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At Least Half of UK Game Studios Have Four or Less Employees

    The video game industry is currently changing in the UK, and 59 percent of UK studios have a full-time staff of four employees or less, according to the UK independent games trade group. It’s a nine percent ...

10 years ago

Scientists Have Simulated a Time Travel Scenario… But Only with Photons

Time travel is a thing for science fiction, a theory that has been debated for a long time, but without any physical proof of it being possible. Scientific advancements and human curiosity however tends to take imagination to the ...

10 years ago

No Crysis At Crytek: Developer Denies Imminent Bankruptcy Rumours

A few days ago we covered the news that emerged from the German magazine Gamestar that Crytek was in financial trouble and could be facing bankruptcy. A Crytek spokesperson has issued a public statement to Eurogamer denying those ...

10 years ago

New Windows 9 Details Leak Out

Information from the famous Windows leaker and Microsoft enthusiast "FaiKee" suggests that Windows 9 could be with us in its first preview form, the developer preview, from Q2-Q3 in 2015, that's between March and September next ...

10 years ago

Expect Sub-$100 Quad Core Tablets From July With New $5 Allwinner Processor

Sub-$100 tablets are about to get mainstream quad cores thanks to the latest chip from Allwinner. From July mass-production of the new quad core Allwinner A33 will begin. Interestingly, the Allwinner A33 will cost just $4.99 to ...

10 years ago

Ubisoft: DRM Can’t Stop Piracy – No S**t Sherlock

It seems that after a long period of "braindeadism" game publishers are finally waking up to the fact that DRM does not stop piracy. DRM is no barrier to piracy, skilled "game pirates" like Skidrow, Reloaded, Razor1911, ...

10 years ago

New Water Purifier Promises Truly “Vegetarian Water”

You aren't a vegetarian until you drink vegetarian water....wait, what? That's the claim of one Indian home appliance company who's claim to fame is producing "vegetarian water". Apparently water isn't vegetarian until a water ...

10 years ago

Microsoft Offering $650 So MacBook Air Users Will Switch To Surface Pro 3

Getting a MacBook Air user to trade in their latest Apple kit for $650 off a Surface Pro 3 sounds like a tough-sell doesn't it? Well that's exactly what Microsoft are hoping MacBook Air users will do in the latest Microsoft ...

10 years ago

Windows 8 Usage Growing Rapidly In Canada

It isn't news to say that Windows 8 has had a tough time in many markets and uptake had been fairly slow. However, in the last year Microsoft's newest OS has gained significant traction and new data from the Sage Group suggests ...

10 years ago

Intel Approached AMD About Access To Mantle

According to an AMD executive, Richard Huddy, Intel has approached the company about getting access to AMD's Mantle technology. Intel has confirmed that it made such a request but did so for "experimental" purposes. Intel claims it ...

10 years ago

AMD “Hawaii XTX” R9 295X Confirmed – 3072 GCN Cores

3 days ago we heard the news that there could be a new AMD flagship single GPU graphics card incoming. The rumour had it that this new GPU was to be based on a "fully utilised" variant of the Hawaii GPU, known as Hawaii XTX, the ...

10 years ago

Large Hadron Collider Startup Has Begun, More Experiments Coming in 2015

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, and in just a few months time it's going to be more powerful than ever before. Having discovered the Higgs particle in 2012, the ...

10 years ago

AMD Relaunching FX-9590 With Liquid Cooling System For $360

A few days ago AMD's Roy Taylor caused a bit of a stir by posting an interesting picture to Twitter which showed an unnamed FX series processor with a liquid cooling system. The picture suggested anything from a brand new CPU to a ...

10 years ago

KFA2 GTX 780 HOF OC+ 6GB Graphics Card Announced

KFA2 are easily one of my favourite GPU manufacturers, mostly because I'm a sucker for those white PCBs they use, as they really stand out from the crowd. Their Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 HOF (Hall of Fame) graphics card was and still ...

10 years ago

NZXT Kraken X41 and Kraken X61 CPU Coolers Now Available

NZXT have already seen huge success with their Kraken all-in-one CPU water coolers such as the X40 and the X60, now it looks set to do the same with their latest incarnations, the X41 and the X61. Both of the coolers now support ...

