Last week we reported that there may not be enough PlayStation 4 stock to go around, causing shortages for months after release. However, Sony has come out to reassure customers that they will get their PS4's before Christmas. Fergal Gara, Managing Director of Sony UK stated: “Everyone who has put …
Read More »4G is expanding in the UK
EE, The company that scored itself a major head start in the 4G race, is expanding it's coverage to 12 smaller towns – but it isn't the only one. O2 and Vodafone are also bumping up their network coverage to five more cities starting today. The latest towns added to …
Read More »Valve announces hardware beta testing
Earlier this week Valve announced the Steam OS. That however, was just the beginning. Today beta testing for Valve's ‘Steam Machines' was announced and you can be a part of it. To become eligible for beta participation you must follow these steps: Join the Steam Universe community group Agree to …
Read More »South Park The Stick of Truth gets a release date
South Park, one of the most popular and often controversial cartoons around, has had a game in development for a while and now we finally know when we will get to play it. Look for it December, but while we wait, it's worth noting it's somewhat troubled history. The Stick …
Read More »Rockstar releases GTAV soundtrack
Rockstar isn't done making money just yet, after earning more than $1 billion in its first week and making Grand Theft Auto V the fastest selling game of all time, its only right to release the soundtrack. ‘The Music of Grand Theft Auto V Collection' spans across three albums with …
Read More »New Roku streaming devices incoming
Amongst all the Apple TV rumours circulating, streaming hardware company, Roku, has decided to steal some of the limelight by releasing a new line of its streaming boxes. A Roku 1 and Roku 2 refresh will be coming to the UK alongside the Roku 3 that was released in the …
Read More »IMessenger unofficially comes to Android
Have you recently switched over from IOS and found yourself lost without IMessenger? Well there is an app now in the Google Play store that can emulate the experience and connect to your Apple ID. However, there is a compromise: your security and privacy. This app has been a bit …
Read More »A map of Great Britain created in Minecraft
Ordinance survey maps, nobody uses those any more right? Of course not, we all have GPS. Besides we're gamers, the only ordnance we know anything about is off map artillery. That said, it seems those maps aren't totally useless, as someone used it to map out the whole of the …
Read More »Battlefield 4 will include in game Battlelog
DICE has released details of its new and improved Battlelog system. Battlefield 3 had you exiting the game and returning to a webpage every time you wanted to change multiplayer servers or play some campaign on your own for a while; it was a confusing and unnecessary experiment. However, now Battlelog …
Read More »Valve announces SteamOS – a living room operating system
Steam OS has been revealed as the first of three announcements Valve has planned for this week. What many were expecting to be the ‘Steambox' console turned out to be a whole new stand alone operating system, based on Linux architecture, designed for the living room. Valve has already improved …
Read More »Android 4.4 images leak with new app designs
Leaked images show Google opting for a ‘flat' design for its stock apps in the next iteration of Android. This new design choice has shown up soon after the launch of IOS 7, which has drawn praise for its brand new look. While the leaked images are a bit blurry, …
Read More »Project Reality will become a standalone title
Project Reality, a mod that took eight years of hard labour on various game engines to create, is now set to grow from a simple mod to a whole standalone title focusing on realism, immersion and teamwork. All too often those types of shooters end up being tactless affairs with …
Read More »Tesco set to launch its ‘Hudl’ budget tablet today
You know when supermarkets get in on the trend, that a bit of tech is getting way too popular. Today Tesco is expected to announced the launch of its new budget tablet, called the “Hudl,” at a press event later today. The price tag is thought likely to be somewhere …
Read More »The Steam universe is expanding in 2014
Last week Gabe Newell hinted at a steam box announcement sometime soon. Now there is a website with space for three clocks, the first countdown has already begun, and it ends in 32 hours at time of writing. The signs pointing towards a console announcement are strong, the url ends …
Read More »Crytek wants to use open street map data for video game environments
