Even though a lot of pro-gamers are endorsing gaming peripherals these days, it is rare that you see one named after a particular player. Still, that is exactly what has happened with Ozone's latest hardware, which is named after one of the highest earning eSports gamers in the world: Carlos …
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Monster Hunter Stories looks very different
Despite the fact that it features giant dragons, talking cats and matter cloning pickaxes, the Monster Hunter series of games is relatively serious. It's unforgiving for newer players, has a deep and complicated system of augmenting your character and requires you to literally cut parts from your fallen enemies to …
Read More »Up close and personal with Chillblast systems
Trusting your preferred system builder and component manufacturers means that many of us will never see the computer we buy, before we buy it. Major LAN events give you a great chance to get hands-on, so that's what KitGuru did with Ben Miles from Chillblast. We've had Ben in the KitGuru …
Read More »Here are all of the graphics options in Grand Theft Auto V PC
Grand Theft Auto V is just a few days away for PC gamers and while it is too soon to know for sure, so far, things are looking positive as far as the quality of the PC version goes. Earlier this week we got to pre-load the game and Rockstar …
Read More »YouTube has a paid subscription service on the way
News broke earlier this week that YouTube's long rumored paid subscription service is finally on the way. The new service will let monthly subscribers watch videos without ads and a cut of that revenue will be split between YouTube and content creators. The idea is to boost revenue for everybody, …
Read More »Concept of AMD APU for HPC leaks: 16 x86 cores, next-gen GPU, HBM memory
Advanced Micro Devices has been mulling accelerated processing unit for high-performance computing applications for many years, but software and hardware limitations have prevented the company from creating such chip. Recently AMD finally unveiled plans to release an APU for HPC market in 2017 and this week the first concept of …
Read More »Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to support DX 12 and Tress FX
Earlier this week we were hit with the announcement of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a sequel to Human Revolution. The game is being built for not just the next generation of consoles, but also the next generation of PC graphics as it will adopt the Direct X 12 API along …
Read More »Microsoft Xbox chief: VR is not a ‘now thing’
At least two dedicated virtual reality headsets are heading to the market in late 2015 – early 2016 timeframe and a number of game developers are working on titles that will take advantage of these VR devices. However, many doubt that virtual reality technology in its current form will become …
Read More »HDMI forum adds HDR support to HDMI 2.0a specification
HDMI Forum, an organization that manages the HDMI standard development, this week release HDMI 2.0a specification, which adds support for high-dynamic range video medatada flags to the standard. Members of the organization can start to add HDMI 2.0a into their products now. The specification has been updated to enable transmission …
Read More »Microsoft is moving Windows 10 content to a unified store
Microsoft's effort to unify all of its devices under one operating system is starting to take shape. Windows 10 is now available on desktop and mobile devices in Technical Preview form and now all apps, regardless of specific platform, are being moved under one roof. In a blog post today, …
Read More »Google’s own Chrome OS laptop is coming to the UK
Google's in-house made Chrome OS laptop, the Chromebook Pixel 2, is coming to the UK this month. The new model was announced last month over in the US and is intended to get more developers on-board and working with the lesser used Chrome operating system. Chromebooks are generally cheaper, intended …
Read More »Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti is ready, launch may be advanced – rumour
Nvidia Corp. has finished development of the rumoured GeForce GTX 980 Ti reference design, media reports claim. Moreover, the company may advance its launch in a bid to steal media attention from AMD’s forthcoming Radeon R9 390-series graphics adapters. General specifications of Nvidia’s upcoming graphics card currently known as the …
Read More »Samsung’s own CPU core took years to develop – report
Samsung Electronics has developed and built its Exynos application processors for years, but its chips are always powered by off-the-shelf general-purpose and graphics processing cores from ARM, which limits their advantages over competing system-on-chips. Everything is going to change next year, when Samsung finally rolls-out its new SoCs featuring its …
Read More »The EFF wants a DMCA exemption to preserve abandoned games
The EFF and the Entertainment Software Alliance are currently battling it out over the need to preserve past games that have since been abandoned by their publishers or developers. The EFF wants an exemption to the DMCA to keep older titles alive once its servers are shut down but the …
Read More »The Apple Watch is already selling out online
Apple launched its first new product category today, the Apple Watch, and it is already selling out pretty fast with delivery estimates being pushed back as far as six weeks so far for many who are pre-ordering online. However, this might not be entirely down to strong day one sales …
