Gamers of a certain vintage, those of the 16-bit Sega Mega Drive / Genesis and Nintendo SNES era, rarely left their houses. It was a ridiculous vision of the world that the era’s console brawlers immortalised, and few pulled it off with as much razzle-dazzle as Streets of Rage. And now, 24 years since the third game in the series was released, Streets of Rage 4 is finally on its way. Which console is Streets of Rage 4 headed to? And given Wonder Boy’s success on the Nintendo Switch, don’t be sur

Shooting double exposures is one of those techniques that first came about in the days of film, but the sheer fun shooting them has maintained their popularity with digital photographers. One of the best things about shooting double exposures is that it literally forces you to think differently, ultimately making your approach to photography more creative. The list of options goes on…Shooting in-camera double exposures are ultimately a voyage of discovery with every shot, even when you’ve had pl

Google is rolling out a new reading feature for its simplified ‘Go’ browser, utilizing “natural language processing and speech synthesis AI” to recite passages of online text. The speech feature hopes to enhance the browser’s convenience – and no doubt, its user base – by reading articles and web pages aloud, using a dedicated algorithm to pick out the most important information on the page. Google Go will be able to translate articles across 28 languages before reciting them to you in your pref

According to Barclay’s analyst Blayne Curtis in a research note obtained by MacRumors, Apple may be dropping 3D Touch for all the new iPhone models it’s set to release in 2019. The analyst has recently been visiting parts of Apple’s supply chain in Asia and found information that all the models would lose 3D Touch. That rumor suggests the 6.1-inch LCD device has an extra layer of film in the display that means the company isn’t able to include 3D Touch. We’re still expecting to see a 5.8-inch an

Apple’s A11 chip made last year’s iPhones exceptional in terms of performance, and thanks to a new chip manufacturing process, we could be seeing another huge boost in 2018, according to Cult of Mac. TSMC, the Taiwanese company that is exclusively manufacturing Apple’s iPhone processors this year, is reportedly implementing a 7 nanometre process for 2018’s devices, which should shrink the size of chips by around 30% when compared to the 10 nanometre process that was used on the iPhone 8, iPhone

Announced via a blog post , Google says that the ‘Time watched’ stats will give you “a better understanding of time spent on YouTube, so you can make informed decisions about how you want YouTube to best fit into your life”. The ‘Time watched’ statistics begin rolling out today and will be available under the user account menu. It’s also unclear how the stats would account for YouTube videos watched while offline. Moreover, users with multiple accounts will most likely need to log into their mai

While Fortnite players on all the other platforms will be receiving a client update “to improve stability” by August 28, those who play on Nintendo Switch aren’t so lucky. Epic Games has announced via Twitter that it has delayed the Switch update because it needs extra time to work on matchmaking tweaks, which will apparently be arriving with the patch when it’s released. While we haven’t been given details on everything that will come with the new v5.30 content update, there are a few things we

Creative has a new external sound card device for console gamers who want to amp up the sound on their gaming headset. The Sound BlasterX G6 is a high-resolution gaming DAC amp and USB sound card you can plug into a PC or any of the current consoles including the Xbox One, PS4 or Nintendo Switch. Likewise, the Sound BlasterX G6 works with any old headset including those not made by Creative, as long as they use standard 3.5 audio jacks. The external sound card also provides plenty of additional

Microsoft is moving ahead with its plans to create an Xbox One subscription service that will go by the name of Xbox All Access. The plan includes a console, 24 months of Xbox Live Gold and 24 months of Xbox Game Pass for a flat monthly fee. The catch to this is that you’re signing a 24-month contract for the console and the deal is only available to “qualified customers”. The problems here is that, very obviously, if you miss a payment, you’ll end up paying a significant penalty. All that said,

The Intel Core i7-9700K was purportedly spotted overclocking at 5.5537GHz across all eight cores by ZOL. While the processor was in this overclocked state, the unnamed users also benchmarked the chip with Cinebench R15 and the processor delivered a single-core result of 250cb and multi-core result of 1,827cb. Comparatively, the Intel Core i7-8700K delivered 193cb and 1,408 scores in the same respective single- and multi-core tests. From all of this, we can see the greatest improvement the 9700K

