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Now for the unexpected news of the day, it turns out that Ubisoft is currently planning to build and open up its own theme park in 2020. The park is set to be built-in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, with all attractions being placed indoors and spread out over 10,000 square …

It was a sad day when the British Pirate party, PPUK, announced that it would have to close its Pirate Bay proxy site over fear of legal action from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), as the party truly believed that by averting censorship it was doing the right thing. That seems …

Amazon may be looking to expand its grocery delivery service beyond raw ingredients, with new job listings appearing for restaurant division staff in the Seattle and New York areas. It's not clear if Amazon is looking to open its own restaurant/take away outlets, or merely delivering food put together by …

Unless you yourself are a hunter who regularly kills, cleans and cooks their own meat, chances are – like most of us – you are pretty removed from the process of readying your meat for consumption. You may cook it, but few of us are actively slaughtering the animals we …

As much as looking at fantasy worlds often reveal horrific racism and xenophobia among their occupants, there's something simplistic about separate races of people which appeals to our tribal nature that's just about hidden under society's veil. But that tribalism does allow for the creation of strong, thematic fantasy characters like …

As much as we all heaped praise on CD Projekt Red for its DLC offerings with the Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which saw it release a bunch of extras in free download packs, alongside announcing paid expansions, the Monster Hunter series has been giving away bucket loads of content for …

The development of DDR4 began several years before DDR3 was commercialized and it took DDR4 about nine years to get from the drawing board into actual computers. Right now key industry players are already working on the standard, which will succeed DDR4. According to Samsung Electronics, prototypes of the new …

Even though Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 10 operating system is available for free to those, who already use a recent Windows, the software giant actually sells licenses for the OS to system makers and end users. As reported before, Microsoft decided not to use DVDs to distribute its Windows 10, but …

Fallout 4 isn't just going to be Bethesda's biggest game yet in terms of size but it is also going to be the most fleshed out as it has recently been revealed that the latest entry to the series will have more spoken dialogue lines than both Skyrim and Fallout …

The Apple TV is set to be announced at next Wednesday's iPhone 6S event. This will be the first major revision to Apple's set top box in years and we are expecting some pretty big changes for the device. For starters, according to a new internal spec leak, the new …

Last year it was revealed that Marty O'Donnell, the soundtrack composer for the Halo series and later on, Destiny at Bungie, had filed a lawsuit against the studio. Now, after some time going through the legal process, Marty has won his case, receiving a fairly substantial payout. In addition to …

Legend, a maker of luxurious consumer electronics from Helsinki, Finland, has begun to take pre-orders for customized versions of Apple iPhone 6S. The company not only accepts pre-orders, but even displays what it claims to be actual products. Legend offers four versions of Apple iPhone 6S: gold-plated Classique and Momentum …

Acer Group has introduced a new ultra-wide curved display for gamers, which boasts extreme size, Nvidia G-Sync adaptive refresh rate technology as well as up to 200Hz refresh rate. While Acer mentions 200Hz refresh, it should be noted that the such frequency can only be achieved with “overclocking”, a relatively …

PowerColor has introduced the world’s first consumer-class graphics card with 16GB of onboard memory. The new adapter carries two AMD Radeon R9 390 “Hawaii” graphics processing units and will be one of the highest-performing graphics cards on the planet. Moreover, to emphasize that the new card is premium product, PowerColor …

For the second time in two years, chief executive officer of Acer Group denies plans to merge with Asustek Computer in a bid to create one of the world’s largest technology companies. Last month the founder of Acer said sarcastically that he would welcome a buyout of the company by …

In Microsoft's never ending quest to improve its Xbox One console, the company has revealed that it will soon be making changes to its ‘reputation' system, which has been around since the early Xbox 360 days. These changes will be coming soon, ahead of the new dashboard. The newly designed …

Apple's long rumoured iPad Pro is apparently just around the corner, with an announcement set to take place at one of Apple's upcoming press conferences. The new tablet will sport a larger 12 inch screen, though it won't start shipping until November, which is apparently due to the fact that …

It is Friday, which means its time to get your weekend gaming plans in order. If you happen to be looking for something new to play, then you'll be happy to know that Killing Floor 2 and Evolve will be free until Sunday evening. On Evolve's side, the game and …

A US District Judge today approved a $415 million settlement in the no-poaching lawsuit levied at several massive tech companies, including Google, Apple and Intel. The class action lawsuit came about after it was discovered that several massive tech companies agreed to not poach employees from one another, which in …

Advanced Micro Devices is currently the only company to use high-bandwidth memory it co-developed with SK Hynix and other partners. While usage of HBM is clearly a competitive advantage that AMD has over its rivals, the company is encouraging others to use the new memory type and does not intend …

The open source virtual reality initiative has been floating around for a while now. The OSVR headset has been backed by plenty of companies, included Razer and in October, the development kit is set to receive some pretty big upgrades. The new OSVR headset will launch next month, featuring a …

Back in 2004, Razer found great success with its mouse, known as the Diamondback. The peripheral maker released two more iterations in 2005 and 2007 but since then, the line has been retired. Until now that is, as Razer is bringing back the Diamondback, complete with Chroma lighting and Synapse …

Yesterday, we got a brief look at the upcoming Arkham Knight PC patch. Described as the interim patch, setting the stage for the last wave of fixes to hit later on in the year. Now, that patch is officially available, adding in several fixes, mostly focussing on graphics and gameplay …

Toshiba Corp. has introduced its new Q300 family of solid-state drives designed for personal computers and workstations. The new drives support Toshiba’s adaptive size SLC write cache technology, which is designed to dramatically speed up write performance of SSDs based on MLC and TLC NAND flash memory. Toshiba’s new Q300 …

Constrained amount of internal storage is one of the major limitations of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 video game system, but fortunately the hard drive of PS4 is user upgradeable. Specially for those, who want not only to expand internal storage capacities of their PlayStation 4 consoles, but also to speed …

Western Digital Corp. this week introduced its all-new My Book Pro storage device with up to 12TB capacity, which is claimed to be the company’s highest-performing external storage solution based on hard disk drives. The new My Book Pro relies on Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3.0 interfaces. The new WD …

Asustek Computer this week demonstrated the industry’s first monitor with 165Hz refresh rate designed for gaming. The display is currently a technology showcase prototype, which will hit the market at a later date. But while not a lot is clear about the monitor, it is evident that this is a …

Back at the start of the year, Nintendo finally announced its intention to start making games for mobile devices, after years of losing out on the market to emulators and ROMs. The company hired outside firm, DeNa to handle its mobile titles and now we know what game is set …

Like many multiplayer games these days, Star Wars Battlefront will be moving away from traditional server browsers in favour of a new matchmaking system. While matchmaking systems have become much more common in shooters over the years, it seems that many were still hoping for a server browser as plenty …

Last year Apple surprised us all with a 5K iMac, featuring a custom made display controller to get the massive resolution running properly. It seemed like an odd move at the time considering the massive push for 4K. However, this year it looks like Apple is set to launch a …