Today we have some good news and bad news. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD has finally landed on Steam, after launching on the Xbox One and PS4 months ago. However, the game has a rather unfortunate 30 frames per second cap by default, which is pretty disappointing. We also have the …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege pushed back to December
Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft's upcoming team based shooter was announced some time ago, with an alpha taking place earlier this year and a beta test scheduled for the end of September. The game was originally supposed to release in October but it seems the development team needs a bit more …
Read More »Halo veteran and Far Cry 2 director just left Amazon Game Studios
Over the last couple of years, Amazon has been making a push in the gaming space, even going as far as to set up its very own studio with quite a few esteemed developers coming from famed studios like Valve and Bungie. However, we have yet to see any big …
Read More »Cooler Master launches MasterCase 5 and Pro 5 modular cases
Today, Cooler Master announced two brand new cases, the MasterCase 5 and the MasterCase Pro 5, two mid-towers featuring the new ‘FreeForm' system which allows for plenty of customization and expandability. The idea behind FreeForm technology is that customers will have control over how their case looks and how it …
Read More »Intel Core i7-6700K ‘Skylake’ hits nearly 7GHz
A professional overclocker has set a new record for Intel Core i7-6700K microprocessor frequency. This time the new code-named “Skylake” processor hit nearly 7GHz, which is among the highest frequencies ever achieved by any Intel Core i-series microprocessors. Chi-Kui Lam, a professional overclocker from Hong Kong-based HKEPC web-site, has managed …
Read More »Google’s Project Ara has been pushed back to 2016
Last year was a pretty exciting time for Google, having taken on the Phonebloks concept and created Project Ara. While the first Ara devices were scheduled to arrive some time this year in selected markets, it seems Google wants to spend a little more time developing the modular smartphone, pushing …
Read More »Copyright lobby group spends 15 times more than it pays to artists
Copyright lobby groups that hope to push pirates and organisations that it feels benefit unfairly from piracy, to pay up, ostensibly do so because they care about the artists they represent. In practice though, that ideal rarely plays out. Take Rightscorp for example, which recently published its quarterly financial reports, only …
Read More »Boston Dynamics shows off six foot bipedal, running robot
If you thought the video of the MIT Cheetah robot, that can run faster than the world's quickest human sprinters was creepy, take a peek at the new video from Google (soon to be Alphabet) owned Boston Dynamics, which has a six foot tall bipedal robot named Atlas, running through …
Read More »Intel releases Quark microcontroller with 0.025W thermal design power
Intel Corp. has quietly released its new Quark D1000 microcontroller designed for smart electronics and embedded applications. The chip sports ultra-low power consumption and features x86 architecture. The Intel Quark D1000 microcontroller has one 32-bit x86 core clocked at 33MHz, lacks cache and has TDP of 0.025W. The Quark D1000 …
Read More »British music videos to have enforced age ratings
In further measures that are designed to protect children from content that is not deemed suitable for them, the music industry has taken a voluntary step – following advice from the government – to add age-gates to music videos aimed at older viewers. That means that moving forward, British artists …
Read More »Google announces Project Sunroof, offers free solar data
Solar panel adoption is happening quicker today than it ever has before, which is why more than one per cent of the world's electricity is now delivered direct from the sun. However Google wants to help improve that even more, by taking data it has from its Google Earth imagery …
Read More »Torchlight dev shows off Hob, a new sci-fi puzzler without dialogue
Even though modern games tend to have much more open worlds to explore than they used to, that doesn't mean we aren't ushered down certain paths. With voice overs or quest text, we're told where to go and what to do and that's something that the developer of Torchlight, Runic Games, …
Read More »Rambus unveils its first R+ chips for server memory modules
Throughout its history, Rambus has received royalties from other makers of chips for its patents. However, on Monday the company introduced its own ICs designed to improve server-class memory modules. The company will sell the products to interested parties itself. The first in a family of R+ chips, the RB26 …
Read More »Intel ‘Skylake’ processors feature ‘reverse Hyper-Threading’ technology – report
Although Intel Corp. already sells its code-named “Skylake” microprocessors commercially, the company has not disclosed a lot of details about the new micro-architecture. Apparently, Intel’s new processors feature technology, which speeds up performance in single-threaded workloads using multiple cores. Heise.de reports that Intel’s new Core i7-6700K processor with four cores …
Read More »Asustek: Mobile business will exceed PC business in three years
