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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is still immensely popular, with the game pushing past five million sales this month. However, there is still a hunger for new content- more specifically, a lot of players are looking forward to new maps. We have already seen a sneak peek at one new map in development …

AMD's Ryzen desktop lineup is a step closer to being complete with the launch of Ryzen 3. Four cores and four threads starting at £104.99.

We have recently been hearing rumours about a wireless/standalone version of the Oculus Rift but it looks like HTC may beat it to market. This week, HTC announced that it would be partnering up with Qualcomm to release a standalone Vive powered by the Snapdragon 835. The wireless and standalone …

Sky is mostly known for its TV and broadband service here in the UK but it looks like the company is experimenting with hardware outside of set-top boxes now. This week, Sky announced that it has teamed up with premium speaker creator, Devialet, to release the Sky Soundbox, a soundbar …

There has been a lot of talk surrounding the Overwatch League in the last few weeks and while we have yet to receive an update on the logo trademark situation, Blizzard is still charging ahead. This week, the publisher announced its salary plans for players in the Overwatch League, promising …

Just ahead of the RX Vega launch, AMD has detailed its biggest driver update of the year...

Apple has quite the bill to pay as this week, a judge has ordered the company to pay out $506 million to the University of Wisconsin over a patent infringement claim. The University's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) believed Apple's A7, A8 and A8x chips all infringed on patents. The …

Last week, we began hearing whispers of a potential Corsair buyout, with sources coming forward to claim that a company known as ‘EagleTree' was looking to acquire Corsair for as much as $500 million. Today, the acquisition was confirmed, with EagleTree Capital buying up a majority stake in the company …

It looks like Blizzard is taking steps to get the Overwatch community to play nicely with each other, with new penalties being put in place to combat toxicity. As the game's community manager puts it, toxic behaviour can range anywhere from being intentionally AFK and griefing to abusive chat and …

The time has come to say goodbye to Flash, Adobe has finally admitted. This week, the company announced that the long-running software will finally go into retirement as of 2020, at which point updates will no longer be released and web browsers will drop support entirely. While Adobe Flash was …

If £800 is a little out of your price range for a new PC case, Phanteks has you covered with its new Evolv Shift and Shift-X cases. Although both cases fall in line with the tempered glass and aluminium craze, the Shift and Shift-X take PC tower form factor a …

We heard back in May that AMD was already preparing for the jump to 7nm CPUs in time for ‘Zen 2' and ‘Zen 3' some time in the next few years but it seems that the company is beginning to open up about the difficulties getting there. In an interview …

It will be a short while longer before we see proper reviews but in the meantime, early benchmarks continue to appear online...

The Destiny 2 beta offered us a tiny slice of the final game, bringing us one mission, a strike and one PvP map. Unfortunately, the beta didn't let us take a glimpse at the changes made to open-world gameplay or Destiny's Patrol mode. However, the folks over at IGN have …

We received a lot of Xbox One X news at E3 last month. We know what the console looks like, what games will support it, we even have the price and release date but pre-orders are still nowhere to be found. Fortunately, this week Microsoft confirmed that those planning to …

Yesterday, news broke that Microsoft was looking to get rid of the Paint app, after classing it as a ‘deprecated feature'. The news swiftly spread and the internet at large began mourning the loss of the 32 year old program. Fortunately, it looks like that outpouring has given Microsoft pause …

Qualcomm is fighting two huge legal battles in the US at the moment, one against Apple over the iPhone, and another against the FTC. Qualcomm has tried to get the FTC to drop its case but it seems the commission has a lot of outside support on this one, with …

Just over 14 months ago, Blizzard took a clear stance against fan-run legacy WoW servers by shutting down Nostalrius. Since then, there has been some discussion surrounding official legacy servers but nothing has come to fruition, so fans once again turned to creating their own. The next big push for …

While Pokemon Go has seen a huge amount of success since its launch last year, the game has also had its fair share of widespread problems. That all became painfully apparent on Saturday when the first Pokemon Go Festival took place in Chicago. Many paying attendees went to enjoy the …

Update (25/7/17): Following on from yesterday's massive outpouring of support for MS Paint, Microsoft has confirmed that it won't be killing off the app after all. However, it will be moving to the Windows Store. You can find out more HERE.  Original Story (24/7/17): Microsoft Paint has been a staple …

There is a new Nvidia Game Ready driver rolling out but this time around it contains a little more than optimisations. There is a new feature debuting for Nvidia ShadowPlay called Highlights, which will automatically capture ‘highlight' moments during gameplay in supported games. Nvidia has teamed up with Bosskey Productions …

Late last week, Bungie's Destiny 2 beta opened up for all players on console and we have already heard some of the changes being implemented into the final game as a result of this testing. While the beta was initially set to end yesterday, it is now being extended a …

Back in January this year, Razer made a rather interesting acquisition, picking up cloud-powered smartphone maker, Nextbit. At the time, it was said that Nextbit would continue to operate independently of Razer but a new report has come out this week indicating that perhaps that has changed a bit, with …

We have been receiving new information regarding Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 8 almost every week for the last two months. Fortunately, it is almost time for all of the leaks to come to an end as today, Samsung began sending out invites for its next ‘Unpacked' event on the 23rd …

This week, Dell launched its new U2518D monitor, the first to offer ‘Dell HDR', alongside a crisp 2560×1440 IPS panel. It sounds good in theory but don't be fooled by the ‘Dell HDR' marketing ploy, as this monitor is far from being able to offer the brightness, bit-depth and color …

We have had the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on the market for just over a year now and while current gen VR prices are falling, many are still holding out for future headsets. From the sounds of it though, we shouldn't expect a second generation Oculus Rift for the …

If you never had the chance to check out 2013's Shadow Warrior, then you may want to correct that this weekend as the game is being given away for free right now on the Humble Store. To make the deal sweeter, it's the ‘Special Edition' being given away, which comes …

While analysts had high hopes for the wearable tech market, things have gone cold on that front over the last year or so. The Apple Watch didn't really ignite interest like many had hoped and Android Wear is still struggling to gain traction. Now, it seems that Intel is ready …

Just two weeks ago, we first heard that Samsung was planning its own Smart Home speaker, which would go head to head against the Amazon Echo and Apple's upcoming HomePod. At the time, the project was said to be in the planning phases but the company may be ready to …

Back in April, AOC launched a new range of monitors designed in collaboration with the same team behind Porsche. We have already had the chance to review one of these monitors, praising the design but we weren't the only ones to be impressed, the judges at Computex also gave this …