Back in June, Kaspersky Lab filed a big antitrust complaint against Microsoft and its revamped Windows Defender for Windows 10. Now, the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm appears to be backing off, having withdrawn the complaint in Europe after further discussion with Microsoft. Initially, Kaspersky had complaints surrounding how Microsoft delivered security …
Read More »Kingston and Marvell celebrate six million SSD shipments, new drives on the way
Earlier this year, we learned that Kingston was getting closer to leading the pack when it came to the SSD market, coming in second to Samsung in 2016 sales. Now this week, Kingston has hit a new milestone, having shipped over six million SSDs worldwide using Marvell controllers. These Kingston …
Read More »Microsoft’s recent Windows 10 privacy changes appear to be winning users over
Microsoft has received plenty of criticism for some of its Windows 10 policies over the last couple of years. Most notably, the company’s data collection and privacy policies have caused a stir online. However, with this year’s Creators Update, Microsoft aimed to revamp its privacy settings and so far, the …
Read More »You can get an early look at the new Guild Wars 2 expansion this weekend
Last week, ArenaNet officially unveiled the next expansion for Guild Wars 2. It’s called Path of Fire and it aims to ramp up in-game content, rather than introduce new mechanics. The expansion will see the return of some areas from the original Guild Wars and this weekend, you will have …
Read More »Disney will break away from Netflix in 2019 to start its own streaming service
For the last couple of years, Netflix and Disney have had a streaming partnership, with Netflix obtaining exclusive rights to stream new movies after they leave the box office. Unfortunately, this deal is going to come to an end in 2019, as Disney wants to cut out the middle man …
Read More »Hello Games is still working on No Man’s Sky content, free expansion coming this week
While No Man’s Sky didn’t turn out to be the game many thought it would be, the backlash and poor public reception certainly hasn’t deterred Hello Games from carrying on. Since launching last year, No Man’s Sky has received some patches but this week, the game will be getting a …
Read More »Hellblade’s permadeath mechanic just got more confusing
Yesterday, one of the biggest news stories in gaming surrounded Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Upon the game’s release, a non-optional save wiping mechanic was discovered, with the game explaining that should Senua die too many times, all progress will be lost. At the time, there was plenty of debate surrounding whether …
Read More »Apple to be investigated by ITC following complaints from Qualcomm
Earlier this year, Qualcomm filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission requesting a ban on iPhone imports due to several alleged counts of patent infringement. Things went quiet on that front for a little while but now this week, we have learned that the ITC is going to …
Read More »Valve’s first new game in years is a Dota card game called ‘Artifact’
Last night, Valve’s annual Dota 2 tournament, ‘The International’, kicked off and it seems the studio had something rather special to show off- a brand new game. It’s called Artifact: The Dota card game and unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be quite what the audience wanted as the initial reaction …
Read More »Intel’s new ‘Ruler’ SSD pushes for petabyte capacity
Intel has been pushing its storage division quite a bit this year. Not only have we seen the launch of Optane Memory and new SSDs based on that but today, Intel has unveiled its new SSD form factor dubbed ‘The Ruler’. This new extra long SSD is designed to bring …
Read More »New iPhone 8 leak shows off the new and improved glass-back design
Rumours surrounding the 2017 iPhone have been rampant for over a year at this point. While we have seen plenty of leaks up to this point, one of the forgotten and overlooked features of this year's iPhone has been the return to a glass-back design, similar to the iPhone 4/4S. …
Read More »Intel’s 8th generation CPUs are going to be revealed this month, release later this year
Intel planning to livestream its Coffee Lake unveiling. CPUs will roll out before the end of the year.
