As you might imagine, the guys over at Creative Assembly are quite busy at the moment. Not only are they working on Total War: Arena, but they're also handling the final few months of development on an Alien title that has against all odds, got the world interested in the …
Read More »European Court of Human Rights to demand UK spying justification
Even if you're one of those people that isn't a big fan of European intervention in British politics, you surely have to admit that it's nice to see Europe weighing in on our behalf in this instance. The EU Court of Human Rights has issued a demand that will see …
Read More »Lego almost comes full circle with Movie game
The Lego franchise is going round and round now, with games based on this and that and movies and toys and… it's all encompassing. In-fact with its latest development, it's almost made it full circle. This is a game, based on a movie, based on intepretations of movies and games …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4 coming to the west, on 3DS
Monster Hunter fans in the west don't get much in the way of love from Capcom when it comes to the new releases in the series. We're not getting a look in with the Chinese Cryengine PC version, Monster Hunter Online, and it's taken untill now for the developer to …
Read More »YIFY founder retiring, but uploads to continue
The founder of YIFY Torrents, one of the most beloved movie rippers and uploaders in the torrent scene, has announced his impending retirement. However, he's urged fans not to be too upset, as YIFY will continue as always, with a new person at the helm and a few small changes. …
Read More »Microsoft shipped 3.9 million Xbox Ones since launch
While Microsoft might have fallen behind Sony early on in sales of its current generation console, the Xbox One, it has kept up the pace since then, having shipped 3.9 million consoles to retailers since launch. Of course that doesn't necessarily tell us much about the actual sales numbers, but …
Read More »Revenge porn poster child arrested over victim hacking
The man who's become synonymous with the revenge porn system, Hunter Moore, who previously ran the infamous IsAnyoneUp.com website, has been arrested after being charged with paying for a hacker to break into the email accounts of young men and women, stealing any nude images stored there and then send …
Read More »EU Court gives legal approval to console modders
For a long time we've seen companies do everything from express apathy towards those that come up with workarounds for their DRM and other console anti-piracy systems, to full blown taking them to court over it and attempting to track down their fans via IP address. However those same companies …
Read More »Omaze continues online fundraising with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Omaze, the site that works like a mashup of a charity auction and Kickstarter, may still be in beta, but that doesn't mean it isn't bringing in big names to help good causes. The latest addition to its roster of potential experiences, is hanging out with, working out with and …
Read More »Shadows of Mordor’s Nemesis System makes enemies personal
It might have been over a dozen years since the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring movie was released, but LotR games are still going strong. The next one on the horizon is Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor, which in its latest trailer shows off not only …
Read More »Riot enforces LoL no poaching rule
While it's one thing to be a team manager and attempt to lure players away from one esports team to the other, it's another thing entirely to do so as a player. Riot doesn't mess around when it comes to this stuff either and to prove that point has fined …
Read More »Just Cause 2 MP patch arrives, adds map designer
If you thought the free for all battles across Panau were already manic in Just Cause 2 multiplayer, they're about to get crazier – though ironically, also more organised. In the latest patch/update from the developers, a new tool has been made available for server owners, which allows them to …
Read More »Kim Dotcom biographer threatened by police
The man that wrote the biography, The Secret Life of Kim Dotcom, has been receiving threats from the New Zealand authorities demanding that he reveal key sources from his book's research, as they believe the communications referenced in the book's writing have relevance to Dotcom's current lawsuit against the GSCB …
Read More »Gigabyte Retro OC contest sees two new world records
Gamers may look back on their favourite titles of yesteryear with fondness, but overclockers have a particular affinity for the old benchmarks. Remember the first time you watched your 6800GT breeze through 3Dmark 01 only to watch it stutter in 05? Well Gigabyte does too, which is why it recently …
Read More »DayZ is going to get harder
Following on from the success of the DayZ standalone alpha launch, which has seen over a million people pay for the sandbox zombie survival sim since its release just over a month ago, Dean Hall, the original mod's creator has been talking about the game's future development in a Reddit …
Read More »BT pushes fibre backbone speeds to new heights
