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Recently, chip vendors were rocked by security revelations about their processors, by which malicious actors could gain information directly from data currently being processed. It appears that Intel, ARM, and AMD chips were all impacted, and since the Xbox One family is powered by AMD's...

A security flaw in Intel CPUs recently came to light that the company did its best to downplay, even as it put off releasing a comprehensive statement amid rising concerns about the possible performance impact of a fix. It's impossible to quantify how bad the situation actually is at this early...

You knew Kinect peripherals weren't long for this world when Microsoft stopped producing the Kinect in October, but it's still a sad day. The company has stopped making the Xbox Kinect Adapter that lets Xbox One S, Xbox One X and Windows PC users attach the depth-sensing camera without the...

Back in March following on from the Switch’s launch, hackers immediately found a browser exploit that allowed them to dig deeper into the console’s inner workings. Now, right at the start of the year, hackers have managed to figure out how to get access to the Switch’s kernel, paving the...

Last year, Intel and AMD made its long rumored collaboration official, with Intel announcing that its new Core-H series processors would use on-board graphics from AMD’s Radeon team. Since then, things have grown quiet, but this week, Intel began listing the specs for its Core i7-8809G CPU...

Microsoft has pulled a PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds advert after a fan complained the company had copied their art. Reddit user macsterr noticed similiarities between Microsoft's new advert and the concept they had created and posted online two months earlier. Macsterr's image shows a PUBG...

Over the last year, we’ve been encountering increased reports of DRAM and NAND flash price increases. Each time, this has been chocked up to high demand and factories not being able to supply enough. However, it looks like China’s economic regulator may think there’s more to it, as a price...

With controversial DRM like Denuvo constantly slipping throughout the latter half of 2017, many thought this spelled the end of current anti-piracy measures as we knew it. It seems that news of its death has been greatly exaggerated, however, as Denuvo the added layer of VMProtect has made life...

2017 started off on the right foot with the release of Resident Evil 7. Not only did the game reinvigorate the franchise, but it set the standard for what turned out to be a great year for games all around. If you happened to miss out on Resident Evil 7 over the course of the year, then now...

A Frankfurt, Germany man who lost his Nintendo Switch at one of the busiest airports in the world was reunited with his console in mere hours after posting about it on Reddit. Juan, who asked that we not use his last name, was looking forward to whiling away the time on his flight with Floor...

Valve will have to pay the piper over its former Steam refund policy. Australia's Full Court of the Federal Court has dismissed Valve's appeals of a ruling and accompanying fine (worth $2.2 million US) over its allegedly misleading Steam customer guarantees. As the company conducts business in...

With PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds being just over two weeks old, Microsoft is understandably marketing it as much as possible. One of its latest ads, however, seems to have stolen another artist’s concept art in a rather obvious way. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Microsoft posted...

The Nintendo Switch port of Doom was remarkable (although not perfect) and the good news this morning is the team responsible for it, Panic Button, appears to be handling the Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Switch conversion as well. "It's the same as the Doom studio," MachineGames' Tommy...

Capcom has announced all six DLC characters coming to fighting game Street Fighter 5 in 2018. First up is fan-favourite Sakura, who comes out on 16th January, the same day as Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition. Circa Street Fighter 5, Sakura works part-time at an arcade (hence her mic), "but...

Nintendo has now sold more than 10m Switch consoles worldwide in just nine months. It's an impressive total, and one which will only rise higher as the Christmas sales season continues. For comparison, Wii U sold just 13.56m in five years - although that figure shows how much of a flop the...

Capcom has announced Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, which bundles all of the Street Fighter games from the original to 3: Third Strike. The Collection, due out May 2018 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, includes 12 fighting games. They are: Street Fighter...

It looks like AMD’s next generation graphics cards will be getting a memory boost, as the company has begun work on a GDDR6 memory controller. We already know that companies like Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix have begun work on GDDR6. Now we know that AMD has its hands on it. Over on Linkedin...

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition will include over 200 different arcade endings, classic bonus rounds and 6 arcade battle paths. Street Fighter V will continue its path to becoming the game long-term fans expected with a huge Arcade Edition update (and standalone release) on January 16, 2018...

Along with many other companies, Google has been developing its own artificial intelligence for quite some time. This is, of course, a slow process due to the early stages of the technology, but what if AI could create better AI, faster? Google asked the very same question, prompting its own...

It looks like choosing a budget-friendly graphics card just got a bit more confusing on the AMD side of things. This week, AMD and some board partners began quietly selling a new SKU of the RX 560, which unfortunately comes with fewer compute units and stream processors compared to the original...