Microsoft believes “space for both” Xbox One and Steam Machines

Microsoft has said it isn’t threatened by the oncoming Steam Machine army, but says there’s “space for both” under your TV set. Marc Whitten, Corporate Vice President of Xbox, has said he’s really excited to the Xbox One and Steam Machines share the game console market. Of course, he doesn’t bring the PS4 into the equation.“This is literally the most golden of golden ages that I've ever seen around...
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Samsung Galaxy S5 features to include advanced head tracking gesture controls?

Samsung Galaxy S5 head tracking gesture control patentNew rumours suggest the Samsung Galaxy S5 features will include head tracking gesture controls. According to a European Patent Office filing, Samsung’s first 2014 flagship may include gestures that can be controlled with movements of your head.Samsung Galaxy smartphone already include some gesture-based features like Smart Stay and Smart Scroll,...
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Nintendo 3DS game sales top 16 million in 2013 but “best days” still to come

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between WorldsNintendo has announced recording breaking Nintendo 3DS game sales during 2013, with over 16 million sold last year. Combined sales of packaged and digital 3DS games topped 16 million in 2013, a huge 25 per cent increase on the 2012 figures.The record breaking sales numbers are down to big name launches like Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Professor...
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Sony reportedly developing dedicated black and white full frame sensor camera

Sony is reportedly working on a dedicated black and white full frame sensor camera that will launch later this year. According to sources close to the company, Sony is developing a dedicated black and white camera to compete with the likes of the Leica Monochrom, which costs around £6000.The Sony Alpha Rumours sources suggest that Sony has been working hard on such a device and will bring it to market...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo pictured next to Note 3

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo and the Galaxy Note 3The first image of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo has leaked online, showing the smartphone next to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Samsung is supposedly planning to launch a smaller, more affordable version of its Galaxy Note 3 smartphone at MWC 2013 and now we have what claims to be the first image of it.The leaked image comes courtesy of the notorious SamMobile...
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Samsung suggests cheap OLED TVs still “three to four years” away

Samsung has suggested cheaper OLED TVs will not come to the market for quite some time. HS Kim, Samsung’s VP of the Visual Display Business estimated that the arrival of affordable OLED TV sets is still around “three to four years” away.UHD 4K and OLED were the two major innovations to arrive in the TV market last year, but such TVs are priced considerably higher than the Full HD alternatives.Both...
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Kogan launches 55-inch 4K TV for £540, could come to UK

Kogan's 55-inch 4K bargainKogan has launched a 55-inch 4K TV for just £540, which could be released in the UK. The Australian TV company may have just launched the 4K bargain of the year with its 55-inch UHDTV model that costs AUS$999. This equates to just £542 in the UK.The affordable US$999 Vizio P Series 50-inch 4K TV was launched at CES 2014 but the Kogan 55-inch 4K TV is cheaper and may actually...
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New Halo 5 concept art teases “prominent” new location

Halo 5 concept art from "Sparth"343 Industries has released new Halo 5 concept art that teases on of the prominent locations to feature in the Xbox One game. In a post on Halo Waypoint, 343 Industries Executive Producer Josh Holmes released the concept art for the upcoming Halo game giving us a first look at one of the game’s locations.The concept art is “an early exploration of a new location that...
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PS4 crowned bestselling UK console in 2013, beats Xbox 360 by a hair

PS4, PlayStation Camera and DualShock 4 controllerThe PS4 has become the best-selling home console in the UK for 2013, beating the Xbox 360 by a fraction. Sony’s next-generation console pipped the Xbox 360 to become the best-selling UK home console in the final weeks of 2013.Beating the Xbox 360 by just a couple of thousand units, Sony managed to sell over 530,000 PS4 units in five weeks.These figures...
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Project Spark Xbox One beta release date confirmed for February

Microsoft will launch the Project Spark beta for Xbox One in February, joining the Windows 8 PC beta members. Team Dakota hosted a Twitch livestream this week that confirmed the Xbox One Project Spark beta will launch in February, but this may slip to March if any development roadblocks arise.The Project Spark beta launched on Windows 8 PCs at the beginning of December, but Xbox One owners were forced...
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Samsung Tizen smartphone to launch in March?

Samsung will launch Tizen smartphones in March, released just after MWC 2014. The South Korean electronics company has been teasing a Tizen smartphone launch for quite some time. Since May 2012, in fact. In Jnauary last year, Samsung said it would release “competitive” Tizen devices in 2013, then again said a high-end Tizen model would launch in August or September.However, we still haven’t seen a...
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Valve explains why you want a Steam Machine

Alienware's Steam MachineValve has explained why it thinks you’ll be rather taken with the range of upcoming Steam Machines in an interview at CES 2014. Basically, Steam Machines are intended to bring PC gamers the Steam experience, but from the comfort of their sofa.Valve’s Jeff Cain said PC gamers have been asking for a portable experience for their high-end gaming PCs, and Steam Machines are just...
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Google+ contacts integrated into Gmail

