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RED generated plenty of buzz back in 2017 when it announced the Hydrogen One smartphone. The device was set to utilise a holographic display, feature modular add-ons and push the boundaries of smartphones in terms of specs, camera quality and build materials. The phone ended up falling short of the …

Kingston’s HyperX division has been popular among gamers and enthusiasts for some years now. HyperX provides a range of gaming hardware and peripherals for price-conscious users who refuse to compromise on quality. But just how popular is the HyperX range? I hear you ask, well here is the answer. As …

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launching today, you might have noticed that one of its core new features is missing – namely, night maps. Infinity Ward have removed all the night time maps from rotation temporarily for the sake of cohesion and will be adding them back, in a …

Intel officially announced its new 10nm ULP x86 microarchitecture  – Tremont. This new microarchitecture will be at the core of Intel's Lakefield chipsets, planned to be used in servers, IoT devices, laptops, 5G networking, and tablets, like the Surface Neo. Yesterday, in Santa Clara, California, at the Linley Fall Processor …

Update (25.10.19): Naughty Dog has now confirmed that The Last of Us Part II has been delayed. While the February release date was announced just four weeks ago, the developer team has since realised that there is more work left to do than initially anticipated. As a result, the game …

The Nvidia Shield TV is due a good refresh at this stage and it looks like we'll be getting one very soon. While Nvidia has yet to announce the new Shield TV Pro, at least one retailer in the US has begun putting it on shop shelves, confirming a few …

With the release of Intel’s 10th generation high-end desktop X-Series CPUs becoming ever closer, there is no doubt we should expect a barrage of new motherboard announcements to support the new CPU series soon. ASRock has got a head start on the rest with an update to their current X299 …

Ever since the poor launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Ubisoft has been turning a new leaf by giving developers more time and remaining open to game delays. Today, Ubisoft held its quarterly earnings report, going over how The Division 2 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint under-performed and reassessing the release dates …

Samsung announced the company's new SoC, the Exynos 990, alongside the new 5G Exynos Modem 5123. Both are planned to be used, in 2020, with the Samsung Galaxy S11 and other devices from the company. At Samsung Tech Day, the company showed the upcoming flagship chipset, the Exynos 990. The …

Every PC gamer enjoys playing around with mods from time to time. One of the most popular tools in recent years has been ReShade, allowing users to make custom filters to draw out extra detail in games and inject new graphical effects for extra visual improvement. Nvidia is apparently a …

Suda51 and Swery65 announced yesterday that they would be collaborating on an indie horror game, titled “Hotel Barcelona”. Hosted by IGN Japan, the livestream provided a list of details, as well as a few memorable moments. The livestream, which lasted approximately 2 and a half hours, revealed to fans the …

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of Fortnite. The third person Battle Royale phenomenon recently sucked its entire world into a black hole at the conclusion of season X, and was consequently watched by over 7 million people across Twitch, Twitter, and Youtube. On the 13th …

While Team Group is widely known for its range of high performance, low latency T-Force gaming RAM, the company also produces more budget-oriented memory offering extended compatibility through its Team Elite range. When Team group added its 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 to its product range, it took some of us …

Over the years, we have seen an increasing number of large video game publishers taking legal action against cheat makers for harming the integrity of an online multiplayer game. Recently, the BBC released a video interviewing a masked teenager who claims to have developed cheats for Rainbow Six Siege. Now, …

The Google Pixel 4 was released recently, with one of its flagship features being the introduction of a high refresh rate 90Hz OLED panel, allowing for a buttery smooth user experience. It appears however that many users won’t get to experience it, as the 90Hz is only activated if the …

With the demand for faster and higher capacity memory in mobile devices such as smartphones increasing, manufacturers are racing to bring innovative new products to market which fulfil these needs. At the company’s annual Tech Day at its Device Solutions America headquarters in San Jose, California, Samsung announced it has …

Intel Xe is still on track for 2020 and after scouring recent driver updates, it looks like we can expect multi-GPU scaling support.

The Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent acquired a 51.2% stake of the consortium that has major control over Supercell, the Finnish studio behind Clash Royale and Clash of Clans. The Chinese giant Tencent has been on a buying spree for a long time. In the gaming industry only, companies like Riot …

A lot of the executives at Microsoft have spent many years working their way up. Mike Ybarra for instance had a storied, two-decade career on the Xbox team, helping to deliver games across multiple IP, while also taking lead on Xbox Live, Xbox Game Pass and Mixer. After 20 years …

It has been almost ten years since Left 4 Dead 2 first came out but the franchise continues to be popular despite a lack of newer releases. Now, Left 4 Dead 2 is enjoying some renewed time in the spotlight, as a Dying Light crossover event is on the way. …

When planning out a custom liquid-cooling loop, fitting all the components that make up the loop into the tight constraints of a PC chassis can sometimes cause a bit of a headache. Alphacool has come up with a solution to this problem. A new range of liquid cooling pump/reservoir combinations …

Superdata's worldwide digital games market report for September has released, and with it some new games on the top-grossing titles. But there was something unexpected: Fortnite had its worst month since November 2017. Just before the epic finale of Fortnite's season 10, and the release of “Chapter 2”, Fortnite had …

Back in February, we reported on the announcement of Huawei's first foldable smartphone. Now we have a date for the device's release, but only for the Chinese market and a bit later than initially planned. With the problems that Samsung faced with its Samsung Galaxy Fold review samples, Huawei had time to …

Despite being absent from the platform since 2011, when it launched its own store and launcher, it seems like EA might be gearing up to return to Steam, removing the exclusivity of its IP from its own EA Origin store, if rumours and recent discoveries are to be believed. Twitter …

Earlier this week, we learned that TSMC was investing extra money to boost production capacity for 7nm and 5nm chips. Now, we seem to have a good idea as to why 5nm in particular is being fast-tracked, as Apple has reportedly begun receiving 5nm SoC samples in preparation for new …

In the run up to the release of the much anticipated PlayStation exclusive ‘Death Stranding’, PlayStation UK is hosting “The Death Stranding Experience” in London, giving fans the opportunity to meet the game’s creator, Hideo Kojima, and learn more about the game. Occurring during the lead up to and release of …

Last year, Microsoft began rapidly expanding its number of first-party studios, with Ninja Theory being one of the biggest and most surprising acquisitions. Ninja Theory has a bunch of different projects going on at the moment, one of which is ‘Bleeding Edge’, a brand new multiplayer PvP game. Xbox Insider …

While Google's initial Stadia cloud gaming pitch made grand promises of playing on any screen at any time with minimal fuss, the reality is that there will be some restrictions at launch. Those that forked out the money for a Stadia wireless controller for instance will need to use a …

The new Nvidia EGX Edge is another sign of the company's investment in AI and cloud accelerators. In this trendy market, there's not much competition and it's one where Nvidia reigns supreme.  At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019, in Los Angeles, Nvidia presented the Nvidia EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform. …

Philips has announced a new professional 4K monitor from its Brilliance line of displays. The new device will feature USB-C docking, 4K resolution and an IPS panel. Philips says the Brilliance 272P7VUBNB pairs performance with productivity. The new Brilliance 272P7VUBNB from Philips is designed with productivity and professional use in …