Gaming

By David Nield Marc Laidlaw, one of the driving forces behind the design of the Half-Life series, has left his position at Valve and seemingly retired from the business of game-making, Redditor TeddyWolf has discovered. That’s a blow for anyone expecting a third chapter in the series – Laidlaw was the man in charge of…

By techradar This week was all about a three letter acronym. No, not WTF. We mean CES, the annual consumer electronics show where manufacturers show off their brightest ideas and try to persuade us that this year really is the year of the internet fridge. Not only that, but we’ve also got bad news for…

By Hugh Langley Love them or loathe them, free-to-play mobile games are here to stay. You need only look at the royal fortune Candy Crush has made the King company in its short lifetime to see why. People are spending money on this franchise – some of them, quite a lot – but King knows…

By David Nield People who play pirated games are going to have to enjoy it while it lasts: the founder of notorious Chinese cracking forum 3DM says the days of game piracy are drawing to a close, because it’s getting too difficult. It seems Just Cause 3 is a tipping point – the group’s cracking…

By Patrick Goss The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 could be heading for a significant price drop, with next generation chips bringing the cost of production down. AMD are a huge player in the console market, with its chips powering the key players including Sony and Microsoft, and the expense of this component is a…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Forget fitness trackers, smart fridges and connected cars: the most interesting tech (so far) to emerge from CES 2016 has been found in the computing section. As every hour passes it seems that Las Vegas is being lit up by a brighter monitor, a lighter laptop or a gaming machine with…

By Hugh Langley Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift are now live and the price has finally been revealed, but Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is already fielding questions about what comes next. In a Reddit AMA that covered a range of topics from pricing to games, Luckey was asked how long he sees the first generation…

By Hugh Langley Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift are now live and the price has finally been revealed, but Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is already fielding questions about what comes next. In a Reddit AMA that covered a range of topics from pricing to games, Luckey was asked how long he sees the first generation…

By David Nield If you’ve been champing at the bit waiting to buy your very own Oculus Rift, now is your chance: the pre-order page is live and you get a taste of next-generation virtual reality for $599/£499/AU$649 – that’s before tax and shipping. It’s not cheap, but that price you also get two VR…

By David Nield If you’ve been champing at the bit waiting to buy your very own Oculus Rift, now is your chance: the pre-order page is live and you get a taste of next-generation virtual reality for $599/£499/$649 – that’s before tax and shipping. It’s not cheap, but that price you also get two VR…

By Darren Allan CyberPower is showing off a number of new products over at CES 2016, the central attraction being a neat sounding gaming laptop which is powered by a Skylake processor that can be overclocked. The CyberPowerPC Fangbook 4 SK-X is a 17.3-inch gaming notebook which offers more in the performance stakes thanks to…

By Darren Allan CyberPower is showing off a number of new products over at CES 2016, the central attraction being a neat sounding gaming laptop which is powered by a Skylake processor that can be overclocked. The CyberPowerPC Fangbook 4 SK-X is a 17.3-inch gaming notebook which offers more in the performance stakes thanks to…

By techradar We’re only a few hours into CES 2016 and virtual reality has already stolen the show. Not only did HTC reveal its overhauled Vive headset, but Oculus announced that Rift pre-orders will go live on January 6 and some early Kickstarter backers will be getting one for free. One problem: we still don’t…

By techradar We’re only a few hours into CES 2016 and virtual reality has already stolen the show. Not only did HTC reveal its overhauled Vive headset, but Oculus announced that Rift pre-orders will go live on January 6 and some early Kickstarter backers will be getting one for free. One problem: we still don’t…

By Dave James TP Vision has today announced that its Philips Android TVs will now benefit from the Amazon Instant Video streaming service, helping bolster its content credentials. Coinciding with the launch of its 2016 range of Philips Android TVs it will be adding Amazon’s streaming service to the platform as a whole. All of…