Software & Gaming

Over the last month, there has been a lot of criticism surrounding G2A and how it conducts business, all stemming from indie developer, Tiny Build speaking out about it in a lengthy blog post. Since then, G2A has announced several changes it is going to make to its system to …

After years in development and a couple of delays, No Man's Sky has officially gone gold, meaning Hello Games' four year long project is finally ready for its final release. The game was initially due to come out on the 21st of June but a delay pushed it back to …

Although MMOs are usually traced back to the '90s for the first time they really impacted the gaming industry, one game from the '80s can lay claim to being one of the first and now it's making a comeback. LucasArts 1986 title, Habitat, is being restored by fans and gaming …

Although AMD's RX 480 has been well received by most, there are a few who experienced unfavourable power draws through the PCIExpress port, leading to questions about its stability and longevity. Fortunately it didn't take long for AMD to address it, as with the new 16.71 driver release, it's claiming …

Since E3, there has been a lot of talk surrounding the future of Xbox exclusives thanks to the announcement of Xbox Play Anywhere, a new program that initially promised to bring all Microsoft-published titles to Xbox and Windows 10. Unfortunately since then, Microsoft has quietly edited its description for this …

Of the free anti-virus and anti-malware programs out there, Avast and AVG are two of the most popular. Now though whichever one you opt for, Avast will benefit, as it's purchased its rival anti-virus firm for a total of $1.3 billion. It now hopes to offer “more advanced,” services to …

Many of you will remember Evolve, it was a fairly promising looking game in the build-up to its launch but once word of Turtle Rock Studios' DLC plans started going around, a lot of people were put off entirely. These days only a handful of people ever launch the game but Turtle …

While AMD's new RX 480 graphics card has launched with positive reviews, it did run into one issue last week when a few publications discovered that the GPU was demanding more power from the PCI-e slot than it should be. Fortunately, despite some early speculation, this issue is fixable through …

Prior to Call of Duty's current batch of games set in the future, Activision was actually looking to experiment with the series and took pitches for various spin-off titles. This led to Call of Duty: Roman Wars, where the player takes on the role of a soldier in Julius Caesar's army. The game …

If you still haven't got around to picking up The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, then you might want to give it another month or so as word on the street is that CD Projekt Red is planning on releasing a Game of the Year Edition in August, packing in …

The FBI has announced that at the conclusion of its investigation into U.S. presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton, over her use of an unsecured private email server while Secretary of State, that they it would not recommend indictment. Although the justice department may pursue a conviction any way, it seems quite …

Chinese online retail giant, Alibaba, has announced a new vehicle created as part of a joint partnership between itself and SAIC Motor Corp, china's largest car manufacturer. Made using the YunOS operating system, the new Roewe RX5 can connect to the internet through your smartphone, with the firms behind it claiming it's …

Update: Some of our readers from around the world have managed to download it. If you're playing Pokémon Go right now, where are you from, and which platform are you playing on? Nintendo has launched its new augmented reality smartphone game, Pokémon GO, in territories including Japan, New Zealand and …

Ubisoft has been fighting off a potential hostile takeover from Vivendi for a while now  but this week the publisher announced that it has moved to expand its board of directors, which will in turn lessen the amount of leverage Vivendi could have should it keep buying its way into the …

Blizzard has already taken an impressive stance against cheaters in Overwatch but now the studio is also going after the cheat creators. Blizzard is suing Bossland, a German cheat maker on the grounds of copyright infringement, unfair competition and a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. The Overwatch cheat in question …

Sega has purchased Endless Space developer, Amplitude Studios, acquiring the company's staff and assets, including the Endless franchise, which now includes Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless and the future Endless Space 2, still in development. Amplitude Studios is quite a young developer, having only been founded in 2011. However its …

Update: Following revelations surrounding a pair of popular Youtube content creators and their underhanded involvement with a Counter Strike skin betting site, other Youtubers have now been caught up in the scandal, with some looking to hide their tracks. Josh Beaver, otherwise known as JoshOG, admitted in a recent stream …

The GeForce Experience has been a part of Nvidia's software for some time now but this year it will be getting a big overhaul with a totally new UI and some changes under the hood, reducing the amount of memory the app uses and increasing the speed at which it …

EA did in-fact hold a Battlefield 1 closed alpha last month and as you might imagine, the alpha has already been data-mined, revealing new details about the game that have yet to be announced. The leak includes a level by level breakdown of the campaign, a full weapons list, a …

One of the biggest announcements that Microsoft made at E3 this year was the new ‘Xbox Play Anywhere' program, which allows you to buy a game once digitally and play it on both Xbox and PC. This program also means that all future Microsoft-published games will also end up on …

Microsoft has tried many tactics to get Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10 over the last 12 months. However, from the 29th of July onward the update will no longer be free and will probably decrease the chances of some upgrading even further so in …

If you enjoy watching gamers run through enemies you would have spent minutes fighting, clipping through walls to avoid puzzles and generally blitzing through games that were meant to take hours to complete, then check out Summer Games Done Quick. The bi-annual charity event is now in session and it …

Back in March it was revealed that Blizzard was looking for artists and programmers to start working on an unannounced Diablo project and now, the studio is looking for a director to spearhead the project. Blizzard's Irvine studio careers page has recently been updated with a listing for a ‘Game …

This week, following on from many, many leaks, Take Two officially announced that it would be launching the Bioshock collection in September, rounding up all three games and DLCs with graphical upgrades for the PC as well as current generation consoles. However, if you already own Bioshock 1 and 2 …

Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus VR, has become the latest technology executive to have his social media accounts hacked, with a particular individual claiming responsibility for it on Twitter, announcing themselves as the new head of Oculus. Purportedly, they were able to crack his accounts by discovering his four-year …

Authorities in the U.S. have begun investigating the death of a man after he collided with a lorry in his Tesla Model S while it was using the autopilot mode. Although the legal liability may not lie with Tesla, this marks the first time that a person has died while …

If you're a fan of old-school body horror movies like Alien, The Fly or The Thing, then Scorn may be right up your street. It takes an H.R. Giger aesthetic and blends it with bio-guns from eXistenZ and Videodrome, into a first person puzzler, shooter, where you as the lipless protagonist, …

Valve is a very secretive company so it is hard to really know what is actively being worked on and when. However, right now it would seem that Left 4 Dead 3 is still actively being developed as new evidence came to light this week, with the upcoming game showing …

Trek Industries hasn't had the best week, the Steam Summer Sale is well under way but the studio found its game ‘Orion: Prelude' abruptly taken off of Steam due to a DMCA request from Activision, who claimed that the game ripped off gun models from Call of Duty: Black Ops …

Denuvo is a name that sends shudders down the spines of pirates the world over, as it has meant that some games, no matter how hard people tried, have remained uncracked and unplayable for those not willing to pay for them. But there are whispers that that mightiest of foes …