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The Payday 2 player base has been in uproar since a recent update to the game introduced microtransactions, despite the fact that Overkill Studios at one point said that they would never resort to them. These premium crates can grant gameplay bonuses to players, which many have taken issue with. …

Getting automated vehicles to operate safely on the roads is one of the key concerns of those working on the various technologies that they use, but going too fast doesn't seem like one of them. In-fact the opposite is true in some cases, as a Google automated pod-car was recently …

As much as Edward Snowden might have drawn the most headlines and public attention in recent years, he's far from the only person to ever leave the NSA and blow the whistle on some of its more unscrupulous actions. Bill Binney is another such individual, having left the intelligence agency …

AMD is putting a lot of its eggs in the virtual reality basket, with a big push lately for its LiquidVR platform, an announcement of partnerships with system makers for Oculus Ready PCs and that's perhaps because it knows something we don't: that the next-generation of games consoles will have a …

Google and the British Museum have announced a partnership to expand the current Google Cultural Institute's offerings of digital musceum exhibits to anyone around the world. This represents one of the biggest team ups in the history of the project, with some 5,000 objects scanned, photographed and put online for …

As much as I loved Stoic Game's Banner Saga, with all of its Viking lore, Disney-like art style and tactical combat, the enemies in the game did grow a little dull after a while. They were all the same and their attacks didn't change much, even if they did have …

Gigabyte has prepared an update for its entire line-up of Nvidia Maxwell based graphics cards, ranging from the entry-level GTX 950 all the way up to the Titan X. All updated GPUs will fall under the new ‘Xtreme Gaming' brand, which features an updated version of the WindForce triple fan …

Although hardly the biggest country or even the one with a historic number of pirates, Sweden has been at the heart of the debate about online file sharing for as long as it has existed. As the home base of the Pirate Bay, the founding point for the now Europe …

The space race was arguably the best thing to come out of the Cold War. It would be insensitive to suggest that all of the problems it wrought on the world were worth getting people to the moon, but the competition of major powers trying to outdo each other in …

While Sony does have a promotional deal of its own for Star Wars Battlefront, Microsoft's exclusive on the EA Access program seems to supersede that as Xbox One owners in EA Access can already play Star Wars Battlefront. In an effort to help promote the game, Xbox gamers can download …

Blizzard has launched a lawsuit at the creators of several popular bot services that help players cheat at World of Warcraft, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard is accusing the bot developers of copyright infringement and also points out that bot services ruin the gaming experience for legitimate …

Last week a draft of the Investigatory Powers Bill was released by the British government, showing that it had roped in some of the Snooper's Charter Clauses into the new piece of anti-terror legislature. While it would have ISPs keep records on every customer's internet history for over a year, …

The Trans Pacific Partnership is the other side of the world's TTIP. It's a piece of legislation masquerading as a trade deal, which for a long time, leaked drafts of have scared privacy campaigners, doctors, tech companies, nationalists and just about every internet user who can wrap their head around …

It looks like Asus is preparing to get in to the augmented reality business, with its own pair of AR glasses. We recently heard that Asus might be interested in putting together its own version of the Hololens in collaboration with Microsoft but now it looks like the company might …

Despite being one of the most popular and beloved shows in the world, Game of Thrones can still only have one season per year, which means that for the other nine months or so, fans are left waiting and wondering what will happen next. Of course book fans have it …

Over the weekend, we learned that AMD had been hit with a class action lawsuit over its Bulldozer series of processors. The complaint stemmed from claims that AMD overstated the number of cores contained in the chip, stating that while AMD advertised the CPU as having eight cores, it only …

Nvidia has today launched a new GPU module known as the Jetson TX1. It's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand but powerful enough to bring GPU accelerated artificial intelligence to robots, drones and other devices. The Jetson TX1 is based on Nvidia's current Maxwell architecture, which …

TalkTalk has been in the news a lot these past couple of weeks, after a major hack saw the details of thousands of customers stolen. So far four people have been arrested in connection to the hack and the ISP has been working on contacting every customer that had their …

Google has revealed that its Chrome browser will soon no longer support some slightly older versions of OS X, along with older versions of Windows. Starting in April next year, Google will no longer deliver Chrome browser updates or security fixes for those running Windows XP or Windows Vista, though …

We have been hearing a lot about the future of Google and Android recently. First we heard that the company was looking to build its own processor for future devices, then we heard that it may also be looking to standardize Android hardware, similarly to how Apple has standardized the …

Recently the rumour mill has begun churning out early information for Apple's device plans for next year. While Samsung may not be putting together Apple's A-series chips for the iPhone 7, it is said to potentially be providing displays, which would mean that Apple may ditch LCD in favour of …

Just Cause 2 was a hugely popular title for Avalanche Studios, which was helped by the creation of a multiplayer mod on the PC. Earlier in development, we know that there was talk of multiplayer being added to Just Cause 3 but it looks like for now, the studio isn't …

Around two years ago, Valve announced that it would be trying to tackle PC gaming in the living room, with its own version of the Gamepad, along with Steam OS and Steam Machines. All three of those things have now finally arrived after much debate and tweaking, so in order …

“We haven't had a Stasi or a Gestapo in Britain, so are intellectually lazy about surveillance,” said Tory MP David Davis recently, and that's something a lot of people seem to agree with. Following the publishing of the draft version of the Investigatory Powers Bill, proposed by Theresa May last week, …

Sports are a major part of many people's lives, with some living and dying by the results of their favourite teams. For those that aren't hardcore fans of any one entity though, fantasy sports can be a fun way to imagine how you'd do as a team manager, or a …

There's trouble in the eSports scene once again, proving that even the paradise-sounding world of professional video game playing, there are pitfalls. One of them is your CEO just not paying you, as appears to have happened in the case of Swedish gaming outfit, Ninjas in Pyjamas. While no concrete admissions …

Windows 10 was always going to be fairly popular with gamers thanks to the addition of DirectX 12. However, it seems things have taken off quicker than expected as Steam users have been quick to adopt Microsoft's latest operating system, with Windows 10 now being more popular than Windows 8 …

Nvidia has acknowledged a bug currently affecting some GTX cards running G-Sync on high refresh rate displays. The bug seems to be causing higher than normal clock speeds, power draw and temperatures while idling in Windows while using G-Sync and a 144Hz monitor. For those who don't know, G-Sync is …

Ubisoft's upcoming shooter, Rainbow Six: Siege is heading to the PC in December as long as there are no further delays. If any of you are planning on picking it up, then you will need to ensure you have the hardware to run it properly, so here are the full …

Samsung is betting bigger on virtual reality this year, as it plans to release another version of its GearVR headset, this time aimed at consumers. This year's latest model is already available to pre-order and will ship this month with a slight re-design and a much lower price. Oculus is once …