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Just three weeks ago, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players were forced to suffer through another massive 30GB patch download and now with the game's fourth season of content going live, these massive patches continue to be an issue for many.  At this point, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare can …

XPG, ADATA's gaming-focused sub-brand, is about to launch its new Primer gaming mouse. The Primer was made for gamers, “whether you’re a veteran that likes a simple mouse with attitude” or a newbie looking to improve your skill. Featuring Omron switches, a 12000 DPI sensor, and multiple “design touches for …

Geil has just announced a new series of DDR4 memory kits aimed at gamers and content creators. The Orion DDR4 memory will be available in single and dual-channel kits, with a Rust Red or Charcoal Gray coloured heat spreader. There's also Orion AMD Edition memory modules specifically designed to be used …

If you buy a select AMD Ryzen 3000 desktop processor by June 30th, a free copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition will also come included...

While Sony is teasing its own high-end sound tech for the PS5, Microsoft is apparently looking into pushing gaming into the high-end headphone market. This week, Danish audio company, Bang & Olufsen, announced a new partnership with Xbox to ‘deliver high-end audio' for gaming. Not much is known about this …

With no E3 taking place this year and shifting dates for big digital announcement events, some retail listing leaks were bound to come through sooner or later. That appears to have begun happening today, with a series of next-gen placeholder listings appearing on Amazon not just for console hardware, but …

Today Intel is officially launching its codenamed ‘Lakefield' CPUs, leveraging Intel's Foveros 3D packaging technology and featuring a hybrid CPU architecture. These are the smallest processors to offer Intel Core series performance along with full Windows compatibility for productivity in ultra light and thin form factors.  Getting into some hard …

With The Last of Us Part II set to launch on the 19th of June, the game’s Creative Director – Neil Druckmann – has already begun to think about his next project. In a recent interview, Druckmann stated that he is undecided between moving on to a third entry in …

Aside from No Man's Sky joining Xbox Game Pass this week, there are some other big additions coming to the library this month. Last year, Microsoft announced a partnership with Square Enix to bring some of its biggest JRPGs to Game Pass and we are continuing to see that partnership …

On the 25th of May, George Floyd was murdered by police officers in Minnesota. In the weeks since, protests around the world have called for an end to racial injustice, with many companies voicing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. One of the earlier supporters was PlayStation, which …

No Man’s Sky has come a very long way since its original release, with a number of big, free expansions enhancing the game beyond expectations. Now starting tomorrow, the game will reach even more players as part of Xbox Game Pass for console and PC. Beyond that, full cross-play is …

Intel released its June 2020 Platform Update on June 9 and included fixes for 25 security vulnerabilities. Two of the vulnerabilities had a CVSS score of 9.8, which means they were rated as critical security flaws. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System – or CVSS – is a way of measuring the severity of a …

As we approach the launch of Operation Steel Wave and the addition of two new operators, Rainbow Six Siege is having another free weekend. Those who have yet to try, or have not bought Ubisoft’s competitive shooter can download the game and play for free this week across all platforms.  …

Yesterday, Bungie showed off the next three major expansions for Destiny 2, Bungie’s online multiplayer first-person shooter. With content lined up until 2022, and Destiny’s Director Luke Smith stating that Bungie does “not want to start over from scratch and make a sequel”, many were wondering whether Destiny would ever …

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been hard at work to add support for the Vulcan 1.0 API to Raspberry Pi 4, and it has now shared the progress that has been made over the last few months. On January 31, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that it had started working on …

Back in January, during CES 2020, Razer announced that the Kishi Universal Gaming Controller was in development. At the time it was said that the launch was set for ‘early 2020’, but a little more than six months on, the Gaming Controller from Razer is finally available to purchase. The …

Yesterday, we reported that the PC Gaming Show, which is set to take place on the 13th of June, would be seeing an appearance from Atlus – the Japanese studio behind the Persona series. Thanks to multiple sources, it would appear as though the title that Atlus is planning to announce …

Viper Gaming has introduced 32GB UDIMM and SODIMM memory modules to the Viper Steel DDR4 series. With frequencies ranging from 3000MHz to 3600MHz for the UDIMM modules, and 2400MHz to 3000MHz for the SODIMM modules, the new Viper Steel memory kits support XMP 2.0 for “optimum performance” in laptops and …

Zadak has just introduced a new M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD featuring RGB lighting and an aluminium heatsink. The Spark RGB SSD is Zadak's first M.2 PCIe storage solution, aimed at PC enthusiasts and is compatible with both Intel and AMD systems thanks to its PCIe 3.0 interface. Featuring rated sequential …

New information has come to light about Nvidia's RTX 3000 product series, including the specifications of three SKUs...

We all knew Bungie was going to be revealing this year's major expansion for Destiny 2 during a livestream today. However, the studio gave us much more than we bargained for, lining up the next three major expansions and some huge changes to Destiny to finally turn it into the …

We've known for quite some time that Ubisoft has a huge amount of Triple A games lined up for release this fiscal year. Three of those are Watch Dogs: Legion, Gods & Monsters and Rainbow Six: Quarantine, which were announced last year. Assassin's Creed Valhalla was recently added to the …

So far during the Nintendo Switch life-cycle, Monolith Soft has been involved in some major titles, including Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the Xenoblade Chronicles series and a secret new IP. At this point, the studio is looking at where it wants to focus more of its efforts, so expect …

We've been talking about the possibility of Apple switching to ARM chips for Macs for a couple of years now. Over time, reports of Apple making the jump have picked up a lot of steam and later this month, Apple will apparently be making it all official.  According to sources …

Modern motherboards are able to adapt the voltage given to the CPU, according to how much power is needed during any given time. However, it has been revealed that some motherboard vendors might purposely manipulate boards to give too much power to AMD CPUs for higher performance, at the potential …

Ever since its release in 2014, Bungie has seemingly been solely focused on Destiny: the MMO-lite first-person shooter. It would appear as though the studio is finally gearing up to expand to new IPs, as new job listings have been posted online for a game which is said to feature …

Back in April, a number of Nintendo account security breaches were reported by users, with 160,000 people estimated to have been affected at the time. Since then, more digging around the situation has taken place, with Nintendo believing that around 300,000 users were actually affected.  In an update to the …

The first quarter of 2020 saw significant disruption to the worldwide supply chain, with the consequences felt across many markets. In spite of these disruptions, the market for notebook computer display panels is anticipated to see an upswing in the second quarter of this year – with an expected growth …

AMD has announced that the third generation of Nvidia DGX A100, “the world’s most advanced AI system“, features 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors equipped with 128 cores. The AI system from Nvidia is capable of delivering 5 petaflops of computational performance and is designed to handle “diverse AI workloads such …

The PC Gaming Show is an annual event dedicated to all things PC. This year’s event was originally scheduled for the 6th of June, before being delayed to the 13th due to the ongoing protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Following the announcement of the revised date, PC …