The Prime Gaming line-up for December 2024 has been revealed – featuring a wide variety of titles and a ton of great indies.
Read More »Buyer’s Guide: Lexar DDR5 RAM and SSD Black Friday deals
Lexar has slashed prices on XMP and EXPO compatible DDR5 RGB memory, along with some fast M.2 SSDs for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the UK.
Read More »The Fallout series has reached 100 million viewers
The Fallout series has been a huge hit for Amazon and Bethesda, amassing over 100 million viewers for the first season. Season 2 is on the way.
Read More »The Fallout TV series will air in April
The Fallout TV show has looked good so far in set photos, with the production team appearing to do everything it can to capture Fallout's war-torn wasteland aesthetic. After years in development and over a year on since filming began, we now know when we'll get to see the show …
Read More »Prime Gaming’s free February titles revealed
Each month, those who are subscribed to Amazon Prime are privy to a number of free games as part of the company’s Prime Gaming initiative. For the month of February, subscribers can get their hands on a number of titles, including The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Available to add to …
Read More »10 more games are coming to Prime Gaming in December
Each month, those who are subscribed to Amazon Prime are privy to a number of free games as part of the company’s Prime Gaming initiative. While December’s free titles have long been available, in a surprise announcement, Amazon has revealed that 10 more games will be dropping before the end …
Read More »Prime Gaming’s free monthly titles for December have leaked
As with seemingly every month now, the list of free titles set to be given away to all those who have an Amazon Prime subscription has leaked ahead of time, with Prime subscribers set to get their hands on the likes of Quake, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and …
Read More »Fallout 76 is free with Prime Gaming
Each month, those with an Amazon Prime subscription are able to get their hands on a number of games for the low price of ‘free’. For the month of October, subscribers can look forward to exploring Middle-Earth; a post-nuclear America and beyond with 7 free games on offer. Available to …
Read More »Amazon announces free Prime gaming titles for June
As with many other services, each month, Amazon offers a number of games for free to all those with an Amazon Prime / Prime Gaming subscription. For the month of June you will be able to get your hands on a nice variety of titles, including Far Cry 4. As …
Read More »Razer offers big discounts for Amazon Prime Day
If you've been meaning to pick up some new PC gaming gear, then Amazon Prime Day is the time to shop around. There are plenty of deals going around on Amazon UK today, including a lot of deep discounts from Razer. The deals here are all peripherals, so if you're …
Read More »Disney+ gains 10 million subscribers in one day
Disney+ is Disney’s new streaming service, created to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and the recently released Apple TV Plus. If early numbers are any indication, Disney+ is set to be a huge success, with the streaming service amassing over 10 million subscribers in its first day …
Read More »Amazon is removing ad-free viewing from the Twitch Prime subscription
Since the streaming platform was absorbed by Amazon, the Twitch Prime subscription has offered a range of goodies, from a free channel subscription, exclusive in-game content and even games themselves. The main reason people often made sure to continue paying, however, was the ability to view content without advertisements which …
Read More »Advertising Standards Agency has deemed Amazon’s One Day Delivery misleading
Amazon’s signature “next day delivery” has been under fire from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) since last December ever since complaints arose surrounding the accuracy of its self-titled promise. Now, it seems the investigation has deemed the retailer to be falsely advertising its One Day Delivery option, and will force …
Read More »Twitch Prime members are getting a monthly selection of free PC games
At the end of February, Amazon-owned Twitch announced that it would be giving more to its Prime subscribers, allowing members to vote for the indie title they wanted to receive each month with its Twitch Prime Indie Amplifier program. Now, Prime members are getting even more, as Twitch has announced …
Read More »Advertising Standards Agency is assessing Amazon’s Prime service after complaints
Amazon shifted the ecommerce front when it introduced its “Unlimited One Day Delivery” Amazon Prime service, but many are complaining that the service isn’t being met. This has drawn attention from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) and could lead to the possibility of an investigation. Out of the plethora of …
Read More »Amazon expands Prime Video in India with exclusive animated shows
While Amazon's strategy for drawing in English speaking crowds to its Amazon Prime Video service might involve live-action shows like The Grand Tour and Mr Robot, elsewhere in the world it's using animation to do the same. In India, Amazon has acquired the exclusive rights to a number of popular …
