Apple Pay is finally heading to the UK this week, around nine months after its initial announcement last year and it looks like more people will have the opportunity to make use of the feature, as Barclays has caved in and revealed that it would be offering support for the …
Read More »Rumour suggests ‘iPad Pro’ will launch in November
It seems that Apple may actually launch its larger 12.9 inch iPad Pro this year, with a release date currently set for mid-November, just in time for Christmas, according to new reports. The iPad Pro has been foreshadowed for some time, with many expecting it to be pitched as a …
Read More »Apparently Kojima Productions has already disbanded
It has been a weird few months for Konami and Hideo Kojima. We still don't know the full story but what we do know is that Kojima and the Konami bosses have had a falling out of sorts, resulting in the cancellation of Silent Hills and the removal of Kojima's …
Read More »GTA V players suffering frame rate issues following recent update
Quite a few Grand Theft Auto V players seem to be suffering from frame rate issues following the recent ‘Ill-Gotten Gains' part two update for the game's online multiplayer mode. Problems are currently being reported on the r/Games Subreddit, with the post getting plenty of upvotes. Right now it is …
Read More »Microsoft is pulling the plug on some of its MSN apps
Microsoft is continuing to go through some big changes in the lead up to Windows 10. Last week it was revealed that the company would be cutting around 7,800 jobs from its hardware division, shedding a significant portion of the former-Nokia employees that remained following the acquisition and now Microsoft is moving …
Read More »GOG is ready for Windows 10
Windows 10 is on the way at the end of the month and it is going to be a pretty important update for gamers thanks to the introduction of DirectX 12. However, there is always the question of compatibility when it comes to older titles, thankfully though, GOG says that …
Read More »Arkham Knight won’t return to PC until Fall at the earliest, DLC delayed
Earlier this month Batman Arkham Knight launched on the PC and just one day later, was taken off of store shelves due to the issues and massive backlash the game faced for having a sub-par PC port. Now Warner Bros, the small team at Iron Galaxy and a few of …
Read More »Reddit’s CEO just resigned following recent moderator protest
It has been quite the week for Reddit and its staff, following this week's massive moderator protest ,the company's interim CEO, Ellen Pao, has resigned, with Reddit co-founder, Steve Huffman ready to step in and take the reins immediately. According to reports, this was a mutual decision between Pao and …
Read More »The Witcher 3’s expansions are going to be pretty huge
CD Projekt Red is already keeping fans playing The Witcher 3 with its gradual roll out of 16 free DLCs for the game. However, we do have more to look forward to in the form of two expansion packs, one to launch towards the end of this year and another …
Read More »Ubisoft explains why digital games are more expensive on console
With this generation of consoles, Sony and Microsoft increased its emphasis on digital downloads in an attempt to push the industry forward from physical discs. However, despite the fact that digital games are cheaper for publishers to release in the long run, we often see digital copies remaining fairly expensive …
Read More »Randy Pitchford thinks fans were wrong to sue over Aliens: Colonial Marines
Aliens: Colonial Marines was a highly anticipated game a couple of years back. It had an amazing E3 demo that fooled press and fans alike with an impressive vertical slice of the game that turned out to be nothing like the final product. As you would imagine, fans were upset …
Read More »Apparently Samsung wants to compete with Hololens
Samsung was swift to jump in to the virtual reality game, getting Oculus on board to build its GearVR headset for use with Galaxy smartphones. Now rumours are suggesting that Samsung wants to get in to augmented reality as well, with a head display product designed to compete with Microsoft's …
Read More »Black Ops 3 collector’s edition comes with a mini-fridge
Call of Duty has a history of including out of the box items in its collectors editions. In the past we have seen Modern Warfare 2 launch with night vision goggles, Call of Duty: Ghosts launch with a 1080p ‘tactical camera' and Black Ops 2's collector's edition included a flyable …
Read More »Daybreak Studios hit with DDOS after CEO’s Twitter rant
Earlier this week, Daybreak Studios CEO, John Smedley, went on a bit of a Twitter rant directed at a cyber criminal responsible for calling in a bomb threat on one of his flights last year alongside a series of other personal attacks. While on Twitter, Smedley made a few legal …
Read More »A new Baldur’s Gate expansion is in the works
Baldur's Gate is often looked at as one of the best classic isometric RPGs of all time and now, 17 years after the original game, we are getting a new expansion titled ‘Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear', set between the events of the first and second game. The new entry …
Read More »The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 may launch a little earlier this year
