Category: Home Entertainment
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Xbox One to get a $50 price cut in the US – What about the UK?
If there is one thing that will add fuel to the 2014 Christmas console wars, it’s a good old price cut, and our Xbox One-less cousins over in the US should be rejoicing if they are expecting a XB1 under the Christmas tree, as the Console will be seeing a $50 price drop over the […]
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Amazon launches affordable Fire TV streaming stick
Amazon seem to be attacking every aspect of the Technology world at the moment, with it’s Amazon Fire Phone, Fire Tablet, Prime service, Kindle eReader and the Prime Streaming service, so it’s not so shocking that the company has released its own Chromecast/Roku-esq streaming stick called the Amazon Fire TV Stick. The HDMI based streaming […]
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Apple Rumoured to Unite Beats Music with iTunes
With sales of music downloads on the decline, partly due to the rise in success of streaming services like Spotify, Apple is reportedly scheduling to unite Beats Music with iTunes in a hope to hinder the demise of Apple. One of the suspected reasons for Apples interest in the company was for their music streaming […]
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PS4 2.0 ‘Masamune’ software to be released October 28th
Last week, Sony detailed its incoming PlayStation 4’s 2.0 system software update that will be landing in the coming weeks, but whilst the company released the info of what’s n the update, they didn’t tell us when we would get the update. That was last week though, as today Sony has announced that the PS4 […]
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Will Halo 5 : Guardians be released on 10th Nov 2015?
We are all awaiting the release of the Halo Masterchief collection on Xbox One next month, but on top of the news that we will be able to play all of our old and favourite Halo games re-mastered, is the tantalising idea that next year, we will also be playing a new Halo game, in […]
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KnotFest Streaming Live Online This Weekend
Seven-piece heavy metal outfit Slipknot will be hosting their annual festival this weekend in the United States and have now announced that the imaginatively titled KnotFest will stream live for free to the masses over the internet. The Saturday and Sunday’s headline sets from Slipknot themselves at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernando, California […]
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Amazon Fire TV Now Available in UK
Amazon is continuing to stick their fingers in yet another pie, as they continue on their path to world domination. First came Amazon Prime offering services similar to Netflix and other movie streaming services, then there was the Amazon Fire smartphone and tablets and now they’re adding Fire TV to their list of accomplishments. The […]
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Google Chromecast 2 Confirmed
Google has officially confirmed that the second generation Chromecast is in the works. Speaking at the GigaOM Structure Connect conference yesterday, Google Vice President of Product Management Mario Queiroz discussed the success of the Chromecast as a digital media platform and its popularity, with 650-million uses recorded uses of the ‘cast’ button since the original […]
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Google Introduces Google Security Key to Verify Accounts
Account security has been at the forefront of the media recently with accounts being hacked and personal information being leaked here, there and everywhere. It’s no wonder Google are actively trying to promote two-step authentication and have done for a while now. Well they’re about to take it a step further with the use of […]
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Twitter To Get More Musical With Audio Cards
After Twitter’s rumoured attempt to buy SoundCloud never happened, the social networking site has decided to partner up with the music sharing network instead. Twitter’s new Audio Cards feature combines forces with SoundCloud as well as iTunes, meaning that these new cards will appear both on your Twitter dashboard as well as on the two […]
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Sony PS4 Update 2.00 Masamune to Include YouTube, Share Play and Themes
Details on the PlayStation 4’s major autumn update has reared its head on Sony’s PlayStation Blog. Update 2.00, also named Masamune, packs numerous new features and advancements. Due to arrive in the Autumn, the update includes several new additions from YouTube support, Share Play, Themes and a new and improved home screen. No official date […]
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HBO Gear up the streaming service for 2015
HBO has announced that they will be launching a streaming based service in 2015, whilst impending rivals Netflix have announced a drop in shares due to failed signup targets. The US only cable service, which is responsible for some of the biggest TV shows ever (Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood […]