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PS4 sales hit 30 million units worldwide

Sony is continuing its on-going dominance in the console market, as the PlayStation 4 has hit the 30 million sales mark just two years after its initial launch. Sony revealed its latest milestone earlier today, which “demonstrates the fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation hardware history”. If things continue to grow …

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Killing Floor 2 is getting microtransactions too

Right on the back of the PayDay 2 microtransaction backlash, Tripwire Interactive has revealed that it will be putting microtransactions in to its Early Access title, Killing Floor 2. As you can imagine, a lot of players aren't too happy about it, despite the fact that Tripwire is only offering …

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Fractal Design giveaway winner reviews

Last month, we announced the winners of our huge case giveaway with Fractal Design. We teamed up to give ten readers a case for review after submitting video entries to prove they could get the job done. Now, we have most of those reviews back to share with you all …

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Radeon Software: Crimson Edition is here

Today marks the beginning of a new era for AMD, as the Catalyst Control Centre is being put to rest and we push forward with Radeon Software: Crimson Edition, the first step in AMD's plan to double its driver support efforts. From now on, we can expect six WHQL driver …

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Here are the system requirements for Just Cause 3

Avalanche Studios has impressed us with its PC games in the past, with games like Just Cause 2 and Mad Max. However, we've not heard much about Just Cause 3's system requirements, which is odd considering that it is set to release next week. Now, the minimum and recommended specifications are …

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Asus shows off Maximus VIII Hero Alpha motherboard

Asus is expanding its Skylake lineup with its new Maximus VIII Hero Alpha motherboard, bringing some important additions to the feature set, including a new USB 3.1 controller, support for memory speeds over 3800MHz, five-way optimisation and for the first time, RGB strip headers. Other key changes over the previous Maximus …

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Google asked to take down 1500 links per minute

Media companies have lumped Google with a lot of responsibility when it comes to fighting piracy, so much so that Google now handles two million takedown requests every single day. According to Google's own transparency report, the company received 65 million takedown requests in the last month alone. The math …

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Overkill apologises over recent Payday 2 updates

These last few weeks haven't been great for Overkill Studios. The team decided to silently put microtransactions in to the game, which caused a lot of uproar amongst players. Then things got worse when additional bonuses were added to the new microtransaction system, which caused the game's Steam Forum mods …

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Sony is working on PS2 emulation for PS4

Microsoft surprised us all at E3 this year with the announcement that it had managed to get backwards compatibility working for Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. This was a great step for the company, especially since Sony had seemingly abandoned backwards compatibility in favour of starting up a …

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Apple is working on fixing major iPad Pro bug

Earlier this week, we learned that quite a few early adopters of the iPad Pro, Apple's new 13-inch tablet, were facing a bug where every time the device charged for more than an hour, it would become completely unresponsive and fail to wake. The only work around for this so …

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Nvidia launches two SDKs to bring GameWorks to VR

Nvidia has been increasing its focus on virtual reality this year and now the GPU maker has launched two new software development kits known as GameWorks VR and DesignWorks to help developers build VR experiences. These SDKs include technology capable of bumping up performance as much as 50 percent in …

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Google is finally willing to protect Fair Use on YouTube

Over the years, YouTube has become a huge platform for content creators. Over the years, it has seemed like the copyright system on YouTube was stacked against creators, with no real fair use protection against bogus copyright claims. Now, YouTube is finally doing something about it with a new fair …

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Sapphire unveils the R9 380x NITRO

Today, AMD officially announced the R9 380x, targeting the £200/$249 price point. We have already reviewed the Asus Strix edition of this card from but other partners are now starting to reveal their custom versions as well. Sapphire has today revealed that the R9 380x will be joining its NITRO …

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Amazon’s same day delivery service expands in UK

Amazon has been experimenting with same day delivery over in the US this year, with Prime Now expanding to a few cities. The retail giant even brought the service over to London earlier this year but now it is set to expand further to cover nine more locations across the UK. …

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The iPad Pro can become unresponsive after charging

Apple has finally launched the iPad Pro, it's 13-inch, highly priced tablet. However, early adopters haven't found the experience to be entirely problem free. iPad Pro users on the Apple Support forums are reporting that the tablet can become completely unresponsive after just an hour of charging- a problem that …

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5Gbps broadband is landing in the UK- for a price

The UK isn't exactly known for its blazing fast internet speeds, with average household broadband speeds sitting at 10.7Mbps. However, one company is planning on blowing the UK away with its own 5Gbps broadband service, though it will cost you quite a bit to get it. Right now, the 5Gbps …

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Sapphire Trixx unlocks AMD R9 Fury X voltage and HBM

When the AMD R9 Fury X launched this year, reviewers quickly found out that there would be limited overclocking potential due to voltage locks, as well as limitations placed on the speed the card's high bandwidth memory (HBM) could run at. Now, it looks like things are loosening up a bit, …

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Details of Intel’s upcoming Kaby Lake CPUs surface online

Earlier this year, we learned that Intel would be delaying its first 10nm CPU, codenamed Canonlake, until late 2017, paving the way for Kaby Lake, another 14nm architecture, in 2016. We haven't heard much about Kaby Lake, but some newly leaked slides seem to give us some idea of what …

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