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Panasonic has kicked of its 100th anniversary celebration by unveiling its plans to bolster IoT efforts in Europe, announcing a partnership with British network provider Vodafone. Additionally, the firm has revealed its line-up of HDR10+ compatible displays in partnership with Samsung and 20th Century Fox. One of Panasonics core focuses …

With GloFlo dropping out of the 7nm race, AMD turns to TSMC for future 7nm CPUs and GPUs.

Aside from the new Mixed Reality headset launch, Acer had more to show off at IFA today. The company has also announced two new gaming monitors sporting 4K resolution, HDR and a 144Hz refresh rate. Better yet, there is a version for G-Sync and another for FreeSync. First up is …

IFA has kicked off today and Acer is the first to unload its latest announcements. At the event this morning, Acer launched its new Windows Mixed Reality headset, known as the ‘OJO 500', switching out the old light blue design for a much sleeker and stealthier look. Acer's new Mixed …

Last week, Valve brought Windows game compatibility to Linux in the form of an official tool for Steam. The team had been working on this new compatibility tool for around two years and now that it is in public beta, the community has been quick to test it. While Valve's …

The PS4's next big exclusive is just around the corner and it is shaping up to be huge. Insomniac's Spider-Man game will be hitting store shelves on the 7th of September, but players won't have to wait long for additional content as the first DLC is set to release in …

Although Blue Microphones has seen some rising competition in its consumer range of recorders in recent years, the Blue Yeti has remained the de facto for many up-and-coming content creators on a budget. Launching today, the Blue Yeti Nano is the firm’s way of condensing its best seller into a …

We are still waiting for reviews but some RTX 20-series benchmarks are already starting to leak out

Despite Microsoft’s efforts helping to quell Spectre and Meltdown CPU issues, it looks as though the company will have to turn its attention to Windows as a zero-day vulnerability has come to light. Pending some specific conditions, this new attack could grant perpetrators system privileges. Twitter user SandboxEscaper made the …

Back in June, the HDR10+ standard finally began rolling out, giving TV makers royalty-free access to the higher quality HDR certification. With HDR10+, we'll start to see more TVs rival the quality provided by Dolby Vision and the first models will be with us very soon, with Samsung and Panasonic …

AMD has had quite a shakeup in its leadership over the past year, with Radeon head Raja Koduri, Zen architecture lead Jim Keller, and Sr. Director of Global Product Marketing Chris Hook all moving over to Intel. Now, AMD's senior VP of Computing and Graphics, Jim Anderson, has decided to …

Since launching in 2011, The International Dota 2 tournament has grown tremendously and is a core focus for Valve each year. The tournament has moved around a couple of times over the years, with the US, Canada and Germany all hosting the event. Next year, The International will be moving …

Calamity swept over Jacksonville, Florida over the weekend as a shooter attacked a Madden NFL 19 esports tournament, killing a total of three people and injuring as many as 11 more. In response, EA has cancelled the remaining qualifiers in the tournament, promising to do better with its security efforts …

Yesterday was quite exciting for RPG fans as CD Projekt Red showed off Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay publicly for the first time. The 48-minute private demo that was shown at E3 is now live for everyone to see. The extensive gameplay reveal, coupled with news that the game is playable from …

Back in April, the Belgian Ministry of Justice began enforcing harsh punishments for games with loot boxes, considering them a form of gambling. Despite disagreeing with this conclusion, Blizzard has complied with the new laws by preventing Belgian Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm players from purchasing loot boxes with …

At Gamescom 2018, there was a definite push toward mobile gaming, with several new titles looking to launch on smartphones first and foremost. As part of that, Honor was showing off its new Play smartphone, designed specifically for mobile gamers. Watch the embedded YouTube video below, or directly on YouTube …

Last week, Microsoft's plans for an ‘Xbox All Access' bundle leaked onto the web. Today, the company has officially announced it, bundling in two years of Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass and an Xbox One console for a monthly fee that covers the costs over time- very similarly to …

Back at E3, CD Projekt Red showed off a 48-minute gameplay demo for Cyberpunk 2077 in a behind closed doors gathering with the press. We've already heard a lot about the demo, but we had no idea when to expect a public unveiling. That changed today, as CD Projekt Red …

Using the tailwind of Nvidia’s ray tracing GeForce 20 Series Turing graphics cards announcement, AMD has unveiled its own dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340. Unlike the Green Team’s efforts, however, this looks to be based on AMD’s existing Vega architecture, strictly marketed towards data centres. During its panel at the Las …

We are just weeks away from Apple's next iPhone launch and while we've been hearing about the company's plans for months, the leaks are starting to get more solid. A few weeks ago, a leak showed exactly what Apple's trio of 2018 iPhones will look like and now, we have …

Google isn’t far off unveiling its brand new third-generation Pixel devices, but before the company can put an official stamp on anything, we have yet more leaks to sift through. As rumours have indicated, it looks as though Google will be ditching the 3.5mm jack with the Pixel 3 XL, …

Back when Microsoft announced the Xbox One X in 2016, Phil Spencer mentioned that the console would deliver 4K gaming in addition to ‘high-fidelity VR'. The Xbox team definitely had some virtual reality support plans in the works but earlier this year, we learned that it had been scrapped for …

Back in early 2017, we learned that AMD had filed a lawsuit against TV makers, LG and Vizio, in addition to chip suppliers MediaTek and Sigma Designs. In the complaint, AMD said that these companies were infringing on two patents from the ATI days and requested an investigation from the …

Intel’s all-but-announced Core i7-9700K has been spotted sporting 5.5GHz across all cores just using water-cooling.

We’ve seen plenty of charitable efforts from developers across the years, more often than not resulting in a sum of cash making its way to the organisation chosen. Riot Games is collecting something very different with its #MyFirstBlood campaign, offering an in-game League of Legends skin to all those donating …

Back when H1Z1 first launched on Steam Early Access, it was pitched as an open-world survival game with zombies spread across the map. This brought the game its initial success but over time, the focus shifted to Battle Royale and H1Z1 was split into two games. Now, Daybreak Studios will …

CD Projekt Red has been teasing us with Cyberpunk 2077 details all year long and the studio is showing no signs of slowing down. At Gamescom, we were treated to some new screenshots and concept art for the game. Now, the team has launched a mysterious livestream on Twitch, leaving …

Tragedy struck a gaming bar in Jacksonville during a Madden tournament this weekend, after a shooter killed two people and injured as many as 11 more, according to reports. Officially sanctioned by EA Sports, this has raised serious questions about the security measures in place to protect its attendees. The …

Last month, Nintendo filed lawsuits against two popular ROM sites, LoveROMs and LoveRETRO. In the face of legal action, both sites shut down swiftly but it looks like the owner of both sites is hoping to settle the suit with Nintendo. In a case like this, damages can stack up …

The PC is the best place to play games more often than not but we are left with very little in the form of large living room sized displays with true high refresh rates. Nvidia was looking to change that this year with BFGD, bringing 120Hz, G-Sync, 4K and HDR …