Read More »Piracy report: Grand Tour downloads still behind GoT, Walking Dead
This week has seen many publications announce that the Amazon Prime exclusive, Top-Gear inspired show, The Grand Tour, has become the most pirated show in history. However it turns out that that's far from the truth. Whether numbers have been misread, monitoring firms misquoted or a little sensationalism are to …
Read More »Amazon may bundle internet access with Prime in Europe
Over the last couple of years, Amazon has been finding new ways to draw people over to its Prime subscription service. Right now, Amazon Prime packs in faster delivery, video streaming, Twitch benefits and eventually, Amazon may also offer its own Prime Internet service. According to reports this week, Amazon …
Read More »Twitch Prime has improved overall viewership by 13 percent
Although you might expect that announcing a paying option for a service wouldn't exactly drive people to sign up, that's exactly what's happened with Amazon's gaming stream service, Twitch. After the announcement of Twitch Prime, concurrent viewer numbers have gone up by as much as 13 percent over the ensuing …
Read More »EU Commission may make geo-blocking invalid in Europe
As much as digital streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon have offered us more content in the past few years than has ever been so easily accessible before, one major frustration remains: geo-blocking. However in the future we may all have the same content available, as the European Commission (EUC) …
Read More »Mobile data use up 65 per cent year on year due to streaming
It's beyond obvious at this point to say that streaming on-demand content is how a large majority, if not all media will be consumed one day and we're well on our way it seems. How and where we're watching our content is changing because of it, so much so that …
Read More »Netflix is still against allowing offline viewing
Recently, Amazon Prime Video announced that it would be allowing its users to download shows for offline viewing, similarly to how Spotify allows subscribers to listen to their music playlists offline. This obviously raised questions for Netflix, which has been against offline viewing in the past. It turns out that …
Read More »Clarkson, Hammond and May sign with Amazon Prime for new show
Where the ex-hosts of Top Gear would go once the existing contract between James May and Richard Hammond and the BBC ended, has been one of the hottest topics of contention among industry analysts and fans of the show for months now, following the firing of Jeremy Clarkson after a physical …
Read More »Amazon to require £20 minimum spend for free delivery
Amazon made the unpopular decision last year to put a minimum spend on free delivery. It seems that Amazon becoming less willing to foot the bill for postage as it has doubled the minimum spend requirement from £10 to £20 in the UK to qualify for free delivery. Amazon has …
Read More »Amazon now offers unlimited cloud storage
Amazon has announced its new subscription tiers for its online storage service, ‘Cloud Drive’, with one of the options offering up unlimited storage. Those with Amazon Prime or owners of an Amazon Fire device will already have access to unlimited photo storage, but now two extra tiers are available to …
Read More »Amazon spent $1.3 billion on streaming last year
If there was any indication that Amazon considers Netflix one of its biggest opponents in any industry, it's this. In 2014, the retail giant pumped over $1.3 billion (£860 million) into its streaming service, Amazon Prime Instant Video, helping to fund new programming like the award winning Transparent. This cash …
Read More »Amazon launches Prime music streaming service
Amazon's Prime membership has even more value thrown in now that Amazon has officially launched its rumoured music streaming service with more than 1 million songs available. The service is only available in the US for now and Amazon hasn't mentioned anything about a UK launch just yet. That said, …
Read More »Amazon start monthly Prime membership
Amazon have made a change in America to their Prime service which allows a portion of customers to subscribe on a monthly basis, rather than pay for full year. The PRIME service is popular with regular Amazon customers as it can save them a large amount of money over the …
Read More »Google may be working on Amazon Prime competitor
Reports from the Wall Street Journal are surfacing that Google may be going to challenge Amazon's Prime service, launching sometime in 2012. Google reportedly want to set up a service which would allow their customers to receive products bought online within a 24 hour period. Like Amazon Prime, it would …
Read More »Amazon launch new loan service for most important customers
Amazon are launching a new digital book loaning library that will be made available to their most important customers – Kindle and Kindle Fire owners who also subscribe to the Amazon Prime delivery program every year. According to the WSJ, the new service is going to be focused on titles …
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