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It can be difficult to wrap your head around just how ridiculously massive The Witcher 3 is, in terms of both content and world size, and there was a LOT of effort put in to make it that way. According to CD Projekt, it took 240 in-house staff members and 1,500 extra workers from across the [&hellip

If you’ve had your eye on the startup scene in Asia anytime in the past couple of years, the first thing you’ll notice is that there’s a LOT of money being invested, especially when it comes to Chinese startups. However, a new report from Tencent Tech suggests that a significant ch

We still have a couple of months to go before Bethesda releases fallout 4, but the company is already opening up about the game’s downloadable content. I’m not talking about horse armor either, I’m talking about a Season Pass that will give you access to the numerous DLCs that Beth

Behind Firefox OS and Tizen, and way behind Windows 10 Mobile, there’s another alternative mobile operating system that’s fighting to take the number three spot in the mobile market behind Android and iOS, and it’s called Sailfish OS. From a small Finnish startup by the name of Jol

Nowadays, most high-end mobile devices come with either 3GB or 4GB of RAM, but that number could jump up to 6GB in the near future thanks to Samsung. The company has started producing next-generation LPDDR4 modules for mobile devices that could bring 6GB of RAM to future smartphone, with as much as

The Fire Phone didn’t just sell poorly, it sold so poorly that it took Amazon more than a year to clear out its stock of the smartphone. It was noticed earlier this week that the Amazon page for the Fire Phone lists the device as unavailable, which means Amazon must have finally sold the last

We already know that HTC has a couple of high-end smartphones that it plans to unveil on September 29th, but there’s a good chance that the company will take the wraps off of its first smartwatch at the event as well. We don’t have anything official to go on, but according to Phandroid,

With hundreds of millions of people, low levels of car ownership, really crowded cities, and underdeveloped public transit, China may be Uber’s most important market. CEO Travis Kalanick seems to agree, because he recently announced that the company will be doubling its expansion plans in the

With Qualcomm expected to launch its Snapdragon 820 chipset by the end of the year, many people are wondering which company will be the first to utilize the next-generation chipset in one of their devices. Qualcomm announced recently that somewhere around 30 Snapdragon 820-powered smartphones are be

Most analysts for the wireless market have predicted that 2020 will be when 5G networks start seeing commercial deployment, but I guess Verizon didn’t get the memo. The largest wireless carrier in the United States announced this morning that it plans to begin testing of 5G wireless technology

Building a Raspberry Pi-powered basic tablet or control panel just got a lot easier, as there’s now an official Raspberry Pi touchscreen that can be purchased for $60. Naturally, for a touchscreen that’s so affordable, it isn’t exactly top-tier with its 7-inch 800×480, but tha

Samsung is currently the undisputed king of the smartphone market, but Apple’s seemingly unstoppable growth and the burgeoning smartphone makers coming out of China are really starting to take their toll on the South Korean company. Not even the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge were able to sell a

Sony’s smartphones have some pretty straightforward names. The Xperia Z5 Compact is slightly weaker and more compact than the standard Xperia Z5 while the Xperia Z5 Premium is slightly bigger and more premium. Like I said, they’re pretty straightforward names, which is why I got a little

Few people are as qualified to make predictions about the PC market as Michael Dell, so when he says that the market is going to consolidate even further over the next few years, you can believe him. Speaking at a conference in India earlier this week, the founder and CEO of Dell predicted that the

With the Taiwanese company’s ever-shrinking profits recently culminating in it falling off of Taiwan’s fifty most valuable companies list, it’s clear that the mobile market has not been kind to HTC, and things are only going to get worse. That’s why it’s so important th

As far as displays are concerned, 4K and OLED are the two hottest trends at the moment, and as one of the market leaders for displays, it’s only natural for LG to have combined to two to create something that’s as impressive as it is ridiculous. At IFA 2015 in Berlin earlier this week, L

Amazon and Apple have always approached the tablet market from different angles, Amazon from the low-end to mid-range side and Apple from the high-end side. It’s worked out pretty damn well for both companies, but with the tablet market continuing to shrink, the two of them have had to really

Another day, another batch of Nexus leaks. That’s what the past couple of weeks have felt like as we grow ever-closer to Google’s official unveiling of the two smartphones, which is expected on September 29th. One of the more recent leaks comes from AndroidPIT, and gives us an actual loo

Uber has been testing out its own courier service for a few months now, and it looks like the company is finally ready to actually launch it. According to reports, the company is planning to announce partnerships with several major retailers later this fall, and will have an Uber-powered express del

ZTE isn’t exactly a household name in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped the Chinese handset maker from taking an 8% share of the American smartphone market in the second quarter of this year. According to IDC, ZTE’s market share in the United States has increased from 4.2%

