Month: October 2017
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Backblaze Reveals Q3 2017 Hard Drive Failure Stats
Data storage provider Backblaze unveiled its latest HDD failure stats for 2017’s third quarter. Notably, the company now includes 10TB and 12TB drives for the first time. Although hard drive sales are in decline, new HDDs are becoming more reliable every day. This is borne out by Backblaze’s Q3 review, which…
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NVIDIA Uses Cloud to Give MacBooks GeForce GTX Graphics
NVIDIA hopes to bring the power of PC gaming to Apple fans and it’s using cloud computing to facilitate it. The GeForce Now service – available for NVIDIA Shield for a couple of years now – is bringing the power of NVIDIA graphics cards to Apple Mac computers. GeForce Now…
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Nintendo Switch to Surpass Lifetime Wii U Sales This Year
Nintendo’s Switch home/portable hybrid console is officially a smash hit, but Nintendo is not resting on its laurels. On the contrary, the Japanese company is targeting huge Switch sales during the upcoming Holiday Season. In fact, Nintendo’s projections suggest the Switch could sell more units this year than the Wii…
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Super Mario Odyssey Sold Two Million Copies Already
Super Mario Odyssey Selling Well It has only been a few days since its release Super Mario Odyssey has already sold over 2 million copies. The news comes directly from an internal presentation of Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima. It is part of a 15-page slide deck discussing the health of…
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Free Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade Ends December 31st
Didn’t That End Last Year? Users have until December 31, 2017 to receive a free upgrade from their existing Microsoft operating system to Windows 10. This might be news for some that are still holding out on upgrading their Windows 7 or 8.1 systems, as this promotion was supposed to…
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More Razer Phone Details Leaked—Has 120Hz Display
More Leaks Ahead of Launch Day Some details about Razer’s first smartphone came out over 3 weeks ago. The official announcement is on schedule for tomorrow November 1st, but more details are leaking out ahead of that time. A mobile carrier in the UK has put up the product page…
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Microsoft Surface Pro LTE for Business Arriving December 2017
It looks like Microsoft’s Surface Pro LTE is arriving on schedule for a December 2017 release after all. However, it will be for their business customers first. This news follows the revelation last week of the Surface Pro LTE arriving in retail stores later for a spring 2018 release surfaced.…
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Watch ‘The Last of Us Part II’ Trailer from Paris Games Week
Paris Games Week 2017 is currently underway. One of the biggest news to come out from the event is the new The Last of Us II trailer which is absolutely jaw dropping. Not only is it visually spectacular, showing incredibly realistic graphics, the content itself is also quite heavy emotionally.…
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North Korea has Successfully Hacked Warship Blueprints
The North Korea Hacking Department – Office 39 Relations with North Korea are not very good at the moment. This is, in part, due to political tension, but also the very real threat that the country is currently posing to online security. What many may not know is that North…
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OpenToonz – The Studio Ghibli Animation Software is Free to Download!
OpenToonz is available to download for free! It’s always a pleasure when you get to write about something you really love and for me, Studio Ghibli is definitely one of those things. I consider myself somewhat fortunate that I landed onto Ghibli very early on. I watched My Neighbour Totoro…
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Rocket League Nintendo Switch Release Date Confirmed For November!
Rocket League Due For Switch Release! My relationship with Rocket League is very similar to Fifa. When I’m winning, I love it. It’s a fantastically well-made game that is fun and entertaining for all. When I’m losing, it’s a broken piece of garbage that has been designed from the ground…
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Far Cry 5 Will Allow You to Co-op Multiplayer Every Single Mission
Far Cry 5 will allow you to play with your friend from start to finish The Far Cry series, as far as modern gaming goes, is pretty decent. There have certainly been stronger entries (Far Cry 3) and weaker entries (Primal), however, overall and surprisingly for a Ubisoft title, the…
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Football Manager 2018 Introduces New Feature – Players Coming Out as Gay
Football Manager 2018 add ‘gay’ player feature When you have a game series that has been running for so long, it can often be difficult to keep it innovative. From Fifa to Call of Duty, developers are always endeavouring to attempt to find something new to add to something. It…
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Shadow of the Colossus Remastered Trailer Released
Shadow of the Colossus Trailer Released When Shadow of the Colossus released for the PS2 in 2005, it was a graphical masterpiece. Coming towards the end of the consoles life cycle and just a year before the PS3, it was the swansong for the console. One of the major stand out…
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Intel 10nm Will See Limited 2017 Launch
After leading the industry with their silicon process, Intel has started slipping up in recent years. Due to various delays, the 10nm process originally scheduled for 2016 obviously did not arrive on time. Even worse for the chip giant, some reports pointed to 10nm slipping past 2017 and into 2018. Luckily,…
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