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MSI is no stranger to system building at this point, following the making of its Nightblade line of micro-ATX gaming desktops. However, MSI wants to shrink things even further this year with the Vortex, a compact gaming system, custom built inside a cylinder-shaped case- it's essentially the gamer version of …

There are quite a few examples of bad apps on Apple's App Store. However, once in a while, we come across an outright scam, which is the case here with Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2, a fake sequel to Minecraft being sold for £4.99 and topping the App Store charts. The …

Yesterday, pre-orders for the Oculus Rift officially went live, revealing a £499.99 price tag that caught many people off guard and left some questioning exactly why the Rift ended up being so expensive, particularly since the development kits came in at around the $300-$350 mark. However, Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey …

Qualcomm has announced the first smartphone to use its brand new Snapdragon 820 chip though it isn't Samsung as previous rumours may have suggested, instead, it's a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer called Letv. The smartphone in question is known as the Letv Le Max Pro and was revealed during Qualcomm's …

We have been hearing for a while that Apple may be planning to ditch the headphone jack in an effort to make the iPhone 7 even thinner and now, new reports seem to be backing that idea up. According to supply chain sources in China, Apple has officially dropped the …

After its brief stint as a Xbox exclusive title, Rise of the Tomb Raider is officially making its way over to the PC in a couple of weeks time. In order to celebrate, Nvidia will be bundling a free copy of the game with purchases of its GTX 900-series graphics …

For years now, PC builders have had to deal with a noisy stock CPU cooler at one point or another, whether it be from Intel or AMD. However, things could improve this year as AMD has demoed its newly designed ‘Wraith' stock CPU cooler, which aims to be much quieter …

This year, Ubisoft will be spinning off the Far Cry franchise with a more survival-focussed game- Far Cry Primal. When it comes to survival games, most studios tend to focus on the multiplayer experience but Ubisoft is going about things a bit differently and has revealed that Far Cry Primal …

As much as 3D printers are an awesome invention offering home-brew modellers and enthusiasts a chance to create lots of fun items out of plastic, you do still need resin or some other uncommon building materials to actually construct them with. Not so with Mcor's Arke though, as it uses …

2015 was in many ways, a disappointing year. For all of its technological breakthroughs and attempts at hoverboards, the hard truth is that the year came and went without a viable flying car. Doc Brown would be sorely disappointed. However perhaps there's hope yet, as despite the failings of the …

Yesterday's launch of Oculus Rift Pre-Orders was rather manic, with thousands or perhaps even tens of thousands of people trying to buy the headset, despite it coming in at around double the expected cost. To answer some people's concerns and others' hopes for the future, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey took …

Towards the end of 2014, Logitech jumped on the RGB craze with a brand new flagship keyboard, the G910 Orion Spark – not only did the keyboard offer fantastic lighting but it also had a row of additional macro keys and featured Logitech's own mechanical Romer-G switches. Unfortunately, given its …

The second largest TV and broadband provider in the U.S., Time Warner Cable, has released a statement saying that around a third of a million of its customers may have had their email and passwords copied away by hackers. At this early stage in the investigation however, it was keen …

Continuing its trend of successfully crowd funding its way to its next developmental project, Double Fine has succeeded in generating enough funds from its community of fans to make Psychonauts 2 a reality. Along with the news, Double Fine and its founder Tim Schafer released a video telling us just how …

Today, Razer announced the latest edition to its highly praised ‘Blade' line of gaming laptops. This time around, though, Razer is doing things a little differently by releasing a 12.5-inch Ultrabook that will pair up with the Razer Core, a powered GPU enclosure for those that still want the desktop …

We continue to make our way through all of the announcements coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Today, Asus unveiled the MB169C+, a portable monitor designed to run on just a single USB Type-C connection. This is the world's first 15.6-inch portable monitor to be powered by …

A couple of weeks back, HTC teased that it had to delay the Vive VR headset due to a major technological breakthrough, which it promised to show off this year at CES. Well, that time has come and HTC now has a new development kit called the Vive Pre, which …

Razer is usually one of the key companies to look out for during CES as it often makes new product announcements or shows off interesting prototypes. This year, Razer came to the trade show armed with a few things, one of which was the self-proclaimed ‘world's most advanced webcam'. The …

Despite talking up its cloud gaming service just six months ago, Square Enix has made the decision to close down Shinra Technologies. Shinra was set to be a cloud gaming service, that would render graphics through ‘the cloud' and create a “groundbreaking experience not possible with today's current gaming technology”. …

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is now available for pre-order, priced at $600 (£530 inc. shipping the UK). This is vastly more than the originally projected $300-$350 cost for the consumer head mounted display (HMD), but we were warned previously by Palmer Luckey and several others involved in its …

It looks like Apple is currently scaling back on the production of iPhones according to new reports this week. Apparently, Apple is cutting down on its iPhone orders by 30 percent, which is having a knock-on effect on the Chinese suppliers, which have had to lay off staff due to …

Over the last year, there has been quite a bit of drama in the professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene, particularly when it comes to match-fixing after several teams were found to have intentionally staged games in order to profit off of illegal bets. At the time, Valve ‘indefinitely suspended' 21 …

It has been a long time coming but Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on several older versions of its browser, Internet Explorer. IE versions 8, 9 and 10 all reach end of life next Tuesday, which means there will be no more fixes, patches or security improvements. There is …

Today is the day that we finally learn how much the final version of the Oculus Rift will cost, with pre-orders set to go live in just a couple of hours time. While some may have prepared their bank accounts for the purchase already, Oculus won't actually be charging for …

Although stopping game-pirates has seen developers get creative with their methods, it often seems about as futile as copyright protections on movies and music. That may not be the case for much longer though, as a Chinese cracking group has warned that if DRM protections continue to increase in complexity, …

Update: Overclockers UK has announced that due to the success of its partnership with GAME stores in Basingstoke and Manchester, it will be rolling out its high-end gaming PCs and components to eight more locations around the country. Already prospective buyers can pop into Stockton's Teeside Shopping Park to see …

Altering reality is perhaps the biggest theme of the Consumer Electronics Show this year, but it's not all about HTC and Oculus, as DAQRI has come up with an AR device of its own, powered by an Intel processor, RealSense 3D camera, and the ability to overlays schematics and blueprints …

Twitter may be set to bring an end to its most iconic feature: the ability to type no more than 140 characters in a tweet. The number is synonymous with the service, but according to various sources that are said to be “familiar with the company's plans,” the prevailing winds …

NASA has been making a splash at this year's CES, but not by showing off technological developments like crew capsules or rocket engines, but with virtual reality. The American space agency brought along a number of VR and AR headsets and is using them to give the public an experience …

According to one firm, the Nintendo NX may be much closer to release than we all expected. Japanese finance company, Nomura Securities, has stated publicly that it believes Nintendo will announce the next-generation console by May, reveal it by June and will get it on shelves and into the hands …