10 years ago

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Turns Out To Be Far From Repair & Upgrade Friendly

  iFixit, a site dedicated to tearing mobiles, tablets, notebooks and other bits of hardware to bits in order to provide users with repair guides has wasted no time in getting their hands on the latest Surface Pro 3 from ...

10 years ago

Qualcomm To Launch the Adreno 420 GPU Dedicated towards Android Gaming

Qualcomm is said to be launching the latest high-performance Adreno 420 GPU along with the Snapdragon 805 on Wednesday at Google's annual I/O developer conference, having it be the first addition to Qualcomm's next-gen SoC GPU ...

10 years ago

Philips Announces PowerSensor Monitors That Promises 80 Percent Energy Costs Cut

Electronics company Philips announced two new PowerSensor monitors that use human sensor technology that automatically reduces monitor brightness if a user steps away from the PC.  Philips says energy consumption could be cut by up to ...

10 years ago

Growing Number of Consumers Expect Internet of Things to Change Connected Homes

The Internet of Things (IoT) is still in its infancy, but manufacturers are speculating that a growing number of people want to enjoy home electronics connected to the Internet, according to a recent survey published by ...

10 years ago

Microsoft Adds Extra OneDrive and Office 365 Free Space, Lowers Subscription Fees

Since OneDrive (formerly known as SkyDrive) has been launched, Microsoft offered a standard 7 GB free storage space with additional subscription fees for users who required more. However, this is about to chance with Microsoft's ...

10 years ago

Google Glass on Sale in the UK, So Residents Can Become ‘Glassholes’

Google Glass is now available in the UK with a whopping £1,000 price tag, but the device is still in the prototype phase, and is currently aimed towards developers. Any UK resident at least 18 years old and with a credit card ...

10 years ago

Microsoft Launches Security and Threat Information Sharing Platform Named Interflow

Microsoft plans on providing new and more efficient ways for security professionals to effectively and swiftly respond to potential threats. This is why the company has just launched the closed preview of a platform named ...

10 years ago

FirePro W8100 Professional Graphics Solution Announced by AMD

AMD has just launched the AMD FirePro W8100 professional graphics card, bringing a new generation of AMD Graphics Core Next architecture as well as even grater workstation performance, which is dubbed to be 38x better than any ...

10 years ago

Heartbleed Bug Still a Vulnerability on Over 300,000 Servers

The OpenSSL security flaw known as Heartbleed has been one of the most chilling news stories in the tech world over the last few months and it's not surprising considering an estimated two-thirds of the world's servers are reliant ...

10 years ago

Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review

Introduction, Specifications and Packaging While mini-ITX is the "fashionable" small form factor of choice for most compact system builders, the micro-ATX form factor is still popular as it offers a better compromise ...

10 years ago

PlayStation Now Pricing Revealed: More Expensive To Rent Than Buy!?

Sony's PlayStation Now service allows gamers to stream games to their PS4, PS3 or PSVita devices over the internet. The service is currently in a closed beta and all participants are supposed to be under a strict NDA, but as always ...

10 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Benchmarked, Can’t Beat Tegra K1

[gallery type="slideshow" link="file" ids="120535,120536,120537"] Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 4 was always going to be good but now we've managed to see some benchmarks of the new device that confirms this. The Galaxy Note 4 ...

10 years ago

Windows 8.1 Overtakes Windows XP! But Only In France

Windows 8.1 has done fairly well over the past year managing continued growth in most markets despite the relative failure of Windows 8. In France Windows 8.1 achieved a landmark objective this month as it overtook Windows XP in ...

10 years ago

AMD Gaming Evolved App Gets H.264 Recording Feature, Fights ShadowPlay

Nvidia's ShadowPlay software is well-known for its ability to hardware encode H.264 video in-game with minimal degradation to performance. In fact, up until recently there has been nothing (other than an external PVR) that could ...

10 years ago

DDR4 Memory Spotted On Sale In Japan, 16GB Kit For $355

We know that Intel's Haswell-E platform will probably be the first platform to deliver mainstream DDR4 memory support. Haswell-E is expected in just under 3 months, on September 14th to be specific, so we should expect to start ...

10 years ago

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