Asustek Computer is primarily known for notebooks and computer components, but the company is actively expanding production of tablets and smartphones. Asus pins a lot of hopes on its mobile business and a number of years from now it expects it to exceed its PC sales. Asustek’s revenue in the …
Read More »This is what Zombi U looks like on a new gen console
Ubisoft recently announced that the former Wii U exclusive, Zombi U, would be heading over to the PC, Xbox One and PS4 soon under the name ‘Zombi'. The zombie survival game, which is set in London, doesn't have a release date just yet but we do know what it will …
Read More »Android M is now Android Marshmallow
The final name for Google's next big version of Android has been revealed. Android M will now be known as Android Marshmallow, the company announced today, unveiling a statue of the Android mascot holding a marshmallow. The new version of Android is set to be an improvement over last year's …
Read More »3DS can launch homebrew through the official YouTube app
Nintendo has had some issues with homebrew exploits on the 3DS recently. Two games have had to be removed from the eShop due to exploits that allowed them to run custom software. A short while back, Nintendo also had to update its 3DS web browser, after it was discovered that …
Read More »The Witcher: Wild Hunt’s final free DLC is rolling out now
Update: CD Projekt Red has begun rolling out the final free DLC for The Witcher: Wild Hunt. Those who have already beat the game once can now start a ‘New Game+' playthrough, bumping up the difficulty and allowing players to try out a completely new character build and skill set. …
Read More »This is our first look at the Nexus 5 (2015)
Google is all set to reveal two new Nexus devices in October, one from LG, bringing back the much loved Nexus 5, and one from Huawei, which will be creating a new Nexus 6. Today, we have our first look at LG's new Nexus 5, updating the phone for 2015 …
Read More »Apple likely won’t be launching its TV service until next year
We have been hearing about Apple's upcoming Internet TV service for some time now. While some networks, like CBS, have come out and said that they will probably sign on with Apple, other copyright holders have been holding the process back, resulting in delay after delay for Apple's new service. …
Read More »Windows 10 can seek out pirated software
Microsoft recently updated its EULA for Windows 10, noting that the operating system can seek out and potentially disable any pirated software, like games, running on your PC. The new clause in question is found under section 7b of the EULA, which says that Microsoft may check your software at …
Read More »CDPR has no plans for advanced modding tools for Witcher 3
The Witcher 3 has had some basic mod support since it first launched. Creators were able to dig around the files and make tweaks to quite a bit of the game. CD Projekt Red wanted to make this easier, so it launched ‘ModKit' last week, so creators could replace models …
Read More »NASA’s Mars engine test firing video showcases its power
Although lovers of space have been calling for a manned trip to Mars for decades ,we still don't seem any closer to sending people to its far-flung surface. That doesn't mean steps aren't being taken though, with NASA last week testing the engine that will make up the core stage …
Read More »Former employees say Kaspersky faked malware to damage rivals
Kaspersky anti-virus is being accused by several former employees of attempting to have competitor anti-virus software flag up false-positives that would discredit the programs and potentially even damage the systems of users. According to those same sources, which have remained anonymous for obvious reasons, this was to improve Kaspersky's standing, …
Read More »SpaceVR wants to turn us all into astronauts
Despite decades and decades of flinging things and ourselves into space, only 533 people have left the confines of our little blue marble and orbited around its expanse, truly experiencing what it's like to be in space. One company wants to change that however. Space VR is a Kickstarter campaign …
Read More »Amazon hints at big budget, big salaries for Top Gear crew
The new car show set to be hosted by ex-Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May on Amazon Prime, will be “very, very, very expensive,” for Amazon, according to the company head and 15th world's richest man, Jeff Bezos. While he wouldn't confirm how much any of …
Read More »What if Final Fantasy VII was a side-scrolling slash-em-up?
Final Fantasy VII is a game near and dear to the hearts of many gamers around the world. For a lot of them, the original PlayStation title was their first real introduction to the Final Fantasy series of games and its story was very well crafted for the time. That's …
Read More »Guillermo Del Toro has been scared away from video games
Konami almost had something great on its hands last year when Kojima and film director, Guillermo Del Toro teamed up for PT on the PlayStation 4. The short game was later revealed to be a demo for a new Silent Hills game, which was later cancelled after Kojima and Konami …
Read More »Techland may be up for taking over Dead Island 2 development
Last month, the future of Dead Island 2 was brought in to question after Deep Silver parted ways with the project's developer, Yager. Deep Silver at the time said that it would be finding a new developer for the project, rather than outright cancelling it. Now in an interesting turn, …
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