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This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a caption to a scene from the latest Call Of Duty GHOSTS game on the …

No doubt if you're reading this you think yourself a gamer. Maybe even a good one. But could you go for 24 hours or more in the name of charity? That's what Special Effect is hoping to get you to do for its Gameblast event over the February weekend. Special …

The past few days must seem like a dream to Youtube user Moonlightswami. First he posts up a video showing off his newly arrived Xbox One console – which retailer Target accidently shipped out early – which led to his machine receiving the “banned,” message that a few other customers did. …

UK supermarket, Asda, has partnered up with Medion to launch the new Medion LifeTab E7310 exclusively at its stores across the country. This move has likely come about to rival the recently launched Tesco Hudl and Argos ‘Mytablet' devices. The LifeTab will launch on the 15th of November in-store and on …

If you've got the itch to shoot someone or some thing but don't want to slap down £30 for either of the recently released big names in that genre of gaming, then Bundle Stars' new FPS Warriors pack should have you covered, with its six games for £2.25 deal. The …

While each PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may come packing half terrabyte drives in them at launch, Sony's new console will only give you about 400GB of space right off the bat – at least according to the reports coming out of a lucky early owner. This comes from screenshots …

If you've been eagerly awaiting the announcement from Fox about when its movie adaptation of Assassin's Creed will be landing, rejoice, as now we know. But feel sad, because it's towards the end of 2015. Announced alongside revised release schedules for other movies like Fantastic Four (urgh) and comic book …

Watching streaming video is obviously a popular activity these days, but did anyone think that it was as prolific as this? In a new study by Canadian internet monitoring firm, Sandvine, it's attributed as much as 50 per cent of all internet traffic to just two streaming services: Netflix and …

Yesterday we posted an article on Google Play running on a couple of Blackberry devices, at the time the images looked pretty convincing and led us to believe that Google and Blackberry might be forming a partnership. Well it turns out it was just a rumour as Blackberry has come …

Sony is confident that it will ship 3 million PS4's by the end of the year and have 5 million in people's homes by the end of the fiscal year, Sony US President and CEO Jack Tretton, said in an interview with Bloomberg. ““This is a marathon, not a sprint, but …

Did any of you have any Bitcoins saved up? If so chances are you've made a killing recently, as the value of the digital currency is continuing to soar to new heights, despite a recent stumble on its latest rise. While just a few weeks ago the highest ever value …

Don't you just hate it when you have a bunch of tabs open and one of those tabs starts making noise? Well that can still happen, but actually finding the culprit is going to get a lot easier as Google has shown off in its new beta version of Chrome. Google's …

Pioneer hasn't been part of the TV sales landscape since 2010, where it unceremoniously exited the market and cut some 16 per cent of its staff. However, now it's set to make a triumphant return, thanks to Dixons Retail – owner of Curry's and PC World – which will be …

The modern illegal downloading scene is relatively care free compared to the days of yore. Back when software like Limewire and Kazaa dominated the landscape, it was easy and common to download something that wasn't what you wanted and if you didn't check that the file size and file type …

If you're looking to buy a PS4 when it's released here on the 29th November then you'll be aware that games will have a mandatory install. With as much as 50GB of data on each of those slow spinning Blu-Ray discs, you might be thinking that it'll take a long, …

If you thought the world was as Humble as it was ever going to be with the regular Humble Bundles and the even more regular Humble Weekly Sale, then you'll be impressed/surprised to hear that there's now another way to give money to charity while buying discount games and in …

Valve is once again calling for beta testers! This time it's for the in-home streaming feature and all you have to do to become eligible is join the Steamgroup. Thats right, no long task list or eligibility badge like with the hardware beta, just join the group. At the time …

If you thought the 3D printers that could build up your Warhammer collection without breaking your bank were impressive, wait until you see the EX1 3D print a circuit board that's fully functional and requires no soldering. It's not even in the conceptual stage either, the developers have a working …

Over the weekend some leaked images of an upcoming Blackberry 10 update showed off Google's Play Store running on the device. Blackberry 10.2.1 might reveal a partnership with Google, bringing the Play Store to the Blackberry Z10 and Q10 smartphones. Blackberry has always struggled with its App store, Blackberry App …

The Kickstarter for raunchy and deplorable card game, Terrible Things, has had a bit of a rough time of it as of late. Despite managing to break its $75,000 campaign threshold with just a few days to go, it hit a massive roadblock when the nerds over at Game of …

Many of us are sceptical on cloud gaming and it seems Microsoft is too as the company's Director of Product Planning, Albert Penello, has told us why there won't there won't be a Gaikai like service for the Xbox One. Sony has promised Playstation gamers it'll incorporate the Gaikai service in …

Most driving instructors and insurers would agree, paying attention to the road when you're driving is a relatively important part of the process. Despite this and the fact that we're barrelling along at two to three times our natural top speed, in a metal shell weighing over a tonne, we're …

It's been almost a year since DayZ was supposed to see its initial standalone release and yet here we are, with not much to see beyond a few developer diaries and showcases of new features. This understandably has those that have been eagerly awaiting its launch wondering when it exactly …

McAfee's online security scanner plus tool has begun extending its gaze across more than just your files, it's now looking at the types of sites you've been visiting too. It now warns you that certain torrent search and related websites could put your PC at risk. Granted the security scanner …

A lot of PS4 unboxing videos have been hitting the web in the past few days, be it Wired, Francis or T3, but we've not quite seen one as 80s inspired as the latest one. This time around it's official and features a pair of expensive looking leather gloves. The …

While most of the world and his dog needs to wait until 22nd November to get their hands on an Xbox One, that's not necessarily the case for everyone. US retail chain Target has admitted it made a mistake and has been shipping out Xbox One consoles to pre-order customers. …

Google is boosting security for its Chrome web browser, starting in January you will no longer be able to install extensions from outside of the Chrome store meaning some useful tools will be lost, but it should also put an end to malicious software. Google has deemed this necessary due …

Mass Effect was hugely popular and probably one of the best RPG franchises to come out of this generation, so it's no surprise that the universe will carry over to the next generation too. Maybe you didn't like Mass Effect 3's ending specifically or maybe Shepard's story wasn't wrapped up …

Happy Birthday 3Dmark. Over the last decade and a half you've had us cursing our monitors, burning out graphics cards and opening our bedroom windows in the dead of winter to try and get a handful of extra points in your benchmarks, just so we can impress people on the …

Microsoft has been keeping its head down lately, trying to ignore the resolution-gate scandals surrounding CoD Ghosts and Ryse on the Xbox One. That's a smart plan too: the less disappointment we gamers have to deal with the better. However, today that streak ends as not only will Dead Rising …