Software & Gaming

Last week at Blizzcon, Blizzard announced that Overwatch would be launching in June as a paid title, for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Some asked if there would be cross-platform play, which Blizzard did give some thought to, but in the end the studio opted not to go …

Facebook, Google, Yahoo, all of these companies make their money by tracking their users, figuring out information on them based on algorithms and search choices and displaying adverts to them from partner companies. That's all well and good for most governments and courts, but Belgium isn't happy that Facebook is …

One of the most highly anticipated games of the last couple of years has been Fallout 4, ever since the famous Kotaku leak of 2013. Now, the game has finally arrived, bringing us back to the wasteland, but how does the PC version hold up? I managed to get access …

One of the most anticipated game launches of the year is coming tomorrow, with the release of Fallout 4. Additionally, we also have Star Wars Battlefront to look forward to next week, so in order to keep PC gamers up to speed, Nvidia has launched a new WHQL certified Game …

The new Xbox One dashboard is on the way and alongside that will be the addition of backwards compatibility, a long sought after feature for the console. Right now, Microsoft is working with publishers to get permission to make specific Xbox 360 games backwards compatible with the Xbox One and …

Earlier this year, a super rare prototype of Nintendo and Sony's collaboration console was found in what seemed like perfect condition and photos of it appeared online. Only 200 of these consoles were ever made, most of which were thrown out after the project fell apart. Now for the first …

Snapchat is one of the biggest social communication platforms of the past few years and is still growing at an unprecedented rate. As of right now, its users are sending videos that between them all are watched more than six billion times per day. While these numbers haven't been officially …

With Blizzcon 2015 having taken place this weekend, there's been a lot of Blizzard-centric gameplay trailers and teasers released about upcoming content, but that doesn't mean all other developers have dropped tools and taken a break. Indeed Capcom took the bold move this weekend of releasing trailers for one of its own upcoming …

Grand Theft Auto V launched on the PC back in April this year, just six weeks before Valve's summer sale kicked off in June. Due to how new the game was, a deep discount wasn't applied to the title, though it sort of looked that way. During the sale, GTA …

It looks like Blizzard is in-fact planning to bring back some of its classic titles. We have seen HD remakes become a popular option for publishers in recent years and now it seems that Blizzard is planning to bring back the original StarCraft, Diablo II and Warcraft III, according to a …

After around a year of speculation, Blizzard today announced the proper release date for Overwatch and what payment model it will use. The game will be a full priced title, though skins will still be sold as microtransactions on the side. The game is also heading to the Xbox One …

With four people now in custody for their connection to the TalkTalk hack, we are starting to learn more and more about what actually happened. After a couple of weeks of speculation as to how much data was stolen, we now know that 157,000 customers of the ISP had their …

It looks like Geralt is heading for the big screen in 2017, as a movie based on The Witcher series is now in the works. Right now, it isn't clear if this will be a live action or animated film, but we do know that Polish company, Platige films, will be …

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is already out in the world and making a positive impression on console owners. However, this year Ubisoft made the smart decision to spend a little extra time on the PC version, which comes out in a couple of weeks. Now, we can take a look at …

A couple of months back when Super Mario Maker launched on the Wii U, GAME customers in the UK found themselves charged five times for their pre-orders of the title. Now, it seems that GAME is having similar issues with Fallout Pip-Boy Edition pre-orders, with some people being charged twice …

MSI has launched the second season of its Pro Talk web-show that talks to various high-profile individuals related to gaming hardware, with Mike ‘hastr0' Rufail, who's credits include being a pro-player in the earlier days of Call of Duty's Esports scene, as well as now managing Team EnVyUs. Hosted by …

Bethesda has a review embargo in place for its upcoming post-apocalyptic wasteland-simulator, Fallout 4. That much is to be expected as you don't want people A: rushing to put a review out and B: releasing it before the optimum time to build on the hype. What is bizarre however, is …

One of the cooler moments in Ark: Survival Evolved, is taming yourself a big carnivore to stomp around on. There's not much more badass than knowing you have several tonnes of muscle and teeth on your side should a fight break out, but in Ark, a lot of people have …

This week, AMD announced a massive change to how it is handling its GPU drivers. The red team announced that the Radeon Technologies Group would be doing away with the Catalyst Control Centre entirely, putting drivers under a new banner: ‘Radeon Software: Crimson Edition'.  The new drivers will feature an …

Activision has a tendency to tie pre-order incentives to its annual Call of Duty games and this year is no different. In much of the game's marketing worldwide, we have seen that the Nuketown map is coming back for those who pre-order. Unfortunately though, here in the UK, not everyone …

Fallout 4 isn't arriving for a few more days but that hasn't stopped Bethesda from releasing its Pip-Boy companion app to the public on Android and iOS. The studio has also put out the final ‘launch' trailer for Fallout 4 slightly ahead of time, reminding us that we do in-fact …

It's that time of year again, over the next few weeks we are going to see game publishers launch a slew of major titles just in time for Christmas. So if you're an Nvidia user, you can expect plenty of driver updates over the next several weeks, as the green …

It looks like Ubisoft is still paying for its mistakes in 2014, as Assassin's Creed Syndicate sales have been “clearly” impacted by the reputation of Assassin's Creed Unity, the publisher recently admitted in a quarterly earnings call. However, given Syndicate's positive reception so far, the publisher is expecting things to …

Finnish digital security firm, F-Secure, finds itself embroiled in an odd scandal right now. Following the dumping of some 400 names, addresses, places of work and other details of individuals by a Twitter user called MetalGodTokyo, some investigations turned up what appeared to be the identity of the person: Naomi …

Earlier this year, World of Warcraft's subscriber count fell to its lowest point in years, which sounds bad at first but looking at the numbers properly showed that the MMO was still beating most with well over five million subscribers still in the game. However, don't expect to hear any …

The police have been really cracking down on the people behind the TalkTalk hack a couple of weeks back, with four people now arrested in total. Yesterday, police made their way to Norwich to arrest and search the home of a 16 year old connected to the crime, which saw …

Google has been running Project Zero for some time now, with the mission of seeking out bugs in software, notifying the software makers and then notifying the public should nothing be fixed in an effort to force something to be done. Previously, Google has taken on Windows and OS X …

Microsoft has been working on its Cortana apps for iOS and Android all year. You can already download it pretty easily on Android, with the app being available on the Google Play Store in certain territories, though things have taken a little longer for iOS users. Now, Microsoft is ready …

Last year, Sony announced that it was trying to bring backwards compatibility to the PlayStation 4 in a different way, using a cloud gaming service known as PlayStation Now. This service allows PS4 owners to rent and stream older titles to their consoles and now, an influx of 105 games …

Age of Empires 2 has seen a bit of a resurgence this year. A few months back, Microsoft announced that Age of Empires 2 HD Edition would be getting a new expansion known as ‘The African Kingdoms' and now, that content is dropping tomorrow. As we knew from the announcement …