Considering the lukewarm responses to the LG G4, not to mention the disappointing sales, LG needs a new flagship smartphone to help turn things around, and that new device will be launching on October 10th, according to reports out of South Korea. While the name of the devices wasn’t mentioned

One of the most surprising things we learned about Fallout 4 at E3 was that the playable character would be fully voiced. It was surprising because Fallout has always had a seemingly endless number of dialogue options, and having them all voiced would be incredibly difficult to achieve, but Bethesda

Acer founder Stan Shih announced a few days ago that he was open to the idea of having his company taken over by another one, which led to many people talking about a potential merger between Acer and ASUS. It makes a lot of sense on the surface, considering how both of them are based […]

Now that Nextbit has entered the smartphone market, the company is having a celebration party in its home city of San Francisco today. Its first smartphone isn’t the only thing to be celebrating either, as the new device also managed to reach its Kickstarter goal of $500,000 in less than 12 ho

With China’s mobile growth starting to slow down, all eyes are turning to India as the next burgeoning mobile market to take advantage of. According to a statement released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the number of active Internet users in the country has increased

When you find something you like on Tumblr and want to share it with your follows, you simply reblog it. In the past this has created what Tumblr itself has described as “crazy-long, indecipherable reblog chains,” but the company released a much-needed update to its interface earlier thi

Aside from sleeping, working, and general leisurely activities, what would you say the average American spends the most amount of time doing every day? Eating seems like an obvious answer, or maybe showering and other hygienic practices, or maybe even religious activities. If you guessed any of thes

For an Internet of Things platform to be successful, it needs to be compatible with as many types of hardware as possible, and considering how prevalent ARM-based processors are, it’s only natural for IBM to want to make its own IoT platform work with them. That’s why the company has for

The wait may finally be over. The most popular smartphone to come out of China was released more than a year ago, and people have been getting antsy waiting for some kind of official announcement from Xiaomi regarding the smartphone’s successor: the Xiaomi Mi 5. While we still don’t

I’m one of the many people who likes to fall asleep while watching TV, which is fine by itself, but the fact that the TV remains on while I’m asleep is not just bad for my health, it wastes a lot of power. That’s where Samsung thinks the SleepSense can be of assistance. One of [&he

Qualcomm is hoping that the Snapdragon 820 will make us forget about the overheating issues that plagued the Snapdragon 810, and if the details on the new SoC that the company just revealed are true, it might actually do that. We already know about the chip’s Adreno 530 GPU, which Qualcomm cla

I thought the NIVIDIA SHIELD gaming tablet sounded pretty gimmicky when it was first announced, and while I still think that, I can’t deny that it’s a solid device. That being said, it wasn’t exactly a smash hit because the market for gaming mobile devices is still hilariously smal

One of Hulu’s biggest weaknesses has always been its reliance on advertisements. Whereas Netflix offers a ton content for $7.99 per month with no advertisements of any kind, Hulu offers less content while still forcing users to watch multiple ads per episode when watching television shows, eve

Sony Mobile has had a rough time these past few years, so much so that Sony is losing millions of dollars every week just to keep its mobile division alive. Obviously this can’t keep going on, and since Sony has made it clear that it has no intention of leaving the mobile market, the company [

Months after Huawei first unveiled its new smartwatch at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the Chinese company is finally making the device available to pre-order in the United States. Huawei missed the original June launch date for the Huawei Watch, but it’s easy to forgive them when y

It’s always been possible to build a new PC from scratch or replace the components on an existing device, but the process requires a bit of know-how, and even if you have the experience, it’s still annoying and tedious at times. There aren’t very many people who enjoy fiddling arou

The official Xperia Z5 unveiling is right around the corner, so this may very well be the last leak we see for Sony’s next flagship. Confirming rumors that there will be three versions of the device, a batch of hands-on images have been leaked which give us our best look at the smartphones yet

With how poorly the PC market has been doing over the past few years, it’s common to see big-name PC manufacturers like ASUS and Lenovo expanding into the mobile market to make up for their shrinking sales. Xiaomi, on the other hand, is reportedly looking to do the opposite: expanding OUT of t

With more than 1.35 billion people and a rapidly growing number of smartphone users, it’s only a matter of time before China surpasses the United States and becomes the world’s most valuable mobile gaming market, and it looks like that time is upon us. According to the 2015 Chinese Mobil

Tech companies have made their hatred of closed video formats very clear, especially the kind that require the companies to pay royalties to patent holders. That’s why many of these companies have developed their own video formats, but that doesn’t really solve the problem, it just creat