, according to a media report. The device is already available in the U.K. The Tesco Hudl 2 media tablet features 8.3” high-definition display, it is based on quad-core Intel …

Last year, Obsidian's long-awaited South Park  RPG launched to great reception from fans and critics alike. South Park: The Stick of Truth did a great job of capturing the look of the show and it was a great game to boot. Now Matt and Trey have joined back up with …

LastPass, a password management service designed to keep your many different passwords secure in one place, has been hacked, so the company is now advising users to go ahead and change all of their passwords. The hack apparently took place some time last week, though it wasn't revealed to users …

Late last year at Sony's PlayStation Experience event, Square Enix got on stage to announce that Final Fantasy 7 would be coming to the PS4, plain old Final Fantasy 7. The crowd was not impressed, which was probably quite embarrassing for the company but now it looks like Square Enix has …

Thanks to decreasing prices of ultra-high-definition TVs, sales of such devices are rapidly increasing. According to DisplaySearch, a leading market tracker, shipments of TV panels with 3840*2160 resolution reached a new milestone in April as they hit three million units for the first time. Shipments of UHD TV panels in …

As expected, HTC Corp. said that it will not even consider merging with Asustek Computer. Despite losses of market share, HTC is confident that it will be able to recapture lost positions eventually as an independent company. “[HTC] has not made any contact with Asus regarding this matter, and it …

Plextor produces one of the best solid-state drives available today. However, Plextor’s drives are pretty expensive and are designed for premium market segment. Apparently, Plextor is working on an inexpensive SSD based on cost-effective triple-level-cell NAND flash memory, which will be available later this year. Not a lot is known …

The day has finally come, EA has quit it with the cinematic trailers and the developer diaries, bringing us the first gameplay for Star Wars Battlefront. The first video shows off five minutes of PS4 multiplayer footage taking place on Hoth with 40 players in total in the match. The footage …

Update: Last week, we got wind of rumours suggesting that Razer might be interested in buying out Ouya, the company behind the Kickstarted Android console that failed to garner commercial success. Now, it seems that Razer may have taken the plunge and quietly acquired the struggling device maker. At this present …

Microsoft's E3 press conference has only been going for about half an hour but they really are killing it. Following the surprise announcement of backwards compatibility for  Xbox 360 titles on the Xbox One, Bethesda's Todd Howard took to the stage to talk about Fallout 4. At that moment, many …

When the new generation consoles launched back in 2013, both Microsoft and Sony seemingly forgot about backwards compatibility entirely. While we know that Sony is looking to tackle PS3 games with its streaming service, PlayStation Now, Microsoft has taken an arguably better approach, bringing native support for Xbox 360 titles …

We have been hearing about the Snapdragon 810's heat issues for a while now. Samsung stopped using Qualcomm's chips in its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6 due to heat issues. Thermal images of the HTC One M9 showed the chip running significantly hotter than the Snapdragon 805 but despite …

Now we've seen indie developers lash out at the gaming community before, Phil Fish has ‘quit' Twitter several times and cancelled Fez 2, other developers have censored criticism of their own games with DMCA takedown notices on YouTube and now the developer behind Dark Base 01 has decided to use …

Sony's own virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, is due out in the first half of 2016 so you can expect it to be one of the key talking points at Sony's E3 conference later today. However, we do have a few early details, such as the fact that the PlayStation …

If you are based in the UK then chances are, you slept through the Bethesda E3 conference, which took place in the early hours of the morning, so now is a good time to catch up. As you were expecting, Fallout 4 was shown off in detail, with a huge …

Earlier this month, we learned that hackers – possibly from China – had infiltrated the White House Office of Personnel Management and had copied documents on millions of government employees. While there were concerns that financial and employment data, possibly even security clearance information had been compromised, it's also shed …

Members of the British intelligence community, including MI6, GCHQ and the Royal Navy took aim at Edward Snowden last week, calling him a traitor and suggesting that by revealing secretive CIA documents, he put the lives of British and American spies at risk. It was even claimed that due to …

It wasn't that long ago that a long haul flight with a built in headrest TV was quite the luxury. Being able to choose your own film watching schedule during those many hours in a fart filled tube was a real treat, but today with smartphones and tablets with HD …

It's been seven long months since anyone has heard from the Philae lander, which was touched down on a comet, hundreds of millions of miles from earth, in a descent that was fraught with nail biting triumphs. After 60 hours though, its batteries ran dry, as it had managed to land in …

Doom, or Doom 4, depending on how you want to look at it, was shown off in all its first person, Mars station exploring, demon hunting glory this weekend at the E3 conference in Los Angeles. The reveal not only showcased a game that is far prettier than its predecessors, but …

Advanced Micro Devices will not use its next-generation high-performance “Zen” micro-architecture for its accelerated processing units next year, if excerpts from an alleged AMD presentation published by a web-site are to be believed. While the slides reveal AMD’s intentions, they do not answer all the questions about the forthcoming chip. …

Nokia was one of the few third-party vendors heavily supporting Windows Phone before the Microsoft buyout in 2014, so it may not surprise you that the company was attempting to bring some of that Windows Phone charm to smartwatches before Microsoft cancelled the project. Nokia's smartwatch was called the ‘Moonraker' …

Last night, Valve announced its next major update for Dota 2, known as Dota 2 Reborn. With it, the popular competitive game will get a new engine, likely Source 2 although Valve did not mention it by name, and there will be a new user interface with support for custom …

The last generation consoles are on their way out after being around for almost a decade and while you can still easily pick up an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 now, one day it won't be so easy, which is where emulation tends to come in. For years, many fake …

Some market observers believe that prices of dynamic random access memory are about to increase, which will significantly improve profitability of DRAM producers. While this is essentially correct, there are reports that Samsung Electronics is dropping prices of memory in a bid to boost revenues, which could hurt other manufacturers' …

Asustek Computer has been trying to become a leading maker of smartphones for several years now. While the company produces a number of rather interesting models, Asustek’s positions in the market of handsets are not very strong. In a bid to improve them radically, the company could buy a big, …

Taiyo Yuden may not be a familiar name outside of Japan, but it is one of the world’s largest makers of optical recording media. Rebranded Taiyo Yuden products can be found under Fujifilm, Maxell, Panasonic, Plextor, TDK, Verbatim and other brands. This week the company announced that it will cease …

The Tales series is one of the long-running JRPG series that have gained popularity over the years since the 90's. While the series has mainly found its home on Sony platforms, including the every PlayStation console and both handhelds so far, it has dabbled with titles on Nintendo platforms, the …

Torchlight, the fairly high-rated action RPG for PC, is getting a mobile version for Android and iOS. The developer behind the new title in the series, Perfect World, revealed its plans today for Torchlight Mobile, a new RPG set in the same world as the first two Torchlight games. Just …

BlackBerry is still kicking around somehow, though it isn't hanging on to much of the market at all. Now, the Canadian phone maker might go ahead and join the Android market, leaving BlackBerry OS behind in order to be more competitive in the Android and iOS dominated smartphone market. According …