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When you think about playing a Blizzard title on PC, whether that’s World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, or even something like the original StarCraft – you think of Battle.net, the developer’s PC launcher and online service that it has been running ever since gamers first went online to matchmake in Diablo II. 2 Diablo 4 …

Diablo 4 is coming to Steam, the very first Blizzard game to appear on Valve’s platform Read More »

Diablo IV’s second season, the Season of Blood, is set to kick off on October 17 and is set to be alongside the massive Patch 1.2.0. Outside of details on Class and balance changes and new item details, Blizzard has lifted the lid on a big chunk of the new content coming with Season of …

Diablo 4 Season of Blood will make leveling faster, expand the endgame, and more Read More »

Publishers and developers are using Xbox Game Pass subscriptions to help catalyze growth of newer monetization methods, signalling another disruptive shift across gaming. 3 VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Xbox Game Pass is kind of like a river of revenue, and like a major river, there’s all sorts of smaller tributaries and streams that feed …

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The ad-free plan for Discovery Plus is going up in price in the US, and it’s a fairly hefty jump. 2 Discovery Plus is about to get more expensive (Image Credit: Warner Bros) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Currently the subscription runs to $6.99 per month, but that is being hiked to $8.99 (and then …

Discovery Plus ad-free plan is getting a near-30% price hike Read More »

Coming from EK, the company’s new EK-Quantum Torsion A60 PC case is a little bit special not only in how stylish and futuristic it looks but also that it’s created specifically for liquid-cooled builds and entirely built of CNC-milled aluminum, aside from the tempered glass side panel so you can see all the liquid-cooled goodness. …

EK-Quantum Torsion A60 PC case is designed for liquid cooling and made entirely out of aluminum Read More »

With the emergence of AI-powered tools used to generate uncomfortably accurate video and audio representations of public figures, we are starting to see a rise in the number of phony advertisements. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES AI-powered tools capable of deep-faking actors into promoting specific products have begun to rise, with prominent figures such …

Tom Hanks slams AI generated ad of him selling a dental plan ‘Beware!!’ Read More »

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been in operation for more than 30 years and is still able to produce some of the most impressive photographs of the cosmos, such as this recently highlighted image of a galaxy known as NGC 612. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES NASA has taken to its website with a …

NASA telescope photographs object showing significant radio emissions Read More »

Windows 11 has only just got the Copilot feature, as part of the recent Moment 4 update for the OS, but the AI assistant is already being used to display ads to users according to a report. 2 Windows 11 should be advert (and nudge) free in our books (Image Credit: Microsoft) VIEW GALLERY – …

Sick of Microsoft pushing ads in Windows 11? Sadly Copilot AI is reportedly now showing adverts Read More »

Apple’s Vision Pro AR/VR headset won’t go on sale for another few months at best, with an early 2024 release window leaving plenty of wiggle room. However, the company continues to get its ducks in a row ahead of time and its new visionOS beta 4 release has confirmed a new feature that will try …

Your $3,500 Vision Pro will remind you to spend another $250 on new earbuds Read More »

You don’t need to have been following along too closely to know that the iPhone 15 Pro is in the middle of an overheating storm, with people at different points blaming the new A17 Pro chip and the titanium construction for causing heat to build up instead of dissipating. But Apple now believes that the …

Apple’s testing iOS 17.0.3 with a potential iPhone 15 Pro overheating fix Read More »

A new report from The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Meta is currently planning on rolling out a new subscription plan that will remove ads from both Facebook and Instagram. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The article states that Meta is planning on rolling out the new plan to EU users within the …

Meta’s subscription plan for ad-free Facebook and Instagram costs more than Netflix Read More »

On October 12, 2023, NASA will be launching a mission to an astronomical object called Psyche, which could possibly harbor the secrets to the evolution of Earth’s core. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES New research out of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California has summarized what NASA will find when its spacecraft arrives at …

NASA is sending a spacecraft to a possible planetary core floating in deep space Read More »

An exploding star captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may be what researchers need to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. 5 VIEW GALLERY – 5 IMAGES Researchers are still attempting to figure out what is called the “Hubble tension”, which is the discrepancy that lies between measuring the expansion …

Scientists may be about understand one of the biggest mysteries of the universe Read More »

Over the past decade, we’ve seen major improvements in gaming monitors – from color accuracy to response times to refresh rates, and VRR tech is now the standard. We’re now at a point where a 60Hz display is more for productivity than PC gaming, where 100 Hz and higher is what most are looking for. …

ASUS reveals specs for the world’s first 540 Hz gaming monitor, the ROG Swift Pro PG248QP Read More »

In an exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s biography titled “Elon Musk“, where he shadowed the world’s richest man for two years, we get a glimpse of what it’s like when Musk ticks over to what is described as “demon-mode“. 3 VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The excerpt was obtained by Space.com and recounts the events …

Elon Musk went ‘demon-mode’ on SpaceX over Starship, ‘We need to get to Mars before I die’ Read More »

T-FORCE XTREEM DDR5 memory is the latest high-speed RAM from TeamGroup designed specifically for gamers and overclocking with speeds starting from 7600 MHz to an impressive 8200 MHz. Compatible with Intel 700 series motherboards, these premium memory kits will be available in 48GB (2 x 24GB) and 32GB (2 x 16GB) capacities when they launch …

T-FORCE XTREEM DDR5 gaming memory pushes speeds up to an impressive 8200 MHz Read More »

RGB lighting on a modern PC, especially a gaming rig, is standard in 2023. What isn’t standard is how you can customize and sync all of the various lighting protocols across different brands – and often, you’ll need multiple pieces of software to make lighting changes to your motherboard, keyboard, and so on. 2 You …

Windows 11 native RGB controls are finally here, with the new Dynamic Lighting feature Read More »

Apple’s iOS 17.1 update is now available to beta testers and it’s starting to look like it’ll bring with it a few notable improvements once it arrives, likely next month. One of the changes that hadn’t been highlighted until today is a tweak that will change the way that the Reachability looks on some iPhones. …

The iOS 17.1 update will make Reachability look way better on iPhones with Dynamic Island Read More »

You’ve probably already seen the stories of people’s new iPhone 15 Pro handsets getting warm, but have you heard the one about iPhones getting so hot that they break their Apple Pay feature? That’s a thing, believe it or not. But at least it doesn’t sound like this one is being based by Apple or …

Charging your iPhone in your car might break Apple Pay and no we aren’t joking Read More »

Apple has started to apply new Chinese laws that require apps to be licensed before they can be made available to people in the country. That applies to all apps available in the App Store, something that means Apple will now have to also require licenses be granted before apps can be made available for …

Apple applies Chinese licensing laws to the App Store as some apps face being removed Read More »