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Plants vs Zombies might have begun life as a slightly off-kilter tower defence game when that genre wasn't completely tapped, but since then it's evolved into a lot of other things. From sequels to third person shooters, we're now able to play a brand new Plants vs Zombies experience in …

Last year, Apple relaunched the standard ‘MacBook' as an ultra-thin laptop that relies purely on USB Type-C for charging and data transfer needs. Now, those changes may also be making the way over to the MacBook Pro, which may ditch the MagSafe charging and regular USB ports in favour of …

THX was founded by George Lucas way back in 1983 and since then, the company has gone on to become one of the most recognisable and iconic audio specialists around. THX has had ownership changes over the years but now, the company has found a new home over at Razer. …

Today, Nvidia officially announced the GTX 1050Ti and GTX 1050, both featuring the new Pascal architecture and hitting sub-£150 price points. These cards are built around the GP107 chip, with the promise of delivering solid performance to those who are perhaps new to PC gaming. Similarly to AMD's RX 460, …

Sleeping Dogs was a well-received title at launch but since then, Square Enix hasn't been particularly keen about pushing the franchise forward with new entries and eventually, United Front Games had to move on to other projects. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like those projects have helped the studio much as …

Even though a number of car manufacturers around the world are increasing the amount of technology their vehicles utilise, it turns out that the market for tech companies getting into the car game may not be as worthwhile. Rumour has it that Apple's Project Titan has been massively scaled back, …

The fall out from Samsung's disastrous Galaxy Note 7 launch continues today, with the news that it's begun offering smartphone exchange points at airports around the world. Following the news that many airlines had banned flyers from bringing the overheating smartphones on board, it's begun collecting them at the point …

Anti-tamper digital management system, Denuvo, may have faced a couple of set backs as of late, but the executives at the developer aren't concerned. In fact they still see the company at the forefront of protecting games and suggested that no DRM system was fullproof, but that its was still the …

Head of Xbox at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, is so confident in the company's new “Play Anywhere” initiative, that he thinks other big publishers will get on board with it in the future. Presumably he means giving players free copies of their games for the PC if gamers buy them for the …

Samsung has been making good use of Quantum Dot technology on some of its SUHD TVs for some time now. The new display tech is designed to rival OLED by offering a much wider colour gamut and now, Quantum Dot is heading to gaming monitors. Back in September, Samsung announced …

As previous reports have indicated, Nvidia is apparently planning to unveil the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti towards the end of this month. So far, we have seen specifications and even some benchmark performance numbers but we had yet to hear anything in regards to pricing- until this week, as …

If for some reason you were still hanging on to an iPhone 4 or even a Macbook Air from late 2010, then it may finally be time to make the jump to something new as support for these products will be dropped at the end of next month. This means …

When it comes to mobile gaming, Sony's efforts have been hit and miss. The PS Vita handheld rarely gets any attention these days and as far as smartphone games go, Sony actually shut down its PlayStation Mobile division last year to help cut costs. However, with Nintendo starting to succeed …

When it comes to Nintendo NX news, things have been quite slow over the last couple of months and while rumours are still predicting that the console will launch before March 2017, Nintendo itself is really dragging its feet with official announcements. However, Nintendo may finally break its silence on …

Oculus has had a difficult six months, with us and just about everyone else claiming that the HTC Vive is the superior headset to its Rift, but that may be harder to justify when Touch controllers arrive. Especially since some of the games that have been built for it from …

The roll out of body cameras for the Metropolitan Police force is finally getting under way, despite original plans to begin it in March this year. In total 22,000 of the cameras will be attached to officers, especially those also equipped with firearms, with the adoption expected to be complete by …

While the world and his dog seem to be working on automated car features right now, Tesla was the first to put one out there in the wild. However Germany's federal motoring body has asked it to stop calling its system “autopilot,” because it feels that the term could mislead …

Just a few days after Samsung and the U.S.' Federal Aviation Administration warned people to turn off their Galaxy Note 7 smartphones before catching a plane, the transport department has stepped in and banned the handset from all flights. Taking one on to a U.S. aircraft will now be considered …

Rockstar might not release a game every year like some publisher/developers, but it knows how to generate some buzz. In its latest internet breaking event, it released a simple faded logo, on a red back drop. As you might expect if you're a fan of previous Rockstar work, this is …

Asus has been steadily expanding its ROG Swift range of monitors over the last couple of years, with a big focus on pushing higher refresh rates. However, shortly, Asus will be releading its highest refresh rate monitor ever- the ROG Swift PG258Q, which boasts a massive 240Hz  native refresh rate. …

Battlefield 1 hasn't fully launched yet but players can get a headstart in the multiplayer and campaign modes by signing up for EA/Origin Access, which includes ten hours of early game time. However, you may encounter some frustrations during pre-launch multiplayer as it looks like cheaters are already being encountered. …

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The Mafia series has had a positive history on the PC platform. However, this year, a new team has picked up the series to deliver Mafia 3. Things didn't get off to a great start last Friday when the game's PC version launched with a hard 30 frames per second …

While things are quiet at the moment on the Vega front, it looks like news is leaking out about Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 revisions from AMD. The new efficiency focussed GPUs launched earlier this year in the form of the RX 480, 470 and 460 but according to reports …

Just last week both MSI and Asus announced that they would be rolling out BIOS updates for their current Z100-series motherboards to introduce support for Intel's upcoming Kaby Lake processors. If you an MSI user and have already installed the Kaby Lake update, then you may want to keep an …

Now that most of the kinks with the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update have been ironed out, it is time for Microsoft to focus on the next big update. We have heard some details about the Redstone 2 update in the past but according to reports this week, we now …

Since the start of this console generation, the Xbox One has consistently been outsold by the PlayStation 4. Microsoft's console did have brief stints of higher sales but the original box never really hit its stride. The Xbox One S is a different story however, as over the last three …

Dark Souls 3 is getting its first DLC pack later this month titled ‘Ashes of Ariandel' and aside from taking players to an icy new world, it will also introduce a new dedicated PvP arena. While PvP is present in Dark Souls 3 already thanks to game invasions, there hasn't …

In September, we teamed up with Biostar to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a Racing Z170GT7 motherboard, worth almost £125. The draw has taken place and the winner of this impressively specified piece of hardware can be announced. The correct answer was, of course, 110dB. The winner …

BitTorrent Inc. the company behind the Utorrent file sharing client, has become a one CEO firm once again. This came as part of a falling out between the two heads, who previously joined up as the company transitioned to a more commercial entity. It has denied that the company is …