In just a couple of months, Tom Clancy's: The Division has become one of the most popular games in the world. At the latest earnings report, Ubisoft confirmed that it had just shy of 10 million registered users. These huge numbers helped Ubisoft have a very strong financial quarter. The …
Read More »Microsoft to remove Windows 10 option to share WiFi access
Microsoft has been making plenty of changes to Windows 10 since its initial launch in July of last year and soon it looks like one feature in particular will be getting the axe. In Windows 10, there is a feature called WiFi-Sense, which allows Windows 10 users to grant home …
Read More »World of Warcraft Legion beta kicks off today
There has been so much talk surrounding World of Warcraft, Nostalrius and vanilla servers recently that it would have been easy to forget about the game's upcoming expansion, Legion. The alpha phase for the expansion wrapped up a little while ago and now, it is time to move on to …
Read More »Peter Molynuex would be open to doing Fable 4
Microsoft officially closed down Lionhead Studios over the last few weeks and while the company did consider some offers from buyers, it didn't want to give up the rights to Fable, which is arguably the most well-known series to come out of Lionhead in years. This means that Microsoft may …
Read More »Courts order Mega to hand over U.S. user data
Kim Dotcom's second file locker project (now disowned), Mega, has been hit with a court order in the U.S. demanding that the site hand over the user information for certain accounts. This comes after sensitive, foreign government documents were found on the site after a hack. This court action could be …
Read More »Opera browser update promises 50 per cent battery saving
If your smartphone or laptop's main use is browsing a number of websites, then it's worth considering jumping ship from Chrome to the new version of Opera, which comes with a new battery saver mode. Purportedly, it can cut up to 50 per cent of the power draw from browsing …
Read More »Dreamhack mod: Twitch chat needs stricter moderation
As much as we might all love a free and open internet at all times, it does mean that sometimes those with nothing nice to say take the stage and it's hard to get them off. That's why Esports organisation Dreamhack needs to take a greater stance against it, according to …
Read More »The Xbook One has had a Star Wars makeover
Back in late 2014, console modder Ed Zarick took the new (at the time) Xbox One and PS4 consoles and turned them into laptops, known as the Xbook One and Playbook 4. The idea proved to be very popular, so much so that he has been able to make more …
Read More »There won’t be more Witcher 3 content after Blood and Wine
The Witcher 3 is coming to an end this month with the launch of Blood and Wine, the second and largest expansion for the game. Now, we know that this will in-fact be the last bit of content for The Witcher 3, as CD Projekt Red will be moving on …
Read More »Mass Effect: Andromeda is now coming out in 2017
EA and Bioware have been slowly ramping up the amount of information it is willing to share about Mass Effect: Andromeda over the last year. Back at E3 2015 we heard that the game was initially supposed to launch ‘holiday season' 2016 but the game needs a few extra months …
Read More »Whatsapp now has desktop Windows and Mac clients
WhatsApp, the encrypted chat service owned by Facebook, has expanded its potential user base by a huge number, by introducing desktop clients for both Mac and Windows operating systems. The platform is now available to most technological users, also offering a web-app and the (now) traditional smartphone applications. The idea with …
Read More »Disney has officially ended Disney Infinity
One of the biggest gaming growth industries in recent years has been through mixed reality. Blending physical toys with a digital product has seen Amiibo become Nintendo's saving grace and Disney Infinity and Skylanders have earned billions a piece. Now though it seems it might have peaked, as Disney has …
Read More »The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine trailer has arrived, release date confirmed
The rumours surrounding The Witcher 3's next expansion, ‘Blood and Wine', can now come to an end as CD Projekt Red has put out the teaser trailer and officially confirmed the release date. While just yesterday we heard that Blood and Wine might be releasing on the 30th of May, …
Read More »Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD comes to Steam this week
Square Enix has been making good on its word to bring more Final Fantasy games to the PC over the last couple of years, so much so that there is even talk of PC players eventually getting the Final Fantasy VII remake as well as Final Fantasy XV. While those …
Read More »Walk around your favourite games in VR, using photo mode
As much as virtual reality has a lot of cool content on offer for early adopters to play, there are still a lot of games and environments we'd love to experience in VR. If you feel like being creative with a bit of photogrammetary software though, it turns out you can …
Read More »FCC and FTC investigating how mobile security patches are released
