CEO at Ouya, Julie Uhrman, has announced that the little Android console has now entered the Engineering Verification Testing (EVT) phase, which brings it one step closer to release. It also means we get a first look at the PCB that will be inside the Ouya and it's impressively tiny. …

High street electrical retailer Comet, is looking likely to enter administration sometime in the next week, putting more than 6,000 employees at risk of losing their jobs. Comet has been struggling for a while now, though it was thought when it was bought by OpCapita just less than a year …

Share prices for Facebook have dropped another five per cent in the wake of the employee lockout coming to an end. This saw them drop to $20.94, far below its original offering price of $38 per share. Until now, only executives and investors were allowed to sell off their shares …

I don't think my last couple of articles attacking Square Enix's game tracking practices are entirely to blame for this, but if you guys want to say so that's very kind. The Final Fantasy publisher, has announced that it expects to take a £42 million hit for the first half …

The crowd funding website Kickstarter is now accepting UK based projects, which also means existing ones can convert their total into pounds for the first time. Until now, anyone wanting to create a project had to make a US account first, which meant dollar based funding – which leads to …

Two of the developers from 343 Industries, the company behind the upcoming Halo 4, have commented on the level of sexism that occurs regularly on the Xbox Live platform, in what seems like simultaneous personal rejection of the practice, as well as a way of distancing the developer's products from it. …

Current CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has announced that over four million Windows 8 upgrades have been sold already. His follow up statement said that the interest in the new operating system had been “stunning.” This announcement was made at Microsoft's Build Developer's conference at the company's main campus in …

The father of a man who suffered brain damage during an accident at a Foxconn facility that was making Apple products, has taken the manufacturer to court for its handling of the man's care. 26 year old Zhang Tingzhen was electrocuted in a Foxconn factory accident just over a year …

From mid 2013, the Netherlands is set to receive an upgrade to its motorway infrastructure: glow in the dark highways that also display weather indicators based on the exterior temperature. Designated as “Smart Highways,” the design initially won the Best Future Concept award and has quickly moved beyond the drawing …

While the UK might be far behind the rest of the world when it comes to broadband speeds and mobile data access, it's finally beginning to catch up in one of those areas, with the official launch of the first 4G services in the country today. 10 cities, including: London, …

File locker website Rapidshare has announced that it has removed download speed restrictions from free users, as part of a move to introduce what a spokesperson described as “more efficient counter measures” against piracy. The Rapidshare download limits, which prevented those with free accounts from downloading at speeds over 30Kb/s, were introduced …

If Kim Dotcom launches the new Mega file sharing website as he plans to do on 20th January 2013 – the anniversary of Megaupload's shutdown – then he could be found in breach of his bail, which he was only granted earlier this year after stating that he had no …

While players of previous generation GTAs will have somewhat expected it, new evidence has appeared that suggests the PC version of Grant Theft Auto 5 will be delayed beyond the release of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. Over at NeoGaff, one of the forum members managed …

Anonymous has targeted Facebook game maker Zynga, in its latest hacktivist action, announcing its intention to release reams of internal information about a possible layoff of nearly 1,000 more employees. The collective also plans to let loose the developer's entire game catalogue for free, unless it goes back on its …

It's becoming an increasing trend in gaming, that not only do publishers and developers want you to buy their new releases, but they want to know how you play them. They aren't asking for that information either, they're taking it and that's just what Square Enix has been doing with …

As if anyone is surprised, Apple is doing rather well financially at the moment and has announced that for the fourth quarter of 2012, it has made a profit over $8.2 billion. Compared with the same period last year, things are on the up, as it made ‘only' $6.6 billion. …

While we might have discussed a fair bit here about how the Wii U could potentially open up some interesting new avenues of gaming, thanks to its inclusion of a tablet controller in the standard gaming environment, Microsoft Smartglass for Xbox has even more potential – and it launches tomorrow, …

While I'm sure many of you will immediately jump to the smart ass answer of “not enough,” the actual figure for the man hours put into testing Windows 8 is quite staggering. The one that came out of Microsoft today during its official launch event for the new operating system, …

The first artwork for Grand Theft Auto V has been released by Rockstar and true to tradition it's done in the same cartoonish style we've seen in the past. It comes with the promise from the developer that there will be: “lots of info coming next month,” and a warning …

If you've always thought to yourself, “man, I like these Assassin's Creed games, but that Ezio sure is a snappy dresser – I wish I could buy clothes like that,” then you're one of the few people who wants to wear an off-white, hooded, open collar shirt. However if you …

We've had movie adaptations of video games before: Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Pokemon, Street Fighter, DOA, Mortal Kombat; and they're all pretty horrible. However unless you're a fan of Press Start – and even that's about a video game-like universe – then you probably haven't seen a movie about an …

Finally moving on from the 20th century catalogue, Argos is looking to become far more digitally focused in a move that will see 75 stores close or relocate to more viable locations. According to The Guardian, the parent company of Argos, Home Retail Group, has announced that it will also …

The final stage of the digital TV switchover has been completed, ending the long standing run of analogue TV for good. Around midnight last night, analogue signals in Northern Ireland were turned off, killing the Ceefax platform as well –  a teletext service that has been around for more than …

Zynga announced yesterday that a further 5 per cent of its staff – totalling 120 people – had been let go and the Boston Studio had been officially closed. The Chicago office is also being downsized and there are suggestions that both the UK and Japan based branches of the …

Speaking at the Playful 2012 conferance, Hide&Seek development director Mark Sorrell, put it to the audience that we shouldn't be looking at the screen when we play games, but at each other. He called this type of game “computer mediated,” and said it was the wave of the future. Pointing to games …

Despite the fact that we've heard from ISPs, the Pirate Party and the websites themselves, that blocking torrent search sites doesn't effect the number of illegal downloads, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has called for three more sites to be blocked by UK ISPs. The three on the digital chopping …

Blizzard has clarified its position on multi-boxing in World of Warcraft – the practice of using multiple accounts on multiple PCs to play with several characters at once – by saying that it doesn't consider it hacking, but that it certainly isn't something that's supported by the game maker. “Hackers” …

The pricing plans for Everything Everywhere's 4G offers have been unveiled for the first time ahead of its launch on 30th October. While they will all offer much faster wireless data transfer, there won't be any unlimited packages made available initially. For a basic package that includes 500MB of data …

The creators of the original Grand Theft Auto title, David Jones and Mike Dailly, have admitted that without the help of high profile publicist, Max Clifford, the game wouldn't have received as much attention as it did and might not have become the success story the series is today. Created …

Since moving to the cloud last week and ditching its servers altogether, The Pirate Bay has reduced its power requirements to that of the average vacuum cleaner, according to the sites current unnamed staff – who presumably aren't the founders, who've been tangling with the Swedish court system for the past few …