For instance, Disney has a broadcasting rights deal with Turner for Star Wars movies through 2022 that was signed in 2016, showing how recent Disney Play as a concept has been for the company. Iger has also again recognized that Disney Play will be more affordable than Netflix , coming in at between $8 to $14 a month. Netflix currently costs $10.99 a month in the US for HD viewing. It’s no wonder, then that Netflix is spending billions annually on new content deals. Set to launch in 2019, Variet

We’ve seen a bunch of recent leaks about the incoming Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones from Google, but up until now the date of the launch remained a mystery. According to Bloomberg’s sources, Google has an event scheduled for Thursday, October 9 in New York, where it will show off its new phones – as well as (perhaps) a Pixel Watch and a new Pixelbook . If you’re a fan of Google’s hardware, we’d suggest you start saving up now, and mark the date in your diary. Not that Google will be able to thro

Remember when a 5MP smartphone camera was high-end, and Nokia used to lead the way in mobile imaging? HMD Global, the brand making phones bearing the Nokia moniker, has registered the PureView trademark, the label attached to the powerful cameras on the back of smartphones starting in 2012. The technology was then used on the slimmer, Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 1020, bringing powerful imaging technology to the Microsoft platform. Nor do we know if the brand has licensed the underlying Pur

But no, we’ve been assured by developer Bethesda that Blades is its own entity within the Elder Scrolls universe, filling a very different role to any Elder Scrolls game before. We want people to feel ‘wow, I’m playing an elder scrolls game but… on a phone’. The best use of Elder Scrolls combatBeyond the beautiful backdrop, the combat is where Blades shone through. Long-time Elder Scrolls fans will have to temper their expectations if they were hoping to experience a fully-realized open-world

If you’re looking to use the raw power of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to enter the world of virtual reality (VR), it’s not easy. The handset is compatible with Samsung’s Gear VR headset, but it needs a little but of work to get it to fit in – and Samsung has decided to help users out free of charge. So, is Gear VR dead? Does that mean the Gear VR is on the way out as a priority for the brand? Rumors abound that Samsung is about to launch a new Gear VR headset – although given that’s never a main f

We don’t have long to wait until Apple unveils its 2018 iPhone line-up , and a new report repeats a lot of the rumors we’ve heard so far – three new models are on the way, with significant boosts to performance and the capabilities of the rear-facing cameras. That’s per sources speaking to Bloomberg : 6.5-inch and 5.8-inch OLED models, together with a cheaper 6.1-inch LCD phone. As for what these three iPhones are going to be called, apparently there’s still some debate inside Apple – the iPhone

In the 2018 Nissan Armada, for example, the digital mirror shows a real-time video stream from behind the car. In a recent test of the 2018 Chevy Camaro Hot Wheels Edition, a rear-view mirror provides digital buttons you use to access OnStar features, such as calling a support tech or issuing an SOS to OnStar emergency personnel. Photo credit: Josiah BondyIn the test, the Camaro mirror responded perfectly to multiple button presses, as though they were physical buttons, and without the typical d

Both hardcore gamers and cryptocurrency miners recognize the importance of a powerful graphics card, ideally with multiple GPUs – (Graphics Processing Units). Download GPU-ZOpen your web browser and navigate to the GPU-Z download page. Analyze your graphics cardBy default, GPU-Z will launch with the ‘Graphics Card’ tab displayed. Advanced featuresThe latest version of GPU-Z now includes an ‘Advanced’ tab to give you more detailed information on your graphics card. For users who don’t want to sha

Do you have a brilliant idea for the next great tech innovation? Enter our Tech Innovation for the Future competition and you could win up to £10,000! Big tech companies have dramatically changed the way we live our lives – but who’s keeping tabs on how they approach innovation? It’s a daunting task, but one way of doing it is through an initiative called ‘responsible research and innovation’. But why exactly is it important for the big tech companies to embrace these principles and work toward

While a lot of the recent focus on Tesla has centered around the production of the Model 3 , let’s not forget that the company has a few other self-driving vehicles in the works – and one of those, the Tesla Semi truck , seems to be covering a lot of distance without any help. After Electrek reported that the Semi had called in on trucking giant JB Hunt, none other than Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted that the vehicle was “driven across the country alone” using the existing Tesla Supercharger netwo