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Data miners snooping around the Metal Gear Solid V files on the PC have discovered evidence that a third chapter for the game was planned but for some reason was cut from the game. The extra chapter for the game would have been called ‘Peace', apparently this part of the …

Update: Minutes after this news story was initially published, EA and Ghost Games officially announced that Need for Speed for the PC has been delayed until ‘Spring 2016'. The delay has been partially attributed to unlocking the frame rate.  Ever since Battlefield 4, EA has been giving its upcoming games more betas. …

The former CEO of Mt Gox, Mark Karpelès has been officially charged with embezzlement by Japanese prosecutors. The former head of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange is said to have embezzled ¥321 million or £1.7 million. The exchange itself fell apart in 2014 after hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins disappeared …

Microsoft recently released its digital assistant, Cortana, for Android as a standalone app. However, Cyanogen has some bigger plans in mind, mulling over the possibility of deeply integrating Cortana with Cyanogen OS in order to access functions similar to those you would find on Cortana for Windows Phone or Siri on …

Asus recently unveiled a new line of very impressive sounding ROG Swift gaming monitors and soon, you will be able to pick one up, as Overclockers UK has first dibs on pre-orders. Right now, three new monitors are up on the store, one being the Asus PG279Q, a 2560×1440 IPS …

Kim Dotcom has been fighting a non stop legal battle with the US for years now over Megaupload. Dotcom and a few other people involved with Megaupload were trying to appeal for more time to prepare for an upcoming US extradition hearing, but their request has been denied by the …

Sadly, earlier this year Nintendo's former president, Satoru Iwata passed away. Since then, the creator of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto and Wii architect, Genyo Takeda, have been taking care of the company but now it is time for the new company president to be officially named. Nintendo's Tatsumi Kimishima has been …

Blizzard has been beta testing its next expansion for Starcraft 2 for quite some time now and soon, we will get to play it for ourselves as the release date for Legacy of the Void has been announced. In addition to the release date, Blizzard also released the opening cinematic. …

Seagate Technology claims that no matter how cheap NAND flash memory will get in the coming years, it will never be able to match the per-gigabyte price of rotating magnetic media used in hard disk drives. In fact, the price of one gigabyte on a HDD will decrease to half …

The latest Apple iPhone 6S costs the company about the same amount of money as predecessors, according to preliminary estimates by analysts from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Despite of the fact that the new iPhone 6S is significantly different from the iPhone 6, Apple and its manufacturing partners have …

Seagate Technology confirmed this week that it plans to introduce several new products based on its latest technologies later this year. Among the new hard drives set to be launched are the highly-anticipated HDDs with 10TB capacity for archive applications as well as several other new products. “As we continue …

Dark Souls 3 is on the way, with many having already seen and played the game at trade shows this year. However, now we have our first release date for the game, though it only applies to Japan for now. Dark Souls 3 is set to launch on the 24th …

A team of Minecraft players have banded together over the last year to recreate The Shire from Lord of the Rings. This could be one of the best large-scale building projects ever undertaken in the game, with 25 people contributing to it overall. Images of the map were uploaded to …

On the back of news that Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to push the Surface Pro 3 for enterprise use, leaked internal slides show that Dell has a Windows tablet of its own up its sleeve. The XPS 12 is going to be a Surface-like Windows tablet, with an …

Intel Corp. has done a lot to make its new code-named “Skylake” family of central processing units very competitive across all market segments they will eventually serve. The company also rolled-out an extremely broad lineup of such CPUs for various mobile computers and plans to expand it in the future. …

Sales of personal computers have been on the decline for several quarters now and the first half of 2015 was particularly bad for the PC supply chain. However, according to Intel Corp. and analysts from Citigroup, the demand for PCs has bottomed and is now stabilizing. Moreover, Intel’s new “Skylake” …

EVGA on Friday introduced yet another graphics card based on Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics processing unit, which boasts nearly 20 per cent higher clock-rates compared to reference boards. Performance of EVGA’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti FTW in games should be higher compared to performance of Nvidia’s GeForce …

AquaComputer, a leading maker of components for custom liquid-cooling solutions, on Friday introduced its full-cover water-block for AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, thus making high-performance liquid-cooled gaming PCs in mini-ITX form-factor a reality. The Kryographics R9 Nano single-slot full-cover water-block for AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics boards is made …

Sales of hard disk drives have been on the decline this year because of slow demand for personal computers and tough competition from solid-state drives. While Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp. hope that demand of HDDs will pick up in the coming quarters, a market analyst claims that it …

MicroStar International this week revealed at its Facebook page that it is getting closer to unveiling graphics cards with hybrid cooling solutions. The company did not disclose when or what it plans to launch, but one of the first graphics adapters from MSI to feature new coolers will be powered …

NASA has announced that it will soon be launching a TV channel dedicated to showing off ultra high-definition footage. A company called Harmonic has stepped in to help the space agency with its new channel, which is set to officially launch on the 1st of November. Right now, NASA is …

The Xbox One is set to get some huge updates in November. Not only is backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games coming to the console, but the entire user interface is getting an overhaul, with a brand new dashboard, powered by Windows 10. Microsoft has been showing it off for …

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is continuing to dominate over on Kickstarter, with most of the previously announced stretch goals being reached. Now, Larian Studios has added a few more to the mix to encourage extra funding. Now, the stretch goals run up to the $2 million mark. Right now, the …

Less than a month ago, Twitch launched ‘Twitch Plays Dark Souls'. Nobody expected the Twitch chat to get very far in the game but after a few changes to the way Twitch Plays operates, things have been going pretty smoothly, with the community managing to take down Ornstein and Smough. …

Apple's next version of the OS X operating system is on the way, with developers and beta testers receiving the GM candidate build this week. OS X 10.11 El Capitan launches in full later this month on the 30th of September, as a free update for all Mac users, though …

Apple Pay in the UK is expanding, with two more banks signing on to support the technology. Halifax and Lloyds bank customers will now be able to use Apple Pay on the iPhone 6, iPhone 6S and the Apple Watch. Barclays is still behind though and has yet to support …

Rockstar recently announced the next update for Grand Theft Auto Online, unfortunately, it seems that the game's multiplayer updates are the only thing the studio is working on. While many have been hoping for some single player DLC for Grand Theft Auto V for a while now, the core team …

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win MAD MAX on the PC. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to the image. We announce the winner on Monday morning.   It means …

OnePlus has gone ahead and offered an apology to those who were frustrated by the launch of the company's latest smartphone, the OnePlus 2. Ahead of its launch, OnePlus seemed fairly confident in its plans and had hoped to make things go smoother than they did with the original OnePlus …

When you think of the cockpit of a Space Shuttle or rocket propelled crew capsule, what do you see? If you're like us, you see a cramped, button festooned, interior that has more dials and switches than any human could possibly understand. That's nothing like Space X's dragon capsule, which looks …