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Xbox One GPU Speed Increased To Match PS4 Performance

We've all heard and seen the numerous reports over the internet that the PS4 uses stronger hardware in terms of a GPU - that has more shaders and a higher clock speed as well as a "better" memory implementation compared to the Xbox ...

11 years ago

Growing Demand For Second Hand Marketplaces For Digital Content

There is a growing demand from consumers globally to gift, share and resell digital content and video games according to research findings unveiled today by WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative ...

11 years ago

Video Gamers Frustrated By Lack of Multi-Device Accessibility

Global video gamers are frustrated that when they purchase a game on one device they are unable to access versions of the games across other devices – 84% wish they were able to do this, with 55% of consumers willing to pay extra ...

11 years ago

Sapphire Adds 1GB and 2GB HD 7730 Graphics Cards To Its Range

An AMD MSI HD 7730 graphics card was pictured in our news way back in late April and since then things on the HD 7730 front have been very quiet indeed. The new GPU from AMD has been designed to offer a cheaper alternative to the ...

11 years ago

Gaijin Entertainment Add Oculus Rift Support To War Thunder

The Oculus Rift virtual reality platform will transport War Thunder players from their chairs and into World War II in full stereoscopic 3D with a 360 degree panoramic view of the battlefield. Whether leaping in the cockpit and ...

11 years ago

Gigabyte Release Beta BIOS For H87 and B85 Overclocking

ECS, Biostar and ASRock have all released their H81/H87/B85 overclocking BIOS' for K series CPUs. Yet it was only a matter of time before one of the other big boys in the motherboard market (Gigabyte/ASUS) came out with their own. ...

11 years ago

MSI GTX 780 Lightning Release Date Revealed

MSI has just posted a reveal trailer for its latest product release. The reveal trailer suggests that an MSI Lightning product is being released soon. No doubt given that we have not seen the MSI GTX 780 Lightning graphics card ...

11 years ago

Biostar Enables H87/H81/B85 Overclocking With BIOS Update

We have now seen ASRock and ECS both announce H87/B85 overclocking with their new BIOS updates. They are now joined by Biostar who have also released a wave of BIOS updates for their motherboards to allow for non-Z series K ...

11 years ago

Valve Support Confirm Steam Summer Sale 2013 Starts July 11th

According to a Reddit user (Ampish), Valve support have confirmed that the Steam Summer Sale 2013 will start on July 11th - aka tomorrow. This comes on the back of a flurry of false speculation last week that suggested we'd see the ...

11 years ago

Snowden Says American Telecom Companies Are The NSA Crown Jewels

In a recently published interview with Der Spiegel Edward Snowden has had some pretty strong words to say with regards to how the NSA operates in the USA. Apparently the NSA is being assisted by private companies in its ...

11 years ago

A US Department “Handles” Malware Infection By Destroying The Infected Equipment

You'd think the American government departments, with all their funding and extra-legal powers, would know how to effectively deal with a malware infection. Well apparently not. According to a report by the US Department of ...

11 years ago

Venezuela Confirms It Has Received Snowden’s Asylum Request

On the back of Venezuela offering Edward Snowden political asylum Venezuela's president, pictured above - Nicolas Maduro, has confirmed they received his application on Monday before the deadline. Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega ...

11 years ago

Coolermaster N200 M-ATX Chassis Review

We get more than our fair share of high end components here at eTeknix and while I'm sure many of you love reading the reviews of the more extreme end of the market, the truth is that most people spend on a much lower budget. ...

11 years ago

NSA Spied On Countries In Latin America

The NSA has been spying on the whole world, that's not news to anyone. However, on the back of the USA trying to exert pressure on Latin America to not accept Edward Snowden's asylum these latest revelations could deal a fatal blow ...

11 years ago

New Brand “ID-Cooling” Entering European PC Cooling Market

ID-Cooling are a new brand in Europe founded by "Shenzhen Wan Jing Hua Technology co., Ltd." of China. They are looking to make an entrance into the European PC hardware market manufacturing cooling products. They apparently have a ...

