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There is a definite step-up feel in the air around Synology's UK offices in Milton Keynes this October. Hot on the heals of the DS214, we now have the DS414 and DS114 about to land. KitGuru fingers a pair of 4TB drives and wonders on the best place to stick …

Riot Games, the developer behind League of Legends, has been speaking out in a Reddit AMA about different aspects of its business. At one point it was asked about skin pricing, leading the spokesperson to pretend that it's all about player experience, instead of about money making. The question put …

Synology have been one of the key players in the Network Attached Storage Devices for some time now, and each new DiskStation model is eagerly anticipated. The DS214 is no exception with it first being teased at Computex in June of this year, along side its more powerful DS214+. This …

If you were hoping to see Shepard return in some way after the events of Mass Effect 3 then you might be out of luck. In an interview with Complex Magazine, Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters, talked about plans to move on from the Shepard trilogy completely. While story …

League of Legends might be the world's most popular game, but ask any regular player and they'll be able to tell you a whole host of problems with it. One of those has always been that if you're playing solo queue, as soon as the team chat loads, everyone calls …

A couple of weeks ago AMD hosted the GPU14 even and along with showing off it's new line of graphics cards, it also announced the new Mantle API for developers, aimed at getting console level performance and optimization out of PC hardware. The API's presence on the AMD powered next …

Arguably the go-to brand for NAS among the KitGuru faithful, this company never seems to stop innovating and developing its already popular product line-up. Today, we're hearing word of a brand new, high-performance product at a sensible price. KitGuru stands by with a pair of drives. You know. For back …

In recent weeks a lot of companies have been announcing support for Linux. So far we've had: Valve, AMD, Nvidia and now DICE. In an interview with Polygon the company's director, Lars Gustavsson, said it would only need a single “killer” game for the platform to become incredibly popular. In the …

John Carmack, co-founder of id Software and creator of some of gamings most revolutionary titles, has given a lot more credence to AMD's Mantle API and DirectX workaround, by suggesting that big performance gains should be viable. It's on his Twitter, but that's about as official as you get now outside …

Square Enix has announced the launch of its own Steam Greenlight type system called ‘Collective'. As part of it, the publishing giant will be giving Indie developers the chance to pitch ideas and garner enough interest to be put up for crowd funding. The real exciting part however, Square Enix …

MediaTek is having a dream run these days, from virtually being an unknown company at the beginning of 2010, it has risen to fame, courtesy of its dual core and quad-core budget System on Chip's (S0C): the  MT6577 and MT6589. The company has already released a detailed roadmap for its …

If you thought Valve would be the last company to crowd into the already cramped set-top-box industry, think again, as online retail giant Amazon is also looking to get into the game, with plans for its own media device pushing for a release sometime before Christmas. Currently it's codenamed Cinammon, …

We reported on Adobe's announced hack earlier today, where it was thought likely that nothing too serious had been done, but a few encrypted passwords might have been taken. Now we've had further word from Adobe that it's worse; much worse. The latest revelation, is that over 2.9 million customer …

While it won't come as a surprise to many, it's good to have a bit of solid evidence of the fact. A new study from the London School of Economics is accusing the media industry of making out that “losses” to piracy are far worse than they really are and …

With Microsoft announcing an end to its Games for Windows Live platform earlier this year, it threw the future of many supporting games into jeopardy. Because the service used an authentication system that required connectivity to play the game, without it, many of them wouldn't work. However, in Bioshock 2's …

2D blocky builder, Terraria, received its 1.2 patch yesterday, adding in a ton of new content including: 250 new items, 20 vanity sets, 10 new wings, new biomes, new tiles and 60 aesthetic changes. Despite the recent overhaul, lead developer, Redigit, is looking to the future after confirming he has …

Back in June the Valve Jira database was made accessible, revealing groups working on Source 2, Left 4 Dead 3 and Half-Life 3. History has repeated itself as last month the database was accessed once again, showing some interesting changes. The groups for Source 2, Half-Life 3 and Left 4 …

CEO of Facebook game maker Zynga, Mark Pincus, has taken the interesting move to tell a group of investors at a Garage Geeks event in Tel Aviv, that he doesn't have a favourite game at the moment, because he's pretty much bored with gaming in general. What's would get him excited …

EA games and Maxis made a monumental announcement for its online only, city building simulator, SimCity, this week, by suggesting that in the future it may allow players to utilise mods, which would open up huge possibilities for gameplay. However, both companies are clear, that any mods they do allow, …

John McAfee wants to protect us from the NSA, with a d-central device that communicates directly with your devices to create a private network – this network would be inaccessible to the government. The technology has been planned for a few years, but with the recent NSA leaks, work on …

You won't be able to see it on the surface, but Google has just overhauled the way its search engine handles your queries. According to senior vice president at the firm, Amit Singhal, Google now understands you better than ever and can draw more meaning from your terms and therefore …

Star Citizen just gets more and more exciting. A new trailer recently released during an AMD conference drew the attention away from even a new generation of GPUs and it looks likely to happen again. Having hit $20 million since its original campaign (which only ‘required' $500,000 for completion) project …

Ordinance survey maps, nobody uses those any more right? Of course not, we all have GPS. Besides we're gamers, the only ordnance we know anything about is off map artillery. That said, it seems those maps aren't totally useless, as someone used it to map out the whole of the …

With the early leaks of Grand Theft Auto V beginning to trickle in, it's no wonder that people have been hacking it apart to look at its innards. Hidden inside the game's source code, one intrepid code explorer has found a reference to not only the long dreamed of PC …

3-Sweep is a new piece of software being developed by a team of researchers at Tel Aviv university in Israel that takes objects from old 2D pictures and pops them into the 3rd dimension. 3D conversion isn't exactly new but this is quite unique, pin-pointing certain points of the picture …

It's been a long time since people like me got excited by Ageia's new PhysX cards, with its tech demo games like Cell Factor, but that doesn't mean that the PhysX technology isn't still important. Granted now all you need is an Nvidia GPU, but if you're part of the …

If you've thought that Microsoft's Windows phone platform was lacking a voice activated search feature like Apple's Siri, then don't worry, it won't be like that for much longer, as Cortana, the AI chick from the Halo series is going to be your new digital companion. Cortana will spread herself …

BT have had their knuckles rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) due to an advert that made ‘misleading claims' about the speed of their fibre optic broadband service. The ad claimed that BT Infinity was ‘eight times faster than the UK average' and depicts two students helping a housemate …

Vodafone announced that their 4G network will be hitting Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield on 28 September. They added that by the end of the year the service will be available in Bradford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle by the end of the year. London has had 4G …

If you like to listen to music in various locations around your house, but don't like the hassle of transferring files or burning discs, Netgear's Powerline Music Extender could be the product for you. Utilising a pair of 200Mb/s-capable powerline adapters, Netgear's XAUB2511 is designed to transfer audio streams through …