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We have another little competition running today over on our Facebook page – the chance to win a a copy of DOOM (2016) on PC! There's no major catch, all you need to do is head over to our Facebook page and give an entertaining caption to the image below …

As surveillance increases across the world for civilians, perhaps it's a good thing that those enforcing the laws are also being scrutinised. 3,000 Police in Manchester are set to be fitted with body cameras, though much of when and how they are used, will be left up to the officers …

Rightscorp is one of the world's most prolific letter senders when it comes to chasing after pirates. Over the past few years it's sent out thousands of demands for money to alleged illegal downloaders, but that model may no longer be viable, as the organisation has reported a quarterly loss …

One of the big arguments for more government surveillance, is that they're only ever after metadata. While that is rarely true, in the cases that it is, it's cited as being just a record of your calls, not the content of them. But it turns out that knowing who was …

Considering all of the celebrity cameos in videogames over recent years, it's perhaps no surprise that Turner Broadcasting run Esports organisation, ELEAGUE, is doing the same to promote this year's Counter Strike tournament. Instead of going with a classical actor though, it went with Shaq Fu and Kazaam star Shaquille O' …

As much as videogames might have evolved its system of reserving copies of games into a pushy pre-order one, that hasn't happened with other forms of media. Perhaps it's apt then, that a movie inspired by a pre-order heavy franchise, Assassin's Creed, has introduced more-pre-ordering to the world. Yes, as …

The reviews are in and Pascal is officially here, making its début with the GTX 1080 which by all accounts, is an excellent graphics card. However, Nvidia has one other Pascal graphics card coming out fairly soon- the GTX 1070 and today, we got confirmation on some of its specifications …

Now that the reveals for the Moto G are out of the way, the rumour mill has turned its attention to Lenovo/Motorola's 2016 flagship device, previously presumed to carry the ‘Moto X' moniker. However, it turns out that this may not be the case and Lenovo might switch up the …

Apple isn't very good at keeping a lid on its future product plans these days but today's news doesn't really come from any ‘leak' or anonymous source. Instead, today's information has been deduced from Apple's public hiring tactics as it turns out that the company has recently brought on quite …

CD Projekt Red gave us the surprise announcement that its final Witcher 3 expansion, Blood and Wine, would be coming out at the end of this month. The new expansion is already up for pre-order on Steam and some early gameplay videos are floating around but what level should you …

There have been a lot of Dragonball Z games over the years and while some have been pretty good, they haven't all been great. However, when Dragonball Xenoverse launched last year, it brought a breath of fresh air to the series and now, we will be getting a sequel, as …

Oculus might have become the first to launch a Pixar-esque 360 degree movie with Henry, Lost and Invasion, but Disney isn't going to sit on its laurels. To get its virtual ball rolling, it's released Disney Movies VR, a steam-accessible VR experience that offers a number of different content to enjoy …

German police have scooped up five men said to be responsible for the darknet drug seller, Chemical Love. Caught with upwards of 60kg of various illegal substances, the group are said to have completed sales of more than 1.3 million euros from 1,500 transactions, making this the biggest online drug seller …

Image analysis has come on a long way in recent years, offering us everything from interesting analytics reports to face swapping, but an amalgamation of those two developments has some privacy campaigners concerned. A new app becoming very popular in Russia, known as FindFace, can figure out who someone is …

One of the reasons link shorteners became so popular was because Twitter has always restricted everything you put in a Tweet to those 140 characters, but not any more. Moving forward, Twitter is set to eliminate links and photos from user's character counts, meaning we can all say a little …

With the DotA 2 International competition kicking off at the end of June, that means it's time to generate some prize money. In what has become a tradition, Valve plans to build that with gamer dollars, by offering them prizes, upgrades and unlocks for DotA 2 through the sale of …

It has been quite some time since we first heard that Western Digital would be acquiring SanDisk but now, WD has officially completed its purchase following on from regulator approval last week. This buyout was announced all the way back in October 2015 in a deal worth close to $19 …

Motorola has been gearing up to announce a new smartphone this year but now it looks like it has been beaten to the punch by none other than the FCC. The Federal Communications Commission has just certified two upcoming Motorola smartphones for sale in the US, which are currently expected …

The European Commission currently has several anti-trust cases out against Google, one of which focuses on the company's monopoly on Search Engines. Some companies have accused Google of favouring its own services in search results and while Google has made its defence, reports this week are saying that the EU …

Some of you will remember back in March that a HD remake of the original System Shock was announced. However, now it turns out that the project needs to be crowd funded, so it will be landing on Kickstarter at the end of next month. There is currently some pre-alpha …

It is almost that time of the year again, the time to prepare your wallets and dust off your Gaben shrines as the dates for the Steam Summer sale have appeared online, thanks to a leaked update sent out to developers/publishers so they can set their discounts for the sale …

DOOM is finally here, complete with a fantastic campaign, Snap Map system and plenty of multiplayer modes to jump in to but is the PC version up to snuff?  When the DOOM open beta came around, the advanced graphics options were locked out so we didn't really know what to …

Think Amazon selling other companies' food was weird? It's about to get a whole lot stranger, as you could be buying Amazon own-brand food before the year is out. Already the undisputed king of online retail, it's continuing its expansion into other fields by offering perishable and unperishable goods like …

Following on from the Bangladeshi hack last month that looked to spirit away almost a billion dollars worth of funds, Vietnam's Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank has been hit in the same way. Using an exploit in the SWIFT bank messaging system, hackers attempted to steal a further $1.13 million. …

Considering everyone from professional sportsmen and women, to TV fraudsters call upon the lord to help them with their task at hand, perhaps asking for aid with rural internet speeds isn't such a bad thing. Churches around the UK could soon begin bolstering local wireless performance by utilising their spires …

Nintendo's biggest successes in recent years have come from it leaving its comfort zone. Building a new Amiibo business has worked well, likewise branching out into smartphone games. Continuing that ethos moving forward, Nintendo is now said to be looking into creating feature films of its major characters. Inarguably Nintendo's …

Securing Valve as a development partner for its Vive headset was one of HTC's biggest coups in recent memory and now StarBreeze is looking to do something similar. Not on the software front though, but with regards to manufacturing and R&D, as it's partnered with Acer to make its higher …

Microsoft's Project Spark came around shortly after the release of the Xbox One. It was an ambitious concept in which players would have access to hundreds of assets and tools to form their own maps, levels and stories which would then be shared with everyone else. Unfortunately, it never quite …

Samsung has been showing off its foldable display technology for the last couple of years at trade shows like CES but we may finally see it hit the consumer market next year as reports this week suggest that Samsung's first foldable display smartphone could arrive in 2017. Samsung's foldable smartphone …

A couple of years ago, the Peachy Printer hit Kickstarter, promising backers the world's first $100 3D printer. The team behind the product wanted just $50,000 Canadian dollars to get the project off of the ground but the project caught on with the wider web and they ended up with well …