How to fix Dark Souls 3 crashing on PC Those playing Dark Souls 3 on PC are apparently suffering with the game crashing at launch. While Bandai Namco is sorting a permanent fix, it recommends users set the lighting setting to low and start playing the game as a knight. A patch should hopefully become available soon. Dark Souls 3 UK release date: When is Dark Souls III coming out? Dark Souls III will be released on 12 April 2016....

Its glossy 19.5in screen supports up to five simultaneous touch points detected by six infra-red cameras which will continue to work even if you’re wearing thin gloves. Featuring a 1600×900 pixel resolution, it falls short of the Full HD specification of 1920×1080 pixels, but is more than adequate for running a Windows desktop. If you’re buying this display specifically because you want a small monitor, then you’ll find it’s not quite as compact as you might think....

The Latitude 7330 is available as a regular ‘clamshell’ laptop or a 2-in-1 which, naturally, is heavier, starting at 1.36kg (3lbs). Both versions have a 13.3in LCD screen with a Full HD resolution of 1920×1080. That means it retains a 16:9 aspect ratio, despite many laptops now shifting to 16:10 or 3:2. If you prefer something bigger, the Latitude 7430 has a 14in display and the Latitude 7530 a 15....

Destiny 2’s thirteenth content season will start from 9 February and brings with it a new matchmade activity dubbed Battlegrounds, along with the usual array of new gear and Strikes. Battlegrounds is a three-player PvE activity that will set you up in “ritual combat against Caiatl’s chosen warriors” – Caiatl being the Cabal Empress, in case you’ve fallen as behind on your Destiny lore as I have. The Devil’s Lair and Fallen S....

Making movies available through Apple’s online media service has added approximately $4 million to the company’s bottom line, AppleInsider has confirmed. Walt Disney revealed the success of its partnership with Apple during its fourth quarter financial call, where it admitted profits of $782 million, exceeding analyst expectations. Disney predicts that online movie sales will generate $50 million in the first year of the scheme. It looks like Apple is selling nearly 9,000 movies every day through its US-only service....

Here’s what you should be doing to protect your system, and yourself, from the threats online. What do developers say about viruses? Linux might be run on a tiny fraction of PCs and laptops, but the vast majority of servers run the Linux kernel. This means that on the enterprise side of things a constant battle is waged between hackers and systems administrators. Despite this, it seems that the threats home users face are not quite so ominous....

You might have even tried using a VPN app to see if it’s available in another region but when that fails, you probably do what most people do and use Google to see if there’s a way to watch it online for free. And criminals know this. They use popular films and TV shows to lure victims to websites where they then steal their personal information or install malware on your device which does something similar....

If you’ve been following the OnePlus 9 leaks until now, you’ll know that the 9R is a new cheaper model – at one point rumoured to be called the 9 Lite. With the price of OnePlus’s flagship models slowly creeping up that might have caught your attention, but unless you live in India you should adjust your expectations back down. That’s because for now at least – and most likely forever – the OnePlus 9R is exclusive to India....

Also see: Best Black Friday Printer Deals Epson’s Expression Premium XP-530 is an exception to that rule. It’s still very affordable, at around £90 from a number of online retailers but, as the name implies, it’s also a ‘premium’ printer that uses five inks to enhance the quality of your photo prints. There’s a conventional black ink cartridge for printing simple text documents, but the cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges are complemented by an additional ‘photo-black’ ink that is designed specifically for printing photos....

We take a look at both services to see what they have to offer and how you can watch them. What is Freeview Play? This is an expansion of the Freeview service that has been available for a number of years now. Freeview Play offers over 70 standard channels and up to 15 in HD. Catch-up and on-demand facilities are also included, making it easier to enjoy content when it suits your calendar, rather than the other way around....

Free updates to its internal maps for the lifetime of the unit means you keep up to date with changes in the road network. While not universal, such a scheme is becoming more common and is a welcome change from having to buy upgrades once your unit is a year or two old, and typically costs £40 or £50. Updates to safety camera alerts, however is by subscription. The unit has no means of knowing traffic conditions, either as a free or a subscription service, because it can’t connect to a smartphone and doesn’t have a built-in receiver....

And the best news is that it could be with you by Wednesday. Portable heaters don’t tend to be particularly nice to look at, erring on the functional side of design. (The exception to this rule are Dyson bladeless heaters. If you have more budget, the £399 Hot + Cool, which doubles as a fan for summer, is a great option. Even more to spend? You can get the air purifying Pure Hot + Cool for £549....

Here’s how the coffee capsule subscription service works. Choose your coffee machine Visit the Lavazza website and the first step is to choose the capsule coffee machine you’d like. There are seven options, including the Smeg Lavazza collaboration: the beautiful Lavazza A Modo Mio Smeg, which usually costs £199 or more and which can be yours for £1, plus the subscription. Our other top picks among the machines on offer would be the Desea and, of course, the Voicy....

Add fantastic battery life and a meaty keyboard and, well, you start to wonder why you wanted an Alienware 15 in the first place. Given its semi-lifestyle angle it could do with a smoother look. But we imagine some of you will disagree. The one part we can all agree on is that the fans get a bit loud at times, but not to an extent that puts us off this remarkable machine....

Gigabyte is better known for PC motherboards, but the Taiwan company is bringing gaming laptops to the UK – under its own name and upmarket sub-brand Aorus. The Gigabyte P55 is an otherwise unremarkable 15-inch gaming laptop, its strong graphics abilities supported with a powerful GTX 970M graphics processor. Move along Nvidia though, because while the GPU is the beating heart of a games station, the Gigabyte P55 V4 gains a new brain in the first quad-core 14 nm Broadwell chip for mobile notebooks....

We’re not the biggest fans of the name but the Gigaset Me range was one of the surprise announcements of the show here in Berlin. We say that because we’re not looking at a trio of boring plastic handsets with basic specs. It marks ‘a new chapter in the second century of the company’s history’. Gigaset Me, Me Pro and Me Pure review: Release date and price It’s a little vague at the moment but the Gigaset Me range with be available in Europe and China this autumn....

At Mobile World Congress today RIM announced two new PlayBook models to add to the previously announced WiMax and Wi-Fi BlackBerry tablets. By the end of this year there will be four PlayBooks on offer globally, the first being a WiMax-enabled model launching on the Sprint network in the US this summer. The remaining three tablets will launch worldwide in the second half of the year. The BlackBerry PlayBook will be important in driving innovation, RIM’s UK managing director Stephen Bates told PC Advisor in an exclusive interview....

These are all storage capacities and can refer to memory ( RAM) or hard drives and SSDs (solid-state storage). Things get complicated by the fact that some manufacturers play fast and loose with their conversions, so you might find your 500GB drive doesn’t actually have 512000MB of usable storage. Read on and you’ll find out why, as well as how to convert between MB, GB, TB and the difference between megabytes and megabits....

Here we’re using an Android phone and Windows 10, but the process is the same for an iPhone and macOS. The first step is to install Chrome Remote Desktop on both your phone and computer. That’s simple on a phone: go to the app store, search for it and install it. On your computer, you will first need the Chrome web browser. If you don’t have it, go to chrome....

If you’re looking for a way to block spam messages from Gmail for Android, it’s important to first differentiate between spam messages and those emails from companies you have perhaps unwittingly authorised to send you marketing information at some point in the past. When you mark an email as spam it stops that message being a problem for you, but it can cause problems for others down the line. Marking an email as spam flags it up to Google, which will investigate if it gets multiple complaints about the same domain....