Software & Gaming

AMD has been working closely with several developers in the build up to the launch of DirectX 12 and its supported games. This time around, AMD has partnered up with Creative Assembly for the DirectX 12 version of Total War: Warhammer, which will have support for things like Async Compute …

As much as the Wii U hasn't turned out to be anywhere near as successful as Nintendo's previous generations of home-console, developers did like making games for it. The only thing they really want with the next-generation NX though, is more power. We don't know a lot about Nintendo's NX. …

Unsurprisingly, when the Revive project that unlocked Oculus VR's Rift exclusivity was launched, the Facebook owned company updated its DRM to block its use. Even more unsurprising though, is that within days the Revive project is back and it's already circumvented DRM protecting Unreal Engine titles. This all stems from an ongoing …

Despite efforts by some of the more well known tube pornography websites to legitimise themselves as mainstream companies, Esports organisations are doing their best to push back on that narrative. Following a ban of Youporn's pro team from the ESL competition, the same has happened with Capcom's Pro Tour. Although the ESL …

In recent months it seems like Defy Media is cleaning house a bit when it comes to gaming sites. The first casualty was GameTrailers, which was put out of action back in February and now GameFront has closed its doors after close to two decades online. GameFront has changed names …

While Microsoft continues to refuse to bring the main-line of Halo games back to the PC, they are throwing PC gamers a little taste of Halo 5- the Forge mode to be exact. Forge mode has been a huge part of Halo over the years and allows players to create …

It has been almost two weeks since the Overwatch open beta came to an end but the official launch for the game isn't too far off now. For those that want to hop straight back into the game the second servers go live, Blizzard has announced its launch times for …

American whistle blower and Russian resident Edward Snowden, doesn't believe the CIA when it claims it “accidentally,” destroyed a 6,700 page torture report, claiming that it never does anything like that without proper consideration. “When the CIA destroys something, it's never a mistake,” he said. The CIA was recently quoted in the …

Although hacked apart online services are par for the course these days, LinkedIn's 2012 breach was actually far worse than initially thought. While it was reported that a few million may have been affected, the latest number pegs the hack as having stolen the details from some 117 million users …

Feeling rad this Friday morning? Do you smoke and want to work ungodly hours? Then maybe you'd be perfect for a career in '90s games testing. Just make sure you watch Sega's full instructional training video first: you need to know what you're doing and be ready for 60+ hour …

Just as the Vulkan API isn't currently implemented into DOOM (2016) in the public build, SLI support is also missing at the moment. This is unfortunate for those with high-end multi-GPU PCs built to power the latest titles at 4K/UHD resolutions but support is on the way, according to one …

The Warcraft movie is coming out fairly soon and in an effort to get extra people into screenings across the world, Blizzard has announced that it will also be giving away free digital copies of World of Warcraft at participating cinemas. On top of that, if you already have the game …

Rise of the Tomb Raider might not be out on the PS4 yet but that isn't going to stop Square Enix from looking to the future of the franchise. Apparently, at this year's E3, we will be getting some “exciting Tomb Raider news”, alongside a few new game announcements. Square …

Although Valve might spend much of the year offering big sales at discounted prices, with all of the gamification that goes along with that, for some people it's still not often enough. Fortunately, you may soon be able to play a game, about buying games. Summer Sale is currently in …

If you happened to check out our DOOM game analysis earlier this week, then you may have noticed that there were some pretty poor performance numbers coming from the R9 290 and R9 390x. However, just last night AMD released a new Hotfix driver, which claims to boost in-game performance …

Aside from the game's focus on simple, arcade-like mechanics, one of the bigger criticisms that many had against Star Wars: Battlefront prior to its launch was the lack of single-player campaign. While we never really got the full story previously, during a recent EA investor briefing, one of the publisher's …

Ubisoft is still churning out content for The Division and while paid DLC is coming later this year, there is one more free update left to get out of the way later this month. Known as the Conflict Update , this week Ubisoft released a trailer detailing what it brings …

CD Projekt Red gave us the surprise announcement that its final Witcher 3 expansion, Blood and Wine, would be coming out at the end of this month. The new expansion is already up for pre-order on Steam and some early gameplay videos are floating around but what level should you …

There have been a lot of Dragonball Z games over the years and while some have been pretty good, they haven't all been great. However, when Dragonball Xenoverse launched last year, it brought a breath of fresh air to the series and now, we will be getting a sequel, as …

Image analysis has come on a long way in recent years, offering us everything from interesting analytics reports to face swapping, but an amalgamation of those two developments has some privacy campaigners concerned. A new app becoming very popular in Russia, known as FindFace, can figure out who someone is …

With the DotA 2 International competition kicking off at the end of June, that means it's time to generate some prize money. In what has become a tradition, Valve plans to build that with gamer dollars, by offering them prizes, upgrades and unlocks for DotA 2 through the sale of …

Some of you will remember back in March that a HD remake of the original System Shock was announced. However, now it turns out that the project needs to be crowd funded, so it will be landing on Kickstarter at the end of next month. There is currently some pre-alpha …

It is almost that time of the year again, the time to prepare your wallets and dust off your Gaben shrines as the dates for the Steam Summer sale have appeared online, thanks to a leaked update sent out to developers/publishers so they can set their discounts for the sale …

Following on from the Bangladeshi hack last month that looked to spirit away almost a billion dollars worth of funds, Vietnam's Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank has been hit in the same way. Using an exploit in the SWIFT bank messaging system, hackers attempted to steal a further $1.13 million. …

Microsoft's Project Spark came around shortly after the release of the Xbox One. It was an ambitious concept in which players would have access to hundreds of assets and tools to form their own maps, levels and stories which would then be shared with everyone else. Unfortunately, it never quite …

We have been hearing a lot about Sony's plans for a new PS4 this year. Currently known as the PS4 Neo/PS4K, plenty of sites have spoken with sources claiming to have knowledge of the console and now, it seems that we have more reason to believe that this upgraded PS4 will …

It looks like Blizzard will be taking a hard stance against cheaters with Overwatch when it comes out later this month, there won't be any account strikes or second chances, instead Blizzard will be jumping straight to permabans if a player is caught cheating. In a Battle Net post set …

Battleborn came out earlier this month and while its launch may have been overshadowed by the Overwatch open beta, this might not be a game you want to let fall by the wayside. Gearbox's ‘hero shooter' is quite different from the likes of Overwatch and Team Fortress in a number of ways, …

Following on from Google's announcement that it would no longer accept adverts for payday loan companies, Microsoft's Bing is now no longer allowing ads for technical support. Following a spate of scammers and tricksters, Bing is doing its part to curb fraudulent tech-support firms. You've probably had a phone call …

With the release of Doom this week, Nvidia has unveiled a newly optimised driver so that owners of its graphics cards can expect the best performance when running it. The new 365.19 WHQL release gives the game a nice boost, and even ups the efficiency for upcoming Homefront: The Revolution and February release, Master …