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Movie studios and lobby groups have been gunning for Kim Dotcom for some time. In conjunction with the New Zealand authorities and FBI, they spied on him before and after his arrest in January 2012 and since have been pushing to have the man extradited to the US. However with …

Backwards compatibility was thrown out with the release of the Xbox One and Playstation 4, Sony recently announced that its solution would be to stream games via Playstation Now but Microsoft has yet to come up with a plan. However, the company is considering Xbox 360 emulation for the Xbox …

If you thought your mouse was customisable, wait till you get a load of this one. Logitech's new G502 Proteus is designed to take a gamers personal preferences and fine tune them down to an exact science of weight distribution, balance and precision. At least in theory. In the release …

Today is the day that Microsoft officially ends support for Windows XP, one of its most popular pieces of software ever and of course, everyone is trying to scare up a storm so that in the wake of no more patches, you buy something to protect yourself. And Kapersky is …

Get that pinch of salt ready people, as the rumour mill just pumped out a doozy: 2K Australia – of The Bureau fame – is working on another Borderlands game, not a sequel, or a prequel, but a pre-sequel, set between the two games and with players gunning their way …

With MMO character creators, the most you can usually expect when it comes to customisation are a few options for different beards, perhaps a handful of idle animations and a choice of weapon. However there are some that can be held up as shining examples of avatar generation  and Korean …

Qualcomm on Monday announced two new high-end application processors for smartphones and tablets. The new chips integrate 64-bit general-purpose cores, new-generation Adreno graphics engines, 2K/4K video processing as well as 4G/LTE Advanced modem that supports 3*20MHz carrier aggregation, enabling speeds of up to 300Mb/s. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and …

Lenovo Group, the largest supplier of personal computers in the world that wants to become a top smartphone maker, said that it had bought a portfolio of mobile patents from NEC Corp. The move should help Lenovo to avoid legal conflicts with other makers of smartphones and boost its own …

UPDATE: The initial news-story contained an image of an SK Hynix memory module which did not feature 128GB capacity. As SK Hynix has released the correct images of its new memory modules, we can now publish the photos of 128GB DDR4 memory sticks. SK Hynix on Monday unveiled the industry’s …

Seagate Technology on Monday introduced its first hard disk drive with 6 platters and 6TB capacity. The HDD is aimed at the enterprise market and supports multiple technologies that boost its reliability and performance. Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 v4 6TB hard disk drive features 7200rpm spindle speed, 128MB cache and …

The debate about whether gaming has much of an impact on the brains of the world and particularly the young, has been racing since time began, or at least over the past few decades. However one study is now purporting to have evidence that shows certain parts of the brain …

Today Nvidia has launched its new 337.50 beta driver along with the GeForce Experience 2.0. The driver will offer up to 71 per cent faster gaming performance in Direct X 11 titles with SLI enabled and up to 64 per cent faster single GPU performance. An updated version of the …

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice (or TitanFall if you want it). All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this TitanFall image. It means …

Google is reportedly planning to release an Android TV, the new service will go head to head against Amazon's recently launched Fire TV as well as the rumoured revamped Apple TV. However, this isn't Google's first time releasing a TV service, previously the company released Google TV but it failed …

While rumours of the demise of computer gaming abound, the underlying numbers are remarkably strong. Sure, we're not reliving the glory days of all night queues for new releases, but the market is certainly seeing some revenue. KitGuru puts its gourd in the river to check the cash flow. When …

Antec has announced the release of a new budget-range case known as the GX500. Featuring a matt black paint job and clear Stacker inspiration, this midi-tower has space for high end GPUs, a three year warranty and plenty of high end features. But what do you guys think of it? …

The Dota 2 International tournament is coming back this year and it seems to be more popular than ever as Valve's 10,000 available tickets were all snapped up within an hour of going on sale. The event is due to take place from the 18th to the 21st of July …

DMCA takedown requests, especially the one for content that doesn't belong to the complainee, have repeatedly been shown to be ridiculous since their implementation. Google has had to deal with tens of millions of the things and even some automated takedown tools demanding their own takedown requests be taken down, …

Each new successive generation of graphics, we often hear a lot about Epic's new engine, or Crytek's new one and Unity gets a lot of press for its multi-platform outputs, but Bravely Default developer, Silicon Studio, shouldn't get left out, as its new engine tech demo is incredibly pretty – …

Very little has been heard about Fortnite since its initial trailer back in December 2011, with only the odd screenshot release and teaser-like update to the official Facebook page. Back then the concept of a base building, zombie survival title in a decent engine was fresh, but today we have …

A hexacopter drone's operation during a triathlon in Australia, is being investigated by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) after it fell from the sky whilst filming the race. While the report initially suggested that the drone struck one of the racers and injured her, other evidence now suggests she …

There are plenty of various docs for Apple’s iPhones and iPods, which have different capabilities and look. Apparently, the guys from Hannover, Germany-based Hardwrk company decided to make a dock that would also feel differently and created an iPhone 5 dock made of pure concrete. The hardwrk Massive Dock dock …

The final specifications of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 295X graphics card got revealed on Friday, when a press deck containing all the information regarding the new dual-chip flagship solution got leaked. Apparently, the code-named Vesuvius graphics board will offer performance close to that of two Radeon R9 290X graphics …

GlobalFoundries, the world’s second largest contract maker of semiconductors, seems to be the leading candidate that can get IBM Corp.’s chip manufacturing operations, a media report claims. The deal has not been finalised yet and the talks are ongoing, but chances are rather high that Abu Dhabi-backed GlobalFoundries will get …

Microsoft Corp. has announced that its Office applications for Apple iPad were downloaded more than 12 million times in just one week. At present, the Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint applications are top free apps in Apple’s AppStore. But is 12 million really a lot? “More than 12 million downloads …

At this week’s Build conference, Microsoft Corp. demonstrated the look of the new Windows 8.1 update 2014 as well as a number of new capabilities of the modernised operating system. As expected, Microsoft returned a number of “classical” Windows elements and added some new features. Key features of the Microsoft …

The dates for this year's WWDC were just announced and we've already got an idea of what we could expect to see at the event. Apple recently acquired Novauris, a research firm previously owned by Dragon Systems, which is well known for for its voice dictation technology. Apple did comment on …

GameSpy, the online multiplayer service, is shutting down which could put hundreds of games offline from the likes of Bohemia Interactive, EA, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Konami, Capcom and more. Glu's GameSpy multiplayer servers officially go offline on the 31st of May The GameSpy client has previously powered servers for Red Dead …

Microsoft has shown off a tech demo for its cloud computing technology at its yearly Build Developers Conference this week. Microsoft has talked about cloud computing and its ability to help systems run games better for some time now but had yet to really show gamers any proof. Titanfall is …

The CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, Brendan Eich, has resigned, following on from OKCupid's campaign to have its users stop using the Firefox browser because of a donation he made in support of an anti-gay marriage piece of legislation in California in 2008. Mozilla released a statement about the move, …