Software & Gaming

With big games like Battlefield 1, Civilisation VI and Titanfall 2 launching today or within the next week, AMD has released a new driver to make sure they are all officially supported, with optimised settings and in some cases crossfire profiles too. AMD has also added improved support for virtual …

If you ever wanted to send an email to the president of the United States, now you can. As part of its big leak of emails from Hilary Clinton campaign head, John Podesta, the personal, pre-presidential email address of Barack Obama was revealed. Unfortunately at the time of writing it …

Update: Despite Samsung's best efforts, the video of a Galaxy Note 7 modded into GTA V as a bomb, has been restored. While it was never the only one out there, Samsung seemed to have taken particular interest in taking down the original, but Youtube has now rescinded its copyright …

Earlier today, Nintendo officially announced the Nintendo Switch (formerly known as the NX) and just as previous rumours predicted, it is a home console/handheld hybrid. While the three-minute trailer gave us a look at what sort of games to expect on the system and how it works, it didn't dive …

Update: Just as promised, today Rockstar released its first trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2. The short look lasts just over a minute, showing some greatly improved visuals with a short voice-over presumably from the main character. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmA6MrX81z4′] The trailer doesn't give us much information on story or gameplay …

Over the last week or so there have been several sources claiming that Nintendo would finally reveal the NX console this month and fortunately enough, the information turned out to be accurate, as a preview trailer for the system went live this afternoon. This quick three-minute look at the system …

Close to five years on from the seizure of the MegaUpload servers following the arrest of site founder, Kim Dotcom, millions of users from all over the world still don't have access to their data. Since the hosting company which currently stores the hardware has suggested the drives within them …

Update: Titanfall 2 is just over a week from landing on PC and from what we've seen so far, the game looks pretty great. We may not have got a beta on PC, but Respawn Entertainment did provide a detailed breakdown of PC features, optimisations and system requirements and just …

Watch Dogs 2 was announced earlier this year and one of the big focusses for the sequel is addressing the feedback that followed on from the original. However, in order to properly do that, the game is going to need a bit more time in development- well the PC version …

Rumours were abound earlier this week when Wikileaks founder and Ecuadorian embassy resident for the past four years, Julian Assange, found his internet connection severed. We were told it was by a state party and it turns out that party was Ecuador itself, which now admits that it was responsible …

Californian's attempting to access some of the world's most popular pornographic websites this week will have found it a little harder than normal. In protest of Proposition 60, which would make it mandatory for porn performers to wear condoms during shooting, a number of sites blocked Californians from viewing any …

One of the minds behind Rick and Morty and the only person behind the titular characters's voices, Justin Roiland, is set to host a virtual reality get together in VR social application, AltSpaceVR. He'll be joined there by VR hosting veteran, Reggie Watts, who has been helping to foster the VR …

Plants vs Zombies might have begun life as a slightly off-kilter tower defence game when that genre wasn't completely tapped, but since then it's evolved into a lot of other things. From sequels to third person shooters, we're now able to play a brand new Plants vs Zombies experience in …

Sleeping Dogs was a well-received title at launch but since then, Square Enix hasn't been particularly keen about pushing the franchise forward with new entries and eventually, United Front Games had to move on to other projects. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like those projects have helped the studio much as …

Anti-tamper digital management system, Denuvo, may have faced a couple of set backs as of late, but the executives at the developer aren't concerned. In fact they still see the company at the forefront of protecting games and suggested that no DRM system was fullproof, but that its was still the …

Head of Xbox at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, is so confident in the company's new “Play Anywhere” initiative, that he thinks other big publishers will get on board with it in the future. Presumably he means giving players free copies of their games for the PC if gamers buy them for the …

When it comes to mobile gaming, Sony's efforts have been hit and miss. The PS Vita handheld rarely gets any attention these days and as far as smartphone games go, Sony actually shut down its PlayStation Mobile division last year to help cut costs. However, with Nintendo starting to succeed …

When it comes to Nintendo NX news, things have been quite slow over the last couple of months and while rumours are still predicting that the console will launch before March 2017, Nintendo itself is really dragging its feet with official announcements. However, Nintendo may finally break its silence on …

Oculus has had a difficult six months, with us and just about everyone else claiming that the HTC Vive is the superior headset to its Rift, but that may be harder to justify when Touch controllers arrive. Especially since some of the games that have been built for it from …

Rockstar might not release a game every year like some publisher/developers, but it knows how to generate some buzz. In its latest internet breaking event, it released a simple faded logo, on a red back drop. As you might expect if you're a fan of previous Rockstar work, this is …

Battlefield 1 hasn't fully launched yet but players can get a headstart in the multiplayer and campaign modes by signing up for EA/Origin Access, which includes ten hours of early game time. However, you may encounter some frustrations during pre-launch multiplayer as it looks like cheaters are already being encountered. …

The Mafia series has had a positive history on the PC platform. However, this year, a new team has picked up the series to deliver Mafia 3. Things didn't get off to a great start last Friday when the game's PC version launched with a hard 30 frames per second …

Now that most of the kinks with the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update have been ironed out, it is time for Microsoft to focus on the next big update. We have heard some details about the Redstone 2 update in the past but according to reports this week, we now …

Since the start of this console generation, the Xbox One has consistently been outsold by the PlayStation 4. Microsoft's console did have brief stints of higher sales but the original box never really hit its stride. The Xbox One S is a different story however, as over the last three …

Dark Souls 3 is getting its first DLC pack later this month titled ‘Ashes of Ariandel' and aside from taking players to an icy new world, it will also introduce a new dedicated PvP arena. While PvP is present in Dark Souls 3 already thanks to game invasions, there hasn't …

BitTorrent Inc. the company behind the Utorrent file sharing client, has become a one CEO firm once again. This came as part of a falling out between the two heads, who previously joined up as the company transitioned to a more commercial entity. It has denied that the company is …

Snapchat, the company that turned down three billion dollars in Facebook money just three years ago, is now readying itself for a public offering, which could see the company valued at $25 billion (£20.5 billion). If successful, it would be the biggest tech IPO since Twitter went public in 2013. …

If one thing has become apparent from breaches of corporate stores of customer information in recent years, it's that the fall out is usually lessened if you give people a heads up that they may have been compromised. An alternative for British banks though, is to just not tell anyone. One security …

Although you might expect that announcing a paying option for a service wouldn't exactly drive people to sign up, that's exactly what's happened with Amazon's gaming stream service, Twitch. After the announcement of Twitch Prime, concurrent viewer numbers have gone up by as much as 13 percent over the ensuing …

Over the last couple of years, AMD users have likely had an encounter or two with Raptr's ‘Gaming Evolved' app. At one point it was AMD's answer to the GeForce Experience, with the app being bundled with every driver update. However, it looks like AMD is moving on from Raptr's …