EKWB has been one of the biggest names in custom liquid cooling for many years, so it came as a surprise when news of internal troubles hit earlier this week. A report from Gamers Nexus found that EKWB has faced issues with payments and cross-department communications. Now, EKWB has responded with a lengthy statement.
Read More »Gigabyte responds to reports of ‘exploding’ PSUs
Following multiple reports of Gigabyte GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM PSUs “exploding”, Gigabyte has issued a statement responding to the situation. The issue seems to come down to each unit's Over Power Protection threshold, and Gigabyte will be offering exchanges to eligible customers. In the statement, Gigabyte says: “We were made aware …
Read More »Nvidia gives KitGuru statement on RTX 3080 launch and availability
The bad news: RTX 3080s sold out in a matter of minutes. The good news: more are on the way and Nvidia is manually reviewing orders to ensure it reaches legitimate customers.
Read More »NeoGAF back online, owner denies allegations
Over the weekend, popular gaming forum, NeoGAF, ran into some trouble as allegations of sexual misconduct were made against the site’s owner, Tyler ‘Evilore’ Malka. This caused a good chunk of the site’s moderation staff to step down and in turn, the site was closed down for a few days. …
Read More »Apple, Samsung and Microsoft speak out on Vault 7 CIA leaks
In case you missed it last night or this morning, this week, WikiLeaks dropped the largest intelligence agency leak in history, dropping well over 8000 confidential CIA documents outlining the agency's illicit spying tactics amongst other activities. The first drop in a series of coming ‘Vault 7' leaks alleged that …
Read More »Here is why GAME is charging customers to try the PlayStation VR
With PlayStation VR now out in the wild, interest in the new technology has risen once again. However, with the headset sitting at £350, a lot of people are going to want to try before they buy. Doing that may not be cheap, though, as UK retailer, GAME, has decided …
Read More »Oculus responds to Rift’s major shipment delays
Following on from yesterday's reports that Oculus has had to push back Rift shipment dates by a significant margin this week, the company has decided to offer a formal statement on the matter. As we know, the Rift has been facing supply chain issues, causing pre-orders to go out late …
Read More »Rockstar responds to $150m lawsuit from former director
Last night, it was revealed that the former head of Rockstar North, Leslie Benzies, would be suing the studio for $150 million, claiming that Rockstar's founders essentially forced him out of the company and refused to pay for royalties following on from the success of Grand Theft Auto V. Since …
Read More »Intel confirms that it is shutting down OC’ing on non-K Skylake CPUs
Last week, we learned that Intel may be taking steps to stop users from being able to overclock their locked, non-K series Skylake processors and sure enough, a BIOS update from ASRock seemingly confirmed that. Now, it seems that Intel has given an official update on the situation, explaining that …
Read More »Hola speaks out on recent botnet accusations
Last week, it was revealed that one of the most popular VPN extensions for Google Chrome, Hola, had been caught out selling its user's bandwidth via a separate company in order to allow attackers to send DDOS attacks to other sites or services. At the time, it was 8Chan that …
Read More »New AMD marketing slogan revealed
In these days of micro-managed-mega-branding, corporations search far and wide to come up with the perfect positioning statement. Something that will stir the hearts and minds of all who see it. Searching through the Computex B-roll, it seems that our happy snappy chappies captured the next evolution of AMD's messaging. …
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