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Hackers Want to Make You Play ‘Doom’… on an ATM!

Normally when you hear about hackers and ATMs, you think of someone attempting to steal your credit card details or make the machine spit-out some bills. This time however, it is more fun than drama, since you can get to see how a ...

Aerocool GT-A Midi-Tower Chassis Now Available

Aerocool are back once again with the latest entry in the GT chassis series. The new GT-A is a midi-tower focused at the gamer and DIY enthusiast market. The chassis comes pretty well equipped despite its moderate price tag, ...

New Techniques Show iPhone Data Extraction

Previously unpublicized techniques show how personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through trusted devices. Researcher Jonathan Zdiarski showed in a presentation at the ...

Chinese Authorities Pay an ‘Unexpected’ Visit to Microsoft Offices

Microsoft offices from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu have been unexpectedly visited by the Chinese State Administration for Industry & Commerce, according to a report from Reuters. A spokesperson for the company has ...

Win a Gamdias Hephaestus 7.1 Headset & Hades Gaming Mouse

We've teamed up with the legendary peripheral manufacturer Gamdias to bring you this incredible competition. Not only do we have their stunning Hephaestus gaming headset to give away, but also their high-end Hades gaming mouse. The ...

Raijintek Themis Evo Pro & Tisis CPU Coolers Head-to-Head Review

Introduction Raijintek are easily my favourite cooling manufacturer of the moment, while they may be relatively new to the market compared to the established few such as Cooler Master, Thermaltake, be quiet! and more, ...

ASUS Announces a Whole List of New Gaming Accessories

ASUS is expanding on their Strix brand and not just with one or two new products. We see 5 new products aimed at the hardcore gamers: A new optical mouse, a mechanical keyboard, a headset and two new mouse pads. Following the ...

Full Firefly Cast Returns To Voice Firefly Online Game

Firefly has long since established itself as a cult classic, having millions of fans world wide despite the fact that the show had just one season. Fans cried for more (myself included) and after a while we got the movie, yay! Then ...

Electric Car Energy Density Boosted 7x Using Poroxide

Electric cars are here to stay, it doesn't matter if they're powered by hydrogen or a plug socket, they've proven to be more efficient than petrol engines and that's an important step in the right direction. There are lots of ...

New App Turns Smartphone Into PC Gamepad

When it comes to PC gaming mouse and keyboard are still the weapons of choice, but we're hardly limited in our choice of peripherals; controllers, flight sticks, steering wheels, motion controls and a whole lot more. Now it looks ...

All-Robot Event Heading to Japan 2020 Olympics

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has begun preparations for the 2020 Olympics, and while all the usual events will still be taking place in six years time, he has plans to shake things up with a completely new event designed ...

First Trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road Released at Comic-Con

I completely forgot that this movie was being made, it seems every year there are a bunch of crazy announcements for sequels to old movies and generally only a handful see the light of day. Fortunately, it looks like the people ...

Phone Battery Technology to Ensure Much Longer Life

It's the most common issue when talking about phones between friends - "My *insert smartphone here* is terrible, it goes flat in one day!". As phones progress in leaps and bounds in regards to processing power, it always seems the ...

Visceral Games Reveals Battlefield Hardline’s Single Player Story

The Battlefield Hardline title has been confirmed some time ago, having developer Visceral Games working on the title and aiming to bring a new feel to the Battlefield series. The developer expects to do this by taking the battle ...

New Self Cooling Solar Panel Design Will Increase Efficiency

The last thing that comes into my mind when thinking about solar panels is how they are cooled, after all they are designed to have the sun shining on them for 65% of the day every day. Solar power cells need to stay relatively ...

Leaked CPU-Z Images Reveal AMD Carrizo APU A10-8890K Specs

Microsoft Flashed Halo 2 Remaster at Comic Con 2014

Damn this looks nice! Even if it is just pre rendered footage. Yes i'm talking about the new trailer that was screened at Comic Con 2014 in San Diego a few days ago. The trailer is made up of different snippets of different ...

PS Vita Memory Card Content Dumped

For the first time the content of a PS Vita memory card have been dumped and made publicly known. While this in itself doesn't help to hack the Vita, it does open up for many more possibilities. Sony uses a proprietary format ...

Users Download Loads of Free Games Due to Site Glitch on GOG.com

The game distribution platform GOG has been big in the news the past week with their new list of Linux games and accompanying event sale. There was however a minor glitch in their system resulting in free games for a lot of ...

CM Storm Resonar Gaming Earphones Review

Introduction It was just 6 months ago that we reviewed an in-ear CM Storm gaming headset and while I loved the build quality, style and microphone performance, I couldn't help but notice that bass was seriously lacking on ...

Headphones Maker Beats Sued by Bose

There is a new front in the never ending patent war, this time it is the sound system and headphone maker Bose that is suing Beats for infringing on their patents for noise-cancelling technologies. This isn't the first time Bose ...

Nvidia Speak Their Mind About Mantle

In a recent podcast from MaximumPC, Nvidia finally spoke out about AMD's Mantle and best we can tell, they couldn't care less about it. Nvidia Engineer Tom Petersen and Senior Director of Engineering Rev Lebaradian were on hand to ...

First Details, Images & Video of Mass Effect 4 Leaked

Eager to find out more about the upcoming Mass Effect game? For now we're just referring to it as Mass Effect 4, but in reality we already know that it's a fresh start for this gaming universe, Sheppard is no longer the lead, heck ...

Behind The Scenes of Star Citizen – Planet Creation

Star Citizen is already shaping up to be one of the biggest and most bad ass games of our generation. This game is going to be freaking huge, not only in terms of the amount of players eager to get their hands on it, but also due ...

Batman v Superman Teaser Trailer Leaks

Ok we know this trailer looks like someone filmed it using a potato, the quality is pretty dire to say the least, but last night saw the new Batman v Superman trailer played to a crowd at Comic-Con and until now, no one outside of ...

Russian Interior Ministry Offers £65.5k for Tor Crack

  The Tor Network has been a huge thorn to most governments and anyone else trying to control the flow of information. We've read lot about both the US and UK governments and security agencies and their view on the Tor ...

London Underground to Accept Contactless Payments

If you live in London, chances are you own an Oyster card. Oyster cards have been around for a while now but contactless card technology is going be coming along side it in the London Underground. People can choose whether they use ...

Crisis at Crytek Could Be Over

Over the past weeks we have heard rumours about Cryteks staff not being paid for months as well as employees quitting their job due to that and being swiped up by other companies. Even though the company dismissed the claims as ...

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is Coming to the Big Screen

This is either going to be the best film of all time or the biggest let down of the 21st century. This seems to be the opinion of those I personally have spoken to about the news, others may think differently but i'm assuming the ...

Oculus SDK 0.4.0 Beta Released, Includes Display Option that Reduces Latency

After delaying its firs batch of Oculus Rift DK2 in order to fix some last-minute bugs, the Oculus VR team has now released the new Oculus SDK 0.4.0 beta, bundled with positional tracking support, Runtime package and other ...