Google has taken the step of integrating your Google+ contacts into your Gmail account. Now, when you start typing an email contact into the 'To' field in Gmail, Google will provide Google+ contact suggestions as well as the usual Gmail ones.You’ll notice that these Google+ connections use the person’s name only, which means that your email address won’t be revealed to any old casual Google+ acquaintance....
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iPhone 6 camera may stick at 8-megapixels

Apple’s next major smartphone revision, the iPhone 6, could keep the same megapixel count as its predecessors according to a recent report from China. Starting with the iPhone 4S in 2011 and moving through the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S, each of the last three iPhones has sported an 8-megapixel rear camera.If a recent report from The China Post is to be believed, so will the next one. According to the...
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Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 Camera Review

What is the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2?The Galaxy Camera 2 is Samsung's second attempt at an Android-powered camera. This new model makes the camera look better and run faster, but doesn't radically improve image quality.Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 – Design and FeaturesMost people think of Android as a system found on phones and tablets – and it is, for the most part. However, it can work on other things...
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Nokia Android “Normandy” phone preliminary specs leak

A handful of specs for the Nokia Android smartphone codenamed Normandy have leaked online. Building on the leaked Android Nokia smartphone UI images leaked earlier in the week, notorious (and mostly accurate) tipster @evleaks has provided us with some more info on the Google-powered Android handset.According to the leaked screengrabs from an AnTuTu benchmark and the phone’s About settings menu, Nokia’s...
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Sony Xperia Z1 Compact price announced

Sony has revealed the price of the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, its new mini flagship unveiled at CES 2014. The mid-range version of the Sony Xperia Z1 flagship is available to pre-order now for the fairly reasonable price of £449, especially when you consider the specs it offers.However, that means SIM-free it’s only £30 cheaper than the Xperia Z1 and considerably more expensive than the £389.99 Samsung...
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LG reveals plans for fully foldable phones

LG is looking to the future, teasing that it is pursuing the idea of fully foldable phones following the launch of the flexible LG G Flex. With concept images of smartphones with fully malleable displays having done the rounds for a number of years, LG has hinted that the futuristic technology is most certainly in the works, presumably in the deepest, darkest, most secretive corners of its research...
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Xbox Live game streaming and major UI update coming soon to Xbox One

Xbox One owners should expect a major UI update containing a host of new features including Xbox Live game streaming to arrive soon. Marc Whitten, Corporate Vice President of Xbox, has tipped that some features originally promised at E3 2013 will be making their way to the Xbox One before E3 2014 in June.Xbox Live game streaming, where you can stream game footage for other to watch and engage with,...
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Nikon D3300 Camera Review

Unlike recent CES shows, CES 2014 iteration has seen a host of new digital cameras debuted. Nikon was one of the leading protagonists, announcing no fewer than six new COOLPIX compacts as well as the development of the Nikon D4S.The real headline announcement, however, was the launch of the new entry-level DSLR – the Nikon D3300. The latest model replaces the year-old Nikon D3200, and although it...
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Microsoft confirms all Windows Phone 8 users to get 8.1 update

Microsoft has confirmed that all Windows Phone 8 users will be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 when it launches. When Windows Phone 8 was released, consumers were enraged they wouldn’t be able to upgrade from Windows Phone 7.However, Microsoft has confirmed that this will not be the case with Windows Phone 8.1, as all phones will be able to make the transition to Microsoft’s latest OS.The news...
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Panasonic Studio Master 4K LCD TV Review

And the award for bravest TV brand of the 2014 CES goes to [drum roll please]: Panasonic. First for stating unequivocally during its opening press conference that it was going to deliver picture quality from its new LED TVs as good as that of its legendary plasma TVs, and then for having the AV balls to run a demo (in a blacked out room, no less) of its new flagship LCD TV panel running head-to-head...
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Bethesda January 12 event confirmed, Skyrim for Xbox One and PS4?

Bethesda has released an invite to a special event on January 12, which could be used to launch the next-generation version of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The game developer has sent out an email event invite teasing an announcement on January 12, 2014.Unfortunately, the email gives very little away as to what the announcement will be, but some are speculating (rather wildly) that it could be Fallout...
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6 Reasons 2014 Is The Year Home Automation Gets Serious

Home automation and the 'smart home' feel like mythical concepts we've been talking about years. Every CES I've attended (CES 2014 is the first I've missed in six years) has had a smattering of 'smart' appliances and other curios, but it's finally starting to feel like 2014 could be the year all this talk turns into something more meaningful. Here are six reasons why:1. Rising energy prices and improving...
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iPhone 6 frame supposedly leaked, but we’re not convinced

Images of what claim to be an iPhone 6 frame has leaked courtesy of some Chinese sources, but we’re not convinced it’s the real deal. The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C were only released in September, but that hasn’t stopped the iPhone 6 rumours from flooding in.This purported image of the iPhone 6 casing is the latest to arrive, showcasing the larger screen and ultra-thin 2014 flagship.These images are...
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Philips Android TV TV Review

What is the Philips Android TV?Regular readers will know that while Philips TVs in 2013 impressed in many areas, they consistently lagged behind the competition when it came Smart features. Neither their clunky, slow interfaces nor their limited content levels bore comparison with the much richer, slicker Smart offerings of LG, Samsung, Sony or Panasonic. Realising this, Philips (TP Vision) has come...
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