Microsoft is having an Xbox 360 sale today, with digital games priced down significantly. Almost everything up for grabs is at least two thirds off, with everything from AAA critically lauded titles like Dishonored and Portal 2, to Xbox Live Arcade games like Bastion and Guardians of Middle Earth. Announced …

Nintendo UK has launched a new Youtube channel called Nintendo Girl's Club. It's an “official Nintendo UK YouTube channel made especially for girls,” meaning it features female presenters and content geared specifically for women Nintendo gamers. So far the dominant content on the channel is trailers for upcoming Nintendo games, …

If you're not trying to rack up a new Donkey Kong world record, or even if you are, this weekend coming is the one where you should really let your gamer flag fly. You should stream it too as part of the Special Effect charity's Game Blast event and help …

Since King of Kong was released back in 2007 to critical acclaim, retro gaming has seen a bump to its resurgence, but none of those 30+ year old games more than Donkey Kong. While Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe may have gone head to head virtually alone (save for Tim Sczerby), today …

Bitcoin value has always been susceptible to violent jumps and dips in its value, famously crashing from $30 to $3 back in 2012, then shooting up to $200 and then $1200 in 2013. More recently however, with fallout from Mt Gox, one of the world's longest running exchanges, we've seen …

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and founder of Mega.co.nz, has announced his official retirement from online Call of Duty play after reaching 100,000 kills, just beating out fellow high level players by a few thousand. However that doesn't mean Dotcom is done with gaming, he's already gearing up for Titanfall. Announced …

Since Sony's PlayStation 4 was released here back in November last year and even earlier in some parts of the world, it's easy to forget that elsewhere, like Japan, the home country of the console's maker, it's still not out yet. Soon though, that will no longer be the case. …

Galactic Princess is a game we first heard about back in early December. For a game that hadn't launched its Kickstarter, or applied for Greenlighting on Steam, there was a lot of information on it – plenty of screenshots, a video of gameplay action, fleshed out backgrounds for races and …

Nintendo has a tough year ahead of it. With low sales of the Wii U over the last twelve months and new competition from the likes of Sony and Microsoft with their new systems, the Japanese console maker is going to have to do something extra special to win over …

If (like me) you're booking your seat at Multiplay's i51 this morning and you're a fan of MOBAs, then you'll be excited to hear that ASUS and its Republic of Gamer brand is sponsoring a DotA 2 tournament at the big LAN party and at all further Insomnia events throughout …

Sony executives will be happy to hear this news so early on in the year. According to a report from market advisory group, NPD Group, while overall software sales are a little down for January year on year, Microsoftt and Sony are selling a lot of hardware – though the …

Either Chinese officials monitoring the country's first moon rover,Yutu, jumped the gun a bit yesterday, or today they're just overly optimistic, but either way, they're reporting (via Xinhua) that the little research vehicle may not be dead after all. “Yutu has come back to life!” said one – presumably excited …

Not really, but you get god powers at least, with the introduction of a new DLC package known as Zeus, that opens up all sorts of backend functions, letting the games master introduce new objectives, throw lightning bolts and just generally swan about with the infinite power of a deity. …

China recently made a big splash in the cosmos, when it sent its first rover to the surface of the moon. Yutu made it there and pootled about for a while, conducting basic experiments and generally leaving its made-in-china footprint on the surface of another solar body. However, mechanical problems …

MSI has announced that not only will it be attending this weekend's upcoming epic.LAN 12, but that it will be giving away prizes in the run up to and at the event itself. You'll either need to be lucky or good at League of Legends (preferably both) to stand a …

With the recent news ‘sensation' surrounding the developer of hugely popular casual gaming app, Flappy Bird and how he took it down from the app stores because of multiple claimed reasons, it's no wonder people have been making tribute games. In-fact, as part of “Flappy Jam,” a game jam that …

Valve has added a new feature to its Steam software, that lets you label and group games by tag, making it much easier to find the types of games you want. But it's not limited to genres or other ways we've grouped games before, as these tags are created by …

South Park: The Stick of Truth has had a troubled development life. It was being handled by THQ for some time, but faced delays as that long-time publishing house slowly fell to pieces and then when it was picked up by Ubisoft more delays were announced, pushing it to December …

Evidently the lawyers for Candy Crush Saga developer King, have been a bit bored lately, as they've been allowed to get a bit trigger happy with their trademark infringement claims. First they went after Stoic Games, simply because its latest game, Banner Saga, had the word “saga” in it and …

Overclockers' resident OC master and emasculator 8pack, has once again broken a bunch of world records, with the help of fellow overclocker Hivizman. No wonder the first post about it on the OCUK forums was ‘hey, leave some for the rest of us.' The record breaking was all part of a …

When the US authorities used good old fashioned police work to take down the original Silk Road last year and arrest its alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht, it seemed like they'd dealt a serious blow to the online trading community, but it didn't last long. Within days alternatives had appeared and …

The Oculus Rift might be a fantastic gaming device, but it has a lot of other uses besides making you go ‘wow' at Half Life 2 again. High street clothes retailer Top Shop is holding a catwalk fashion show later this year at the Tate Modern, but don't worry about …

It seems like only two hours ago that I wrote about Microsoft launching its own Xbox One peripherals, but Turtle Beach is hot on its heels, announcing its own Xbox One headsets called the XO Four and the XO Seven, available soon at GAME, Argos and ASDA of all places. …

Want to play Titanfall? Yea, so do we and now we have a chance to, as the beta signup period has begun. If you want to apply, there's a few hoops you have to jump through, but it will mean that you'll be able to play the hotly anticipated FPS …

Even with a growing number of people trying to sway the new Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, away from the hardware game, Microsoft is still pushing peripherals in its Xbox division, showcasing a couple of new Chrome range controllers for the Xbox 360 and a matt black headset for the Xbox …

The United States army has begun testing a new brand of rifles that could allow the average soldier to achieve marksman levels of accuracy over distances over a kilometre, thanks to smart features that allow the gun itself to track your target and decide the optimal moment to fire. Produced …

When I held a Rift party towards the end of last year, inviting friends and relatives to come and try out all the different Oculus Rift demos I'd been playing, the handful that really stood out for people included a few of the roller coaster demos. However none of them …

Barclays bank and its customers had a nasty shock yesterday, when it was revealed that the information of people that use the bank, was being sold on black markets and used for all manner of criminal activity, from fraud, to blackmail and other scams. While the bank has a looming …

The value of bitcoins over the past year has been an interesting ride to watch, since it ballooned in just ten months from around $30 per coin, to a massive $1,200 at one point. Since then it's cruised at around the $950 mark but most recently, it's tumbled spectacularly after …

As if one wasn't enough – or it wanted to-re appropriate assets it had already created – Slightly mad Studios, the developer behind the upcoming next-gen racing title, Project Cars, has announced another racing game called World of Speed. It's an open world, socially focused racing title and functions like …