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Crytek today has announced another change to its business model. In an effort to monetise the CryEngine once again, Crytek will begin requiring developers using the engine to sign up to a five percent royalty fee for game sales using the engine. This new royalty-based model comes into effect with …

In May 2017, Google was set to team up with HTC to launch a standalone virtual reality headset for the Daydream platform. Since then, a lot has changed, with Google buying up a chunk of HTC's smartphone team. As a result, HTC has been doubling down on virtual reality, and …

The geniuses behind The Witcher have acquired indie studio Strange New Things, dedicating it to the development of Cyberpunk 2077. Now dubbed CD Projekt Red Wrocław, the new team is comprised of former members of core CD Projekt Red as well as IO Interactive and Techland. Strange New Things was …

Concern surrounding Facebook has been growing for the past week, as countries begin to question the user data scandal between the platform and Cambridge Analytica. Now, founder Mark Zuckerberg has been sent a formal request to testify on the privacy failure. The news broke earlier this week, when data firm …

Ever since late 2016, Ubisoft has been operating under the very real threat of a hostile takeover. Former Activision owner, Vivendi, had been increasing its stake in Ubisoft over the course of a year, something that Ubisoft's leadership was very much against. Now, it looks like the publisher has won …

Launch days very rarely go smoothly for online games, with many experiencing a plethora of problems despite attempts to iron out all issues during the beta phase. The Sea of Thieves was no different, with developer Rare temporarily disabling new players from entering the game while it fixed the issues. …

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We know that AMD's Ryzen 2000 series is set to begin rolling out in less than a month, which means now is a pretty good time to find deals on older Ryzen 1000 series CPUs. This week, AMD began cutting prices for current gen Threadripper, Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and …

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) kicked off this week and we've already had a couple of major announcements. It looks like this year, DirectX 12 is back in the spotlight, with the likes of Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft all working to support Ray Tracing technology. This is a technique commonly …

Cybercriminals have been harassing schools across the UK yesterday, sending over 24,000 bomb threats across the UK. The perpetrator has spoken up about the incident, hinting that it might have originated from a feud over Minecraft. More than 400 schools were evacuated yesterday, according to the Express, after an email …

It's a Z370 mini-ITX motherboard without all the gaming shenanigans. A bargain for £140?

Ubisoft managed to breathe new life into the Assassin's Creed franchise last year with the release of Assassin's Creed Origins. Taking an extra year off to develop the game and redefine some of its mechanics resulted in higher sales and plenty of praise. It looks like we can expect this …

Last week, we learned that PUBG for smartphones was finally starting to roll out in the west, after a few months of exclusivity to China. Player Unknown's Battlegrounds hit the iOS App Store and Android's Google Play Store in Canada first as a testing ground for servers, and now, the …

A couple of weeks ago, rumours first began spreading, claiming that ASRock will be entering the graphics card market this year. This was particularly noteworthy at the time, as it is not every day that we see a new graphics card seller enter the market. Now, it appears that those …

On the 28th of January, Epic Games officially announced that it would be shutting down Paragon for good, with the servers set to go offline in April. As a gesture of good will, Epic Games also announced that it would be refunding anyone who spent money on the game. Usually …

Google is continuing to combat its Android fragmentation problem. This time around, Google is focussing on developers and ensuring that they support the latest versions of Android. Back in December, Google announced that Play Store apps would need to support versions of Android no more than one year old going …

Microsoft has had a tough time with its Edge browser, often resorting to aggressive tactics to push it to the forefront. As of the latest Windows 10 update, the company has taken to overriding users' default browsers, no matter what the user has chosen themselves. So far, Insiders are the …

It has been almost six months since Facebook first announced the Oculus Go, the company's first standalone VR headset. At the time, it was announced that the headset would launch in 2018 with a $199 price tag. Now, we have a more specific launch date to look forward to, with …

It looks like Apple is already preparing to move on from OLED, with reports this week indicating that the company is already working on developing MicroLED screens. Work on MicroLED display tech is taking place at a secret facility based in California, with the current goal being to replace the …

Following on from a swift announcement last month, Burnout Paradise Remastered has officially hit consoles, with a PC launch set for a little later this year. So far, the console launch has been a big success, putting the Burnout series at the top of UK sales charts for the first …

Typically when we think of high-end PCIe storage solutions, these are designed for Intel's HEDT platform – users with X299 motherboards and up to 18-core CPUs. However, at its press event in Amsterdam, MSI showed off its Gaming Storage card, bringing ultra-fast PCIe RAID 0 performance to its mainstream desktops. …

With the Galaxy S9 retaining its fingerprint sensor as its means of biometric security, it was clear that Samsung didn’t truly have an answer to Apple’s Face ID included on the iPhone X. The company intends to rectify this for next year’s Galaxy S10, as it reportedly has a front-facing …

Having got a brief look at MSI's new gaming monitors at CES, the company was keen for reviewers to get a proper hands-on with the new products before stock hits the retail channel. With that in mind, KitGuru took a quick trip to Amsterdam to find out everything you need to …

In an effort to shake up the ultra wide monitor market last year, both Samsung and Philips took things one step further, launching massive 49-inch 32:9 aspect ratio displays. The first wave of 32:9 monitors sported a 3840×1080 resolution, but this year, Philips will be upgrading this model, with a …

It’s safe to say that when Star Wars Battlefront II released, EA was far, far away from pleasing everyone. Ridden with pay-to-win microtransactions, the publisher was forced to strip the premium currency from the title temporarily with a promise that they will return. After a lot of revision, EA has …

Given how widespread the Spectre and Meltdown issues are, it’s only a matter of time before processor manufacturers release new CPUs circumventing the vulnerabilities. Intel is hard at work on its new chips set to release this year, revealing some of the hardware changes it’s making to ensure that future …

Since 2015, consumer group Which? has been receiving complaints from Currys PC World customers surrounding a surcharge of up to £40 related to ‘set-up fees’. The retail group has since apologised for its displeased customers and is “urgently re-briefing” its stores to ensure the practice stops. The problem began when …

A few months ago, the folks at PUBG Corp began rolling out a mobile version of its hit Battle Royale game in China. Now, that same mobile version is finally spreading to the west, starting off with a ‘soft launch' in Canada. A beta version of PUBG Mobile landed on …

Ubisoft has announced that it is bringing its controversial Starter Edition to For Honor, with the whole game available for a much cheaper price. While lowering the barrier to entry, it’ll take players sixteen times the amount of playtime to unlock the remaining heroes. The introduction of a Starter Edition …

Back when Sony first launched the PlayStation 3, there was a lot of excitement surrounding the fact that you could install Linux on the machine, turning it from a console into a full-fledged computer. What some may forget is that this was an approved and advertised feature of the original …