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With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …

Anthem’s rough launch has seen PlayStation 4 (PS4) users flock to various forums to complain that the game was inexplicably crashing their system and in some cases causing a power cycling issue. While these woes are set to come to an end next week, thanks to BioWare finding a fix, …

Valve has been criticised over its lack of content curation on Steam several times over the last few years. Poor asset flips and fake games have landed on Steam in abundance, with some developers using these games to exploit the Steam marketplace. The Steam curation argument has recently popped up …

In an attempt to stop Facebook from turning into an ever-growing digital graveyard, the social network began handing loved ones control over the accounts of people that had passed. Evolving this feature, Facebook has now announced its new ‘Tributes’ section, which questionably monetises the dead. Accounts identified as inactive due …

There have been rumours about Nintendo experimenting with VR again floating around for a while. Last year, a hidden VR mode was found on the Switch, now six months later, Nintendo Labo VR has been announced. Toycon #4, Labo VR, is a pack of Nintendo Labo DIY kits that let …

The DRAM and NAND Flash markets enjoyed a massive boom in recent years, to the point where there have been allegations of price fixing. Late last year, market analysts began talking about ‘steep declines' due in 2019. Now according to updated analysis, DRAM contract prices are in the sharpest decline …

It seems as though the Nintendo Switch is proving to be the perfect playground for hackers, ever since Linux was successfully installed onto the console last year. Moving forward, someone has now managed to get Microsoft’s Windows 10 ARM variant working on the device, although it isn’t without issue. Installing …

It has been several years since Skylake was at the forefront of the CPU market. In the lead up to Coffee Lake's desktop launch, Intel announced that the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K would be discontinued in 2018. Now, the rest of the Skylake 6th Gen lineup is being put …

Over the last few years, Microsoft has been making more of an effort on the PC side. Big franchises like Forza and Gears of War have been coming to PC, alongside smaller exclusives from this console generation. However, there is still a key piece missing- Halo. Fortunately, according sources this …

After three weeks spent on the test server, Operation Burnt Horizon is finally going live in a matter of hours, bringing with it a new map, two new Operators and a whole load of optimisation. Sadly, some players are going to spend hours downloading the patch, as the new season …

Over the last week, there has been some controversy in the modding community, as the group behind ‘Skyrim Together' were accused of using SKSE source code without permission. Since then, the Skyrim Together team has apologised to SKSE's creator, with plans to fix the situation. Skyrim Together is an upcoming …

At the end of last week, Canada approved the extradition of Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States, following her arrest late last year. Wanzhou and Huawei have opted to fight the decision with two separate lawsuits, while China has escalated its case against the two captive …

While Artifact's initial launch numbers seemed promising, within a few weeks, tens of thousands of players had left the game behind. Despite an emergency update in late December to address the game's economy issues, things haven't really picked up since then. Since February, Artifact's player numbers have dwindled to several …

Nvidia has kicked off this week with three announcements. For starters, a new Game Ready driver is debuting today with optimisations for Apex Legends, we've received news that the list of ‘G-Sync compatible' displays is expanding to include more options and a new RTX GPU bundle is also on the …

We've been hearing a lot about plans for 5G over the last year. We know that a range of smartphones will be coming to support it but Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm and others have plans to bring 5G to laptops and PCs too. During MWC, Intel and Qualcomm took the opportunity …

While Titanfall 2 didn't gain much momentum, Respawn has certainly bounced back strong this year with the launch of Apex Legends. The game was downloaded over one million times within 24 hours of release, that number grew to 25 million by the end of its first week. We have now …

OnePlus has been popping up in the news recently and we'll likely be hearing from them a lot more as we build up to the launch of the OnePlus 7. Last week, we learned that the OnePlus 7 would be avoiding wireless charging technology. However, there will be new features …

The Google Project Zero team is still hard at work examining security flaws and forwarding them on to the affected companies for fixing. From time to time, these warnings go unheard until the flaw is made public. Apple has found itself in that exact situation this week, with a macOS …

Oculus Quest was officially unveiled last year with plans to launch at some point in 2019. Unlike the Oculus Rift or the Oculus Go, Quest is designed to be the ‘console' of VR, providing an all-in-one solution that can run games that would typically require a PC. As you might …

Last month, it was announced that Sony Japan would be discontinuing the PlayStation Vita very soon. That day has now arrived, with the final batch of the two SKUs of the Vita shipping out with no plans to create more stock. We already knew that the end was near for the …

There has been talk surrounding a shake up at Activision Blizzard for a few months now. All of that was confirmed in February, with the company announcing that despite a record financial year, 800 employees would be laid off. Now, Activision Blizzard is warning investors that this could negatively impact …

Last week, it was announced that Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars game, Jedi: Fallen Order, will be part of the Star Wars Celebration event in April. Beyond that, the game is set to release this year ahead of Episode IX. Over the weekend, we got more reason to be excited about …

Over the last few months, Rare has been working on improving Sea of Thieves with great success. The game had a resurgence to kick off 2019 and hopes to expand on that further soon with the release of the Arena update. If you are part of the Sea of Thieves …

Earlier this week, Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick and EA’s Andrew Wilson were placed on a list of “most overpaid” CEOs in the US with salaries more than 300 times that of their employees. This is in stark contrast to Nintendo Japan, which has revealed that its average employee earns $80,000 …

During CES in January, Cooler Master gave us a sneak preview of the new keyboards set to come out this year. The MK850 is the most exciting of the bunch, featuring pressure sensitive ‘Aimpad' technology. Now, the MK850 is ready for its time in the spotlight, with the keyboard launching …

After announcing The Division 2 in March last year, Ubisoft has been working away on getting the game up to scratch in time for launch. Last month, The Division 2 went through a closed beta test period and now today, we'll be getting a fully open beta. The Division 2's …

Last week, Samsung officially launched the Galaxy S10, complete with a newly designed infinity display and a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display. Since this fingerprint scanner won't be compatible with all screen protectors, buyers of the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ will find one pre-installed out of the box. …

After a lengthy showing of Cyberpunk 2077 late last year, we've all been wondering when CD Projekt Red will show off the game once again. This week, the studio confirmed that the game will return this year, with a showing set to take place at E3 2019.

The Cambridge Analytica controversy shed a harsh light on Facebook’s data collection, prompting CEO Mark Zuckerberg to announce a myriad of privacy features on their way to the platform. Among these new options is a means to delete your own history, which will finally be arriving sometime later this year. …

The USB-IF group is gearing up for the launch of the USB 3.2 standard this year. The new and improved version was announced back in 2017, promising to double performance. Unfortunately, USB 3.2 is also going to cause some confusion thanks to weird branding changes. There are three USB 3.2 …