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Rocket League, one of the biggest break out successes of 2015, has been running its first season of ranked play for several months now, with no initial announcement about how long it would be. Well now we know, roughly. Psyonix' first update of 2016 will bring an end to Season …

We recently heard that Sony is currently trying to trademark the term ‘Let's Play', a fairly common phrase used by YouTubers and streamers. Now, a law firm specializing in video games/entertainment is formally protesting this, arguing that the term is now ‘generic' and should not be trademarked. The US Patent and Trademark …

Corsair's RAM kits have become quite popular over the years and have earned a solid reputation. However, things are about to get kicked up a notch as Corsair has revealed its new Vengeance 32GB, 64GB and 128GB DDR4 memory kits, which also happen to be its fastest ever. Corsair's new …

Over the last few generations of Windows, Microsoft has continued to offer up support for the latest processors from both AMD and Intel. However, that is set to change as Microsoft has revealed that future processors will only be supported on Windows 10, the company will also be dropping support …

Back in September 2015, early buyers of the iPhone 6S began experiencing a battery percentage bug that stopped the status bar from accurately showing how much power users had left in the device. It has taken a while but Apple has finally acknowledged this issue and has offered a temporary …

Grand Theft Auto V has been out for quite a while now but still there are plenty of people out there hoping that Rockstar will eventually release some single player DLC. Recently, rumours surrounding new single player story content began making the rounds but unfortunately, it looks like the actor …

It has almost been two years since Facebook purchased WhatsApp for a massive $19 billion but since then, the company hasn't really done anything with it or changed the way it operates at all. However, one big change is finally happening- WhatsApp is dropping its annual subscription entirely. WhatsApp's subscription …

Microsoft wrote off its Nokia buyout deal last year, signifying potential changes to its Windows Phone line. It turns out that the company might be releasing its final Lumia smartphone next month in the form of the Lumia 650 and from there, it will be moving in a new direction. …

HTC has been trying to hype up its Vive virtual reality headset ever since its initial unveiling last year. At one point, the company teased Half-Life 3 and later had to apologize for it, the company then announced a ‘huge technological breakthrough' for the Vive that actually turned out to …

Although its much less of a common tactic today than it once was, some movie distributors still like to target individual downloaders and attempt to have them pay through the nose for pirating a single movie. Considering defending yourself can be an expensive practice, one judge in the U.S. has …

In an effort to help obscure its communications from the many worldwide intelligence agencies trying to hunt them down, members of terrorist group Daesh now have their own encrypted chat application. This follows members of the organisations being kicked off of the likes of WhatsApp, Telegram and other platforms. Governments …

The race is on it seems to find a career that won't be taken over by a robot in years to come. A new study from economic forum, Davos (not Seaworth), has suggested as many as five million jobs in developed countries around the world will be lost over the next five …

Space X has once again narrowly missed out on a successful drone-ship landing of its Falcon 9 first stage booster rocket. Although the orbital launch vehicle did manage to touch back down on the automated platform, it only stood upright for a few seconds before toppling over and exploding on …

One of the more irritating trends that's emerged out of games being made for console and ported to PC, is that the graphics options can be extremely limited. That's not the case with the upcoming Tom Clancy's The Division though, as its list of tweakable settings in the graphics menu …

Back in the day, the Xbox 360 had a few issues, not only were red rings of death a problem but at one point, discs were being scratched as well. A lawsuit that launched nine years ago over scratched game discs has now escalated to the US Supreme Court, where …

Microtransactions have become an expected part of any Ubisoft game, whether it be extra payment options to skip through content or additional ‘boosters' to speed up progress for those with less time. However, these options apparently won't be present in The Division, so while the game will have additional cosmetic …

Microsoft began allowing developers to experience its augmented reality headset, the HoloLens in the company's flagship store in New York City recently. While developers can experiment with different tools, Microsoft has been tight-lipped on details such as retail, pricing, and battery life. However, at a recent event in Tel Aviv, …

The Mobile World Congress is coming up next month so we will get a good look at plenty of new smartphones for release this year. However, that doesn't mean things won't leak beforehand, as is the case here with reports claiming that Microsoft is currently planning two new flagship smartphones …

Intel could be planning quite a bit this year with its new lineup, not only have we heard talk of a new Broadwell-E processor featuring ten cores and twenty threads but now, the chip maker could be planning to release a 5.1GHz Xeon too, which will be its fastest ever …

Respawn Entertainment will likely debut Titanfall 2 this year, which we already knew was in development. However, the studio is also working on a second project that hasn't been announced yet but we do know that it isn't Titanfall related and it is set to be a 3rd person action/adventure …

Google has been working on its ‘Project Tango' smartphone for quite some time now. The device is designed to create 3D maps of its surroundings but it had just been a prototype until now, as Google is teaming up with Lenovo to implement Project Tango's features into a new smartphone …

The Witcher 3 was the game of the year for many last year but CD Projekt Red isn't done with the game just yet. We still have one large expansion left, Blood and Wine, and according to the game's writer, it is going to be better than the base game. …

If you are a PC gamer, then chances are you often use Steam, which means that the Steam Hardware Survey is actually a pretty nice source of information from time to time. According to Valve's results from December, Windows 7 is still the most popular operating system, with Windows 10 …

Earlier this week, news came to light that there is a bug with Intel's Skylake processors, causing the CPU to freeze during hard-working/complex scenarios while running certain applications like Prime95. This isn't something that day-to-day users or even gamers should expect to face but still, it is an issue that …

IO Interactive has struggled quite a bit with its messaging for the new Hitman game, which was originally due to launch back in December before being delayed. Hitman sure was sounding like an episodic game, with 60 percent of the game to be made available on launch with ‘regular content …

Six years ago, Steve Jobs announced the iAd service designed to allow mobile publishers to serve up unobtrusive advertisements on iOS. However, due to Apple's standard 30 percent cut on anything sold via the iOS platform, prices were quite high and the service never really took off, which means that …

Netflix is a decent enough service but due to geographic content restrictions and licensing issues, the US tends to have the best overall library of content, causing many subscribers across the world to use VPNs or proxy services to spoof their location. In the past, Netflix hasn't really done much …

G.Skill only recently entered the peripheral game, but it made big strides in 2015 with some of our favourite peripherals of the year coming from that camp. So it's good to hear that it plans to stay in the keyboard business, with the announcement of a new addition to that …

Although drones have promised lots of interesting developments in film making, surveillance and delivery, they are getting powerful enough to transport people, as we saw recently. But forget making travel easy for the rich, transporting injured people between the scene of an accident and a hospital quickly and without disturbance …

If you look back to the late '90s, early '00s, there were a lot of people claiming that the internet wasn't a threat to their business and wouldn't change the way we do things. That's why it feels like deja vu when head of NBC's research and media development, Alan Wurtzel, claims …