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Over the last year or so, Starbreeze has been in a rough financial position, leading to the loss of The Walking Dead video game license, a publisher restructuring and the dropping of StarVR. Prior to this, Payday 2 development had officially ended, but Overkill will be returning to the co-op …

Obsidian’s return to modern, first-person RPGs seems to be off to a good start with The Outer Worlds garnering plenty of positive reviews this week. Unfortunately, it isn’t all great news. While this seems to be one of the least buggy Obsidian game launches to date, the game is a …

We often hear of brands such as G.SKILL and Corsair breaking memory frequency and latency records. However, Micron, the company behind the Ballistix brand, has claimed to have set a new overclocking record for DDR4. According to Micron Insight, the company’s Ballistix high-performance gaming memory has set a new overclocking …

Back in June, around the time of E3, Google held a Stadia Connect event where it revealed the “Stadia Founder’s Edition”. It was announced that this founder’s pack would be in limited supply, and it seems like it has now been sold out. If you only preordered it recently however, …

Earlier this week, Nvidia began rolling out a new GeForce driver with optimisations for this weekend's big game releases- The Outer Worlds and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now, those equipped with a Radeon GPU also have a day-one driver available to install, which should grant some notable performance boosts. …

Intel officially announced its new line of Cascade Lake-X HEDT CPUs a few weeks ago, with SKUs all the way up to 18 cores and more competitive pricing to combat the growing popularity of Ryzen. The full launch is coming in November with reviews set to drop around the same …

2K’s latest entry in the WWE franchise is being review bombed by fans after claims that the game launched in a buggy and unfinished state. Amid all these complaints, PlayStation has reportedly been issuing refunds to those who request it on their digital store, a move which is uncommon for …

Micron is widely known for its Cruical branded desktop range of SSD and memory solutions. The company also provides a range of high speed, high capacity storage devices for professional enterprise and data centre systems. Micron has announced an innovative memory technology which claims to produce the world’s fastest SSD, …

Twitch’s second biggest streamer, Shroud, announced yesterday that he was moving to Mixer. The streamer has left his 7 million followers on Twitch, to pursue his next chapter on Microsoft’s streaming platform. This comes just 3 months after Ninja left Twitch for the same reason. Announcing the move on Twitter, …

RED generated plenty of buzz back in 2017 when it announced the Hydrogen One smartphone. The device was set to utilise a holographic display, feature modular add-ons and push the boundaries of smartphones in terms of specs, camera quality and build materials. The phone ended up falling short of the …

Kingston’s HyperX division has been popular among gamers and enthusiasts for some years now. HyperX provides a range of gaming hardware and peripherals for price-conscious users who refuse to compromise on quality. But just how popular is the HyperX range? I hear you ask, well here is the answer. As …

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launching today, you might have noticed that one of its core new features is missing – namely, night maps. Infinity Ward have removed all the night time maps from rotation temporarily for the sake of cohesion and will be adding them back, in a …

Intel officially announced its new 10nm ULP x86 microarchitecture  – Tremont. This new microarchitecture will be at the core of Intel's Lakefield chipsets, planned to be used in servers, IoT devices, laptops, 5G networking, and tablets, like the Surface Neo. Yesterday, in Santa Clara, California, at the Linley Fall Processor …

Update (25.10.19): Naughty Dog has now confirmed that The Last of Us Part II has been delayed. While the February release date was announced just four weeks ago, the developer team has since realised that there is more work left to do than initially anticipated. As a result, the game …

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The Nvidia Shield TV is due a good refresh at this stage and it looks like we'll be getting one very soon. While Nvidia has yet to announce the new Shield TV Pro, at least one retailer in the US has begun putting it on shop shelves, confirming a few …

With the release of Intel’s 10th generation high-end desktop X-Series CPUs becoming ever closer, there is no doubt we should expect a barrage of new motherboard announcements to support the new CPU series soon. ASRock has got a head start on the rest with an update to their current X299 …

Ever since the poor launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Ubisoft has been turning a new leaf by giving developers more time and remaining open to game delays. Today, Ubisoft held its quarterly earnings report, going over how The Division 2 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint under-performed and reassessing the release dates …

Samsung announced the company's new SoC, the Exynos 990, alongside the new 5G Exynos Modem 5123. Both are planned to be used, in 2020, with the Samsung Galaxy S11 and other devices from the company. At Samsung Tech Day, the company showed the upcoming flagship chipset, the Exynos 990. The …

Every PC gamer enjoys playing around with mods from time to time. One of the most popular tools in recent years has been ReShade, allowing users to make custom filters to draw out extra detail in games and inject new graphical effects for extra visual improvement. Nvidia is apparently a …

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of Fortnite. The third person Battle Royale phenomenon recently sucked its entire world into a black hole at the conclusion of season X, and was consequently watched by over 7 million people across Twitch, Twitter, and Youtube. On the 13th …

While Team Group is widely known for its range of high performance, low latency T-Force gaming RAM, the company also produces more budget-oriented memory offering extended compatibility through its Team Elite range. When Team group added its 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 to its product range, it took some of us …

Over the years, we have seen an increasing number of large video game publishers taking legal action against cheat makers for harming the integrity of an online multiplayer game. Recently, the BBC released a video interviewing a masked teenager who claims to have developed cheats for Rainbow Six Siege. Now, …

The Google Pixel 4 was released recently, with one of its flagship features being the introduction of a high refresh rate 90Hz OLED panel, allowing for a buttery smooth user experience. It appears however that many users won’t get to experience it, as the 90Hz is only activated if the …

With the demand for faster and higher capacity memory in mobile devices such as smartphones increasing, manufacturers are racing to bring innovative new products to market which fulfil these needs. At the company’s annual Tech Day at its Device Solutions America headquarters in San Jose, California, Samsung announced it has …

Intel Xe is still on track for 2020 and after scouring recent driver updates, it looks like we can expect multi-GPU scaling support.

The Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent acquired a 51.2% stake of the consortium that has major control over Supercell, the Finnish studio behind Clash Royale and Clash of Clans. The Chinese giant Tencent has been on a buying spree for a long time. In the gaming industry only, companies like Riot …

It has been almost ten years since Left 4 Dead 2 first came out but the franchise continues to be popular despite a lack of newer releases. Now, Left 4 Dead 2 is enjoying some renewed time in the spotlight, as a Dying Light crossover event is on the way. …

When planning out a custom liquid-cooling loop, fitting all the components that make up the loop into the tight constraints of a PC chassis can sometimes cause a bit of a headache. Alphacool has come up with a solution to this problem. A new range of liquid cooling pump/reservoir combinations …

Back in February, we reported on the announcement of Huawei's first foldable smartphone. Now we have a date for the device's release, but only for the Chinese market and a bit later than initially planned. With the problems that Samsung faced with its Samsung Galaxy Fold review samples, Huawei had time to …