Over the last few years, most smartphone manufacturers have fallen in to a predictable release schedule. With Apple, we know to expect a new iPhone every September, HTC tends to launch a new smartphone around March/April time and Samsung falls in to a similar schedule with its Galaxy S flagships, …
Read More »Hitman will launch digitally this year in ‘episodic’ form
IO Interactive announced that it was working on a brand new Hitman game some time ago and we finally saw a bit more of it last month at E3. However, it has a somewhat weird release schedule, with part of the game launching digitally in December, with the rest of …
Read More »Google patents picture taking gesture for Glass-like devices
Google may have taken Glass back to the drawing board earlier this year but it definitely hasn't given up on it. Earlier this week we learned that the company could be gearing up to launch Glass Enterprise Edition for business use at some point this year and now we are …
Read More »New leak points to more OnePlus 2 specs
The OnePlus 2 is due to be announced at the end of this month with a live streamed conference set to be broadcast in virtual reality for those who have a Google Cardboard headset. We were already expecting a Snapdragon 810 processor and USB Type-C support but now a new …
Read More »The Nexus 9 just got a pretty nice price cut
If you have been after an Android tablet this year then the Nexus 9 just became a much more attractive option for UK customers after receiving a hefty price cut. The Nexus 9 is made by HTC and originally launched last year alongside the Android 5.0 Lollipop update. Google used …
Read More »Apple is launching the OS X El Capitan public beta today
Apple has got in to the habit of launching public beta tests for its new versions of OS X. Just as last year with Yosemite, Apple has gone ahead and launched a public beta test for its new version of OS X, El Capitan, which will launch officially later on this …
Read More »Facebook denies reports that it is building a music service
This week, there have been rumours floating around stating that Facebook would be joining the likes of Apple, Spotify, Google and Microsoft in the music streaming game with a service of its own. The service was touted to launch at some point over the next few months however, it seems …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 to have a beta in August
This year, Treyarch returns to the Call of Duty series with Black Ops 3 and it looks like some may get to try out the new multiplayer a little early as a beta test is scheduled to take place in August. Today Treyarch announced that on the 19th of August …
Read More »MSI’s flagship X99A Godlike Gaming motherboard is now available
MSI has officially released its new flagship motherboard based on the X99 chipset. The X99A Godlike Gaming motherboard takes on the familiar red and black colour scheme we are used to seeing on MSI's gaming products while also packing in plenty of features for enthusiasts to make use of. Key …
Read More »Riot says League of Legends player behaviour is improving
It is no secret that free to play team-based games like League of Legends have a somewhat hostile community, after all, League alone has 67 million players so there is bound to be a few bad eggs in there. However, Riot says that its new “governance systems” seem to be …
Read More »Oculus is currently funding ‘about two dozen’ Rift exclusives
The Oculus Rift headset is finally on its way next year and we have already seen some of the games that are going to launch alongside of it. However, Oculus VR still has plenty of other projects in the works for its headset, in-fact the company is currently funding around …
Read More »Judge orders retrial of patent suit against Apple
It seems like there is news on Apple's legal affairs almost on a weekly basis. Today in the world of Apple's legal battles, a federal judge voided a $532.9 million lawsuit award that a Texas jury handed to a company known as Smartflash, on the grounds that Smartflash is merely …
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider will have improved TressFX
When the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot launched on the PC, AMD gave its new hair technology feature, TressFX, its début. Since then, the feature has been implemented on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 re-releases of Tomb Raider early last year and now, Crystal Dynamics has revealed that it will …
Read More »New Google Glass to feature larger display, Intel Atom CPU
Rumours around Google's new iteration of Glass have been popping up a bit more recently. The company took testing of the smart glasses back behind closed doors earlier this year and has since been referring to its new model as the ‘Enterprise Edition', suggesting a larger focus on business use …
Read More »Some Sony Xperia devices can now broadcast to Twitch
Sony will be launching a new app to allow Xperia smartphone users to broadcast Android games on Twitch. Users can also capture footage for use later, which would be good for those looking to make smartphone game content for YouTube. The app is called Screen Recorder and will work on …
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