If there is one thing Microsoft used to do right, it was make great real time strategy games. Age of Empires, its sequel and the expansions were truly excellent games for the time and still play well today. Age of Mythology wasn't half bad either. But it's been a long …

The gaming industry often gets attacked for any number of screw ups, problems or fallacies but one of its better aspects is the ability for individual developers, indies, to thrive. While you could argue that the landscape is a little saturated right now, thanks to the many potential outlets for …

CES is an action packed show for anyone that likes a bit of tech. The weird and the wonderful can be seen like a digital freak show, but alongside it all is stuff that could truly change the world. Like this new standard that can put an end to the ‘insert, …

If you're going to call the kettle black, you better make sure that your pot is sparkly clean. Unfortunately for CANIPRE, the Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement organisation, it turns out that its one has more than its fair share of soot, as the anti-piracy firm has been found plagiarising news …

Korean electronics giant Samsung, has confirmed reports that it is heading for its first drop in annual profits since 2011, with its market share dipping all the way until September last year. However, a mild resurgence near the Christmas period may have saved it from a complete washout. Of course …

Zombie Studios, the company that began the Spec Ops series of games oh so many years ago and made the more recently released Daylight, along with 30+ other titles, has announced its impending closure. Not through poor performance – though Daylight was not particularly well received – but because the …

Monster, the company perhaps most well-known for trying to convince the world that they need to spend £80 on a HDMI cable, is suing Beats, the recently purchased subsidiary of Apple and owner of the Beats by Dre headphone line, over “fraud and deceit,” with how it attained controlling rights …

Considering we're now entering the realms of 4K displays becoming cost effective and 8K not too many years away, it seems a little surprising that there's still a market for cam-footage recordings of new movies. While they do tend to beat the DVD screeners to the torrent sites, their quality, …

It's 2015 people, which means that not only are we all getting older, but it's time for Cooler Master's annual case modding competition. It opens today and will remain so for the next month, giving those of you with the prettiest PCs or a project in mind, plenty of time to …

Chances are we're going to colonise inhospitable environments in our own solar system long before we look to do so anywhere else, but that doesn't mean we can't dream of landing craft on worlds where much more acceptable gravity and temperatures won't make it such a pain to get up …

Despite console gaming being given much more attention by the likes of Microsoft, its Xbox Platform, like Sony's and Nintendo's, has missed out on the majority of one of the world's biggest gaming phenomenons in recent years: the MOBA. However that may be set to change with the introduction of beta …

Ah CES, the time of year when a journalist's eyes bleed there's so much ‘news' out there and you can't help but wish your pockets were a bit deeper so you could afford all the new goodies being announced. One such company that's showing off a lot of new gear …

Kim Dotcom isn't everyone's favourite entrepreneur. He's big, brash and has been well known for flaunting his wealth and success over the years. However since the raid on his home in January 2012, he's become quite the activist, taking on governments and copyright lobby groups alike in courts and the …

The Unity engine is one of the most versatile out there at the moment, providing a solid back-bone for games big and small, on platforms from the PC to the tablet. However it isn't particularly well known for its artistic merits, at least when compared to some of the juggernauts …

A monopoly that you can't get in trouble for, is just about the golden dream of every giant corporation out there. If you have no competition, you have free reign with release schedules, pricing and many other aspects of development. However, a monopoly is useless if the market isn't there …

One of the biggest reasons that rocket launches are so expensive, is that most parts of the initial boost stages aren't recoverable. They separate in our atmosphere as the next engines engage, and fall back to earth – but not so on Space X's Falcon 9 craft. Today, at 11:20 …

Tencent, best known in the gaming world as the parent company of Riot Games and its worldly popular League of Legends, is one of the largest internet firms in China and it now looks set to expand its influence even further with the creation of its own private online bank. …

There's been a lot of talk about the next-generation of in-car infotainment systems in recent months, with both Google and Apple once again going head to head to see who can dominate with their respective Android Auto and CarPlay systems. However it may be Nvidia that really drives forward the …

If you've been used to accessing Netflix's vast library of North American content while living outside of the continent, by using a proxy or VPN, you may be out of luck, as the streaming media company has now begun blocking methods of circumventing its geographical limiters. This is a real …

One of the advantages of gaming on a PC – and not on either Microsoft or Sony's latest generation of consoles – is that the frame rate can often reach dizzying heights, well into the triple digits in some of the lower fidelity titles. Keeping track of that though often …

If there's one thing every Transport Tycoon player knows, it's that while ships and planes can be far easier to set up and use, requiring none of the infrastructure of their road based counterparts, they aren't very efficient ways of transporting goods. Planes are fast, but expensive and boats are …

Sony's launch of the Seth Rogen and James Franco vehicle, The Interview, has gone surprisingly well. Considering all of the hubbub surrounding its release, it managed to make over $15 million in just a few days. That's a fair chunk shy of its budget, but the majority of that was …

No longer around in its original form, Isohunt was one of the world's most popular torrent sites in its day. The founder, Gary Fung, fought courts for years keeping the site open, but ultimately relented after a loss and shut the site down. While it may have reformed under a …

File sharers the world over have been a little worried for the past few weeks, as despite managing to stay online for over 10 years without real incident (save for a little scare in '06), the Pirate Bay seemed to have finally been taken down by authorities after its front-end server …

2014 in gaming was a year that despite featuring some very exciting titles, was also filled with a lot disappointments. Many AAA titles fell flat on their face at launch and even more struggled to hit decent frame rates long after, and as if to top it all off, the PlayStation Network …

EA Games has denied claims that some Origin users are discovering charges on their accounts that they had nothing to do with. However, it did encourage anyone that thinks they may be affected, to make sure that their account password is unique and long. This all stems from a number …

Britain's favourite hate figure and Sun columnist, Katie Hopkins, is once again under fire for comments made on Twitter. This time around though she's garnered police attention after over 7,000 people signed a petition demanding that the authorities take action for her “racist” and “offensive” tweets. Hopkins is a semi-regular …

Christmas day was a frustrating one for many, as despite the new games they'd opened from Father Christmas, they were unable to play them online as both Xbox Live and the PlayStation network were down. Laying claim to the DDOS attack that caused it was a hacking group called Lizard Squad, …

Kim Dotcom may not be everyone's favourite ex-hacker, activist or gamer, but he does have a penchant for building something from ashes. His big move last year was the creation of MEGA, an encrypted file locker platform that was born from the ruins of his previous hit service, MegaUpload and …

Have you seen ‘The Interview'? The film featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco that was summarily pulled from release on Christmas day due to hacker threats, only to be launched simultaneously in independent theatres and on Youtube/Google Play? Chances are if you did, that you live within the United States, …