What’s in an Xbox? Lots apparently! If there’s one message that Microsoft seems hellbent on emphasising with their next video game console, it’s power. Pure power in a raw form that’ll pave the way for games to not only look better but perform beyond the norm and load quicker than ever before.

It’s light as a feather, stiff as a board and there’s nary a wire to be seen. The Razer Viper Ultimate is an absolute heavyweight in all the right areas that matter, and if you’ve got the buck to spend you’ll be surprised at just how much bang you get back in return from a device that’ll keep you gaming for days on end.

There’s an announcement that many people who’re invested in video games or the gaming industry are waiting on Sony to make. It’s not this one. Sony announced this weekend that they’ll summarily be shutting down the official PlayStation forums.

This year’s E3 is going to be a shadow of its former self, but another great big expo is going away completely in 2020. The writing was on the wall for Mobile World Congress 2020, but now the host organisation, GSMA has made it official. Originally scheduled to run from 24-28 February, MWC 2020 has been cancelled. “The GSMA has …

You don’t really expect external storage to be fast. Portable storage is there for its convenience, but often they have such slow transfer speeds that using them for anything beyond the transfer of a few smaller files is a bit of a drag. Largely because of their very nature, they have to use an interface that’s not especially fast. The X8 from Crucial fixes that dilemma, provided you have the right hardware.

Earlier this week, the anger from the Stadia Reddit spilled over when early adopters realised they’d been with no worthwhile updates from Google regarding the streaming platform for over 40 days. And, from a consumer perspective, I think much of that anger is justified. Google promised regular updates – not just of games that would come to Stadia, but also …

The new mid-gen consoles heralded the beginning of the 4K era, brining UHD gaming to the masses. Sure, you could argue that few games consistently run at the target resolution natively. Some games instead use dynamic resolution scaling or rendering techniques. That techno-disclaimer aside, a great many games are actually outputting in native 4K, especially on the Xbox One X, and they do so using setting that hover around “medium” settings, usually at 30fps. The PS4 Pro isn’t quite up to that task, and usually runs games at a lower resolution.

Yesterday, Facebook (the company, not the social media platform)announced that it was doing a great big rebrand, and will no longer be known as Facebook. Instead, they’d prefer if you got shouty about things. The company will henceforth be branded as FACEBOOK, because of reasons.