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China Telecom will exclusively sell Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One game console in China starting from September. The Xbox One will be the first gaming system to be released in mainland China since the government banned game console sales in 2000. The move may help Microsoft to greatly boost sales of …

Wii U exclusive Hyrule Warriors is a curious mashup that I don't think anyone saw coming, but for fans of the ‘Warriors' series of games, be it Samurai, Gundam or Dynasty, it certainly mixes up the traditional in some interesting ways. Yes the endless mobs of unthreatening enemies are back. …

Kingston’s V-series solid-state drives have always been among the most affordable in the industry, yet, they feature Kingston’s quality, reliability and warranty. However, up to recently affordability also meant rather low capacity and performance. The new Kingston V310 SSD changes that: it offers 960GB capacity and promises to be affordable …

Last year IBM established the OpenPower consortium and opened up Power8 processor specifications and architecture to its partners. The goal of the organization is to create an eco-system of Power8-based servers designed for future data centers and cloud computing. The first fruits of the collaboration may become available already early …

With over $40 billion (£23.54 billion, €29.7 billion) on its bank account, Apple can make a lot of acquisitions without even noticing them. Moreover, sticking to its tradition of secrecy, Apple rarely makes announcements regarding its acquisitions. But the consumer electronics giant is more than active when it comes to …

Advanced Micro Devices this week started a mysterious “Core is back” campaign by publishing a video on its Facebook page. The campaign is clearly designed to promote AMD’s Fusion accelerated processing units, heterogeneous chips containing x86 and highly-parallel graphics processing cores. The video shows how applications (depicted as monsters) fight …

While most of the world has to turn on a TV or pull up a news site to have a close up view of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, astronaut aboard the ISS, Alexander Gerst, can simply look out his window. Just a few hours ago, he tweeted his “saddest …

Will we ever see a revival of Knights of the Old Republic 3? Maybe not but Knights of the Old Republic II developer, Obsidian Entertainment, is keen to take on the project as it turns out that the studio does discuss the game on a fairly regular basis. While speaking to …

Around 50,000 websites are currently vulnerable to malware and backdoor access thanks to a security hole found in a Word Press plugin, according to researcher, Daniel Cid. Security firm, Sucuri, says that new malware can infect any site that resides on the same server as a hacked Word Press site. The flawed plugin …

Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, wants the country to host the world's first Robot Olympics in 2020. Tokyo is already the host of the regular 2020 summer Olympics so Japan is in a unique position to make this happen but the question is, will the rest of the world play along? …

Valve originally revealed the Steam controller last year but since then, it has gone through a lot of changes. In-fact, Valve has delayed its entire Steam Machine initiative until next year in order to tighten up its gamepad. Now Valve has shown off the latest change to its pad, it …

The Yogsventures game cancellation has caused quite the controversy. The project was mismanaged right from the start, Winterkewl Games wasted $35,000 on an artist's two weeks of work and Yogscast itself hasn't been able to account for the $150,000 it received once the Kickstarter was over. Yogscast has denied that …

Google isn't a stranger to giving away money to those that impress it with their ingenuity, so it's not that surprising that it's looking to dole out a million dollars to someone once again. This time though it's not trying to send robots to the moon, but is looking to …

Three years ago, when the world was new and the PlayStation was three rather than four, the PSN went down for a whole month. Since then Sony has been fighting a class action lawsuit in the United States, battling claims that it give compensation for the downtime. It's now made an official …

The Open Rights Group has launched a new campaign of mockery aimed squarely at David Cameron's porn filters, with a video promoting its “Department of Dirty.” In the fictional – but not far off – world portrayed, accessing anything remotely sounding like adult material is much harder and much more …

Cliff Blezinski is back ladies and gentlemen. After a near two year imposed retirement, he's returned with Boss Key Productions, his own developmental studio and to staff its offices and corridors, he's nabbed some of the world's top AAA developers from a variety of other studios, to work on his …

For a limited amount of time the Dell Venue 7 media tablet will cease to be a product and will become a competitive advantage of Dell. The PC maker on Wednesday kicked off a campaign that grants every U.S. student who purchases a personal computer, a large display, or a …

Respawn has just revealed in a blog post that in-game currency will be coming to Titanfall in the game's fifth update, which is due out on the 31st of July. These in-game credits will allow users to buy items on the black market such as Titan insignias and burn cards. …

Power Quotient International (PQI), a well-known maker of NAND flash and DRAM memory solutions, on Wednesday released the industry’s first flash storage drive with USB 2.0 and Apple Lightning interfaces. The device is designed to backup data from various Apple devices with the Lightning connector in order to free up …

Intel Corp. on Wednesday rolled-out its new SSD Pro 2500-series solid-state drives designed for corporate personal computers. The new drives offer high performance, very strong security, remote manageability and high power efficiency. The Intel SSD Pro 2500-series drives are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory made using 20nm …

Many of us were disappointed to see a lack of progress on EA's upcoming Battlefront III at E3 but the company has confirmed that it's still aiming for a 2015 release in order to tie in with the release of Star Wars VII in December next year.  EA Studios Executive …

It seems like I'm not the only one that doesn't want David Cameron censoring the web with his China sponsored pornography filters, as when it comes to new users opting out of them, almost everyone is doing so. In fact, the numbers of people agreeing to the filters are in …

ARM Holdings, the company whose microprocessor architectures power the vast majority of mobile devices, is working on the second-generation of 64-bit central processing units based on the ARMv8 micro-architecture. Not a lot of details are known about the chips now. What ARM has revealed so far is that they are …

When it looked like MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom's legal team might actually win his extradition trial, the MPAA and RIAA announced new law suits to try and cripple his funding. Those suits are still ongoing today, but now Dotcom's representatives want them delayed, since once again, the extradition trial has …

The upcoming Doom reboot was finally revealed to the audience at Quakecon last week but unfortunately the footage won't be made public for the forseeable future and now we know why. Bethesda's Pete Hines admitted that the event reveal was intended to boost fan confidence in ID Software as a …

Shortly after the game's beta ended, it has been announced that Battlefield Hardline will no longer launch this year. This game will now come out in early 2015 instead, giving Visceral Games and DICE more time to work on stability, story depth and “multiplayer innovation”. EA had already published a list …

It's a strange day when a trend like “selfies,” can lead to hundreds of millions worth of investment. It looks like Sony just threw 35 billion yen (£202 million) at its imaging sensor factory in order to increase its production by around 13 per cent, all in a push to …

The Kickstarter for West Games' Areal is a project that's seemed a bit fishy from the start. It featured grandiose claims of a true STALKER sequel, despite a miniscule budget/threshold, faked assets and Unity stock models in demos, strangely frequent comments that drown out complainers and even the claim that …

League of Legends had a CGI trailer when it launched back in the day and Riot has played with a couple of others since then, but CGI cut scenes have never featured heavily in the MOBA game. However, put that history aside today, as Riot has just unveiled a new, six …

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday confirmed rumours that it plans to unify all of its operating systems for client personal computers. The move will help the company to cut its costs and offer similar user experience on different types of devices, including personal computers, tablets and smartphones. “We will streamline the …