It seems that EA has some pretty high expectations for its upcoming shooter, Star Wars Battlefront. The brand alone will of course help copies sell and thanks to heavy interest in the beta, EA has raised its sales expectations for the game- right now the publisher reckons it can shift …

The AMD R9 380x has been confirmed thanks to an early posting on the PowerColour website, showing that the upcoming graphics card will appear on the consumer market within the next few weeks. The graphics card is listed on the AIB's home page, and we know that the R9 380x …

It seems that Microsoft is due to get more aggressive with its Windows 10 upgrades. While the new OS is already installed on 110 million devices, Microsoft is going to start presenting Windows 10 to users as a ‘recommended upgrade' update starting early next year. This means that the Windows …

OnePlus earlier in the month teased its new phone, the OnePlus X, and now, it has been officially revealed. It has been a few months since we officially saw the announcement of the One Plus Two and while that handset does feature higher specification internal parts, OnePlus is still claiming …

Red Barrels, the development studio behind highly rated horror title, Outlast, has announced that it has a sequel in the making for release next year. The game was announced this week and according to the announcement, the game will be a ” twisted new journey into the depths of the …

Batman Arkham Knight officially re-launched on the PC yesterday after four months of patching and extra development time over at Warner Bros. However, it would seem that some players are still running in to problems with the game, with complaints landing on Steam and Reddit. It would seem that some …

For the last five years or so, Quake Live has been a free to play game. However, much to the community's surprise, that changed all of a sudden this week when a patch for the game wiped player stats, dropped subscriptions, switched to SteamWorks servers and gave the game a …

Over the last few months, Bioware has essentially turned Star Wars: The Old Republic in the a justifiable single-player experience. A lot of the grind has been removed and the XP curve has been tuned so that players can hit max level just by playing the story content. Now, the …

Recently, we have been hearing quite a bit about GDDR5x, with rumours suggesting that Nvidia intends to use it in addition to HBM2 on its Pascal graphics cards next year. Now it would seem that AMD is also planning a similar move, with GDDR5x rumoured to appear on its new …

Hot on the heels of yesterday's leaked images of the massive 18.4 inch Galaxy View tablet, Samsung has officially announced it today, proving most of the rumours correct after all. The oversized tablet will feature a 1080p display and it seems to be targeted towards those looking to consume a …

Blizzard just launched the Overwatch beta this week, following the game's original announcement over a year ago. Since this is a PC game, we do need to know the system requirements, though like most other Blizzard games, Overwatch isn't built to be particularly demanding on your hardware. Those targeting a …

Sony has seen an unprecedented amount of PlayStation 4 sales since its launch at the end of 2013, the console had an extremely strong first year and things haven't slowed down at all. Now Sony has revealed that it has managed to sell ‘well over' 25 million PS4 units at …

AMD first launched its Omega driver in December 2014. Almost a year has passed and now it seems that team red is working on a new ‘special edition' driver to launch this year according to new rumours. Radeon owners can expect the next big driver launch to happen at some …

Over the last year or so, Sony has been hyping up one game in particular- No Man's Sky, a space adventure game that will see players travel through a procedurally generated version of space, land on planes and even fire a few guns. The game has been talked about with …

Google could potentially be planning to make its own processors in the future it seems. This news comes by the way of a new job listing, seeking a ‘multimedia chip architect', which means the company may follow in the footsteps of Apple and Samsung and begin designing its own chips …

Earlier this week, we got wind of talks taking place between Toshiba and Sony. Now, Sony has confirmed that it is planning to buy out Toshiba's image sensor business, which will in turn boost its production capabilities. Right now, terms are still being negotiated but we do know that Toshiba's …

Earlier this year, a Harvard Law School student launched a petition to the US Copyright Office to allow for abandoned online games to become exempt to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This would mean that games abandoned by publishers with dead DRM servers could legally be cracked and played again. …

While rumours are suggesting that Samsung may have lost Apple's business when it comes to the manufacturing of its A-series SoCs, the company is still interested in its rival's displays. According to new reports, Samsung is now in talks with Apple to get its displays on to the next iPhone …

The European Parliament has passed a law today that will put a stop to mobile roaming data fees by June 2017. This law was passed as part of a larger legislation, which also wanted to strengthen Net Neutrality laws but unfortunately was left with some major problems that could allow …

Intel has announced that it has acquired Saffron Technologies in an effort to improve its machine learning efforts. Saffron Technologies has previously offered predictive analytical data to industries across the spectrum. For now, Intel intends to keep Saffron running as its own standalone business, though it will look in to …

Today at Games Week in Paris, Corsair announced its new Katar gaming mouse, built with a compact and lightweight design and fully programmable features. It is an ambidextrous mouse, which means it should work perfectly fine with both left and right-handed users. Additionally, like most mice these days, this one …

It has been over two years since the Phonebloks concept was made famous on YouTube. Since then, Google has brought the concept to life with Project Ara, which is due to launch some time next year and now, a Finland-based company is hoping to stir up some competition with a …

Over the last week, Overkill Studios have found themselves in quite a bit of trouble after introducing microtransactions to PayDay 2. The studio didn't offer any official comment until the weekend, when Overkill's Almir Listo responded to questions in a Reddit AMA, explaining that PayDay 2 needed the extra revenue …

The UK police have managed to track down and arrest a suspect in the TalkTalk hacking case, which saw the financial information of customers stolen. The suspect is just 15 years old and was arrested in Northern Ireland, the police's own report also says that the boy's premises will be searched …

Fallout 4 is exactly two weeks away from launch and since the game has already gone gold, meaning initial development has wrapped up and the game is ready to ship, Bethesda is now ready to talk about its pre-loading plans for PC and consoles. In short, Bethesda is joining the …

Earlier this year, we heard that Samsung was experimenting with a massive 18.4 inch tablet, potentially in response to Apple's own 12-inch iPad Pro, which was heavily rumoured for some time prior to its announcement back in September. We now know quite a bit more about the Galaxy View tablet, …

Microsoft officially announced its Surface Book laptop earlier this month, featuring Intel's Skylake processors and a custom Nvidia GPU. At the time, Microsoft compared its new offering to the Macbook Pro and now, it is targeting Apple users once again with the launch of a site aimed at helping OS …

Over the last year, we have been hearing a lot about DirectX 12 and now we are finally starting to see just what the new API can bring to the table. So far, DirectX 12 performance has been measured with Ashes of Singularity on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, but …

Last week it emerged that TalkTalk was hacked, causing a significant amount of personal and financial user data to be stolen. Now though, the ISP is looking to calm its four million customers by claiming that the cyber attack was ‘not as bad' as previously thought. In an update on …

AMD officially launched its tiny Radeon R9 Nano graphics card a while back, bringing the full power of a Fiji graphics core and High-Bandwidth Memory to a tiny 6-inch PCB. Several AIB partners have already launched their own branded models and now, it looks like Asus is planning to release …