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 …
Read More »Ubisoft explains why digital games are more expensive on console
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 …
Read More »Randy Pitchford thinks fans were wrong to sue over Aliens: Colonial Marines
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 …
Read More »Black Ops 3 collector’s edition comes with a mini-fridge
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 …
Read More »Daybreak Studios hit with DDOS after CEO’s Twitter rant
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 …
Read More »A new Baldur’s Gate expansion is in the works
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 …
Read More »US personnel data breach was far worse than we thought
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 …
Read More »Hitman will launch digitally this year in ‘episodic’ form
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 …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 to have a beta in August
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 …
Read More »AMD debuts new 15.7 Catalyst drivers for Windows 10
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 …
Read More »FBI wants encryption backdoor to combat ISIS
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 …
Read More »Daybreak CEO to go after hacker who downed his flight
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 …
Read More »Riot says League of Legends player behaviour is improving
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 …
Read More »Some Sony Xperia devices can now broadcast to Twitch
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 …
Read More »China’s new digital security laws could increase censorship
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 …
Read More »Project Morpheus London Heist B roll footage released
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 …
Read More »Nintendo NX might not be as powerful as the PS4
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 …
Read More »ARK: Survival Evolved now has modding tools
Studio Wildcard, the team behind the most recent early access survival game success story, ARK: Survival Evolved, has just released modding tools for the game. Since ARK runs on Unreal Engine 4, the developer teamed up with Epic Games to create mod support and tools for the community currently playing …
Read More »Square Enix pulls Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV from sale
Square Enix was forced to pull the OS X/Mac version of its MMO, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn this week after users reported serious issues with the game. To make matters worse, the Mac version was not developed natively for the operating system but instead put in a ‘wrapper' to allow …
Read More »Microsoft’s Xbox Music app to be rebranded as ‘Groove’
A few months back, Microsoft announced that it would be rebranding its Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps for Windows 10, with the former being reborn as ‘Groove', Microsoft's own music streaming service for all Windows 10 devices. These new changes were detailed in a new blog post yesterday. Microsoft …
Read More »Future Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC won’t come to Xbox 360 or PS3
The last generation consoles are on their way out, although the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 still managed to receive a few of last year's biggest releases, one of which was Dragon Age: Inquisition. Unfortunately, last gen console gamers are going to have to move on soon if they want …
Read More »Hi-Rez caps SMITE World Championships prize pool at $1 million
In a world where DotA 2's International tournament can crest $15 million thanks to crowd funding, many people have been wondering whether it will raise the bar for other tournament holders around the world and in other games. Hi-Rez, the makers of SMITE, believe it should be handled a bit …
Read More »Brothers pledge $20K to Shenmue 3 to raise awareness for poor Chinese schools
Two brothers who run a school in China have chosen to pledge $20,000 towards the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign in order to help spread awareness of underprivileged schools in China. These two brothers run a program aimed to teach English to young adults and children, with many students coming from …
Read More »New patch for The Witcher: Wild Hunt will make some big changes
CD Projekt Red has been hard at work since the launch of The Witcher: Wild Hunt. While the game was pretty great even on launch, it has needed a few patches to squash some things out and this week's patch, 1.07, will bring some significant additions and changes to the game. …
Read More »Watch Dogs downgrade backlash sparked policy change at Ubisoft
Apparently the backlash caused by the blatant graphical downgrade of Watch Dogs following its release compared to the initial E3 reveal ended up sparking a policy change over at Ubisoft, according to the company's CEO, Yves Guillemot. According to Guillemot, Ubisoft has now changed the way it shows off new …
Read More »Microsoft to finalize Windows 10 this week
Windows 10 is due out in just a few weeks time, so as you would expect, Microsoft is preparing to finalize its launch build ahead of time. According to sources close to the Windows 10 project, Microsoft is currently working on the final version of Windows 10, which will release …
Read More »NSA’s XKEYSCORE can identify you via repeated passwords
When we first learned about the NSA's XKEYSCORE software back in the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations, it was clear that it was (and is) a pretty versatile piece of software, able to parse huge swatches of recorded information in order to store the most juicy bits of data on every …
Read More »Windows 10 will launch with its own version of Minecraft
Minecon 2015 kicked off today so the news has pretty much been dominated by future Minecraft related happenings. Today we got our first look at TellTale's Minecraft: Story Mode and now we've learned that when Windows 10 launches at the end of this month, it will do so with its …
Read More »We now know when Fallout Shelter should arrive on Android
A couple of weeks back at E3, Bethesda announced its new little mobile game, Fallout Shelter, whilst also showing off tons of new Fallout 4 footage. While Fallout Shelter is a neat little mobile time killer and has been received very well, it is currently limited to iOS users, leaving …
Read More »We now know a bit more about TellTale’s Minecraft: Story Mode
We heard that TellTale was put in charge of making a single player ‘Minecraft: Story Mode' for Microsoft a while back and now this weekend at Minecon, some new details about the game have been announced. Like with every other TellTale game, it is set to be an episodic adventure …
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