Chief Product officer of Xbox Marc Whitten has announced he has left Microsoft to become Chief Product Officer of Sonos. Whitten has worked at Microsoft for 14 years, joining the Xbox Team in 2000 has obviously been a big part of the Xbox franchise since then and has been behind all three consoles and Xbox […]
Western Digital announce My Passport AV-TV external hard drive, aimed at TV’s with USB recording
Western Digital have already announced a few products these past two weeks, but they aren’t done yet and have announced a new external 2.5-inch hard drive aimed at TV’s that support recording directly to USB devices. The new hard drive dubbed My Passport AV-TV supports USB 3.0 and comes in both 500GB and 1TB. Pricing […]
Crytek announces CryEngine will soon support Linux
Crytek have just announced that CryEngine is getting Linux support, with the company showing it off in detail next week at the Game Developers Conference. Currently more and more game studios are looking to bring support for their engines to the Linux OS as Valve are gearing up for their release of SteamOS , which […]
Dell introduces Latitude 13 Education series laptops
Dell are introducing the new Latitude 13 Education series of laptops. The new series is built with Student use in mind from learning/education to mobility and protection. Specs include a 13.3-inch display with 1366 x 768 resoltution and touch/non-touch options. Either an Intel Celeron 2957U or Intel Core i3-4010U processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB storage and […]
Dell announces Precision M2800, most affordable mobile workstation available
Dell have just announced the Precicison M2800 mobile workstation, which will be the cheapest 15-inch mobile workstation available. While the budget nature of the new workstation suggest somewhat low-end specs compared to the full on mobile workstation avaialble from Dell, that’s not the case and configurations include Intel Core i5/i7 processors, an AMD FirePRo W4170M […]
Sony and Panasonic team up to create Archival optical disc, starting with 300GB capacity
Sony and Panasonic today have announced plan to release a new optical disc to provide larger capacities and long-term storage. The current plan/road map aims to release a 300GB disc sometime in summer 2015 with both Sony and Panasonic planing to expand the technology and increase recording capacity to 500GB and then 1TB. We have […]
Review: Kingston 2133Mhz 2x8GB/16GB kit (KHX21C11T3K2/16X)
Another RAM review as we build up our collection of them, again, a big thanks to Kingston, who have been kind enough to send us out a few of their RAM kits to put to test and gauge the performance they offer. The kit up for review here is the Kingston Hyper X Beast 2133Mhz […]
Sony PlayStation US CEO Jack Tretton stepping down on April 1st
In some surprising news today it appears that president and CEO of Sony PlayStation US Jack Tretton is leaving Sony come April 1st, with current EVP and COO of Sony Network Entertainment International Shawn Layden taking over. There hasn’t been any detailed reasons as to why Jack Tretton is stepping down, but we have included […]
Watch Dogs release date now set for May 27th
Just before the release of the PS$ and Xbox One, Ubisoft announced plans to delay the launch of Watch Dogs, which was probably one of the most anticipated launch titles for next gen consoles. We haven’t heard much from Ubisoft the past few months since the original launch date came and past, but now we […]
OnLive launching two new services dubbed CloudLift and OnLive Go
OnLive the cloud gaming service which allows users to stream gaming directly to their mobile device, PC, or with the use of a micro console is launching two new services today. In an effort to boost its customer base and give users more options for games they can stream and are dubbing the day […]