With all the excitement of Space X's recoverable launch attempts and the Philae lander telling us all about comets, we're almost spoilt when it comes to exciting advances in space. However it doesn't stop there, as in March next year, NASA is launching its InSight lander to Mars, where it …
Read More »Final Fantasy VII now available on iOS smartphones
It's almost as if Square has realised that its most well remembered game is actually still worth something as an IP, as beyond the PC-re-release a couple of years ago, it's finally announced a full HD remastering is in the works – albeit with a modified combat system – and to top …
Read More »Dotcom’s BABOOM launches, promises bigger artist profits
The music sharing, streaming and networking service BABOOM, originally founded by Kim Dotcom, has now officially launched. Designed to be a competitor of the likes of Spotify and Apple Music, BABOOM offers a mixture of free and paid for streaming content to users, as well as a premium account service …
Read More »Ashley Madison hack confirms paid-delete didn’t work
Although the hackers behind the recent data theft of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com claimed that they were doing so due to the twisted morality of the site, they also wanted to point out that the unscrupulous owners were happy to charge people to delete accounts and then not do so entirely. …
Read More »3D Realms and Gearbox Duke Nukem lawsuit ends without fanfare
The court room drama that's been taking place between 3D Realms and Gearbox over the past year and a half with regards to who really owns the Duke Nukem brand, always felt a bit like a pair of dogs fighting over a dead horse, that they both wanted to beat …
Read More »Amazon announces an end to its trade-in program
Amazon's trade-in scheme, which allows customers to send in old products like games, books and clothes to earn credit against other purchases, is coming to a close. Anyone wishing to take advantage of it has until the 31st of August to get their returns in, after which Amazon will no …
Read More »Dotcom, Universal recording reveals existence of industry ‘bad list’
Although Kim Dotcom has said a lot about the corporate and governmental people he's dealt with over the years running file lockers and other various services, there has rarely been proof to back up that these conversations actually took place. Now though, he's revealed a recording of a conversation between …
Read More »More sites shut down comments, what’s to be done?
For a long time, certain sites and their comment sections have been considered easily-accessible, but murky parts of the internet, that few wish to spend much time in. Now, a number of high profile websites have recently announced the closure of their comment sections, citing too much management and moderation …
Read More »Ashley Madison hacked data released in 10GB dump
Hackers that made off with the user account and financial details of some 40 million members of infidelity website, Ashey Madison, have made good on their threat and posted them online. The details, posted to a Dark Web address that is only accessibly by Tor, include usernames, passwords, account histories, …
Read More »ZombiU officially relaunched as Zombi on Xbox One, PS4 and PC
When the Wii U launched back in 2012, ZombiU was one of its flagship titles; a suggestion from Nintendo that it was taking the hardcore gaming audience much more seriously with its new system. While the WiiU never really became adopted by that crowd, ZombiU was a well received experience …
Read More »Copyright lobby group spends 15 times more than it pays to artists
Copyright lobby groups that hope to push pirates and organisations that it feels benefit unfairly from piracy, to pay up, ostensibly do so because they care about the artists they represent. In practice though, that ideal rarely plays out. Take Rightscorp for example, which recently published its quarterly financial reports, only …
Read More »Boston Dynamics shows off six foot bipedal, running robot
If you thought the video of the MIT Cheetah robot, that can run faster than the world's quickest human sprinters was creepy, take a peek at the new video from Google (soon to be Alphabet) owned Boston Dynamics, which has a six foot tall bipedal robot named Atlas, running through …
Read More »British music videos to have enforced age ratings
In further measures that are designed to protect children from content that is not deemed suitable for them, the music industry has taken a voluntary step – following advice from the government – to add age-gates to music videos aimed at older viewers. That means that moving forward, British artists …
Read More »Google announces Project Sunroof, offers free solar data
Solar panel adoption is happening quicker today than it ever has before, which is why more than one per cent of the world's electricity is now delivered direct from the sun. However Google wants to help improve that even more, by taking data it has from its Google Earth imagery …
Read More »Torchlight dev shows off Hob, a new sci-fi puzzler without dialogue
Even though modern games tend to have much more open worlds to explore than they used to, that doesn't mean we aren't ushered down certain paths. With voice overs or quest text, we're told where to go and what to do and that's something that the developer of Torchlight, Runic Games, …
Read More »NASA’s Mars engine test firing video showcases its power
Although lovers of space have been calling for a manned trip to Mars for decades ,we still don't seem any closer to sending people to its far-flung surface. That doesn't mean steps aren't being taken though, with NASA last week testing the engine that will make up the core stage …
Read More »Former employees say Kaspersky faked malware to damage rivals
Kaspersky anti-virus is being accused by several former employees of attempting to have competitor anti-virus software flag up false-positives that would discredit the programs and potentially even damage the systems of users. According to those same sources, which have remained anonymous for obvious reasons, this was to improve Kaspersky's standing, …
Read More »SpaceVR wants to turn us all into astronauts
Despite decades and decades of flinging things and ourselves into space, only 533 people have left the confines of our little blue marble and orbited around its expanse, truly experiencing what it's like to be in space. One company wants to change that however. Space VR is a Kickstarter campaign …
Read More »Amazon hints at big budget, big salaries for Top Gear crew
The new car show set to be hosted by ex-Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May on Amazon Prime, will be “very, very, very expensive,” for Amazon, according to the company head and 15th world's richest man, Jeff Bezos. While he wouldn't confirm how much any of …
Read More »What if Final Fantasy VII was a side-scrolling slash-em-up?
