There has been a lot of confusion surrounding the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter. At first, it was assumed that Sony would be footing a significant portion of the bill for development, considering the game's announcement on the Sony stage at E3. This idea was spurred along by the fairly small $2 …
Read More »PlayStation VR will have 120Hz and 90Hz display modes
Sony recently changed the name for Project Morpheus, the comany's upcoming virtual reality headset for use with the PS4. The headset is now known as PlayStation VR and the final specs have been officially nailed down. Now, Sony has confirmed that the headset will feature 90Hz and 120Hz display modes …
Read More »Sony’s 4K smartphone won’t actually display much at 4K
A few weeks back, we learned that Sony is launching the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium this year, the first smartphone on the market to feature a 4K display. However, it turns out that the display may rarely actually display things at that resolution. Sony has confirmed that the phone will …
Read More »OcUK cuts price of KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 ‘8Pack Edition’ by 10%
Factory-overclocked graphics adapters offer performance and features that are simply not available on add-in-boards designed by developers of graphics processing units. Unfortunately, graphics cards with extreme clock-rates and high overclocking potential also cost considerably more than adapters based on reference designs. Fortunately, from time to time stores offer great deals on them. Overclockers …
Read More »Apple has released its ‘Move to iOS’ app on Android
Apple didn't just launch iOS 9 last night, but it also launched its recently announced tool to help Android users switch over to an iPhone. ‘Move to iOS' is Apple's first Android app and it does exactly what the name suggests, it helps Android users move their pictures, contacts, bookmarks, …
Read More »The Star Wars Battlefront beta is open to everyone
DICE recently announced the Star Wars Battlefront beta for October, though at the time some of the finer details were left out. Now, we know quite a bit more about the beta, for starters, it will be open to everyone on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It will …
Read More »MSI and Corsair team up to launch GTX 980TI Sea Hawk
MSI and Corsair have teamed up to launch the GTX 980Ti Sea Hawk, combining the best of air and liquid cooling. The new GPU was officially announced at the Tokyo Game Show this week, combining MSI's expertise in graphics cards with Corsair's highly rated closed loop liquid coolers. The GTX …
Read More »TellTale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is releasing next month
Another game has been added to the busy October release line-up. This time it's TellTale's Minecraft: Story Mode, which was announced earlier this year. The game will be similar to TellTale's other titles in that it will also be a point and click adventure. The game is launching on the …
Read More »Lenovo to merge its servers product lines, drop IBM brands by 2017
Lenovo Group plans to unify its server product lines under one brand in about 1.5 years from now, the company revealed in an interview. The unification of the product lines will result in drop of all IBM brands from all devices the company currently offers. Back in early 2014 Lenovo …
Read More »AMD reportedly begins to fight back market share from Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices began to fight back its market share from Nvidia Corp. in the third quarter of the year, a financial analyst revealed on Wednesday. While Nvidia still dominates the market, the launch of AMD’s latest graphics cards helped the company to improve its sales a bit. “Graphics processor …
Read More »Sales of VR headsets to hit three million in 2016, 30 million by 2020
Being designed primarily for video games, virtual reality headsets will unlikely become popular overnight after they hit the market in 2016, but several years down the road their installed base will approach that of certain game consoles, according to a study from Juniper Research. Analysts from Juniper Research predict that …
Read More »Shortages of AMD Radeon R9 Fury-series graphics cards persist
About three months since the formal announcement, Advanced Micro Devices’ flagship products based on the code-named “Fiji” graphics processing units are still in extremely short supply, according to a market analyst and various retailers. At present, AMD offers Radeon R9 Fury X and Radeon R9 Nano based on the fully-fledged …
Read More »Overclockers UK has massive display sale: Discounts up to 20%
Overclockers UK is running a huge sale of displays with rather substantial discounts. The campaign includes several dozens of various monitors from different makers and with different screen sizes. For a limited time only, OcUK offers 3 to 20 per cent discounts on displays from various makers, including Asustek Computer, …
Read More »id Software helped build the shooting mechanics for Fallout 4
We seem to be learning more about Fallout 4 by the week as we get closer and closer to launch. While Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas had fairly unexceptional gun-play, Bethesda has taken a different approach with Fallout 4 and brought Doom developer, id Software, in on the project …
Read More »Apple delays Watch OS 2 after discovering bug
Apple was all set to launch Watch OS 2 and iOS 9 in just under two hours time. However, it seems that Apple Watch owners will now need to wait a bit longer for their upgrade as Apple has discovered a critical bug with its smart watch software at the …
Read More »Huawei Nexus 6 to feature Snapdragon 810, 1440p display
Google is gearing up to launch Android Marshmallow alongside two brand new smartphones this year. One being the Nexus 5 from LG, which we have already heard quite a bit about and the second smartphone being the new Nexus 6 from Chinese company, Huawei. We haven't heard quite as much …
Read More »Apple may eventually let you delete the default apps on iOS
Apple may finally let you delete the pre-installed apps that come with iOS devices at some point in the future. According to the company's CEO, Tim Cook, Apple is currently “looking at” letting iPhone and iPad buyers remove the stock apps, which include things like Tips, Stocks, Compass, Podcasts and …
Read More »Valve has finally updated the hitboxes in CS:GO
One of the biggest gripes players have had with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive up to now has been the hitboxes. The problem was made really apparent a few months back when someone made a gif of a crouched player being shot repeatedly at point-blank range and yet, taking no damage. At …
Read More »Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 will juice Android devices faster than ever
Yesterday Qualcomm made several announcements, one being its new Snapdragon 820 flagship mobile chip and the rest being the new features that come with it. One of those features is Quick Charge 3.0, which aims to solve the battery life problem by getting your device from 0% to 80% in …
Read More »Deepcool Tristellar case, 750W PSU and Liquid Cooler winner announced!
