eSports have been growing for the last few years, mostly thanks to the rise in Moba popularity and now it's at the point where the best players in the world can make some serious cash. Back in 2011 the International tournament prize for Dota 2 was $1 million, now a …
Read More »Sony executives will cut wages and forfeit bonuses this year
Sony has been spiralling down hill for the last few years and as a result of the company's fourth annual loss in a row, top executives including CEO and President, Kazuo Hirai, are forfeiting bonuses and will be losing half of their salary this year. Similar to what Nintendo did early …
Read More »Microsoft may be removing the Xbox Live Gold requirement for media
Microsoft might be planning to remove the Xbox Live Gold requirement for media apps, something Xbox users have been asking for since the launch of the 360. The change in policy is said to be directly linked to Don Mattrick leaving the company, who has since been replaced by Phil …
Read More »DriveClub will contain microtransactions
Sony's exclusive racing sim, DriveClub, is due to come out soon after suffering a lengthy delay. The Director for the game once referred to microtransactions as a ‘plague' but that isn't stopping the studio from incorporating them in to the upcoming game. Some developers and publishers seem to think that …
Read More »KitKat won’t be coming to international Galaxy S3 devices
Samsung is cherry picking which devices it pushes the Android 4.4 KitKat update to but it's singling out a lot of early device adopters as the Galaxy S3 i9300, better known as the international version of the phone, won't be getting the update. According to a statement from Samsung, the …
Read More »50 EA games due to have their servers shut down
GameSpy announced that it was shutting down last month and as a result, a lot of games are having their multiplayer servers shut down. Game Ranger recently announced that it would save a few but some titles are bound to slip through the cracks. EA is going to be one …
Read More »Mojang has enough money to survive ten years without profit
Markus Persson, better known as Notch, the creator of Minecraft, recently shed some light on his ten year plan for his company, Mojang. Once the Interview came out a lot of people on the Internet misinterpreted something he said in the article, assuming that Notch meant that he will shut …
Read More »Nvidia’s first G-sync monitor to come to the UK this month
Nvidia announced G-Sync quite some time ago but monitors incorporating the new technology are taking some time to hit the market. However, the wait might be over here in the UK as the first monitor to include the technology is due to launch within the next two weeks. The AOC …
Read More »Three Eve Online players perma-banned for defacing monument
CCP Games has permanently banned three Eve Online players for defacing the Eve monument, according to the game's Community Manager, “CCP Falcon”. The monument was unveiled a week ago, kicking off Eve Fanfest 2014, shortly after the monument was vandalised with a removable sticker of the insignia of the Goonswarm …
Read More »Netflix confirms details of its slight price increase
A few weeks back we heard that Netflix might be planning to raise its prices a bit in all parts of the world for new customers, however, at the time the company hadn't decided on an exact course of action. Now Netflix has finalised its plans as it began sending …
Read More »New Unreal Tournament to be completely free
Epic Games has announced that it is working on a brand new Unreal Tournament and the best part about it is that it's going to be completely free, not free to play with micro-transactions but actually free, taking a step back from the current trend in video games. The game …
Read More »Piracy deal struck between UK ISP’s and entertainment industry
UK ISP's are now on board with the entertainment industry as a new deal has been struck to help combat piracy in the UK. The Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme has been debated for around four years now according to the BBC, but it is finally coming to life soon. Rights holders …
Read More »Oculus wants to create a VR MMO with 1 billion players
Oculus VR has always been a company with huge aspirations and those ideas have only gotten bigger with the success of its Kickstarter but now that the company has some serious investment money behind it, the Oculus team can get to work on them. One of the big ideas it …
Read More »NCSoft thinks that PC games retail has become polarised
MMORPG Publisher, NCSoft, best known for the Guild Wars series, thinks that PC games retail has polarised but remains confident that its upcoming game, Wildstar will break through in the UK. Wildstar has gone through a series of weekend beta tests and is due to enter open beta soon. So …
Read More »PS4 to sell 51 million units by 2016
According to the International Data Corporation, the Playstation 4 is on track to sell 51 million units by 2016 which will top the Xbox One globally. However, if Microsoft were to unbundle the Kinect, then its console would have a real shot at over throwing Sony in sales in North …
Read More »Elder Scrolls Online console version might be delayed