As the world moves ever onwards to an increasingly connected global society and our internet tubes get wider and wider, there's a real worry that the fibre optic backbone of it all won't be able to handle the increased connectivity, which is why BT has just tested the “fastest” (though …
Read More »Pixar might be making a Star Wars movie
Some fans of the company and of the movie series will no doubt find cause for concern in the report that Pixar may very well be making a Star Wars movie, but from Disney's perspective, taking your still most well respected (mostly) studio and letting it go nuts on your …
Read More »Meet the Man(ley) that taught the world how to Kerbalise space
Squad's Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is one of those games that you can get truly lost in. One minute you're just tweaking the radial-chute placement on your latest rocket and the next, two hours have gone by and you're trying to use your astronaut's jetpack to push your stricken craft …
Read More »Bill Gates praises overseas vaccine production
Bill Gates has been one of the world's biggest game changers in the past thirty years: from helping to revolutionise PC computing, right through to his philanthropy and helping to eliminate polio around the world. In a recent address in his annual letter from his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, …
Read More »Candy Crush dev is suing Banner Saga creator
The developer and publisher of Candy Crush Saga, King, is trying to take its lollypop axe to the horned head of the Varl, by suing the creator of The Banner Saga, Stoic Games. It doesn't want money from the company of course, that would be ridiculous, it just wants to …
Read More »Hearthsone enters open beta in NA
Blizzard's Warcraft themed card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, has finally left its invite only stage and has entered open beta in North America, meaning anyone from that region of the world can now download the game and get to grips with its “card slinging action.” “It’s been a crazy …
Read More »Haswell: what do you think?
Intel's Haswell line of CPUs has been out for a while now, but unlike previous generations of Intel chips that blew away the competition (it's been a long time since AMD really nipped at Intel's heels) Haswell didn't make such a big splash. It wasn't because of its default performance …
Read More »League of Legends not patching? Could be those porn filters
Remember those David Cameron porn filters we talked about potentially causing problems for gaming? Well that could already be happening with certain games, most notably League of Legends and its patcher, which contains files that due to their nomenclature contain the word sex and could therefore be blocked by these …
Read More »Microsoft paid Youtubers to promote Xbox One but say nothing
In a turn of events that isn't exactly shocking considering it's a tactic others have used before, Microsoft purportedly offered to pay Youtubers to talk about the Xbox One. However, what's a little disturbing, is that Microsoft stipulated that if you took part, you'd have to remain completely silent on …
Read More »Comet probing space craft awakes after 31 month sleep
Rosetta, the European Space Agency's comet probe and lander craft, has awoken after almost three years of hibernation and ten years of space travel and is now set to spend the next two years on an approach with the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet in order to test its surface and structure to learn …
Read More »Hampoo has big tablet plans for 2014
Hampoo may not be a brand that everyone is hugely familiar with, but it's certainly gaining a name for itself after its recent CES showing, where its new fleet of touch screen devices offered built in gaming controls and glasses free 3D for the gamers and media viewers out there …
Read More »Oculus Rift to be wireless at launch?
The Oculus Rift is already available in devkit form for those that want to drop a couple of hundred pounds on something that's still very unfinished, with only a few full gameplay experiences available. But later this year the consumer version looks likely to hit the shelves, bringing with it …
Read More »Here’s what Obama is changing about ‘intelligence’ gathering
Since Edward Snowden dropped the bombshell last year that the NSA and other intelligence agencies (we're looking at you – while you look at us – GCHQ) around the world were snooping through our digital underwear drawers, there's one person we all wanted to hear from: Obama. While he's not …
Read More »Kim Dotcom offers early tweeters Baboom beta access
Kim Dotcom may not be having his Party Party today, but he is looking to give people that tweet out promotion for his new music service, Baboom, early beta access to the site, which is supposed to offer fair royalties to artists and give them a new way to interact …
Read More »Games Workshop looks to be in a lot of trouble
Hey guys, you know how annoyingly weird Games Workshop usually is? You know how it seems to ignore fans, upping prices every year by crazy margins, turning its magazine into a product catalogue, punishing third party retailers and replacing its white metal models with a bubble filled, warped material? Well …
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