Software & Gaming

Seeing anything in Sunless Sea is a challenge. You have to have your ships' lonely, single light pointed in the right direction and you need to make sure your mirror skill is high enough or taking pot shots at anything is going to be very difficult. One thing the developers …

Following a two year hiatus, it looks like Rock Band is coming back with new DLC set to release tomorrow in the US and later on in the month for Europe. Harmonix will be releasing three new tracks for the game from Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold and the Artic Monkeys. …

Due to the high taxation on imported video games and consoles in Brazil, Nintendo has opted to pull out of the market and will no longer sell its products in the country. Nintendo of America confirmed the move, stating that “high import duties that apply to our sector” are to …

Microsoft is currently preparing to launch a technical preview of Windows 10 for smartphones at the end of this month, following an event on the 22nd of January. Microsoft is currently expected to reveal its plans for the cross-platform operating system on mobiles and tablets at this month's press event. …

The final PC system requirements for upcoming 4V1 monster hunting title, Evolve, have been announced ahead of this month's ‘beta' test. Turtle Rock Studios also just announced that Evolve has also gone gold, meaning that the game is effectively done content wise. The minimum requirements for Evolve include an Intel …

Too often it seems that the protagonists in our games are the same muscle bound, shaved headed super soldiers. Some titles offer character customisation or play with our expectations, but I don't think I've ever played as a marked-for-death teen before. And that's exactly what we'll get to do in the upcoming …

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has announced that it will bring games for its PlayStation and PlayStation 2 platforms to its PlayStation Now streaming service in the longer-term future. While a nice thing is that it will be possible to enjoy good-old titles on PlayStation Now-supporting hardware eventually, it is completely unclear …

North Korea for all of its virtues, is not a country that is known for a thriving software industry, but did you know that they have their own homegrown operating system? Well they do and it's called Red Star OS. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) first launched the OS, which …

Update: Both Alien Vs Predator 2010 and Alien: Colonial Marines have been put back on Steam. Sega has not released a statement to clarify exactly what happened or explain why the games were removed in the first place. Original Story: It looks like Sega has removed Alien: Colonial Marines from the …

According to some recently leaked images courtesy of cnbeta, it seems that Microsoft is exploring a new dark theme for Windows 10 with some very flat iconography. While all we have right now are these photos showing a concept of a dark taskbar with some white outlined icons and the Spartan browser …

Earlier this week, Far Cry 4 mysteriously vanished from the Xbox store, locking out those who bought the game digitally. The issue has since been fixed and Far Cry 4 is back on the Xbox store but this did raise questions on Microsoft's DRM policy. Since many Far Cry 4 …

It seems that Mozilla could be planning to bring Firefox OS to smartwatches and other wearable devices in order to compete with Android Wear devices and Apple's own upcoming line of watches, which are currently expected to launch in March. According to Joe Cheng, Manager of Products and Projects at …

Some of the best demos in the world for virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, are stationary ones like Sightline: The Chair. Why? Because when your body is immobile in both virtual and real… ugh, reality, it's a much more immersive experience. Getting full body movement to work is much …

Evolve, the upcoming 4V1 monster hunting title from Left 4 Dead developer, Turtle Rock studios, has gone gold and is officially ready for release next month on the 10th of February. To celebrate the occasion, the developer released a new cinematic trailer for the game. The game will be launching …

Ninja Theory's latest third-person hack and slash title, Hellblade, will also be coming to the PC platform as well as the PlayStation 4, the developer has revealed. Early details surrounding the PC port include 4K support and maybe even mod support. “I think PC offers us a level of freedom …

Sony has had to delay the launch of the PlayStation 4 console in China, just a few days ahead of its scheduled 11th of January release date. The company did not give one exact reason for the delay, instead citing ‘various factors' according to a new report from Reuters. A new …

The gaming industry often gets attacked for any number of screw ups, problems or fallacies but one of its better aspects is the ability for individual developers, indies, to thrive. While you could argue that the landscape is a little saturated right now, thanks to the many potential outlets for …

Zombie Studios, the company that began the Spec Ops series of games oh so many years ago and made the more recently released Daylight, along with 30+ other titles, has announced its impending closure. Not through poor performance – though Daylight was not particularly well received – but because the …

Chairman Tom Wheeler of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed during a CES speech, that the voting on the open Internet order will go ahead on the 26th of February. He also all but confirmed that internet service providers (ISPs) will be reclassified as common carriers under Title II provisions in the Communications Act. This would …

Sitting at your desk is something that you probably do for a substantial portion of the day whether you work in an office, or play games at home. If this sounds like you, then you probably also have a nice chair that you find comfy to sit in for those long periods. What about …

Bungie's Christmas gift to Destiny players has finally arrived as gamers start to receive legendary weapons from an ‘unknown benefactor'. Those of you that want to grab your legendary will have to visit the post master at the tower, where you will find a package waiting for you. The legendary …

CD Projekt Red's latest game, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, is expected to be one of the most graphically intensive games to be released this year. What sort of hardware will PC gamers need to run such a game? Let's take a look… CD Projekt Red shared the system …

The PlayStation Network appears to be struggling once again as users have begun reporting connectivity issues, keeping some from being able to log in to the service. Sony confirmed that it was having trouble with heavy server load earlier this morning. Engineers are currently working on getting things running smoothly …

Amazon may have accidentally given away the ending to Rocksteady's final chapter in the Arkham series. This week, Amazon launched its listing for the Batman: Arkham Knight limited edition, one of the pictures attached to the listing showed a quote engraved on the bottom of the collectible Batman statue. Once …

Despite console gaming being given much more attention by the likes of Microsoft, its Xbox Platform, like Sony's and Nintendo's, has missed out on the majority of one of the world's biggest gaming phenomenons in recent years: the MOBA. However that may be set to change with the introduction of beta …

The Internet Archive is an amazing non-profit site, that is mainly known for providing snapshots of millions of websites, right back to 1996 with it's “Wayback Machine”. It also wants to archive as much of the worlds media as possible by adding films, music, speeches and software. Recently it has been adding …

Assassin's Creed: Unity's first DLC, titled ‘Dead Kings', is coming out next week, after being delayed from December following the game's awful launch, which saw the developers scurry to launch four patches on all platforms to try and fix the game. The Dead Kings DLC will be free for all …

League of Legends developer, Riot Games, is currently talking to North American internet providers to help set up a dedicated network for the game in order to reduce lag and improve online performance. The network should be up and running by the end of March. In a post on the …

Another day of CES, another day of new product announcements. Today Razer has officially revealed the Forge TV, an Android based mini console that will be capable of streaming games from your PC. Rumors of a Razer console of sorts have been floating around for a while and it looks …

The Unity engine is one of the most versatile out there at the moment, providing a solid back-bone for games big and small, on platforms from the PC to the tablet. However it isn't particularly well known for its artistic merits, at least when compared to some of the juggernauts …