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Bare-Boned But Surprisingly Solid ‘tiny11’ Windows 11 Installer Gets Released
While there is a lot of both fair and unfair criticism surrounding Windows 11, it’s hard to deny one key point. Namely, in terms of requirements, the operating system is unusually terse in what it both needs and wants from your hardware and system configuration. TPM 2.0? I daresay hardly…
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The eTeknix Christmas and New Year Message – 2020
Well, 2020 is (nearly) over and I think it would be fair to say that we’ve all been living in ‘interesting times’ this year. And for those of you unfamiliar with the connotations of that Chinese proverb, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s been necessarily good! – Despite the difficulties…
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Team eTeknix Look to Storm the HWBOT Leaderboard!
Despite the fact that we have been registered and reporting results for quite some time, we recently decided to kick-up the efforts of Team eTeknix on the HWBOT website. As such, in recent weeks, both members of our staff and community have been looking to make a big splash in…
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Microsoft Updates Xbox Live Guidelines To Address ‘Trash Talk’
Microsoft Clarifies ‘Trash Talking’ I am a firm believer in that ‘trash talking’ can be an acceptable practice in gaming. It is, after all, fun to have a little banter to try and get the people you are playing with engaged in a positive way. It does, however, raise the…
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Sims Community Manager Asks Fans To Stop Attacking The Staff
Sims Community Manager Asks Fans To Stop Attacking The Staff The Sims 4 has had a bit of a bumpy road since it launched. To me, it epitomised everything that was going wrong with EA. When the game initially launched, it had neither pools nor babies. In the game series,…
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2K Games Launches ‘2K Foundations’ Charitable Program
2K Games Giving Back to the Fans 2K Games, publisher of NBA 2K19 is launching their new 2K Foundations program. The goal of this new charitable program is to rejuvenate rejuvenate basketball courts in 12 US cities. This includes Cincinnati, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago and Cleveland within its first year…
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Borderlands 2 Unofficial Patch Features 100+ Fixes and Changes
Borderlands 2 Unofficial Patch Features 100+ Fixes and Changes Borderlands 2 is nearly 6 years old now, despite that, there is still a pretty strong level of hardcore fans of the game. Despite the third instalment reportedly being on the way, some are still committed to trying to improve the game…
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Hello Games Deploys Community Support Team
Hello Games may have taken one hell of a beating from the gaming community recently, but with the rocky launch of No Man’s Sky behind them, the team has been working hard to try to put things right. Not only have they just released the biggest update for the game…
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Mafia 3 to Feature Racist NPC AI
When you mention games set back in history, they often have difficulty dealing with sensitive issues and the problems people and society had in that generation. Mafia 3 looks to change this by being set in 1968 environment looking to replicate a version of New Orleans set in that period,…
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Want to Work on League Of Legends? Best Avoid Being Toxic in Chat-logs
When it comes to online games, Riot isn’t one to shy away from their problems with toxic behaviour in-game. With the tribunal allowing the community to oversee players who have been reported, putting an emphasis on the community supporting the community. Now it would seem that the company is looking…
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Former Top Gear Stars Create “DriveTribe” Community
When it comes to cars, most people know of the show Top Gear. Its cast of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May traveled the length and breadth of the UK and even the world with cars powering their journeys in everything from races against planes and trains to mini-cooper football.…
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Automobilista Pulled From Steam Due To Copyright Claim
We all like community content, giving us everything from new maps and worlds to explore to little details like a new weapon or car design. Sadly when it comes to games, something inside the game can often lead to disagreements and arguments, something that seems to have resulted in Automobilista pulled from…
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Pirates of Stardew Valley Getting Given Copies From Players
Typically when a game comes out there are two kinds of people who end up playing the game. Firstly you have the people who purchase the game, looking to enjoy the game in all its glory. You then have the people who will illegally download the game, looking to enjoy…
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SXSW Gaming Events Cancelled After ‘Threats Of Violence’
Well this is a mess but here goes, two gaming events have been cancelled at the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival that is due to take place next year (March 2016), after organisers confirmed they have become victim to continuous threats of violence which includes a direct message of the potential for…
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Guild Wars 2 Base Game is Now Free-To-Play
Guild Wars 2’s base package is now available for free after the studio announced a revised pricing structure. However, to monetize the game’s player base, there will be a significant number of restrictions imposed on free accounts. These include limiting the character slots from 5 to 2, disabling Map chat and…
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