The FCC and the FTC in the US have launched investigations in to how companies release their mobile security patches. The investigation is said to centre around how some companies review their security updates and then release them via OTA, while also looking in to the lack of consistency amongst …
Read More »The Overwatch Open Beta has been extended by one day
If any of you out there felt like you didn't quite get your fill of Overwatch over the last few days while the Open Beta has been running, then you will be happy to know that you still have some extra time to play as Blizzard has gone ahead and extended …
Read More »The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine release date leaks on Steam
While we have had a few retail leaks giving us an idea of when to expect the release of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, we haven't had anything truly definitive, well until last weekend, when the Steam store page for the expansion was accidentally updated to show the release …
Read More »Donkey Kong champion posts possible perfect score
Although we'll never say never when it comes to a game like Donkey Kong, it may well be that the newly crowned champion, Wes Copeland, is never beaten. With a score that not only defeated his arch arcade rival, Robbie Lakeman and even long-time MAME champion Dean Saglio, the 1,218,000 score …
Read More »Battlefield 1 beats out Infinite Warfare in trailer battle
It might be a little early to call victory for EA in this latest generation of high-production-value, AAA shooters, but in terms of trailer popularity, DICE's Battlefield 1 seems to have drawn a lot more positive attention than Activision's Infinite Warfare. While the latter was a stand out for its …
Read More »Doom (2016) running on Nvidia GTX1080 (Video showcase)
KitGuru had an invite to the Nvidia Editors Day Event last week, and the guys in green brought some of the ID software development team over to showcase Doom (2016). We managed to get a front row seat as Doom (2016) was running on a massive $100,000+ LED wall via …
Read More »Google and Yahoo investigating 272 million stolen logins
Earlier this week, a security researcher revealed that millions upon millions of Google, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts were being actively traded on the black market. Following on from this news, Google and Yahoo have both said that they are now looking into the breach that saw 272 million account login …
Read More »People seem to be a lot happier with Battlefield 1’s trailer
Earlier this week, Activision officially released the first trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, revealing that this year's version of the shooter would once again take on a futuristic setting. The trailer quickly went on to become one of the most heavily downvoted videos on YouTube, which led to …
Read More »Microsoft to remove Windows 10 upgrade notifications soon
On the back of this week's news that Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade period would be coming to a close in July, we have also learned that those annoying ‘upgrade to Windows 10' notifications will also be going away for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. In a statement sent …
Read More »Overwatch’s open beta is almost identical to final release
At this point, Overwatch is essentially finished, with its launch set to happen in just a few weeks time. So while the company is holding an open ‘beta' this week, the game's director has confirmed that what we can all play right now won't differ much from the final release, …
Read More »Battlefield 1 is set in alternate WWI, releases in October
EA's official Battlefield 5 announcement stream doesn't kick off for another few hours but thanks to some promotional material leaks as well as a leak on the Xbox store, we already know quite a bit about the new shooter from DICE. For a start, it is apparently called Battlefield 1 …
Read More »Apple Music looks to court students with 50 percent off membership
Apple Music isn't doing as well as the higher ups want, even though it managed to net itself 10 million+ users by the start of this year. To try and improve those numbers even more, Apple is giving the service a full makeover for later this year and is offering …
Read More »Hacker claims he read Hilary Clinton’s private emails
With the U.S. general election looming later this year, Hilary Clinton's email scandal could end up costing her the presidency, which is why her team is pushing back hard against the idea that alleged hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar hacked her private server. He claims it was easy to access and that …
Read More »Activision brushes off mass-downvoting on Infinite Warfare trailer
As much as Call of Duty is one of the most enduring franchises of the past decade, it does also command quite an emotional reaction from its supporters. When the recent Infinite Warfare trailer dropped, fans of the series took it upon themselves to downvote it en masse, but publisher …
Read More »Titanfall developer is also working on a Star Wars game
We have known for some time that Titanfall 2 wasn't the only project that Respawn Entertainment was working on and now we know roughly what else the studio has in the pipeline. It turns out that Respawn is also working on a Star Wars game, which will be published under …
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