Software & Gaming

When you take anything competitive and you put huge money behind it, people are going to find any advantages they can to get ahead. It's been true of professional sports for decades and the same is often said to be true of professional gaming. One CS:GO pro-player has further entrenched that …

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One game console have been criticized for relatively low performance compared to Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 for a number of times. Late last year Microsoft enabled some additional computing horsepower in its system, but game developers yet have to take advantage of that. At least one software …

The drama surrounding Konami, Hideo Kojima and the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain continues as Konami has proceeded to remove the series' creator's name from game box art for the second time in recent months. This comes just a few days after the Japanese voice actor …

Google's Android app, Google Photos, seems to have a fairly alarming issue right now as it has been discovered that the service will continue to collect your photos even after deleting the app from your smartphone. This is because the app doesn't use its own settings menu to set up …

One of the mainstays of the horror genre is that it makes sure players are consistently confronted with darkness. This may be to provide tension by reducing visibility, tapping into the fear of the unknown, or merely providing a place for an enemy to jump scare the player from. That's …

Flash was once a mainstay of the online world, providing us with everything from animations, to games, to vibrating pop-up banners, but no more. With the advent of smartphones that dropped support for the oft-insecure platform, it's fallen by the wayside. It continues to be used in some corners of …

Star Citizen is the most successful crowd funded game ever and it isn't even out yet, which leaves a lot of room for concern and worry amongst fans when things get delayed. A short while back, Cloud Imperium Games announced that it would be delaying Star Marine, the first person …

It has been a weird few months for Konami and Hideo Kojima. We still don't know the full story but what we do know is that Kojima and the Konami bosses have had a falling out of sorts, resulting in the cancellation of Silent Hills and the removal of Kojima's …

Quite a few Grand Theft Auto V players seem to be suffering from frame rate issues following the recent ‘Ill-Gotten Gains' part two update for the game's online multiplayer mode. Problems are currently being reported on the r/Games Subreddit, with the post getting plenty of upvotes. Right now it is …

Microsoft is continuing to go through some big changes in the lead up to Windows 10. Last week it was revealed that the company would be cutting around 7,800 jobs from its hardware division, shedding a significant portion of the former-Nokia employees that remained following the acquisition and now Microsoft is moving …

The financial stability of your home country is something many of us take for granted, but it's not guaranteed. Millions of Greeks are currently living through the fall out of a country's economical collapse, and that has meant some rather restrictive measures have been put in place, like certain capitol …

Windows 10 is on the way at the end of the month and it is going to be a pretty important update for gamers thanks to the introduction of DirectX 12. However, there is always the question of compatibility when it comes to older titles, thankfully though, GOG says that …

Earlier this month Batman Arkham Knight launched on the PC and just one day later, was taken off of store shelves due to the issues and massive backlash the game faced for having a sub-par PC port. Now Warner Bros, the small team at Iron Galaxy and a few of …

CD Projekt Red is already keeping fans playing The Witcher 3 with its gradual roll out of 16 free DLCs for the game. However, we do have more to look forward to in the form of two expansion packs, one to launch towards the end of this year and another …

With this generation of consoles, Sony and Microsoft increased its emphasis on digital downloads in an attempt to push the industry forward from physical discs. However, despite the fact that digital games are cheaper for publishers to release in the long run, we often see digital copies remaining fairly expensive …

Aliens: Colonial Marines was a highly anticipated game a couple of years back. It had an amazing E3 demo that fooled press and fans alike with an impressive vertical slice of the game that turned out to be nothing like the final product. As you would imagine, fans were upset …

Call of Duty has a history of including out of the box items in its collectors editions. In the past we have seen Modern Warfare 2 launch with night vision goggles, Call of Duty: Ghosts launch with a 1080p ‘tactical camera' and Black Ops 2's collector's edition included a flyable …

Earlier this week, Daybreak Studios CEO, John Smedley, went on a bit of a Twitter rant directed at a cyber criminal responsible for calling in a bomb threat on one of his flights last year alongside a series of other personal attacks. While on Twitter, Smedley made a few legal …

Baldur's Gate is often looked at as one of the best classic isometric RPGs of all time and now, 17 years after the original game, we are getting a new expansion titled ‘Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear', set between the events of the first and second game. The new entry …

When the White House's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was cracked wide open by some unknown actors earlier this year, it was thought that as many as 4.2 million people had had their records copied away. That included their medical histories, employment details and potentially confessions made to help them …

IO Interactive announced that it was working on a brand new Hitman game some time ago and we finally saw a bit more of it last month at E3. However, it has a somewhat weird release schedule, with part of the game launching digitally in December, with the rest of …

This year, Treyarch returns to the Call of Duty series with Black Ops 3 and it looks like some may get to try out the new multiplayer a little early as a beta test is scheduled to take place in August. Today Treyarch announced that on the 19th of August …

With the official launch of Windows 10 coming towards the end of this month, many different technology companies are updating their drivers and systems to have everything ready for the big switchover. That includes AMD, which has just released its new Catalyst GPU and APU drivers with full Windows 10 compatibility for …

Another day, another leading public figure who's calling for the breaking of encryption so that it can effectively track terrorist organisations. This time it's the head of the FBI, James Comey, who said that his policing agency needed a “backdoor” to encryption standards so that the FBI could track the …

Daybreak CEO John Smedley is the man who's flight was downed last  year when hackers called in a bomb threat and leaked his personal information. So you can understand that now one of those responsible from Lizard Squad have been convicted, he's rather pleased. What he isn't happy about though is that …

It is no secret that free to play team-based games like League of Legends have a somewhat hostile community, after all, League alone has 67 million players so there is bound to be a few bad eggs in there. However, Riot says that its new “governance systems” seem to be …

Sony will be launching a new app to allow Xperia smartphone users to broadcast Android games on Twitch. Users can also capture footage for use later, which would be good for those looking to make smartphone game content for YouTube. The app is called Screen Recorder and will work on …

A new draft law being considered by Chinese parliament could increase the censorship of its internet even more, making information harder for average citizens – without the knowledge of proxies – to access. It's raising concerns among international businesses operating in the region too, as they would need to comply …

Although 2016 looks likely to be the biggest year for virtual reality yet, with the commercial release of several bits of hardware and the unveiling of many commercial games, we're starting to get our first look at finished products now. Like London Heist, a gangster theft title, which we can …

It is pretty evident that one of the reasons why Nintendo Wii U has failed on the market is its low performance and lack of support of high-definition resolutions. While it is very logical for Nintendo to add support for full-HD graphics to its next-generation video game system to be …