Read More »Hellblade’s mandatory permadeath mechanic is proving to be divisive
After years of development, today Ninja Theory’s brand new game ‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ releases on PC and PS4. Many reviews so far have been positive but there is one part of the game that is proving particularly divisive. Hellblade features a unique, mandatory permadeath mechanic that deletes your save file …
Read More »Netflix UK’s Rick and Morty blunder shows why piracy is still relevant
After a long waiting period, Rick and Morty Season 3 officially began airing in the US late last month. At the time, Netflix announced that its UK subscribers would get new episodes of this season every week, the day after it airs in the US. Unfortunately, Netflix didn’t plan for …
Read More »HBO hackers leak emails and Game of Thrones spoilers, post new ransom demand
Last week, one of the biggest stories in entertainment revolved around the HBO hack. Similarly to when Sony was targeted, the attackers got away with a ton of files, including emails, documents, scripts, episodes of shows and more. To show they were serious, last week they leaked a Game of …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege’s next patch is huge
Yesterday, Ubisoft announced that in the next few weeks, Operation Health would be coming to an end but that wasn’t all the publisher had to share with us. Ubisoft also began discussing Rainbow Six Siege’s next patch and it seems to be the biggest one yet, hitting up to 42GB …
Read More »Intel officially unveils specs and release dates for 12C to 18C Core i9 CPUs
Last week, an Intel presentation slide leak brought us new details on Intel’s upcoming Core i9 lineup, including its new 12-core, 14-core, 16-core and 18-core processors. Now today, Intel has made everything official, unveiling the final spec-sheet itself and giving us release dates for these higher core count X299 chips. …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege surpasses 20m players, Operation Health coming to an end
Rainbow Six: Siege has been out in the wild for over 18 months at this point and while the game has had its share of issues, the shooter is still quite popular even now. Operation Health has slowed down DLC plans a bit but even so, Rainbow Six: Siege has …
Read More »Asus still plans to launch its 4K/144Hz monitor in 2017
The world's first 4K/144Hz display is still arriving this year!
Read More »US Judge grants WannaCry stopper $30,000 bail
At the end of last week, we learned that the 23 year old security researcher responsible for halting WannaCry had been arrested by the FBI, with the feds claiming that he wrote and sold a piece of banking malware on the dark web. Since then, some new details surrounding the …
Read More »Oculus Rift update makes the headset more friendly for Steam use
When the Oculus Rift first launched, Oculus attracted some criticism for its closed platform approach to virtual reality. Since then though, things have been opening up and now, the Rift is more friendly for Steam users than ever before, with a software update allowing you to launch non-Oculus Home apps …
Read More »Google makes room for Pixel 2 by giving the original Pixel a price cut
The Google Pixel is still a great smartphone but sooner than later, it will be replaced. Over the last couple of months, rumours surrounding the upcoming Pixel 2 have been swirling and now, Google has given the original Pixel a big $200 price cut, in a move that appears to …
Read More »UK Gov proposes new Data Protection Bill, expands ‘the right to be forgotten’
The UK Government has been waging a bit of a war on internet privacy over the last couple of years, even going as far as to propose that encrypted internet services be outlawed. However, when it comes to getting your information removed off of Google, the government seems to have …
Read More »Privacy group calls for investigation into Hotspot Shield
VPNs are widely used these days, not just to get around geographical content blocks but also for general privacy on the web. Hotspot Shield is perhaps one of the biggest VPN providers to also offer a free user tier but according to a privacy advocacy group, the company may not …
Read More »New Witcher 3 mod takes you to the Devil’s Pit, brings back old characters
The Witcher 3 has had a small modding scene ever since the first mod tools were released. However, the game didn’t quite reach ‘Skyrim’ status when it came to mod support, so things like additional quests, player-made content and new areas weren’t really created. Fortunately, it looks like that is …
Read More »Shadow of War’s nemesis and levelling systems now have microtransactions
Back when Warner Bros was set to release Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, the publisher ran into a bit of a marketing blunder with its YouTube coverage policies. Now, it seems that the publisher is set to receive some backlash again, this time with Shadow of War, as WB has …
Read More »AMD’s RX Vega said to be ‘insanely good’ for mining but retailers hope to avoid stock droughts
Earlier this week, we heard that AMD intentionally pushed the release of the RX Vega back a bit to ensure that there were enough graphics cards to go around at launch. A big reason for this strategy was potential demand from miners. Now it seems that demand may be spurred …
Read More »PC gaming is still growing, with Steam seeing 1.5 million new users each month
We all know that Steam is huge, in fact over the years it has grown to become the de facto store for PC games. Still, there is plenty of room for Steam to grow, as proven by the fact that the platform is still growing by 1.5 million new users …
Read More »Here’s a list of CPU coolers with confirmed Ryzen Threadripper compatibility
Over the last week or so, various CPU cooler makers have been announcing support for AMD’s upcoming Ryzen Threadripper and Socket TR4. Rather than having a separate announcement for every CPU cooler maker though, AMD has made things easy for us by creating a running tally of liquid cooling solutions …
Read More »Acer’s 4K/144Hz monitor has been pushed back to 2018
Back in January, we received news that the world’s first two 4K/144Hz monitors would be hitting the market this year, one from Acer and one from ASUS. At the time, a Q2 2017 release was expected for both but quietly missed. Now, Acer has confirmed that its monitor won’t hit …
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