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Over the last couple of years, noblechairs has been expanding to themed gaming chairs, beginning with a long line of new chairs inspired by Bethesda games. Now ahead of 2022, noblechairs is teaming up with none other than Marvel for a new range of superhero inspired chairs, starting with one …

NZXT is about to make some major expansions to its PC hardware business thanks to a new $100 million investment. The massive cash influx comes from an investment group including the founders of a number of major companies, including the likes of Twitch, CrunchyRoll, Hypebeast and more. Francisco Partners has …

CES 2022 is going to have a very full opening day, as Nvidia has now announced its keynote, taking place on the 4th of January. Now, we'll be getting major announcements from Intel, AMD and Nvidia on the same day.  AMD will be going first, with its keynote beginning at …

As you might know, CES 2022 is right around the corner, and we expect major announcements. CES 2022 will be kicking off with two major keynotes, one from Intel and another from AMD, during which we expect to see new CPU and GPU announcements.  According to Andreas Schilling, AMD will …

Just one week ago, we learned that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had raised some concerns and began investigating Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Arm. Things have escalated since then, with the FTC suing Nvidia to block the acquisition. The FTC announced this move yesterday, with the commission's Bureau of …

Last year, Facebook made a very sneaky acquisition, snapping up popular GIF sharing platform, Giphy, in a $400 million deal. The acquisition was done privately, and seemingly at a discount, considering the company had recently been valued at $600 million. That little deal quickly caught the attention of regulators, and …

Today, Sapphire is launching its latest external graphics solution – the GearBox 500  Thunderbolt 3 PULSE AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT eGFX. As the name implies, this is an external GPU system with its own power supply, and an RX 6600 XT 8GB GPU to go with it to bring …

Peripherals are hugely important to any gaming setup and there is no better time to pick up a new set than towards the end of the year, during Black Friday and Christmas sales. We've rounded up some of the best deals you can get on mice, keyboards, and headsets for Black Friday this year. 

It's Black Friday week and there are plenty of deals to be had in the tech world. This week, NZXT unveiled its own round-up of discounts, offering up to £100 savings across cases, coolers and power supplies, which serve as a great foundation for a new PC build.  The biggest …

It has been over a year since Nvidia first announced plans to acquire Arm in a $40 billion deal, but over the course of 2021, red flags have continued to be raised. Whether or not the deal should be allowed to go through is currently the subject of investigations around …

Apple is regularly in the news due to repeated antitrust violations. This time around, the company has been accused anti-competitive behaviour in Italy, with authorities also claiming collusion between Apple and Amazon to supress competition. As a result, both parties have been ordered to pay a $225 million fine. Italy's …

Black Friday doesn't officially start until next week, but there are a ton of early deals floating around this month. Overclockers UK has recently launched its early deals for the occasion, slashing prices across PCs, gaming laptops, components, cases, monitors and peripherals.  On the peripherals front, you'll find everything from …

Back in April, the UK began looking into Nvidia's proposed $40 billion acquisition of ARM, a company based in the UK but currently owned by Japanese firm, SoftBank. After a preliminary investigation, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concluded that the deal “could create problems“, and now, a larger …

The early Black Friday deals are continuing to roll in. With the absence of DIY PC components available at the moment, many are turning to pre-built gaming PCs to get their upgrade. If you're currently in that camp, then it is worth checking out the new deals from PCSpecialist, offering …

Black Friday is just around the corner, but you can get some deals early if you shop around. MSI already has some early Black Friday deals live, focusing on gaming PCs and monitors.  If you're in need of a pre-built gaming system, the MSI MEG Aegis Ti5 11th is the …

Over the last couple of years, noblechairs has been working with Bethesda on a number of special edition gaming chairs themed after some of the game publisher's biggest franchises. So far, we've had chairs for DOOM, The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout. Now this year, we're getting a Skyrim 10th …

When Valve announced the Steam Deck earlier this summer, the company planned to begin shipping to pre-order customers in Q4 this year. Unfortunately, there have been shortages in the supply chain, so the Steam Deck has been delayed to Q1 2022. 

Back in March, YouTube began testing a significant change to its website by hiding the number of dislikes on certain videos. Now, this change is rolling out site-wide, meaning the number of dislikes on videos from all creators will no longer be public. You will still be able to dislike …

Last month, Apple officially appealed the ruling in the Epic Games v Apple lawsuit, despite winning nine out of ten claims. The one claim Apple lost would force the company to change its rules for developers linking to other payment methods for in-app content. Apple was hoping to have the …

Following on from reports earlier this year, today TSMC and Sony are making their new partnership official. The two companies will jointly launch a new chip factory in Japan in an effort to address the growing demand for processors. The new factory will launch under a new subsidiary, Japan Advanced …

We're still a few weeks away from Black Friday, but Razer is kicking the sales season off early with a round of early deals delivering big discounts for streaming and console gear, PC gaming peripherals and mobile accessories. 

Tesla's Plaid model cars have been available since June, but only now are we learning about the specific hardware powering its infotainment system. After taking one of these infotainment systems apart, it has been discovered that it is powered by an AMD Zen+ APU paired with a Navi 23 GPU.  …

Back in 2019, Microsoft became the third company ever to reach a $1 trillion market cap, coming in just behind Apple. A few months ago Microsoft began to catch up to Apple, crossing the $2 trillion mark and now as of today, Microsoft has overtaken Apple as the world's most …

Over the years, Facebook has found itself at the centre of many controversies, from political scandals to privacy violations. Now, the company is hoping to shake off its bad reputation with a rebrand, transforming into ‘Meta'. Meta is the new name for the parent company behind Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus …

In recent months, a number of regulators have begun taking an interest in Nvidia's proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm. The deal was announced in 2020 but has yet to be completed as the deal continues to go through regulatory checks. Recently, the UK's competition authority suggested the acquisition could …

TSMC continues to make advancements in process node technology. Swiftly following on from the N5 and N4 process nodes is the N4P, bringing further performance and efficiency enhancements to the 5nm node.  The N4P will offer an 11% performance boost over the N5 and a 6% boost over the N4. …

While last year there was some hope that the global chip shortage would come to an end sometime in 2021, as the year has gone on, experts have publicly changed their expectations. Like AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger also recently spoke up on the current chip shortage, …

At long last, Razer is officially getting into the PC components business. Soon, you'll be able to kit your gaming PC out with Razer hardware, building off the success of the Razer Tomahawk case. Today at RazerCon, the company is announcing its first wave of components, including new case fans and a fan controller, an AIO liquid cooler and a Platinum-rated power supply. 

Razer is upgrading its microphone line-up this week with two new broadcaster microphones – the Seiren V2 Pro and the Seiren V2 X, priced at £99.99 and £149.99 respectively.  The Seiren V2 Pro is a dynamic microphone featuring high-pass filters and analogue gain limiters make sure that the microphone only …

Iiyama doesn't just offer a window into the virtual world through its selection of monitors, the company also wants to offer ‘a window into your world', a new campaign to share stories of the role gaming plays in the lives of real people.  The first “A window to your world” …