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Last week, Nvidia officially announced the latest addition to its Pascal lineup with the GTX 1060. At the time, we heard about the 6GB version of the card, but prior to its announcement, there were rumours pointing towards a cheaper 3GB model and now, it appears some of the key …

AMD and Firaxis studios have decided to team up for Sid Meier's Civilization VI, creating a new DirectX 12 renderer specifically optimised to bring an in-game performance boost to Radeon graphics cards. This means that Civ Vi will support technologies like Asynchronous Compute and Explicit Multi-Adapter. Right now, AMD's Graphics …

Google gets a lot of grief from copyright holders claiming that the company isn't doing enough to stop piracy, despite the company's many efforts. However, this week, Google defended the amount of effort it puts in to suppressing stolen content in an updated anti-piracy report that goes over exactly what …

While 2015 was Microsoft’s ‘best lineup in Xbox history’, this year, it doesn’t look like the company has much left to show off beyond what we saw at E3 this year. As a result, Microsoft won’t be holding its own press conference at Gamescom 2016. This news was shared by …

One of the first big leaks we got surrounding the iPhone 7 was the lack of headphone jack on the new device. This sparked a lot of concern and many had hoped that by speaking out, Apple might change its mind. Unfortunately, the traditional headphone jack making an appearance on …

We are pretty used to smartphone makers battling it out in court with endless lawsuits over patents these days, so it is always refreshing to hear about two large companies cooperating instead. This week, Samsung and Nokia agreed to expand their patent sharing deal, giving each other access to a library …

If you have been waiting to upgrade your smartphone this year then you may want to keep your eye on Samsung at the beginning of August as the company is hosting a new launch event, most likely for the heavily leaked Galaxy Note 7. An invitation was sent out to …

Epic Games head, Tim Sweeney, has been quite outspoken when it comes to Microsoft recently. He has heavily criticised what the company is doing with the Universal Windows Platform for PC gaming but when it comes to Microsoft's new console plans with Project Scorpio, he is actually quite pleased. Now …

Blizzard announced some significant Overwatch news last night. Firstly, the studio announced Overwatch's newest hero ‘Ana', a new support character who uses a biotic rifle to restore health from a distance. Secondly, Blizzard also announced that it will no longer allow hero stacking in competitive play, meaning each team will be …

One of Nvidia's big selling points for its new Pascal graphics cards was the architecture's improved performance in virtual reality applications. Unfortunately, there have been some problems in that area since launch, with cards either not boosting clock speeds in VR, or the DisplayPort just not being compatible with the …

Oculus had quite the struggle when it came to meeting demand for the Rift headset at launch, to the point where it has taken the company nearly four months to fulfil pre-orders. The good news is that all pre-orders have now been fulfilled and anyone who wants an Oculus Rift …

Last month, Blizzard officially launched its competitive mode for Overwatch and players swiftly began taking part in the first season of play. However, there have been some issues, some of which stemmed from how the new skill ranking system works, which Blizzard is now trying to resolve. At first, if …

This week, Cooler Master is revamping its range of liquid coolers, fans and even thermal paste with the new MasterLiquid, MasterFan and MasterGel series of products. Later this month, the company will begin selling the MasterLiquid Pro 120 and 240, revamped all-in-one liquid coolers that optimise flow in order to …

At this point, we pretty much know exactly what to expect from Apple when Tim Cook walks out on stage at the annual iPhone announcement event in September. However, while the iPhone 7 (4.7-inch) won't look much different from the iPhone 6 and 6S, the iPhone 7 Plus will have …

Kim Dotcom has not only confirmed his plans to bring back Megaupload after several years offline, but the new version of the site will launch in January 2017 on the fifth anniversary of the raid that took down the site originally. Megaupload will be returning in a “bigger, better way” …

Sharing a Netflix account with friends or family is a very common practise these days but according to several judges in the US, this could actually be considered a criminal act and could be punishable by jail time under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Obviously, that is a ridiculous …

Back in 2014, during the build up to Shadow of Mordor's launch, Warner Bros own marketing campaign almost completely backfired when it was discovered that prominent YouTubers were being paid large sums of money for positive coverage surrounding the game. While paying YouTubers for sponsored content isn't uncommon, the rules …

If any of you were waiting on Vulkan support to start playing this year's Doom then you will be happy to hear that support has officially been implemented. Vulkan is a new graphics API created by Khronos Group and similarly to AMD's Mantle or DirectX 12, it gives developers lower …

Samsung has been raising the bar when it comes to the amount of storage it can cram into its consumer SSDs. Last year the company began selling 2TB versions of its popular 850 Evo drive and now this year, the company has doubled up on storage again and will begin …

It looks like mobile processor technology is continuing to move at a fast rate with Qualcomm announcing its latest flagship chip today, the Snapdragon 821, overthrowing the Snapdragon 820 chip currently found in most of the big Android flagship devices to have launched so far this year. The 821 isn't a massive …

Back in April last year, Valve announced that matchmaking in Team Fortress 2 was a ‘high priority' feature and just last week, the update finally came to the game. Unfortunately though, a lot of Team Fortress 2 players aren't particularly happy with how things work right now and as a result, …

The iPhone 7 isn't due to be officially revealed until September but as usual, there have been plenty of leaks hitting the web in the build up to that. This week, we got our best look at the iPhone 7's new design so far, showing off the new antenna lines and …

Pokemon Go signalled Nintendo's first big step into mobile gaming and sure enough, the company is already dominating the market. Pokemon Go has only launched officially in a couple of countries so far but its massive success has already added $7.5 billion to Nintendo's market value, with share prices rising …

Last week, we teamed up with Overclockers UK to give away one of the first custom RX 480 boards available in the UK- the Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480. We received thousands of entries for this competition but there can only be one winner, who we are announcing today. The winner is: …

Those in the UK who were planning on picking up the OnePlus 3 at its previously announced price will now have to pay out a little bit more due to the devaluation of the pound following on from the EU referendum. Dell has also taken steps by increasing its prices …

The Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod went on to become very popular after its launch and many had hoped that this would push Avalanche Studios to work on a multiplayer mode of its own for Just Cause 3. The latter did not end up happening and unfortunately, the Just Cause 3 …

A group of 20 major mobile network companies operating throughout Europe, including BT, Vodafone and Deuthsche Telekom have put forward a ‘5G manifesto', outlining the group's ability to bring faster 5G mobile networks to all countries within the European Union by 2020. However, there is a significant catch- net neutrality …

Following on from the release of its free demo, it seems that enough people were convinced by the upcoming System Shock Remake, leading to the game hitting and surpassing the $900,000 funding goal for its Kickstarter campaign, with over two weeks to spare. This does mean that Nightdive Studios will …

This week we saw the official announcement of Nvidia's latest addition to the Pascal family, the GTX 1060. At the time of announcement we got the specifications and we learned a little more about Pascal's exclusive features but we did not get pricing information for those of us in the UK. …

If you have been playing Overwatch non-stop since its launch at the end of May, then you may be wondering when new content is coming. Last week we finally got the game's competitive mode and now it looks like even more content is on the way, this time in the …