Tech News

A huge number of popular websites have been knocked offline this morning due to a massive outage. Sites like Reddit, Twitch, PayPal, Spotify, BBC and others have been impacted due to a CDN fault.  Fastly, a Content Delivery Network service that manages traffic for some of the most visited sites …

Now that AMD has announced its FidelityFx Super Resolution upscaling technology, Microsoft has come out to announce that the Xbox Series X|S consoles will support it. Way before AMD officially announced FSR, it was always expected that it would run on Xbox Series X|S consoles, but Microsoft has now officially …

Apple Music is getting a huge upgrade today, as Apple is now enabling lossless audio streams, in addition to spatial audio streams powered by Dolby Atmos. This update makes Apple Music one of the few streaming services to offer lossless audio, rivalling the likes of Tidal.  Today, Apple Music officially …

Ubisoft's PvE-focused Rainbow Six Siege spin-off is now known as Rainbow Six Extraction. Originally, the game was announced under the name ‘Rainbow Six Quarantine' in 2019, the title later became known as Rainbow Six Parasite but Ubisoft has decided to go in a different direction for the final game. In …

We check out Gigabyte's latest PCIe 4.0 SSD - can it match the competition?

The PC GPU market continued to grow in 2021 despite supply constraints. Compared to Q1 2020, GPU shipments increased by 35 percent (year-on-year) in the first quarter of this year, coming close to matching Q4 2020 sales, avoiding the new-year drop off that we typically expect to see.  According to …

If you're looking to build a new gaming PC or make the jump from Intel to AMD, then now is a good time to shop around. For the rest of this month, MSI is running a cashback promotion on B550 motherboards, so you could save up to £43 and get …

G.Skill is back with another kit of Trident Z Royal Elite memory. We've seen G.Skill push extreme speeds on DDR4 memory over the years, but this time around, the focus is on low-latency, delivering CL14 timings. The latest Trident Z Royal Elite series memory comes in two variants, one running …

Dell has been facing some backlash recently, not only is the company facing a lawsuit over alleged false advertising, but recently it was discovered that the RTX 3070 found inside the Alienware m15 gaming laptop has had a number of its CUDA cores disabled, dropping them below Nvidia's spec. The …

Last week, a lawsuit was filed against Capcom alleging that the publisher used unlicensed and copyrighted images throughout a number of games, including Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry.  The complaint, filed by Judy Juracek and spotted by Polygon, goes on to claim that Capcom used photographs from a …

When Spider-Man Miles Morales first launched on PS5, it came with two graphics modes: Performance and Quality. In a later update, Insomniac Games added a third option: performance RT, offering the best of both worlds. It has now been confirmed that the upcoming Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will likewise …

These days it seems that short of first-party titles, any exclusive games – whether announced to be timed or not – eventually end up on other platforms. It appears as though this will be the case with one of the Xbox Series X|S’s biggest launch-window games ‘The Medium’ which has …

While Halo: Infinite was originally intended to launch alongside the Xbox Series X and S, the negatively-received gameplay demo led Microsoft to delay the game. A recent rumour has now surfaced claiming that fans may get to play Halo: Infinite slightly sooner than expected, with a September release reportedly set to be announced...

E3 offers many developers and publishers a massive stage with which to show off their latest and upcoming games. In recent years however, E3 has become less of a centralised focal point for gaming, with publishers creating their own independent showcases. WB Games, who currently have many projects in development, …

Corsair's Virtuoso is back with a new Wireless XT model - is it worth £249.99?

It is competition time again - this time, we have teamed up with Punch Technology to give away a high-end gaming PC worth £2799! Featuring hardware from Patriot, Cougar, Palit, Intel and Gigabyte, this PC will be ready for any game you can throw at it.

Last week, we learned that the files stolen during a cyberattack on CD Projekt Red are beginning to be made public. Amongst internal documents, source code and console SDKs, the leak also includes videos created by CD Projekt during Cyberpunk 2077's development cycle. A few of these videos are bug …

It looks like recent leaks regarding AMD's codenamed ‘Raphael' desktop processors have some merit. The team at Gamers Nexus received an internal presentation from March 2020 detailing the upcoming CPU and AM5 platform. Now that other leakers are beginning to verify some of the information, the site decided to share …

After last year's event, Future Games Show will be returning on June 13th. Hosted by Last of Us II actors Troy Baker and Laura Bailey, the event will include announcements for over 40 games, as well as developer interviews, gameplay videos and world premieres. In 2021's Future Games Show, viewers …

Recently, an insider shared the first renders of AMD's upcoming ‘Raphael' processors, using leaked information to put the visual together. Since then, more details have come to light, giving us a new look at the IHS that may cover AMD's next generation of desktop processors. Interestingly, the heat spreader may …

Phanteks is about to expand the Glacier One AIO liquid cooler series with a 360mm white coloured model. Featuring 3x 120mm fans and a PWM pump, the Glacier One 360MPH AIO liquid cooler provides “sufficient cooling for an advanced modern system”. The 360mm aluminium dual radiator of the Glacier One …

Dell is facing a class-action lawsuit over in the US over alleged false advertising. The plaintiff claims that Dell falsely advertised the Alienware Area 51M R1 laptop, after claiming it had “unprecedented upgradeability”.  Filed in the US district court of Northern California, the 20-page long lawsuit claims that “Dell intentionally …

Valve has recently shared the results of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for May 2021. According to the data, AMD has crossed the 30% usage milestone, suggesting AMD's market share in the mainstream gaming market is growing. As per Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2021 results, AMD processor's …

While we normally go into E3 with endless possibilities for announcements, some companies like to keep expectations in check ahead of time. For this year, Deep Silver and Koch Media have confirmed that we will not be seeing several major titles, including Dead Island 2.  Over on Twitter last night, …

The next Battlefield isn't set to be officially revealed until next week, but we've been given a small look at the game in action ahead of time. It looks like EA recently held a closed pre-alpha play test and sure enough, someone decided to take screenshots. The images, which were …

We're teaming up with ASUS once again to bring more exclusive discounts to our readers. If you are looking to pick up a new gaming headset, keyboard, a monitor or even a new wireless router, then you can save up to 23 percent for a limited time...

We are a few days away from the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, but the first benchmarks have already started to surface. The first benchmarks results are from Geekbench 5 and Ashes of the Singularity, which should give us a good idea of what to expect from …

We are back with another giveaway this month! This time around, we are teaming up with Asetek and XPG to give away a great hardware bundle, featuring a new 360mm AIO liquid cooler and a trio of peripherals to spruce up your gaming setup. 

The European Commission and the UK are launching separate investigations into Facebook citing antitrust concerns over the Facebook Marketplace and the company's use of classified advertisements on the platform. In particular, regulators are concerned that Facebook is unfairly using advertising data to distort competition. Speaking on the investigation, the European …

Minecraft is the best selling game of all time. With over 200 million copies sold, the next best-selling (GTA V) is over 55 million copies behind. With so many copies sold, it may be unsurprising to see a spin-off game perform well. Even so, Minecraft: Dungeon, the Diablo-style dungeon crawler, …