Hold your horses folks, it looks like you might need to make good on that bet after all: hell has indeed frozen over. Or at least it looks like it might be about to, as Nintendo is currently on track to make a yearly profit for the first time in …

Facebook now officially has over 20 per cent of the world's population as regular members, as its active logins this month topped 1.35 billion people. Daily visitors weren't far behind, with around 864 million people logging in every day – that's more than the entire population of Europe. Revenue and …

V-Sync has been a necessary evil for some time. Fortunately though, in the past year Nvidia came up with its own version of the technology which makes for a smoother synchronisation between GPU and display and does away with input lag. You do need a compatible monitor for it though …

An unmanned rocket that was on its way to the International space station to drop off several thousand kilos worth of supplies to the waiting astronauts, has exploded shortly after leaving the launchpad. Nobody was hurt in the incident, but it's expected to delay any future launches at the Wallops …

Dying Light has been shuffling along through development for some time now, with plans that when it was released, it would be made available on not only the current generation consoles and PC, but the last-gen ones too. However, now developer Techland has released a statement saying that as much …

While Edward Snowden's whistle blowing document dumps to the likes of The Guardian have given us invaluable information about how the intelligence agencies of the US and British governments see the public and their rights, the reveals were always a little to big for one man alone. Some of the …

The British national weather service, the Met Office, is set to be granted a big boost to its climate modelling and weather prediction systems, with the introduction of a £97 million supercomputer. When finally set up, the new platform will run up to 13 times as fast as current computational …

Just over a year and a half on from the first fallout surrounding the creation of blueprints for a 3D printed gun and a man in Japan has been given a two year prison sentence for using his three dimensional printer to put out quite a little arsenal of firearms. …

One of the problems with game adaptations of epic fantasy worlds, is that they often make them the subject of the wrong thing. In Lord of the Rings games, as much as we love playing as ‘Aragorn', the story and the real struggle is with Frodo. Likewise in Game of …

Do you like to do your game streaming topless? If so, you may need to find yourself another site to do it on other than Twitch, as the now-Amazon owned property has announced its own dress code. You don't have to wear anything in particular, but you do have to …

With the Tokyo film festival ongoing right now, Shigeru Miyamoto's short films based around the Pikmin universe and its protagonist, Olymar, are set to be unveiled any day. To help pump up the anticipation prior to its release, the Donkey Kong creator sat down to talk about his inspiration for …

Annie Machon, ex-member of the MI5 British Intelligence agency and partner of MI6 whistle blower, David Shalyer, who exposed investigations into British Politicians for socialist ties in the late 90s, has spoken out against the current climate of surveillance in Britain and the US. Not only did she claim that …

We reported last week that the Hungarian government had announced a new tax set to be brought into effect in 2015, that would see individuals and corporations taxed by the gigabyte they used. No measly sum either, but around £0.40 per GB. Due to public upheaval it later added a …

First there were hints, then an official confirmation from Rockstar itself and now we've had the final release. Yes, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, has now been re-released on the Xbox 360, with an improved resolution and draw distance, giving a little nip and tuck to the decade old game. …

Oh Nintendo, will you just get the marketing for your current-gen system right? You have a decent console. It's got some good, unique games and it's cheaper than all of the others. It even does 1080p and 60 frames per second in some titles, so why aren't you making a bigger …

The City of London's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) is a government funded organisation dedicated to clamping down on intellectual property and copyright infringements, most notably online piracy. It's been in operation for a few years now and clearly the government is pleased with its progress, as it's now …

Amazon might have spent much of this quarter aggressively expanding and introducing new services like Prime member streaming music and same-day deliveries in the UK, suggesting growth and prosperity, but its books paint a much less successful picture of the same period. According to the latest earnings report, Amazon lost …

If there was one joke that often gets brought up about many dinosaurs, it's that if they had arms, they were often short. Not all of them though, and one dinosaur in particular with exceptionally long arms for its kind has been puzzling palaeontologists for decades, but no longer. Deinocheirus mirificus …

I love massive local multiplayer. Four players is great and all, but if you can ever find a game that supports more than that and get enough people in a room, chances are you're in for a treat. It's why I'm still hoping Mutiny! somehow hits its funding target and …

It's that time of year again folks, where MSI's Master Overclocking Arena brings together some of the best overclockers in the world to see if they can push commercial hardware to complete benchmarks and produce raw numbers faster and higher than anyone else. Over a couple of  days of frantic …

New Zealand has been cashing in on the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit franchises for over a decade now. It's proven to be a great boon for the tourist industry specifically, so it's no surprise that with the last Hobbit movie just around the corner, some companies are looking to …

Often times when it comes to social networks and online communities, the big ones people talk about are Facebook, Twitter and Reddit and yet there are others out there with many, many millions of users that are growing at an impressive rate. Tumblr is one of them and considering Yahoo …

Microsoft's big purchase of Nokia officially went through a few months ago and since then it's continued to release phones under the brand, but perhaps not for much longer. The rumour is, that within a few days time, the Nokia name will be dropped in its entirety, with the new …

If Papers Please was one of your favourite gaming experiences of 2013, you certainly weren't alone. The tense, challenging and occasionally heart wrenching experience earned its creator Lucas Pope all sorts of accolades and praise, but he's not rested on his laurels since. In-fact he's been working on a new …

Update: And just like that, the government has relented. After pressure from the press and public, it's now announced that while the tax will still be implemented, there will be a cap on it. For individuals, no one will have to pay more than 700 forints (£1.8), while businesses will …

If you feel like SATA III SSDs are holding you back with their already sterling performance, then chances are you're considering picking up a PCIe SSD. Fortunately for you, there's now one more option on the market, as G.Skill has announced the release of its new 480GB PCIe SSD, known …

If you've been sitting on a stockpile of the digital currency bitcoin and spent much of the last couple of weeks pulling your hair out as the value plummeted, then at least you can take solace in fact that you now have a new avenue to spend it. CEX, the …

Attack on Titan, or to use its Japanese title, Shingeki No Kyojin, is somewhat of a phenomenon in the manga scene. In just a few short years it's spawned countless spin off series, its own animated series, tribute games and indeed, a legitimate, licensed version of its giant slaying world …

Remember Yoshi's Circuit? If you ever played Mario Kart Double Dash on the Gamecube then you should. Still, if you never had a chance to race around the extremities of the little prehistoric fella' then you will soon have a new chance, as it's coming as part of the first …

Nick Clegg, the current leader of the Liberal Democrat party and deputy prime minster in the UK, has called for journalists to be given more protection when it comes to releasing information that is in the public's interest. Specifically he said that he wants them to be able to technically break …