Valve has shared some information on its upcoming Half-Life title for VR...

A couple of weeks ago, we first heard that Xerox was planning on making an acquisition offer to take over HP, as part of a deal backed by a major bank. While HP is looking to shake up its business by cutting down its work force by 16 percent, the …

Last month, Microsoft officially launched the Surface Pro 7 alongside a slew of other Surface devices. The big upgrade this time around was the jump up to Intel Ice Lake processors but unfortunately, this appears to have been causing issues so far, with users being stuck on outdated, broken drivers.  …

Yesterday, the Intel HPC Developer Conference kicked off and as previously leaked, Raja Koduri was there to introduce its new GPU codenamed ‘Ponte Vecchio', based on the upcoming Intel Xe graphics architecture. This is the first Intel discrete graphics card to be named and detailed publicly, with plans to release …

We've been hearing about Half-Life VR through various leaks for a long time now. Most of the information being made public has come from none other than Valve News Network, who was the first to report that HLVR would be a prequel to Half-Life 2, starring Alyx Vance. Now, with …

BioWare is a very busy studio at the moment. Not only are there still multiple teams trying to salvage Anthem and rebuild it from the ground up, but the studio is also working on the next Dragon Age and apparently, the next Mass Effect has also entered ‘very early development'.  …

There has been plenty of talk surrounding Anthem and its development troubles following its disappointing release earlier this year. A short while ago, BioWare announced plans to ditch its original post-launch content plans in an effort to completely rework the game. Now, sources have come forward to talk about just …

Intel has been quietly working away on its upcoming Xe graphics architecture for quite some time now. We've heard tidbits of information over time, including multi-GPU scaling support, ray-tracing capabilities and plans to bring Xe graphics to all major markets, from gaming to data centres. A new report this week …

Brian Fargo, studio head at InXile, appeared at XO19 last night, closing out the string of announcements with new details on Wasteland 3, a new trailer and a release date. Wasteland 3 was initially crowd funded, so budget was limited but now with Microsoft acquiring the studio, InXile has been …

Over the course of last year, European consumer rights authorities began taking a closer look at Nintendo and its digital eShop refund policies. The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) got the ball rolling by saying that Nintendo's strict no-refund policy was against EU consumer protection laws. Since Nintendo of Europe is …

PowerColor’s RX 5700 XT Red Devil has already been crowned as one of the best custom AMD GPUs available on the market right now, but an upgrade is on the way. In September, PowerColor began teasing a liquid-cooled version of the card and now, it has been properly unmasked. The …

As usual, October and November have been packed with big video game releases, which has also meant a bunch of GPU driver updates for PC players. This week's highlight is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which is now available on Steam and Origin. Nvidia pushed out its own ‘Game Ready' …

Whenever a major company acquires a beloved independent studio, particularly now that we're in an age of publishers chasing the ‘live service' dream. In the case of Obsidian, which joined Microsoft's roster of Xbox Game Studios last year, much of the focus is on staying the same, with most improvements …

Over the last few weeks, Microsoft has been ramping up the hype machine for XO19, promising announcements from first-party Xbox Game Studios, new titles for Game Pass and more in the ‘biggest Inside Xbox episode ever'. There were indeed quite a few big announcements, including new IP from Obsidian and …

Just as expected, Microsoft has begun rolling out the Windows 10 1909 update this week, otherwise known as the November Feature Update. This time around, Microsoft is not looking to shake things up too much, hoping to avoid the numerous issues that plagued last year's October update. Windows 10 1909 …

Razer is well known for its headsets at this point, we've even reviewed a good number of Kraken series headsets ourselves over the years. This week, Razer is introducing a new flagship Kraken Ultimate to the lineup, swapping out standard 7.1 virtual surround sound for THX Spatial Audio. The ear …

Just one day after earning the Accenture Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the virtual reality industry, Oculus CTO, John Carmack, has announced that he will be taking a step back from Oculus and will be spending more time working on artificial intelligence instead. Carmack has been the Chief Technology …

Rockstar has given us all a much needed status update, addressing the stuttering issue with RDR2...

The last couple of weeks have been big for news on Netflix's The Witcher. The final trailer gave us a much better look at the show as a whole and a release date for season 1, which premiers on the 20th of December. Now over a month ahead of the …

Since discontinuing the 17-inch MacBook Pro back in 2012, Apple has stuck to 13-inch and 15-inch laptop offerings with high resolution displays and slim form factors. This year, Apple is approaching larger laptops once again, with the long-rumoured 16-inch MacBook Pro officially launching today.  The 16-inch MacBook Pro is being …

The most recent Halo: Reach flight test has been live on PC for two weeks now. The first extension was put in place to allow users to test a new patch, although that update took a bit longer than expected. As a result, the current PC test will be running …

During the buildup to Fortnite’s black hole and chapter two reveal, there were several leaks spoiling the reveal, including a screenshot of the brand new map. A few weeks ago, Epic Games filed a lawsuit against one former tester in connection to the leak and now, a second former tester …

Since the introduction of 240Hz gaming displays, most of them have been based on TN panels. Back in September, the Acer Nitro range received an upgrade with the world's first IPS 240Hz monitor and now, that technology is also transitioning over to the Acer Predator range.  The Acer Predator XB273 …

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is back in the headlines this week as the developers have released a new major update, adding new parts of the map and new missions for players to tackle. It is the game's biggest post-launch update yet, although unfortunately previously announced RTX features are still missing in action.  …

Over the course of this year, the ‘auto battle' genre has grown to be quite popular for MOBA titles. At BlizzCon this month, Blizzard announced it would be bringing a similar game mode to Hearthstone known as Hearthstone Battlegrounds, pitting eight players against each other in a last player standing …

Since launching back in 2014, EA Access has consistently offered 10 hour trials for new games to give players an extended demo before making a full purchase. For Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, that early/timed access trial will not be in place for good reason, EA wants to limit story …

Last week's big driver updates added support for Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption II on PC but there are still more huge video game launches coming throughout the rest of November. This week, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is coming to PC, in addition to Insomniac's Oculus VR game ‘Stormland', both …

Back in May, the first trailer for the Sonic The Hedgehog live-action movie dropped, revealing a rather shocking, humanised design for the character. It didn't take long for criticisms to send the film creators back to the drawing board and now, there is a new trailer for the film featuring …

Over the course of this year, we have seen a lot of flagship smartphones launching with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor at the centre. In December, the next generation Snapdragon 865 will be officially unveiled, although leaks have already given us an early look at specifications and performance.  Qualcomm will …

Ever since standing against the US government and refusing to crack open an iPhone locked by Touch ID, Apple has been pushing its stance on privacy and security quite heavily. Unfortunately, Apple has had a couple of security missteps along the way that fly in the face of that. Most …