Microsoft today announced that apps like Netflix, Sky Go, and YouTube will no longer require users to have an active Xbox Live gold subscription. This should please a lot of Xbox owners as it allows them to use their Xbox for more than just gaming. Microsoft also finally announced games with gold for the Xbox One, which launches […]
Microsoft releasing Xbox One without Kinect this June for €399
Microsoft are kicking of some announcements before E3 starts, and possibly the biggest that would have come is a Kinect-less Xbox One. That’s right folks. Microsoft are set to release an Xbox One bundle on June 9th without Kinect included, making the bundled product no longer mandatory. The benefit of removing Kinect will drop the price of […]
Half Life 2 and Portal now available on the Nvidia Shield
It was announced a few weeks ago, but today both Half Life 2 and Portal are available for the Nvidia shield. Both games are hugely popular and seeing them on the device should increase its sales or at least make those who already have one more excited, assuming it’s a pattern and we see more […]
EA launches On the House: free PC games with no catch, starting with Dead Space
EA have just launched a new thing! that thing you ask? well, it’s called On the House and basically they are giving away games. The timing for each giveaway isn’t exact, but for a few days, any user on Origin can grab a specfic title completely free and own it as they would had they purchased […]
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare announced, arrives November 4th 2014
No doubt everyone has heard of the Call of Duty franchise, considering it’s one of, if not the biggest in gaming history. The franchise now being a three developer lead game brings Sledgehammer into the light to release their first full game. Sledgehammer games joined Infinity ward a few years ago to help develop parts […]
PlayStation 4 reaches 7 million sales milestone
Sony have just announced the PlayStation 4 has sold over 7 million units worldwide as of April 6th. It hasn’t been that long since the console reached 5 million sales, meaning it’s well on its way to break the 10 million sales mark in the coming months. The PS4 has been sold out in […]
AMD announce Radeon R9 295X2 providing 11.5 TFLOPS of power
AMD have just announced their latest and greatest graphics card. The Radeon R9 295X2 includes two R9 GPUS with a total of 5632 stream processors, 8GB of DDR5 memory and a total of 11.5 TFLOPS of compute power. The dual GPU includes a built in liquid cooling provided by Asetek, which should keep those two […]
Amazon launch their own Streaming and gaming set-top box dubbed Fire TV
Amazon today have finally announced their own set-top box which brings streaming and games directly to your TV, just like all other set-top boxes available. The Amazon Fire TV set-top box features a quad-core CPU with 2GB of RAM and runs an Amazon version of Android. The box itself is fairly subtle and includes, Ethernet, […]
Microsoft appoints Phil Spencer as new head of Xbox
Microsoft have just announced that Phil Spencer will take over as head of Xbox, after Marc Whitten departed to join Sonos. Spencer was the lead for Microsoft Studio and in charge of the gaming brought to the Xbox Platform. Microsoft is now combing the Xbox and Xbox Live teams with the Microsoft Studio team. This […]
New Watch Dogs trailer released, detailing NPC’s and more
Ubisoft have just released a new Watch Dogs trailer as the gear up for the official release on May 27th, which as most people know is over 6 months later than the original release date back in November. The new trailer dubbed Welcome to Chicago details more about the included NPC’s, hacks, and more about […]