With the release of Doom this week, Nvidia has unveiled a newly optimised driver so that owners of its graphics cards can expect the best performance when running it. The new 365.19 WHQL release gives the game a nice boost, and even ups the efficiency for upcoming Homefront: The Revolution and February release, Master …
Read More »Nvidia reviewer for a day competition winners announced
Did you enter our recent competition to become a reviewer for a day and check out Nvidia's latest Shield Android TV hardware? Then you can uncross your fingers and toes, as today we have the chosen two who Nvidia picked to tell us and the world what they think of …
Read More »Cooler Master U.S. jumps gun, drops Mastercase Maker 5 early
Cooler Master's MasterCase Maker 5 popped up on the web a couple of days ago, showing us some of the features that it was teasing back at Computex 2015 and CeBit 2016. However it turns out that this was a little ahead of schedule, with Cooler Master confirming that the …
Read More »The Division closes in on 10 million ‘registered’ players
In just a couple of months, Tom Clancy's: The Division has become one of the most popular games in the world. At the latest earnings report, Ubisoft confirmed that it had just shy of 10 million registered users. These huge numbers helped Ubisoft have a very strong financial quarter. The …
Read More »Rumour says AMD might release Vega early but don’t get excited yet
Rumour has it that AMD might bump up the release of its ‘Vega' architecture graphics card. Just last month, AMD updated its GPU roadmap, showing Polaris launching this Summer and Vega coming in 2017 but following on from Nvidia's recent Pascal launch, some believe that AMD may now launch Vega …
Read More »Google rumoured to announce Android VR Headset next week
Google has been experimenting with virtual reality for a while now with its Cardboard headset and VR theatre mode for the YouTube mobile app. However, rumour has it that the company is looking to take a bigger step into the market with an Android VR headset, to take on Samsung …
Read More »Microsoft to remove Windows 10 option to share WiFi access
Microsoft has been making plenty of changes to Windows 10 since its initial launch in July of last year and soon it looks like one feature in particular will be getting the axe. In Windows 10, there is a feature called WiFi-Sense, which allows Windows 10 users to grant home …
Read More »World of Warcraft Legion beta kicks off today
There has been so much talk surrounding World of Warcraft, Nostalrius and vanilla servers recently that it would have been easy to forget about the game's upcoming expansion, Legion. The alpha phase for the expansion wrapped up a little while ago and now, it is time to move on to …
Read More »Peter Molynuex would be open to doing Fable 4
Microsoft officially closed down Lionhead Studios over the last few weeks and while the company did consider some offers from buyers, it didn't want to give up the rights to Fable, which is arguably the most well-known series to come out of Lionhead in years. This means that Microsoft may …
Read More »Forget three, four card SLI with Nvidia GTX 10 series GPUs
Although the market for those running more than two graphics cards in SLI was always rather small, there's still likely to be a few people disappointed that native support for three and four card set ups will not be supported by the Nvidia 10 series GPUs. Of course when performance …
Read More »Courts order Mega to hand over U.S. user data
Kim Dotcom's second file locker project (now disowned), Mega, has been hit with a court order in the U.S. demanding that the site hand over the user information for certain accounts. This comes after sensitive, foreign government documents were found on the site after a hack. This court action could be …
Read More »Opera browser update promises 50 per cent battery saving
If your smartphone or laptop's main use is browsing a number of websites, then it's worth considering jumping ship from Chrome to the new version of Opera, which comes with a new battery saver mode. Purportedly, it can cut up to 50 per cent of the power draw from browsing …
Read More »Oculus: Boost Henry’s fidelity with a simple file tweak
If you took a look at my recent review of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, while you'd know that it does lack a few more killer apps to make it a truly recommendable purchase, one experience I absolutely loved was Henry. If you can experience it yourself with your …
Read More »Dreamhack mod: Twitch chat needs stricter moderation
As much as we might all love a free and open internet at all times, it does mean that sometimes those with nothing nice to say take the stage and it's hard to get them off. That's why Esports organisation Dreamhack needs to take a greater stance against it, according to …
Read More »Micron GDDR5X memory has begun mass production
Micron has announced that it has begun the mass production of its faster and more power efficient GDDR5X video memory chips, which will feature on upcoming graphics cards this year, including the recently announced GTX 1080 from Nvidia. This follows on from reports at the end of March, showing the …
Read More »Samsung launches 256GB EVO micro SD card