11 years ago

DeepCool Announce GamerStorm “Lucifer” CPU Cooler

DeepCool are a brand gaining quite a lot of traction these days with relatively sleek looking CPU coolers that have premium quality without the premium price. Their latest addition, courtesy of TechPowerUp, is the GamerStorm ...

11 years ago

Intel Phasing Out Various Old Desktop CPUs In Q3 2013

With a new fourth generation of Core series CPUs from Intel, aka Haswell, we have to start saying adios to older CPUs in Intel's portfolio. Most of the Sandy Bridge portfolio was already given EOL (end-of-life) status in Q1 earlier ...

11 years ago

Intel Roadmap Reveals More BGA Package CPUs

Intel's BGA processors are definitely going to become a bigger part of Intel's portfolio in the future and by the looks of things these BGA packages are mainly designed to transform the bottom segment of the market - that is ...

11 years ago

Company of Heroes 2 PC Review

This week I’ve been getting lost in a part of the gaming world I know little about, real-time strategy. I’ve tried and failed at this genre before and I’ve yet to find a game that really hooked me, even then I think the last ...

11 years ago

Masthead Studios Free-To-Play “Guns & Robots” Gets Updated

Masthead Studios today announced several major updates and re-balance in their free-to-play online shooter Guns and Robots. The updates change the matchmaking system and employ global re-balance of the durability, energy ...

11 years ago

Trion & SyFy Join Forces For “Play The Game, Join The Show” Contest

Syfy and Trion Worlds have recently announced a new contest that brings a gamer into the television world of Defiance, from the online open world shooter and hit television series on Syfy. The “Play the Game. Join the Show.” ...

11 years ago

Wayne Static & Michael Amott Join Eternal Descent: Heavy Metal Heroes Boss List

Following the recent announcement of Joe Satriani, Andrew W.K. and Misha Mansoor of Periphery appearing as heroic assists within the game, Eternal Descent have now unveiled the real-world musicians who will appear as boss ...

11 years ago

Bethesda Say Next-Gen Cross-Platform Work Is A Nightmare

In a recent interview with OXM, Bethesda vice president Pete Hines was discussing his views on next-gen consoles and how development of their latest MMO title Elder Scrolls Online, which is being developed by ZiniMax Online Studios ...

11 years ago

$9000 Worth Of Spaceship Destroyed In EVE Online Battle

EVE Online is hugely popular and with that popularity comes the insane popularity of super rare and expensive game items, but in the gaming equivalent of someone crashing a super car, one of those items has been blowing to hell and ...

11 years ago

Gigabyte Reveal 4GB WindForce OC GTX 760

Nvidia's GTX 760 is replacing the GTX 660Ti at that 1080p sweet-spot graphics card price point. It will probably be Nvidia's most popular graphics card of the GTX 700 series based on its affordability. That said if you are looking ...

11 years ago

Windows 8.1 RTM Will Be Ready By August

According to the Windows Blog the RTM (release to manufacturing) version of the Windows 8.1 operating system will be released in early August giving OEMs and partners a chance to tweak and tune the Windows 8.1 operating system for ...

11 years ago

Microsoft Removes Windows Experience Index From Windows 8.1 Preview

According to Softpedia and McAkins Online, the Windows 8.1 Preview drops the Windows Experience Index benchmarking software. Anyone using the Windows 8.1 Preview will probably have noticed this. It is interesting that Microsoft have ...

11 years ago

Gigabyte Z87X-OC (Z87) Motherboard Review

Gigabyte have a large stack of motherboards launching for Z87, and at the top of that stack is the overclocking based motherboards including the Z87X-FORCE and the Z87X-OC which have some fundamental differences. The Force is aimed ...

11 years ago

Egyptian Government Websites Being Defaced By Pro-Morsi Hackers

There was much jubilation and celebration on the streets of Cairo as Egypt's military overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in what has been described as a military coup. Since then the military has been killing Pro-Morsi ...

11 years ago

Students Build Solar Powered Family Car In The Netherlands

A group of 22 students in the Netherlands have been working on something that is very unique and innovative. They are calling it the world's first solar powered family car. The vehicle is called "Stella" and is both light and ...

11 years ago

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