The Elder Scrolls Online launched on the PC just over a month ago and the console version of the game was due to release next month, however, it looks like the game might have been delayed by half a year according to ESO's FAQ, which has since been deleted. The …
Read More »Microsoft, Google and Facebook join the fight for net neutrality
Back in January a US court struck down the FCC's rules on net neutrality and since then the Federal Commission has been working on a new set of rules that would allow ISP's to charge Americans extra for things like watching Netflix or Hulu. Obviously this is a completely immoral …
Read More »Samsung is replacing its Mobile Design Chief
Samsung's Galaxy flagships have been defiantly plastic for years despite other manufacturers moving on to more premium designs like the metal body of the HTC One. However, it seems that the company is looking for change as it has replaced its Chief of Mobile Design, Chang Dong-hoon. Dong-hoon isn't losing a …
Read More »Project Morpheus to have a new design at launch
Sony recently revealed its answer to the Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, at the Game Developers Conference this year. The VR headset featured a pretty good design for a prototype, full 360 degree positional tracking with low latency and a 1080p screen but the standout design might not be staying for …
Read More »WoW movie to face two years in post-production
The World of Warcraft movie is due to finish filming in just two weeks time from now but it still won't be coming out for around two years. The film will take 20 months in post-production in order to “get right” according to Legendary Films CEO, Thomas Tull. The reason for …
Read More »EA to reveal six new titles at E3 next month
EA may not be everyone's favourite company but it does have some good developers up its sleeve, which is why you should still be a little excited that six new games are going to be announced at E3 next month. We'll also be getting a closer look at Star Wars …
Read More »Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire coming to 3DS
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire are getting the re-make treatment, the game is going to come out on the 3DS and will hopefully bring back some old Pokemon fans to the series. Nintendo has had a difficult time with the series in recent years, the DS iterations of the games weren't …
Read More »Devs abandon Steam Early Access title Towns
Yesterday a Steam Early Access title had to be booted off of steam, which raised some valid worries about how Greenlight and Early Access are run. Today we have more cause to not trust the Greenlight or Early Access programmes as the developers behind Towns have abandoned the project completely. …
Read More »New Android malware is holding phones to ransom
Researchers have uncovered new Android based malware that holds smartphones for ransom, claiming that you must pay $300 or face completely false criminal charges for viewing illegal porn. In order to really freak people out, Android-Trojan.Koler.A uses Geo location data to tailor warnings to whichever country the user is based in. …
Read More »Tesco is planning to launch its own smartphone
Upon the success of Tesco's budget Android tablet option, the Hudl, the supermarket has revealed that it is now focussing on bringing out its own Hudl branded smartphone. The supermarket's latest device is said to be out by the end of the year, just in time for the holidays which …
Read More »Game Ranger is saving multiplayer from Gamespy shutdown
Gamespy recently announced that it would be shutting down its servers which consequently made the multiplayer features on a lot of games obsolete. Some publishers chose to save their more recent titles that people still play but a lot of older titles would still be shut off from multiplayer. Fortunately, …
Read More »Amazon now lets you shop on Twitter
Amazon launched a new service yesterday called #AmazonCart, the online retailer is hoping that you'll be scrolling through Twitter, see an Amazon link and and want to buy the product on less than 140 characters worth of information. In order to add Twitter items to your cart, all you have …
Read More »Microlab T1 wireless headset review
Microlab is a relatively small company in the audio world but that isn't stopping it from delivering decent quality speaker systems. Previously we have had a look at the Solo 6C as well as the FC360 2.1 speaker systems and were impressed by both. Can Microlab deliver similar sound quality …
Read More »Titanfall sales were positive- EA will publish its sequels
Respawn and EA have been pretty tight lipped on the subject of Titanfall sales numbers but it turns out, the game actually sold a lot which led to EA signing a deal to publish the game's sequels. Titanfall sold close to a million copies in the US alone throughout March, …
Read More »Here’s what Crysis 3 looks like in 8K
Crysis has always been one of the best looking games as well as one of the most demanding titles to run but what will it look like in ten years time? A resolution hack has allowed Flickr user, K-Putt, to run Crysis 3 in 8K to take some pretty good …
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