Software & Gaming

Thanks to the Oculus Rift's first person perspective, it often lends itself best to games that are played in the first person. While there are games that do work well in the third person or some other perspective, any game with  much of an interface is going to struggle, because …

In today's technological climate, most of us know not to use simplistic passwords for our computer, mobile or sites we visit, but no matter how many backslashes, capitals and numbers you put into it, there's always a chance that someone will figure out a way around it, which is often …

Kickstarter success and all round childhood dream title The Stomping Land, is fast approaching its beta release and to celebrate that fact, the creators over at SuperCrit, are releasing extra details about the game every day over the next week. So far we've reached day II, which breaks down who …

It's been somewhat obvious that Nintendo has had a new Zelda game in the works for a while now, with the tech demo we saw in 2012 and of course Nintendo's own comments that a new Zelda game would probably be released within a couple of years, but we haven't …

Watch Dogs has a lot to live up to, it's a brand new IP that has been riding the hype train since 2012 and now that it is finally coming out, it has to meet the expectations of gamers. While some games may suffer from being short on content, Creative …

If you happen to be someone that's modded their game of Call of Duty: Ghosts, Activision may have your number, as it's been getting extremely trigger happy with its banhammer gunblade over the weekend, perma-banning huge numbers of players. But it's not just those that have cheated directly, merely playing …

In a bid to get a share of one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone markets, Microsoft Corp. plans to waive the license fee for Windows Phone operating systems for two Indian smartphone manufacturers. The move is a rather unprecedented one, but it was necessary to ink contracts with the Indian …

Valve Software late on Friday said that it would demonstrate the latest version of its Steam Controller in action at the upcoming Game Developers Conference next week. The company did not reveal whether the version of the device is the final one or not, but it showcased the new unit …

Sony revealed its plans for Playstation Now at CES in January, the game streaming service will include rental streaming options but it seems Sony might be looking to experiment with rental download options too as an option for one day, seven day and 30 day rentals appeared on titles in …

Pre-loading of games before launch makes total sense, you're going to have people clamouring to download it and you don't want to get caught up with all the riff-raff do you? But a movie? Is it going to get the same frenzied download treatment? Whether it will or not though …

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) plans to unveil its virtual reality headset next week at the Game Developers Conference. No details are known in advance, but some game designers who have already tried the device are reported to have said that the upcoming VR helmet is considerably more advanced than Oculus …

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from TitanFall. It means you can put all your …

Twin Galaxies, the company that not only founded the concept of video game score keeping, but played a starring role in documentaries like King of Kong and Chasing Ghosts, has been in limbo for a while now. It changed hands a couple of times after the founder, Walter Day, sold …

Google might often be painted as the big, corporate version of the NSA, gathering up huge amounts of data on its users and then selling that on to advertisers, but it got hit pretty hard by the PRISM revelations too, just like Facebook, Yahoo and many others. To help show …

Even for a big Alien fan like me, when we first saw the earliest leaked images of Alien: Isolation, I sighed. It wasn't that long since Gearbox had killed much of the world's interest in games featuring the Xenomorph and I think most were soured on the idea of the …

A number of technology companies and organizations on Thursday said they had agreed to form the Immersive Technology Alliance (the ITA), which will develop and negotiate standards for to effectively meet the needs of the newly established Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), stereoscopic 3D and gesture industries. The org …

Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Super Smash Bros and Kirby has been pretty loyal to Nintendo throughout the years but with the Playstation 4's recent release in Japan, it's time for the veteran game designer to share his thoughts on Sony's latest console. Sakurai has jotted down his thoughts in his …

Net Dream Systems, an IT and audio-visual consultant, has created a technology management system that monitors all active technologies on board super yachts in real time and then predicts possible IT problems. Obviously right now, this technology is only relevant to rich super yacht owning individuals but that could change …

The NSA and GCHQ might still be listening at our digital wall with a glass to their ear, but it may get a lot harder for them in the future, at least on this side of the Atlantic. The European Parliament has now voted for a radical upheaval of privacy …

Now that Watch Dogs is finally coming out, we are learning more about the game's development cycle and the trials the developers went through to get to this point. One of those trials was the 2012 E3 reveal which as it turns out, wasn't actually supposed to happen. According to …

I haven't played my 360 for well over a year now, but at best guess, I think I have around 7,000 achievement points. That's built up over about five years of sporadic gameplay – I'm a PC gamer mostly – but I know people who have 50,000, some even over …

While award ceremonies for game making don't have quite the pull that movie or music awards do, it's still a big deal for some developers, especially smaller ones, that can get recognition through it if their game is something special – it's also great to see them occasionally knock a …

It's just over a year since Epic and Mozilla unveiled Unreal Engine 3 running in the Firefox web browser and it was impressive to say the least, as it ran at near native speeds, thereby making web deployment of high-definition games a reality. But now, with continued development pushing the …

Valve Software this week published its open-source Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer called ToGL. The product should help developers without a lot of resources to migrate their DirectX game engines (or games) to OpenGL in order to run them under Apple Mac OS X, Linux or Valve Steam OS operating …

If reading this headline made you think of augmented reality wargaming, or some way to play whatever that weird chess, monster beat 'em up was that they had in Star Wars, then I'm right there with you. If not, well, maybe we can be friends, but I'm not sure we'll …

Titanfall has done well for itself, the new IP released to a swarm of good reviews and it looked like the launch would go off without a hitch, unfortunately Microsoft's Xbox Live service wasn't feeling up to the task yesterday as it went down for six hours, stopping many gamers …

If the MPAA, FACT and other organisations thought they had their work cut out for them before, they're about to enter a whole new world of hurt, as Popcorn Time is offering to let users watch torrented movies in a stream, without downloading them in the traditional fashion. Produced by …

Over the last couple of years several MMO's have started off as a subscription based affair only to end up going free to play later down the road. Upon playing the beta, many gamers expect the same thing to happen to The Elder Scrolls Online, causing Bethesda Vice President, Pete …

One of the staples of mic enabled, online shooters, has always been some idiot either playing a song down his permanently open mic channel, or shouting obscenities and slurs at other players for a variety of reasons. We've all played with that guy, but rarely is much done about it. …

It was set to be one of the biggest RPG releases of the year, if not the biggest, but now it's not to be, at least not until next year, as CD Projekt Red has announced with a heavy heart, that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, won't be hitting the …