Crytek, the development group responsible for one of the most beautiful game engines to date, Cryengine, and subsequent games Crysis and the original Farcry, have challenged software makers to create a programme that could use open source street maps to render open world environments, in turn saving on development time. …
Read More »Sony to release Bravia smartstick to rival Chromecast
Google Chromecast, the $35 dongle that made the ‘smart' tv redundant, has it's first competitor, with Sony announcing it's Google OS based ‘Bravia Smartstick,' priced at £100. However, at that higher price point does it stand much of a chance? It doesn't really have the sleek and simple design of …
Read More »HP to release the worlds first gesture enabled pc
Even with touch screens being so common in Windows 8 laptops now, I think it's time we stopped putting our grubby fingers all over their nice HD screens. HP agrees, which is why its newly announced notebook, the Envy 17 Leap Motion SE, supports gesture input. Set for release this …
Read More »Cyanogenmod developers aim to make a better version of Android
Cyanogenmod, one of the most popular custom roms for Android users looking for a more stock experience, has raised $7 million to release it's own version of the operating system in a bid to become the third most used mobile OS. With 8 million registered users already its off to …
Read More »Playstation 4 could face stock shortages for up to 4 months after launch
Sony has stated that demand for the Playstation 4 could outstrip supply. Pre order stock has officially sold out, with 1 million consoles reserved in the first week of pre orders. Microsoft faces a similar problem with the Xbox one, with many countries having to wait until 2014. PS4 pre …
Read More »Free to play Soul Calibur will be a PS3 exclusive
Soul Calibur is a long running franchise of fighting games and many might remember it's fourth iteration for featuring either Darth Vader or Yoda, depending on which console you bought it on. Well now it's getting a free to play version on the not-quite-dead-yet PlaySatation 3. This free to play …
Read More »Nexus 10 with £350 price tag leaks
An internal retail listing at PC world, UK, may have outed the big brother of the new Nexus 7, the Asus Nexus 10, well before it was initially intended. It also has potentially let slip the price tag too, listing it at £349.99, making this tablet that bit more expensive …
Read More »EVGA Tegra tablets incoming
EVGA and Nvidia have just announced their partnership to bring you the world's first Tegra 4 powered tablet: The Tegra Note 7. It's hurtling on to the shelves in October, with a price tag of £180, just in time for the holiday season. Here's what we know so far about the specs; …
Read More »Mighty No. 9 makes $2.2 million
Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to Megaman, just hit $2.2 million on Kickstarter. This means the game will officially head to current generation consoles including the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, PC, Mac and Linux. The game will play like a retro action platformer much like Megaman did, where you …
Read More »Ryse: Son of Rome won’t run at 1080p natively
Yesterday it was revealed that one of the most anticipated launch titles for the Xbox one would run at 1600×900 natively and instead be upscaled to 1080p. Aaron Greenberg, chief of staff for devices and studios at Microsoft, mistakenly tweeted that both Forza 5 and Ryse: Son of Rome would run at …
Read More »Gabe Newell wants Linux to be the future of gaming
Gabe Newell, the man behind Valve and the much loved Steam platform, gave a keynote presentation at Linuxcon yesterday, during which he went over how his vision for the future is to bind Linux and gaming together. However, the most exciting thing about his keynote was towards the end, where …
Read More »Grand theft auto V has its first bug
Upon release of what could be this generation's biggest game launch, the first bug has been highlighted by developer Rockstar. Don't worry though it's not that bad: Xbox 360 players have to run the second disc straight from the DVD drive as installing to the HDD will cause some textures …
Read More »Microsoft was working on prototype surface phones
Microsoft's touch screen Surface ambitions might not have ended with the tablet if its most recent deal with Nokia hadn't gone to plan. Had it not been able to snap up the Finnish phone maker, Microsoft may have forged ahead with support, developing its own line of Surface handsets. However, …
Read More »3-Sweep will blow your mind
3-Sweep is a new piece of software being developed by a team of researchers at Tel Aviv university in Israel that takes objects from old 2D pictures and pops them into the 3rd dimension. 3D conversion isn't exactly new but this is quite unique, pin-pointing certain points of the picture …
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