A few weeks back we launched a competition to win Deepcool's unique Tristellar case, a 750W 80Plus Gold modular power supply and finally, Deepcool's Captain 120 liquid CPU cooler. We had thousands of entries for this contest but there can only be one winner. The entire bundle is worth around …
Read More »Rockstar isn’t impressed with The BBC’s GTA TV show
Last year it was revealed that The BBC would be making a TV show about the rise of Rockstar and their first game, Grand Theft Auto. It turns out that The BBC never actually got Rockstar on-board with the project, so a lawsuit was filed but still, the show aired …
Read More »Sharp may introduce its first 8K UHD displays in October
Sharp Corp. has been among the most prominent supporters of the next-generation 8K ultra-high-definition resolution and may also be the first company to actually offer commercial 8K displays, according to a media report. The screens will be used for commercial applications and will hardly find their ways to homes. Sharp …
Read More »Intel will begin to sell mainstream ‘Skylake’ CPUs in late September
Even though Intel Corp. has formally introduced code-named “Skylake” microprocessors for desktop computers, many of such central processing units are still not available. Apparently, Intel only intends to start their sales to end-users in late September. It is not a secret that Intel’s latest CPUs for enthusiasts that feature unlocked …
Read More »Intel: Skipping ‘Broadwell’ CPUs for desktops was a mistake
Due to issues with yields, Intel Corp. had to delay mass production of central processing units made using 14nm fabrication process by almost a year. Instead of releasing enthusiast-class processors based on the “Broadwell” micro-architecture in 2014, the company decided to launch new “Haswell” chips with higher clock-rates. Right now, …
Read More »Sony slashes price of PlayStation 4 at Tokyo Game Show
Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4 system is the fastest selling game console in history. Sales dynamics of Sony’s PS4 suggests that it does not need a price-cut to remain popular. Nonetheless, the company announced plans to reduce the price of its PlayStation 4 starting from the 1st of October. The …
Read More »Apacer unveils 64GB 3GHz DDR4 SO-DIMM memory kit for laptops
Apacer on Tuesday unveiled a lineup of new DDR4 SO-DIMM memory kits for high-performance laptops. The new kits have up to 64GB capacity and can operate at clock-rates of up to 3000MHz. The new modules are designed for Intel’s new mobile “Skylake” central processing units and high-end gaming and workstation …
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians will use dynamic resolution tech to stay at 60fps
Halo 5: Guardians is on the way next month from 343 Industries. It's set to be Microsoft's biggest exclusive launch of the year however, some compromises have had to be made throughout development. At first, local co-op was cut from the game in order to maintain 60 frames per second …
Read More »Sony is closing down its EU online store
Sony has announced that it is shutting down its online store for Europe. From now on, Sony will only be selling its goods through its retail partners within the EU, likely in further effort to cut costs due to the company's poor financial state at the moment. The company confirmed …
Read More »Apple’s iPad Pro may be in short supply due to lack of displays
Apple announced its new slew of iOS products last week, one of them being the massive 12-inch iPad Pro tablet. The new device will be available in November though a new rumour suggests that they may be limited in units due to a display panel shortage. According to a supply-chain …
Read More »Sapphire is now shipping the AMD R9 Nano
Sapphire has announced that it has begun shipping the Radeon R9 Nano, AMD's latest graphics card that packs the full power of a Fury chip on to a tiny 6-inch PCB, featuring High-Bandwith Memory (HBM) along with support for DirectX 12, which is starting to be implemented in to games …
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