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Terry Crews might not be the kind of guy you would expect to be getting into Twitch streaming, but that's exactly what's going to happen. He's set himself up with an account and has spent the last few weeks building a monster of a gaming PC, so now he's almost …

A U.S. judge has ruled that Take Two Interactive is not liable for copyright infringement because the NBA 2K series of games reproduces tattoos licensed by individual artists. Although the court did say that the artist representatives could pursue actual damages, they said that statutory compensation was out of the question. …

One of the world's largest Counter Strike: Global Offensive betting sites, CSGO Lounge, has announced that it is applying for an official gambling license, in order to legitimise itself. This comes after it received a cease and desist letter from Valve, as well as a lot of negative attention from …

Back in March, Samsung officially launched the world's biggest SSD, packing in a massive 15TB of storage into a standard 2.5-inch enclosure. At the time, it was pointed out that this drive isn't really aimed at consumers but since then, some retailers have started making the SSD available, it'll cost …

Comcast has found itself on the wrong end of a $100 million lawsuit, with the state of Washington suing the provider, claiming that it illegally deceived customers with a ‘near-worthless protection plan’ and received $73 million over five years for it. According to the lawsuit, Comcast failed to disclose the …

Microsoft announced two new Xbox consoles at E3 this year, one of them being the Xbox One S, a smaller, slimmer version of the standard Xbox One with support for 4K TV and HDR content. However, there was an additional feature Microsoft isn’t advertising with the One S, it comes …

Blizzard has had a strict zero-tolerance policy for Overwatch cheaters since day one. However, there are always going to be some that try to cheat anyway and this week, Blizzard had a major ban wave for Overwatch players using Triggerbot and it seems quite a few of those affected don’t …

For years, plenty of cord cutters have managed to avoid paying for the UK’s antiquated TV license by using on-demand services like BBC iPlayer instead of watching live. However, it looks like the rules are set to change soon as from the 1st of September, BBC iPlayer watchers will apparently …

Just a couple of weeks ago, Nvidia dropped the surprise announcement of the new Titan X, based on the new Pascal architecture equipped with 3584 CUDA Cores, 11 TFLOPS of compute power and 12GB of GDDR5X VRAM. Today, this monstrous graphics card officially launched, meaning you can now buy one …

SolarCity, one of the U.S.' largest solar panel providers, has accepted a bid from Tesla Motors to merge the two entities together. Both were founded by Paypal billionaire Elon Musk, so this might not seem like a big move, especially considering the crashing share prices, but in the long term …

The battery status and longevity check built into HTML5 to allow web providers to display low-power versions of their sites to those without much battery left, has been hijacked by tracking APIs to keep an eye on web users. Using battery status and estimated time left as unique identifiers, they …

Ever since HTC put up its accessories website for the Vive, offering extra controllers, sensors, nose pieces and foam padding, VR fans have been requesting all sorts of extras and HTC is now finally listening. After it posted a Tweet asking for feedback on what the store should stock, commenters …

Update: Niantic Labs, the developer of app mega-hit, Pokémon Go, has released a statement to the community, ending a long silence to comment on why it removed the three step tracking system from the game. In typical Niantic fashion, it's not very candid, but it does at least give fans …

Pokémon Go players haven't been particularly happy with developer Niantic, for some time now. Initially its game had server lag, then a tracking bug and now since the developer pulled the ability to track local Pokémon altogether, many players have stopped playing and requested refunds, citing that the game isn't …

While we won’t be getting the Pascal Titan launch at Gamescom this month as previously rumoured (spoiler, it already happened), we will apparently see Nvidia’s M-series of Pascal graphics chips for the first time if new reports this week are to be believed. Rumours surrounding Nvidia’s laptop GPU plans for …

The Oculus Rift’s price is once again making headlines this week as a comprehensive component teardown and analysis performed by IHS revealed that the components used to build the headset are worth $200. The CV1 was initially expected to cost in the ‘ballpark’ of $350 but as we found out …

Google gets millions of DMCA takedown requests per day for search results but once in a while, we come across specific requests that really stand out. This seems to be the case this week as it looks like Warner Bros latest batch of link removal requests contained a link to …

On Saturday morning, Microsoft's free year-long upgrade offer for Windows 10 officially ended. We were expecting this to mean that from now on, those looking to upgrade will need to pay the £99/£179 license fee depending on whether they wanted the Home or Pro edition. However, it looks like Microsoft has …

Back at the start of June, A Russian developer known as FrontWire announced that it would be remaking and finishing the cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront 3 project and bringing it to Steam under the title ‘Galaxy In Turmoil'. While this did lead to an initial rush of excitement amongst series …

Getty Images might be facing a potentially $1 billion lawsuit after it allegedly breached a photographer's copyright, but it won't be rolling over any time soon. It's now warned that if the dispute cannot be settled, it will hit back hard. With a worth in the low billions, it has …

Despite being the UK's biggest mobile service provider, EE has had problems for the last few days with downed connections at home and more crucially, abroad, where texts and calls have been impossible for customers. Although it has acknowledged the issue, there appears to be no true end in sight. …

Samsung is known to be working on a second generation of its Gear VR, smartphone virtual reality headset, but details remain a little thin on the ground. However one rumour suggests it could be ditching the white paint job for a black one and that it will feature a slightly expanded …

Uber is a company that has made many enemies in its short lived life as a ride-hailing firm, but it's also seen competitors spring up. However of all the territories where competitions is fierce, it could be that in Africa Uber faces its greatest threat of being the less popular service. …

It looks like someone was able to grab a retail copy of No Man's Sky a few weeks ahead of time and as you might imagine, this was quickly followed up by gameplay videos, showing off the game. This has obviously been disappointing for Hello Games founder, Sean Murray, who …

If you were planning on picking up a HTC Vive headset in the UK at some point this year, then you may want to do it before Monday as HTC has announced that due to Brexit and the subsequent falling value of the pound, the headset will be getting a …

We have heard before that Marvel is shooting for quality from any future game releases, so when Activision announced that it would be releasing remasters of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 on PC and current gen consoles, people got pretty excited. Unfortunately, in typical Activision fashion, the remasters launched …

With the launch of Radeon Software Crimson Edition, AMD embarked on a mission to deliver monthly driver updates to Radeon GPU users and this week, we got our July update. Radeon Software version 16.7.3 brings along a nice list of fixes and a sizeable performance boost in Rise of the …

Ever since acquiring Nokia, Microsoft has been routinely cutting down on its workforce. First the company planned to cut 18,000 jobs by the end of March 2015, then shortly after that a further 7,800 job cuts were announced. In May of this year another batch of 1,850 jobs were cut …

We have known for a while that Samsung is planning to officially announce the Galaxy Note 7 and a new GearVR headset next week. However, now it looks like the company may have nothing truly ‘new’ to show as a fresh batch of PR leaks hit the web today, giving …

While Origin may not have been a welcome download for many back when it first launched, EA has improved the service significantly over time and now, the only thing really holding it back is the design, which has remained the same since launch. However, change is coming and right now, …