Software & Gaming

Battlefield 1 might not officially launch until the 21st of October but if you happen to be gaming on an Xbox One or a PC, you can actually get a head start right now. If you sign up for EA Access (Xbox) or Origin Access (PC), then you get to …

As much as immigrants and refugees are a sensitive, emotive political topic, it's easy to agree that actually being one of those people fleeing a war torn country must be pretty terrifying. With that in mind, Refugee Text wants to use the power of automated chat bots to help those …

Although a lot of games involve some element of chance, pure luck-based item and money gambling is not something that developers want to encourage, especially when it's outside of their game. That's why Valve recently cracked down on CS:GO gambling and it's why CCP is doing the same for EVE …

StarCraft 2 is one of the most popular modern real-time strategy games around and has even gone on to spawn a healthy modding community. Speaking of which, this week, StarCrafts mod released, a new graphical overhaul aimed at bringing out the silly side of SC2 by turning it into one …

When KitGuru visits shows like Insomnia Series and EGX, we like to spend a lot of time covering all of the new and innovative indie games that are in the works, watching them grow and develop over the years. Now that Thumper is finally out, we're pretty excited, but the fact …

A new report from the Centre for Public Safety (CPS) has found that only a quarter of all police websites utilise secure connections, meaning much of the information they receive and transmit is sent in clear text. But it turns out that's just the tip of the iceberg, as many …

Although a number of experiences on the PlayStationVR platform will simply see your hands or head disappear into nothing if you step outside of the camera's tracking range, that's not how Rise of the Tomb Raider handles it. In its Blood Ties VR expansion, moving Lara to the edge of …

Blizzard has been teasing a new Overwatch character, currently known as ‘Sombra', for months now. In fact, teases for Sombra began popping up well before we even saw Ana, the game's medic sniper and first new character addition. However, it looks like it is almost time for the full reveal …

While EA and Bioware have been taking their time to publicly commit to a new release date for Mass Effect: Andromeda, it looks like Dark Horse Comics is a little more keen as pre-orders for the game's art book kicked off today. Dark Horse claims that its art book will …

If like us, you usually only use Windows Paint when Photoshop isn't to hand, then you'll likely be impressed by the trailer for the newly updated version of Microsoft's photo editing application. Not only are their new tools and a refined interface to work with, but Paint can now handle …

Pokémon Go is easily one of the biggest breakout hits of 2016, but by most counts its user base and particularly its paying customers, really dropped off after a few weeks. It seems like they might be making a comeback however, as two new reports have pinned Pokémon Go as …

The big Star Citizen CitizenCon 2016 show certainly had a lot of exciting new technology to tease the player base with this year, giving them a look at new planets, mission types and enemies to combat, but none of it is coming soon. With a delay announced for the Squadron …

We have been hearing murmurs of Final Fantasy XV coming to the PC for a while now. Back in February some traces of a PC version were discovered in the source code of the game's official website and then in March, Square Enix said that it would be ‘looking into' …

Update: While there was some initial excitement for the HD-remasters if Bioshock 1 and 2, PC gamers were greeted with some issues at launch. At the time, 2K promised that a patch would be coming to address any shortcomings in the PC version and now, that update has arrived, bringing …

Back at the start of 2016 it was starting to look like Microsoft had completely forgotten how to deliver a solid PC game. Efforts like Quantum Break underperformed on PC hardware and the early days of the Universal Windows Platform were riddled with missing features. However, today might mark the …

EA is not the most well loved company. In fact it earned the most hated company in America award several years in a row. But now and again, it does something right, like giving Dungeon Keeper away for free. Not the claimed “free to play,” mobile title that tried to …

The head of one of Russia's largest anti-piracy agencies has been arrested and charged with fraud, stemming from an alleged incident where he offered to drop the case against a well known pirate site in exchange for monetary compensation. He is said to have demanded as much as 50 million …

Mafia 3 launched on the PC today so in preparation for our full game analysis and benchmarks, I sat down to play the game this morning and get started on forming my first impressions. Unfortunately, the problems with Mafia 3 on the PC are immediately apparent with a very limited …

Bullet Train was Epic Games' first forray into developing something for virtual reality and it offered a compact, first person shooter experience for those who were lucky enough to try it. Now at the Oculus Connect event, it's debuted the spiritual sequel to Bullet Train and its first full VR …

Way back in July of 2015 Microsoft's head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, confirmed plans to bring mouse and keyboard support to the Xbox One. This was reiterated earlier this year at E3, though Spencer admitted at the time that support was still “months away”. Well, months have now passed and …

Last month, Bethesda let PlayStation 4 owners know that Sony wasn't playing ball when it came to bringing mods to the console. Given that Bethesda has had mods running for Fallout 4 on the Xbox One for months now, this news didn't go down well. Fortunately, it didn't take long …

The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed that a government contractor was arrested in August and charged with removing and retaining classified materials without permission. Other sources have confirmed it was an NSA contractor who was detained, though it isn't clear at this time what information he is alleged to …

Following on from the revelation that not only were lots of people gambling away their in-game skins for games like CS:GO, but that Youtubers were marketing the practice to children, a lot of people have asked Valve to do something about it. Throwing their weight behind that cry now, is …

Earlier this morning we learned that email provider, Yahoo, had been accused of secretly scanning the emails of all of its users at the request of the United States government. Using a specialised piece of software, Yahoo is said to have scanned the emails of all users for specific phrases …

Gears of War 4 kicks off its launch on Friday this week so to give PC and Xbox gamers plenty of time to sit through the massive 73GB download, Microsoft kicked off preloading last week. Unfortunately, on the PC side at least, the Windows Store doesn't seem to be cooperating, …

It has been almost a year since TalkTalk suffered a huge cyber attack, in which the personal information of over 150,000 customers was stolen. Now, the UK-based ISP has to face the consequences, as the firm has been fined a record £400,000 for poor security practices, which left consumer data …

Message board 4chan is in serious financial trouble and unless some drastic changes can turn the ship around, much of the site may need to close. The current owner told users on Sunday that the site may need to implement pop-up adverts, a cap on upload sizes and potentially even close …

If you're a Yahoo email user, you should be aware that in 2015 the web giant built a specialised piece of software to scan all incoming emails to all Yahoo mail accounts, searching for certain phrases and statements related to U.S. intelligence. Three former employees have claimed to have seen the …

KitGuru was recently given the chance to fire some questions over to AMD's Scott Wasson on the topic of frame pacing for multi-GPU (mGPU) configurations using DirectX 12. Frame pacing has long been an issue for enthusiasts wanting smooth gameplay from their multi-GPU configurations. High frame rates are one aspect …

Update: Dice is continuing to pump out new details on Battlefield 1. A couple of weeks ago we learned which game modes and maps we could expect to find in the game's multiplayer at launch and now, we have our first good look at the campaign mode, which is based …