Several companies have been pushing for larger storage options on micro SD cards recently. SanDisk launched a massive 200GB micro SD card earlier this year and now Samsung is pushing the tiny storage option even further with a 256GB EVO model of its own. The EVO Plus 256GB offers the …
Read More »The Xbook One has had a Star Wars makeover
Back in late 2014, console modder Ed Zarick took the new (at the time) Xbox One and PS4 consoles and turned them into laptops, known as the Xbook One and Playbook 4. The idea proved to be very popular, so much so that he has been able to make more …
Read More »There won’t be more Witcher 3 content after Blood and Wine
The Witcher 3 is coming to an end this month with the launch of Blood and Wine, the second and largest expansion for the game. Now, we know that this will in-fact be the last bit of content for The Witcher 3, as CD Projekt Red will be moving on …
Read More »Mass Effect: Andromeda is now coming out in 2017
EA and Bioware have been slowly ramping up the amount of information it is willing to share about Mass Effect: Andromeda over the last year. Back at E3 2015 we heard that the game was initially supposed to launch ‘holiday season' 2016 but the game needs a few extra months …
Read More »Microsoft could have sold Lionhead, but it didn’t want to
When Microsoft announced earlier this year that it was closing longtime studio Lionhead, it was the end of an era. But it turns out that it didn't have to be. Many other companies wanted to buy up the studio rather than see it close, but Micorosft was unwilling to sell …
Read More »Three and O2 merger denied by European anti-trust head
Europe's antitrust commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has rejected the bid by British mobile operators O2 and Three, to merge together into one giant entity. Citing “significant competition concerns,” with regards to the move, Vestager was also backed by British regulator OfCom, which agreed that it would be bad for consumers. Although …
Read More »Hyperloop transport is becoming a more likely reality
Hyperloop transport is a very futuristic sounding method of traversing large distances in exceedingly short time-spans, but it's looking more and more like a feasible technology. On top of one firm pursuing it achieving a licensing deal for its technology, another, Hyperloop One, has secured another $80 million in funding. …
Read More »Whatsapp now has desktop Windows and Mac clients
WhatsApp, the encrypted chat service owned by Facebook, has expanded its potential user base by a huge number, by introducing desktop clients for both Mac and Windows operating systems. The platform is now available to most technological users, also offering a web-app and the (now) traditional smartphone applications. The idea with …
Read More »Disney has officially ended Disney Infinity
One of the biggest gaming growth industries in recent years has been through mixed reality. Blending physical toys with a digital product has seen Amiibo become Nintendo's saving grace and Disney Infinity and Skylanders have earned billions a piece. Now though it seems it might have peaked, as Disney has …
Read More »Asus announces new X99 Signature and ROG Strix motherboards
It seems that several motherboard makers are preparing for the upcoming launch of Intel's Broadwell-E CPUs, as Asus has become the latest to unveil their new line-up of X99 Signature and ROG Strix motherboards. There are several new models joining the Asus enthusiast-grade line-up including the: ASUS Signature X99-Deluxe II, …
Read More »MSI first system maker to be VR certified by Intel and Vive
The big push for virtual reality in gaming is kicking off right now and in order to help the less tech-savvy buy a capable machine to run VR games, Intel, Oculus and HTC Vive have all come up with certification processes, to give specific systems a ‘VR Capable' badge. MSI …
Read More »The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine trailer has arrived, release date confirmed
The rumours surrounding The Witcher 3's next expansion, ‘Blood and Wine', can now come to an end as CD Projekt Red has put out the teaser trailer and officially confirmed the release date. While just yesterday we heard that Blood and Wine might be releasing on the 30th of May, …
Read More »Microsoft’s UWP now supports variable refresh rates
Microsoft has caught a lot of criticism over the last few months stemming from its new Universal Windows Platform. While at first, many PC gamers were excited about the idea of more Xbox exclusive games heading to the PC, Microsoft's new platform was woefully lacking in necessary features and heavily …
Read More »Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD comes to Steam this week
Square Enix has been making good on its word to bring more Final Fantasy games to the PC over the last couple of years, so much so that there is even talk of PC players eventually getting the Final Fantasy VII remake as well as Final Fantasy XV. While those …
Read More »Report suggests VPN use would skyrocket under Snooper’s Charter
Theresa May has been pushing the agenda for her “Snooper's Charter,” or to give it it's proper name, the Investigatory Powers Bill (IPB), for years now. Although she has claimed tracking everyone's browser history would aid in the fight against terrorism, research suggests that a lot of people would simply use …
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