Software & Gaming

If you are looking to boost your DRM-free game library, then you might want to keep an eye on GOG over the next little while as the store's summer sale kicked off yesterday, with new bundles and daily ‘highlight' deals, which for today include 50 percent off the Witcher 3 …

While most critics have been in full agreement that DOOM's campaign is fantastic, the multiplayer hasn't impressed quite as many people. However, id Software will be making some changes and adding new features over the next few months to keep players coming back, including new custom game settings, private matches …

Apple's App Store has been a major trend setter when it comes to how we all access and consume software over the past decade, but it isn't quite the front-runner it once was. To try and change that, Apple has revamped it, with a few major features aimed at courting …

The forum for the world's most popular torrent client, Utorrent, has been hacked, leading to the possiblity of the 388,000 registered members' passwords being revealed. The administrators have released this notice as a warning that passwords have been compromised and should be changed, especially if they are re-used anywhere else. HaveIBeenPwnd is …

Following the recent shut down of the Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft fan-run server, Blizzard was pretty adamant that it wouldn't open up its own, official version. However it may be that the publishing giant is changing its mind, as a meeting with Nostalrius admins went particularly well. Nostalrius was …

It has been just over a year since we first heard that WildStar would be making the jump to the free to play business model and coming to Steam. While the game made the transition to being free to play quite a while ago, the MMO's Steam debut has taken …

One of the more surprising parts of The Witcher 3 has been Gwent, the collectable card game baked into the epic open-world title. While this has been rumoured for a while, it looks like CD Projekt Red is now gearing up to announce a standalone version of Gwent soon. The …

Rainbow Six: Siege has been out for around six months now but recently, Ubisoft has been implementing some changes to the game. Not only is there a cheaper ‘Starter Edition' of the game available to help boost the player count, but now there will actually be a zero tolerance policy …

The Mozilla Foundation's latest update for the Firefox browser may tempt you away from Chrome or Edge, as it segregates the user interface and content into separate processes, meaning if a web page eats up resources, or crashes, the UI will continue to function. The new feature could also potentially …

Watch Dogs wasn't quite the home-run that Ubisoft was hoping for when it was released in early 2014, after years of teases and showcases; especially graphically. However it was successful enough to garner a sequel it seems, as a trailer for it has leaked ahead of next week's E3 show. …

This week will see the launch of not just Mirror's Edge: Catalyst but also the GTX 1070, which hits retail on the 10th of June. In preparation for both of these launches, Nvidia has released its GeForce 368.39 WHQL driver, which brings support and optimizations for the new game and …

EA has committed itself to having public beta tests following on from the launch issues of Battlefield 4 and this year's Battlefield will be no different. However, if you are interested in signing up for the beta, it is important that you do so through the official site as there …

E3 is going to be kicking off in just a week but it looks like we are already getting some idea of what to expect in terms of announcements at the conference. Today, reports began circulating, saying that Bethesda is set to announce a Skyrim Remaster, Prey 2, a new …

AMD's latest 16.6.1 driver release has added support for a couple of new games, a new Crossfire profile for Dark Souls III and has improved performance and stability in a number of new releases. There's still a few issues with the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay, but it's being worked on …

It's been a long time since we all got our first real taste of a 3D world where stomping zombies in their thousands was possible, but Dead Rising has been selling well ever since. It may well be making a comeback at E3 this year too and we have some …

The Division has been out for a little while now and at this point, veteran players are likely looking forward to the first of the paid DLCs that come with the game's season pass. Fortunately for them, it looks like the wait won't be too long as according to an …

Earlier this year, a Russian developer by the name of FrontWire announced that it would be remaking Star Wars Battlefront III- the cancelled game that was initially in development at studio ‘Free Radical Design'. The remake is now titled ‘Galaxy in Turmoil' and apparently, even though it is a totally …

A ‘troll' who's grand master plan to annoy Twitch streamers was to donate vast sums of money to them, only to have that money refunded a month later, has had his plan derailed because Paypal refused the charge back. He sure showed those streamers. Over the past month or so, …

As popular as Titanfall was when the series first launched in 2014, it hasn't proven to have the staying power of a big franchise like Battlefield or Call of Duty. However, that isn't going to deter EA this winter as Titanfall 2 will be launching within three weeks of Battlefield …

If you have been wondering how lucky you need to be to grab a legendary skin from a loot box in Overwatch then now you can see the drop rate percentages as someone went through the trouble of working it all out. Reddit user, Ourobouros went through several videos that …

It seems that quite a few of the 9.6 million people that tried out the Overwatch open beta have gone on to buy the game in its first week as right now, over seven million people are playing Blizzard's new shooter. “Over the months and weeks leading up to release …

While a lot of people continue to use Steam on a day to day basis, there are those out there that would prefer DRM-free access to their games. GOG has offered DRM-Free games for some time now but it would often require you to re-buy your Steam games on the …

Update: It looks like Blizzard has had to push back its estimate for Overwatch's Competitive Mode content update. Around the time of Overwatch's release, the game's director, Jeff Kaplan speculated that the update would be ready for the last week or so of June. However, he did not give a …

One of the concerns I've heard from a few Total War: Warhammer players in the past week, is that the manual wasn't on Steam where it was supposed to be. We reached out to Creative Assembly to find out what's going on and can now give you a direct link …

As great as Overwatch is, the ‘Play of the Game' system can often seem a bit hit or miss and now we know why, as one of the game's developers has explained how this particular system actually works. The idea behind Play of the Game is to capture moments that …

Although some were concerned about Total War abandoning its historically accurate roots to explore some of the fictional conflicts of the Warhammer Old World, it turns out that the blend of fantastical and medieval combat is rather popular. Total War: Warhammer is the fastest selling Total War game in the …

Just a few days ago, news broke that the highly anticipated and massively hyped space game, No Man's Sky, might be getting a last-minute delay. The game was only fairly recently given its June release date on both the PlayStation 4 and PC but today, Hello Games and Sony confirmed that …

While it seems that Rockstar has no plans for any single player Grand Theft Auto V DLC for the time being, the studio is continuing to bring content to GTA Online. Today, they revealed the new add-on “Further Adventures in Finance and Felony” which will be one of the biggest …

This is a big week for Warhammer fans, not only has Total War: Warhammer just launched but if you are more into the Left 4 Dead formula, then you can also try out Warhammer: End Times Vermintide for free on Steam this weekend. Vermintide is one of the better games …

Two is company, but three's a crowd according to dating/hook-up app Tinder, as it's going after rival smartphone application owners 3nder, which is designed to help those looking to hang out with more than just one person. It's using trademark law to do it too, claiming that the names are …