Final Fantasy VII is a game near and dear to the hearts of many gamers around the world. For a lot of them, the original PlayStation title was their first real introduction to the Final Fantasy series of games and its story was very well crafted for the time. That's …
Read More »Tesla shows off Model S production line in short video
As much as electric cars have yet to take the world by storm, they are an exciting niche in what the future of travel may be. Which is why it's interesting to see how Tesla puts its cars together. After strapping a camera to one of the cars as it …
Read More »‘Twitch Plays’ crowd powered gaming takes on Dark Souls
Two heads are better than one, or so the old saying goes. The point is that when great minds think alike, they can achieve more than their respective parts ever could. Unfortunately though, as much as team-based superhero movies would have us believe, that doesn't scale up linearly. In fact, …
Read More »be quiet! PSUs come a long way from the factory to your door
Have you ever wondered about the process some of your hardware goes through on its long and winding trip to your doorstep? If you have, then be quiet! has an interesting blog entry just for you, as it catalogues how the company's power supplies are made and processed on the …
Read More »King players paying more, but revenue continues to fall
King, much like many other companies that went before it, is really struggling to come up with a viable replacement for its flagship game, Candy Crush Saga. Despite the game's continued huge popularity, it is no longer the juggernaut it once was and people are moving on at an ever increasing …
Read More »Take on the mechanical world of Warhammer 40k in Freeblade
At this point in 2015, it feels like there's just about a Warhammer title for every aspect of its dual fantasy and far-flung-future universes. There's one for its medieval sports, one for its space armadas, one for epic sword-and sorcery wars across continents, and there's even a tweaked game of …
Read More »Someone else is claiming to have made a water powered motor
Every few years, a story appears that suggests some backroom inventor has created a prototype vehicle that runs only on water. While their claims are often fantastical, rarely do they pan out to be of real scientific significance, but perhaps this case will be different. Brazilian civil servant and home inventor, Ricardo …
Read More »U.S. secretary of state believes China, Russia read his emails
It turns out that we aren't the only ones assuming that every government out there is looking at our private communications; even high-ranking United States politicians don't feel safe from hackers and foreign actors. In a TV interview, current U.S. secretary of state and one-time presidential candidate, John Kerry, admitted …
Read More »Chinese investors gain control of MEGA file locker
Following a new round of funding which saw the MEGA encrypted file locker service raise a further $7.5 million to aid continued operations, two Chinese investors have become the company's largest share holders, with only the original lead programmer retaining even a modest share of the company. The news prompted …
Read More »Twitter has dropped the DM character limit
140 characters is all you get with Twitter, which is why some resort to third party services if they want to communicate something longer form on the platform. However now at least users can send longer messages to those that follow them back, since direct messages have had their restrictions …
Read More »Your limited time to play The Flock starts next week
If there's one tenet of mainstream game development, it's that you want to have as many people playing your title as possible, as it gives it more sales, more longevity and makes it more memorable for more people. That's not the tack that Dutch game developer Vogelsap is taking with its …
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