Software & Gaming

While most people use their smartphone for the WhatsApp encrypted messaging service, some use WhatsApp Web to do the same thing. Available to Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and iOS users on their PCs, it lets people look at messages they've received and sent, including images and videos. However, those that …

Although Esport events might not have quite the same number of considerations – yet – as more traditional sports, that doesn't mean running them is easy. While Riot and Valve might have made us think so with how well they've continued to pull off the monolithic World Championships and International …

Capcom has announced that three years after its initial release, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will finally be hitting the PC some time in January next year. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was actually a pretty positively received game, which launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in April 2013. …

There is some new ransomware on the block for Android users. It turns out that there is currently a dodgy app called ‘Adult Player' floating around. It's an app that lures users in by offering porn but once opened, it takes a picture using the phone's front facing camera, locks …

CD Projekt Red has been teasing us with its first expansion for The Witcher: Wild Hunt for some time now. It has taken a while but the developer is finally ready to talk a bit more about it, launching a new trailer and setting a release date for very soon indeed. …

In-case the feature set (and daunting price) of The Taken King weren't enough to have you hyped for Destiny's next big expansion, Bungie has released a cinematic trailer for it, showing off some of the key players of the plot, as well as some high stakes action. Oryx makes an appearance, …

Ubisoft is promising beta access for the upcoming Rainbow Six: Siege if you pick up the latest Humble Bundle, featuring Tom Clancy games. The Rainbow Six beta is included in the ‘pay what you want' tier, alongside Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, Rainbow Six …

The Witcher 3 is a massive game with plenty of character relationships to explore. Those who have played the game will know that Geralt has two main love interests throughout the game and it looks like an upcoming patch is going to expand on your dialogue options for that. A …

The very popular Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod is about to get a big update. The update brings the mod up to version 0.2, which is in public beta at the moment. Aside from fixing a bunch of bugs, new features are also being implemented, with changes to the main …

The Kickstarter campaign for Divinity: Original Sin 2 is going very well indeed. Not only did the campaign receive its initial $500,000 goal within 24 hours but the first two stretch goals were hit before they were even announced. Since then, two more stretch goals have been hit, with the …

As much as we all heaped praise on CD Projekt Red for its DLC offerings with the Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which saw it release a bunch of extras in free download packs, alongside announcing paid expansions, the Monster Hunter series has been giving away bucket loads of content for …

Even though Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 10 operating system is available for free to those, who already use a recent Windows, the software giant actually sells licenses for the OS to system makers and end users. As reported before, Microsoft decided not to use DVDs to distribute its Windows 10, but …

Fallout 4 isn't just going to be Bethesda's biggest game yet in terms of size but it is also going to be the most fleshed out as it has recently been revealed that the latest entry to the series will have more spoken dialogue lines than both Skyrim and Fallout …

In Microsoft's never ending quest to improve its Xbox One console, the company has revealed that it will soon be making changes to its ‘reputation' system, which has been around since the early Xbox 360 days. These changes will be coming soon, ahead of the new dashboard. The newly designed …

It is Friday, which means its time to get your weekend gaming plans in order. If you happen to be looking for something new to play, then you'll be happy to know that Killing Floor 2 and Evolve will be free until Sunday evening. On Evolve's side, the game and …

Yesterday, we got a brief look at the upcoming Arkham Knight PC patch. Described as the interim patch, setting the stage for the last wave of fixes to hit later on in the year. Now, that patch is officially available, adding in several fixes, mostly focussing on graphics and gameplay …

Back at the start of the year, Nintendo finally announced its intention to start making games for mobile devices, after years of losing out on the market to emulators and ROMs. The company hired outside firm, DeNa to handle its mobile titles and now we know what game is set …

Like many multiplayer games these days, Star Wars Battlefront will be moving away from traditional server browsers in favour of a new matchmaking system. While matchmaking systems have become much more common in shooters over the years, it seems that many were still hoping for a server browser as plenty …

Earlier this year, it was announced that WildStar would be going free to play, in an effort to salvage the game and its dwindling subscriber base. As with any free to play transition, this means that plenty of changes are coming to the game, so WildStar will be relaunched with …

PC gamers weren't impressed when Batman: Arkham Knight launched on the PC a few months ago. Warner Bros  has been pretty quiet on the subject in recent weeks but it looks like the next patch for Arkham Knight is set to feature some pretty important fixes. The new patch for …

Konami gave us plenty of cause for concern in the run up to the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The unexpected drama that has occurred between Hideo Kojima and Konami in recent months cast some doubt over the final product, particularly where the PC port is concerned. …

Valve has had to pull a game from its Steam Greenlight platform, after a link on its page sent users to a link that downloaded malware, which when activated made changes to their account without permission. In one instance, it even went so far as to automatically rate the game highly and …

When you fill in a form on a website, you expect that information to go straight to the company who owns the site (and the NSA), not its entire mailing list of customers. But that's exactly what happened recently with WHSmith's site, which had a misconfigured “contact us” form on …

Although Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain has been incredibly well received, its release has been bittersweet for many fans of the series, as it marks the end of Hideo Kojima's career working on Metal Gear games. Konami took the surprising move to remove almost all mention of him relating …

Steam has expanded a lot over the last couple of years. The platform has experimented with movies in the past in the form of gaming documentaries, like Indie Game the Movie or Valve's own documentary on the 2011 International tournament and now it looks like things are set to expand even …

Star Wars Battlefront is finally launching at the end of this year, though there are still plenty of people who have yet to get their hands on it. Fortunately, that may change soon as the Battlefront beta is apparently arriving in October on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. …

Some time last year, Activision's Deadpool game vanished from digital stores without a trace. At the time, neither the publisher or Marvel commented on what was going on but clearly it was some form of licensing issue. Then a few months ago, Deadpool reappeared on Steam and was once again available …

The United States is said to be considering applying sanctions to both Russia and Chinese individuals and companies for conducting aggressive hacking attempts against U.S. targets, according to several unnamed U.S. officials. While no decision has been made one way or another just yet, they claim that the Obama administration …

The TeSPA collegiate esports organisation has announced a new scholarship fund of $100,000 that will go up for grabs for teams of three that play Blizzard's collectible card brawler, Hearthstone, in an effort to cultivate more competitive esports talent in the U.S. Known as the Collegiate Hearthstone Championship, the competition …

If you were looking in to getting an Xbox One this year, then Microsoft's latest bundle might be worth looking in to. It's called the Elite bundle and as you would expect, that means it comes with Microsoft's highly customisable Elite controller, but it also throws out the standard 500GB hard …