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It has been almost one year since Microsoft first announced Project xCloud. The service had a brief, closed test phase at E3 this year, which resulted in some positive impressions but now, a public beta is also on the way, giving us the chance to try Microsoft's cloud gaming tech …

As expected, last night's PlayStation ‘State of Play' stream brought along new announcements for The Last of Us Part II. There is a new 3-minute gameplay trailer, in addition to a release date announcement, which is set for February 2020. The Last of Us Part II was first announced in …

ViewSonic has announced the addition of two new monitors to its Elite gaming portfolio. The manufacturer is aiming to expand its gaming line-up with the ELITE XG27 gaming monitor series, XG05 gaming monitor series and ELITE Ally monitor control peripheral. The XG270QG gaming monitor includes a series of features designed …

Microsoft had an ambitious goal for Windows 10 at launch, with the company hoping for the OS to be on 1 billion devices within three years. That ship has since sailed but Windows 10 is still pulling in impressive numbers, with 900 million recorded installs worldwide. The new milestone comes …

Back with another episode of Leo Says, today Leo is focused on the latest news around AMD and Intel's CPUs

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We are closing in on one year since Red Dead Redemption 2 first launched for Xbox One and PS4. In true Rockstar fashion, a PC version of the game has not been officially confirmed. However, there has been a growing mountain of evidence to suggest that the game is coming. …

Epic Games has been shelling out piles of cash to developers and publishers all year long in an effort to bolster the Epic Games Store with content. So far, we’ve only had vague information as to how much money is involved in these deals. For the creators of Phoenix Point, …

Elgato's new HD60S+ capture card is advertised as 1080p but it can record 2160p, 4K?!

This week, Intel has published an official datasheet for its upcoming and previously unannounced 495-series chipset. The document reveals key details about the specification and supported features in preparation for new CPU launches. The 495-series chipset will be compatible with Intel's ‘Premium U' and ‘Premium Y' SKUs, which often prioritise …

Back in January, Cooler Master announced its new flagship series of PC cooling fans- the MasterFan SF120M. With these fans, Cooler Master aimed to design for pure performance, rather than flashy looks and now, the SF120M is ready for launch. We first saw the SF120M fans at CES 2019 among …

We still have no idea what Rocksteady is working on next but in the meantime, it is looking more and more likely that WB Games Montréal will be continuing the Batman Arkham franchise. Over the weekend, the studio posted a mysterious teaser to celebrate Batman's 80th anniversary and late last night, another …

It's a new headset from MSI, priced at £79.99 - is it any good?

This has been quite the week for PC hardware leaks. We’ve been hearing a lot about Threadripper, Intel 10th Gen, Cascade Lake-X and various motherboards but now, we are also getting early news of upcoming graphics cards. Specifically, new GPUs based on AMD’s Navi architecture. Over the weekend, we began …

Over the course of this summer, one of the bigger tech controversies has been the outing of ‘human review’ programs at major companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and more. In an effort to improve digital assistants and voice recognition, devices were recording audio and sending it back to be …

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Batman and it looks like Warner Bros is going all out to celebrate. Not only are the Batman Arkham and Batman Lego trilogies of games being given away on the Epic Games Store, but WB Games Montréal also appears to be teasing a new …

Obsidian has been making headlines quite a bit over the last year. Not only are we all very excited for The Outer Worlds to launch in October, but we're also looking forward to seeing what the famed RPG studio will do next under Microsoft's ownership. Obsidian has already begun staffing …

We've seen a number of Intel and AMD leaks recently, pointing towards new processors and motherboards to go with them. This week, we have an interesting leak from the Eurasian Economic Commission's database, which lists a slew of TRX40, Z490 and X299X motherboards from Gigabyte. This news comes to us …

Closely following on from IBM's most recent quantum computing developments, Google has stepped in to the conversation. Through a now deleted scientific research publication, Google said it was the first company to achieve ‘quantum supremacy' by building a quantum computer that can perform a calculation beyond the ability of any …

Andy compares three different ASUS Strix Fusion headsets

We've seen a number of ultra high-speed SSDs hitting the market following the launch of PCIe 4.0. This week, Gigabyte Aorus is adding a new SSD to the mix, cramming four 2TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSDs onto a sleek PCIe card with cooling and Raid 0 support for maximum speeds.

Have you ever looked at a graphics card and thought you could do a better job designing the look of the card? Well now you can with the new GeForce RTX 2060 Super from Galax, dubbed the ‘Super Star’, which features a fully customisable shroud. In a nutshell, Galax's GeForce …

John Wick Hex is a strategy game based on the fast-paced film franchise starring Keanu Reeves. The game is due to be released on the Epic Games store on the 8th October and features A-list video game voice actor Troy Baker. Keanu Reeves won’t be featuring in the game. However, Ian …

Two fake tech-support scammers have been arrested by the FBI in the U.S for defrauding over $10 million from over 7500 victims – most of whom were elderly. The frauds took place from March 2015 through to December 2018. The pair of scammers, who were from Las Vegas and New …

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is Ubisoft’s upcoming co-operative shooter and sequel to the popular Ghost Recon Wildlands. The second Breakpoint beta offers an early hands-on experience of the game and is due to start this coming week, spread over four days. The beta will start on the 26th of September and continue until …

It's a 1TB NVMe SSD from Seagate, currently priced at £199.99

Popular free-to-play tank sim, World of Tanks, is to receive an update which will let anyone with a DirectX 11 graphics card enable ray tracing within the game – so you don't need an RTX 20-series GPU. At World of Tanks' annual ‘Wargaming Fest: Tanker Day' event, it was announced …

This week brings the release of a new high-end CPU air cooler from Deepcool. We first got a look at the Assassin III back at CES 2019 and the cooler is marketed as the direct competitor to the legendary Noctua NH-D15, which has been the best in class for what …

Adverts on websites – a lot of people love to block them. Just be careful of how you do that as it would appear that some adblockers are putting cookies into the web browser of millions of users so they can gather ‘affiliate income' from referral schemes. This is one …

Earlier this week the Rockstar Games Launcher appeared on Steam, and with it came an issue which meant players were unable play Grand Theft Auto V in offline mode. Rockstar were quick to announce that it was a bug causing this and not any changes they had made to the …