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It looks like the Nintendo Switch's much debated online service subscription is going through some much needed changes. Initially, the service was set to launch later this year and would offer one NES game rental each month. Now, the Nintendo Switch's online subscription will launch in 2018 and will come …

Despite having gone on a trip to Alphacool HQ in February, we of course still popped by their booth at Computex to take a look at some new products. We saw a bunch of new designs, including a new GPU block, a custom cabling kit and a few modded PC projects. …

Over in Taiwan, Computex may be winding down as we are now at the end of the week, but our man Leo Waldock is still wandering around the showroom floor getting a last look at some new products. Today he went to visit the folks at Aerocool, getting a look …

Seasonic is perhaps the most highly reputable power supply maker around and it has remained that way for some time. With that in mind, it made perfect sense to swing by the Seasonic booth at Computex this year to see what is going on in the power supply world. As …

A few of our readers should be familiar with GameMax at this point, after all, we have reviewed several cases, some peripherals and ran a few giveaways with them. At their Computex booth this year there was quite a bit to see, including a new ‘infinity mirror' case, a hot …

At Computex today, BitFenix began showing off the first public prototype for its new Enso PC case. The chassis is still in development but already looks functional enough and has plenty of RGB lighting, which is powered by ASUS Aura. We also got up close and personal with the BitFenix …

At Computex today, Leo had the chance to catch up with bequiet!, checking out some new power supplies, a new white edition of the Dark Base Pro 900, a new Shadow Rock air cooler and a new Silent Loop liquid cooler. In the power supply section, bequiet! had two new …

We had a chance to stop by the MSI booth at Computex today . We've already covered some of the bigger laptop announcements from earlier in the week but now we have had a chance to get up close and personal with what MSI has to offer this year.  In …

While we have already taken a detailed look at many of the new ROG products on show at Computex 2017, today we stopped by their booth for a look at a couple of new motherboards as well to see some pretty spectacular modded projects. First of all, motherboards. The first …

A few months back we received the surprise announcement for Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, a follow-up to the highly praised Shadow of Mordor. At the time, the game was poised for an August release but since then, the developers behind the project have had to revise their plans a bit, …

Our man Leo Waldock has been walking the showroom floor at Computex these last few days, and while he has already had a catch-up with Ian ‘8Pack' Parry, today he got to look at yet another stunning, 8Pack watercooled system. This particular rig looks like it has a dual-loop configuration …

It has been several weeks since Square Enix first made the surprise announcement that it would be dropping Hitman developer IO Interactive from its roster. This impromptu decision has meant that IO Interactive needs to secure new investors so that it can continue to develop, though it also threw the …

Synology this week has announced that it would be launching an extended warranty in 27 additional countries, covering 52 countries in total. The extended warranty adds an extra two years of coverage to several Synology DiskStation systems, giving buyers additional peace of mind. With today's extension, buyers in the UK, …

At Computex today G.Skill began showing off its new super fast DDR4 modules, which are primarily geared towards use on Intel's new X299 platform. G.Skill's new memory kits range from a 3466MHz 32GB DDR4 SODIMM kit all the way up to a Trident Z 4800MHz kit. First up is the …

Yesterday evening, Leo took a break from the booths of Computex and went to an event hosted by technikPR. There are no major announcements with this one, but Leo did see some excellent looking PC builds and modded cases, which we have displayed in the gallery below.  Companies like Corsair, …

Yesterday, Leo had the chance to stop be the Streacom booth at Computex, getting a peek at some upcoming PC cases and benches for test systems. Firstly we took a look at the DA4, an actively cooled prototype of the DB4 with the extruded panels replaced by ventilated variants. This …

If any of you are looking to grab a NAS system in 2017 then you may want to keep an eye on the new offerings coming up from Thecus. We had a chance to stop by their booth at Computex this year and got a look at three new NAS …

Earlier today we had a chance to stop by the Kingston and HyperX booth to find out what's going on in the storage, memory and peripheral world. The lineup was pretty strong, with new Kingston M.2 NVMe drives planned for 2017, alongside new super fast DDR4 RAM modules and new …

Our team at Computex has been very busy today, but they still managed to fit in a visit to Crucial's booth to check out some new products from the memory and SSD manufacturer. Primarily, Crucial is keen to get users with older laptops upgrading to SSDs, while the company is …

Leo had the chance to stop by the Phanteks booth at Computex earlier today and managed to spot plenty of new additions to the company's lineup. Aside from some new cases, Phanteks was also showing off some of its own liquid cooling gear and accessories. You can see all of …

Today at Computex, our team on the ground got to take a look around Corsair's booth. They were showing off a plethora of new products, including two cases of epic proportions, a new keyboard, custom watercooling gear as well as a couple of AIO liquid coolers. Starting with the cases, …

Kerbal Space Program developers, Squad have made headlines recently, from large change-ups in its team to several of the former-Squad developers being hired by Valve for a currently unannounced title. The most recent change comes from Rockstar and 2K’s parent company, Take-Two, purchasing the publishing rights to Kerbal Space Program. …

ASUS Republic of Gamers this week has announced its very first esports tournament, featuring some top professional teams and some aspiring competitors. The tournament is known as ROG Masters 2017 and will consist of four continental qualifier rounds and 30 qualifying national rounds all capped off by a grand finals …

Our team has been hard at work at Computex today, and we got to have a look at some of EVGA's new X299 motherboards, a variety of aftermarket GTX 1080 Ti cards and even a new laptop line from the company. Starting with the motherboards, we got to have a …

Computex has been full of announcements this year, which is partially down to the fact that Intel has launched its new X299 platform and Core-X processors. We have seen new X299 motherboard ranges from Gigabyte and ASUS already and now, we get to take a look at what MSI has …

The folks over at Lian Li were rather busy at Computex this year, with some new all-in-one liquid coolers and a slew of new cases, some of which are in progress prototypes. Beyond that, the latest Lian-Li Desk chassis was also on show, just in case any of you fancy …

At Computex today, ASUS Republic of Gamers announced a new router named the Rapture GT-AC5300. It is actually ROG's first ‘gaming' router and boasts plenty of features designed to appeal to those looking to get a competitive edge. First of all, gaming features. ROG says two of the router's eight LAN ports are …

Yesterday at Computex, Intel officially announced its new Core-X family of processors so naturally, motherboard makers are now showing off all of their new X299 designs. Today, we had a chance to swing by the Gigabyte booth at Computex and got a good look at their new range of X299 …

While roaming the halls of Computex this year, we had a chance to catch up with 8Pack, who was at Gigabyte's booth showcasing an all-new monster rig. His latest build was showcased inside a modded Lian-Li chassis and was powered by Gigabyte Aorus hardware, including a Z270 motherboard and three …

Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors for free? How can you say no?