Read More »Razer Blade Pro (2015) Review (512GB SSD, 1TB HDD)
Even knowing there are heat and throttling issues, it is difficult not to be impressed with the diminutive Razer Blade 14 inch laptop. Consider it the more powerful, evil twin to the 13 inch MacBook Pro, equipped with serious gaming capabilities. Today we take a look at the ‘big brother', …
Read More »Disney and Apple are clashing over TV streaming service
It seems that Apple and Disney might be having issues negotiating which channels will be included in Apple's upcoming TV streaming service. According to new reports, Apple wants to limit the number of Disney channels in order to keep costs down but Disney would rather Apple picked up most of …
Read More »Police arrest man charged with leaking Expendables 3
One of the biggest movie leaks in the history of internet based piracy was last year's early release of Expendables 3. It didn't just hit the torrent sites after the film was in cinemas, or when a screener copy was released, it came out in HD quality even before cinemagoers …
Read More »Netflix parodies wearable makers with own watch ad
Much has been said about the upcoming launch of Apple's first official wearable device, the Apple Watch, with detractors and fans of the brand both butting heads over whether it will be decent or a bit of a let down. Something I think we can all agree would flop if …
Read More »TSMC’s 10nm goals: higher density and performance at lower power
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week unveiled first details about its 10nm fabrication process at the TSMC Technology Symposium in the U.S. The official goals are slightly less ambitious than those discussed last year, but the general focus of TSMC’s 10nm manufacturing technology is clear: considerable increase of transistor density compared to …
Read More »Austrians launch class action suit against Facebook
Since the Edward Snowden revelations of 2013, many organisations have been held under the spotlight for their collusion with the NSA and other international intelligence agencies, most notably Google and Microsoft. Facebook was involved too though, which is why a group of over 25,000 Austrians have launched a class action …
Read More »T1000 incoming: new liquid metal can move and conform
That's it, judgement day is practically a given and as usual, it's all the fault of those meddling scientists. Chinese researchers investigating unique properties of certain metallic alloys have managed to make a self assembling and self propelling liquid metal, which has the potential for a huge range of products …
Read More »Little Devil Inside is a beautiful Greenlight RPG
Even though many game developers like to continue the march towards an inevitable day when graphics will become truly photo-realistic, often a title can feel much more engaging if it has a unique art style instead of one designed with the real world in mind. That's certainly something Little Devil …
Read More »Google: We are happy that Microsoft is working on $150 PCs
In a bid to ensure that its Windows operating system can address all segments of the personal computer market, Microsoft Corp. in the recent quarters has worked hard with various hardware manufacturers to drive down prices of PCs to $200 and even $150 per unit. While hardware makers are hardly …
Read More »Intel and Altera acquisition talks end due to price disagreement
Negotiations between Intel Corp. and Altera have ended because the companies could not agree on price. The world’s largest maker of microprocessors did not want to pay a hefty premium for the company, which is more profitable than Intel itself. If the chipmaker really wants to get Altera, the talks will …
Read More »First images of alleged XFX AMD Radeon R9 380 hit the web
A web-site has published what it claims to be the first photos of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 380-series graphics card. If the images depict what they claim to, then it confirms that AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 300-series lineup will at least partly consist of rebranded current-generation products. The XFX …
Read More »League of Legends World Championships coming to Wembley Arena in London
We already know that eSports are becoming an increasingly big deal, even here in the UK, which is evidenced by the fact that the League of Legends World Championships Quarterfinals will take place at the Wembley Arena in London this year. Riot just made its announcement for the League of …
Read More »Elder Scrolls Online is offering PC to console account transfers
If you happen to have bought The Elder Scrolls Online and feel the need to switch over to the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 version when that launches in June, then you might be able to transfer your account over and get a digital copy of the game at a …
Read More »Goldgenie is selling a diamond encrusted Apple Watch for £100k
Whenever Apple releases a new mobile device, there is always a company waiting to cover it in diamonds and drive up the price. There is no exception with the Apple Watch as Goldgenie already has spruced up versions of the smartwatch available for pre-order. If you happen to have far …
Read More »EA Frostbite Engineer wants games to require Win10/DX12 by 2016
EA’s technical director for the Frostbite engine, Johan Andersson, has expressed his hopes for the future EA games using the new engine. While it would be a bit of an aggressive move, Andersson would like to see Frostbite games requiring Windows 10 and DirectX 12 by the end of 2016. …
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