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It looks like Microsoft is hoping to keep Windows 10 secure with its bug bounty payouts. Microsoft has gone ahead and increased the amount it is willing to pay out to those who find problems within its new operating system, along with offering a solution. The “Bounty for Defence” now …

Gamescom is officially over but we still have a bit of news to catch up on. At the event last week, Corsair went ahead and announced its new batch of peripherals, including new ‘VOID' branded gaming headsets, a new mouse built for MMO titles along with the Corsair Strafe keyboard, …

Earlier this year, ahead of Apple Music's initial announcement, the European Commission launched an investigation in to Apple's business practises leading up to the streaming service's launch. At the time, the EU suspected that Apple may be resorting to anti-competitive tactics in order to get an edge over competing companies. …

As fun as GTA Online is, it does have a few problems. For starters, friends can't set up their own private servers to play custom-made content together, there are quite a few cheaters floating around and everything runs on a peer-to-peer network, which can result in connection issues for many …

It seems that Microsoft has found a way to allow its Cortana app to have deeper integration with Android as the halo-themed digital assistant can now replace Google Now. Cortana for Android is still in beta, having launched last month but it already does a lot of the same tasks …

Fable Legends is on the way from Lionhead Studios and while a closed beta has been running on the Xbox One for a few weeks now, Windows 10 users will also have a chance to play the game before its final release this month. Unfortunately, it sounds like PC gamers …

The Carphone Warehouse is the latest company to be targeted by cyber criminals as a “sophisticated” hack took place on the 5th of August, putting personal details of up to 2.4 million customers at risk. In addition to that, around 90,000 Carphone Warehouse customers may have had their credit card …

Microsoft's last attempt to support PC gaming brought forth Games for Windows Live, a service that was not well received amongst PC gamers. Since then, new people have taken over at Microsoft's gaming division and the company has a new outlook, deeming Games for Windows Live ‘the wrong approach'. Going …

Treyarch is returning this year with Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, set to launch in November this year. This week at Gamescom, attendees had the chance to check out the game for themselves on the PC, with the developer giving a more detailed breakdown of what to expect from …

The Witcher: Wild Hunt is gearing up for its final planned free DLC next week, with the launch of patch 1.08. The latest 2.1GB patch, while not as massive as patch 1.07, brings some important changes and fixes a few things, including some specific quests, performance issues and an odd …

Samsung Electronics may become a new rival for Qualcomm, MediaTek and other suppliers of mobile system-on-chips as the company reportedly plans to sell its Exynos 7420 processors to third parties. For a long time, Samsung Electronics used application processors from Qualcomm inside its premium smartphones, but in the recent years …

BenQ America Corp. has introduced the world’s first curved display with 144Hz refresh rate. The device can potentially provide unique experience in video games and it even has an advanced VA panel for great viewing angles and high quality. Unfortunately, its resolution is not really high by today’s standards. The …

Chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. explained this week the reason why a number of graphics cards makers this year refocused their marketing efforts to higher-end graphics adapters. Apparently, China, one of the world’s largest markets, is shifting to higher-end GPUs, which is generally a good news for both Nvidia …

A professional overclocker this week managed to push Intel Corp.’s latest Core i7-6700K “Skylake-S” microprocessor to whopping 6.80GHz without disabling any cores or Hyper-Threading technology. The record was set on MicroStar International’s flagship MSI Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium mainboard. Toppc, a professional overclocker from Taiwan, this week overclocked an engineering …

Late last night, Time Magazine went ahead and showed off its brand new cover story for this month, covering Virtual Reality and the Oculus Rift success story. Unfortunately the picture on the cover was pretty awful, showing a photoshopped Palmer Luckey on a beach with his Oculus Rift headset on. …

Android is great for many things but unfortunately, security isn't really on that list. However, Google and Samsung are looking to improve things by providing monthly over the air updates to device owners, patching up security holes and tackling the problem head on. Google announced its monthly OTA update scheme …

One of Microsoft's most praised exclusive titles so far has been Ori and the Blind Forest, a platformer with a beautiful art style and a story that will tug at your heart strings. The game took small developer, Moon Studios, almost five years to make and all of that work …

Avalanche studios, the same team behind Just Cause, is currently gearing up to release the new Mad Max video game on the consoles and PC. The game is due out on the 1st of September, so those looking to play it will probably want to check out the system requirements. …

Earlier this year Nvidia refocused its Tegra business from consumer electronics to automotive industry. Sales of Nvidia’s system-on-chips for vehicles are growing rapidly, but still represent only a small fracture of the company’s revenue. But going forward a lot may change. Nvidia said this week that as many as 50 …

Apple is currently working on iOS 9, which will launch towards the end of October alongside the new set of iPhones for this year. We've already got wind of a few new features heading our way thanks to the public beta test, though Apple still has plenty more to share. …

TV and movie companies are constantly throwing around bogus DMCA notices and copyright claims around, though they are usually placed with the intention of combating piracy, rather than shutting down the competition. This week, the official YouTube live-stream of Sky News was pulled thanks to a copyright claim from Fox …

Last week, OnePlus announced its new ‘flagship killer' device, the OnePlus 2. The new smartphone will only be obtainable via invite, just like its predecessor for the time being and it seems that quite a lot of people were eager to get on the list as over two million people …

Cities: Skylines launched earlier this year to great reviews, it was essentially the city builder everyone wanted Sim City to be. Now a few months later, paradox Interactive has revealed the game's first expansion, titled ‘After Dark', which will add new features, including a day and night cycle. The idea …

Nvidia Corp. on Thursday said that sales of its GeForce GTX graphics processing units used inside gaming personal computers increased 51 per cent year-over-year thanks to the success of the latest “Maxwell” family of products. By contrast, sales of Tesla, Quadro and Tegra products dropped in the second quarter. Sales …

Toshiba Corp. on Thursday introduced the world’s first NAND flash memory packages, which stack eight or 16 dies of NAND flash memory devices and feature 128GB or 256GB capacities. The NAND flash memory chips are designed for various applications that require high density of NAND flash storage, including mobile products …

Although Intel Corp.’s latest “Skylake” microprocessors officially support only DDR4 and DDR3L memory technologies, Asustek Computer claims that its Intel Z170-based motherboards with 240-pin DIMM slots will work with standard DDR3 memory modules with industry-standard voltages. DDR4 SDRAM memory has default voltage of 1.2V, but memory modules for overclockers with …

Back in April this year at Microsoft's annual Build conference, the company revealed that Windows 10 would be able to run Android and iOS apps with a little bit of tweaking. Now that Windows 10 is out, Microsoft is releasing its porting tools to the public and making them open-source …

Fallout 4 was only just announced in June but with its release set for early November, Bethesda has plenty to talk about before release. Today, the company has shared a few more details about the game, including new information on its level cap and the ability to keep playing once …

Just before next week's Qualcomm event, at which the company is expected to reveal its new flagship mobile chip, the Snapdragon 820, we have had a leak, apparently showing off the specs of the new SoC and giving us a rough idea of performance ahead of time. The announcement event …

As promised last week, Blizzard held an event at Gamescom today to announce the new World of Warcraft expansion. The new expansion, which is known as ‘Legion' will see the return of The Burning Legion and bring in plenty of new gameplay elements. As with every expansion, the level cap …