Marc Merill, president of League of Legends developer Riot Games, has hit back in a Reddit post at critics that suggested he and his company are greedy in their business practices, citing many reasons why that's not the case and simply the fact that he and his main partner and …
Read More »Round one of the console wars officially goes to Sony
Gaming on a budget involves a couple of pretty important decisions, the first decision you're going to have to make is usually which platform your going to dedicate your money to and while PC gaming has grown, consoles still remain the more popular choice for mainstream buyers. While both the …
Read More »Steam sales make bundles of cash
Steam sales are a time to clutch your wallet tightly to your chest and steer clear of your PC for a few days, not because the sales are bad, but because they're so damn good. I'm sure you've all been there before (many of you are likely there now) where …
Read More »AMD and DICE delay Mantle patch for Battlefield 4
Advanced Micro Devices and DICE this week said that they would delay a patch for Battlefield 4 video game that was expected to be released in December. The patch, which will use AMD’s proprietary Mantle application programming interface (API), is expected to boost performance on AMD Radeon hardware. Potentially, it …
Read More »Deadpool delisted from digital outlets
If you're at all interested in playing the Deadpool game, which was released mid 2013, then you might want to do it soon as the game is mysteriously disappearing from digital stores without explanation or warning. Deadpool the game was developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision, the …
Read More »Did the Wii U outsell the Xbox One before Christmas?
It might seem crazy and the data is coming from VGChartz – a somewhat untrustworthy source of data – so take it with a pinch of salt, but Forbes has it that the Wii U might be making its big come back, even outselling Microsoft's new Xbox One console in …
Read More »Dell apologises for leaving NSA backdoors in hardware
Earlier this week at the 30th annual Chaos Communication Congress, Dell, among other US based tech firms, was accused of leaving deliberate backdoors in its software and hardware, to make it easier for the NSA to install malware and viruses on the machines and gain access to the information stored …
Read More »There’s a Mega Man board game on Kickstarter
Chances are at some point this Christmas and New Year season, at least one of your family members tried to get you to play Monopoly, Scrabble or maybe even Pictionary. If you want to wash that bland board-gaming taste out of your mouth, then this Mega Man one might be …
Read More »Devil’s Third is on track for release in 2014
Dead or Alive creator, Tomonobu Itagaki, along with Valhalla Game Studios, have been working on an all new action game titled ‘Devil's Third' for some time now. Originally THQ was signed on to publish but as we all know, THQ is no longer with us, since then there has been little …
Read More »Win STEAM game this week!
This week 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 funny Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Grand Theft Auto 5. It means you can …
Read More »Hey Japan you’re finally getting the PS4… soon
Despite probably containing the biggest number of devkit and prototype versions throughout the console's development – since Sony is based in Japan – the PlayStation 4 still has yet to launch there. With the release date looming however, Sony has begun to hype up the marketing and has now debuted …
Read More »This guy made a machine to play Pokemon for him
If you thought it was fun playing Pokemon X and or Y the good old fashioned way – IE. with your hands – then imagine how much fun you can have when you build a device to play it for you! That's right, now you too can continue on with …
Read More »4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers leaked
2014 has barely started and we already have our first leak, a Snapchat database containing 4.6 million phone numbers and usernames has leaked on to the Internet and has been made downloadable for all of the world to see. The site housing the leak, SnapchatDB, currently offers two download formats: …
Read More »NASA Uses Kinect 2, Oculus Rift VR Helm to Control Space Robots
Modern gaming technologies are not only easy to use, but they are getting more and more advanced and considerably more precise than they used to be just several years ago. Therefore, it is not surprising that NASA engineers are experimenting with Microsoft Corp.’s Kinect 2 and Oculus Rift VR helmet …
Read More »Ben Heck creates one handed Xbox One controller
Console Modder, Ben Heck, has took it upon himself to create a single handed accessibility mod for the Xbox One controller to help disabled gamers. The controller mod was created in conjunction with Newark Element14, which revealed the new controller in a teaser for the next episode of The Ben …
Read More »Elder Scrolls Online will let you mob high level players
One of the big features in Elder Scrolls online, is going to be its end-game, army vs army, keep sieging battles, that will see scores of players battle against one another for control of territory and resources, but how do you make that relevant for low level players, when you …
Read More »Hackers take down game services to spite streamer
With Lulzsec betrayed and downed and Anonymous set to cruise speed at the moment, it's been a while since a hacking group has made headlines, but today that changes with DERPTrolling, a group that has systematically downed several gaming services with DDOS attacks, seemingly to spite – or troll at …
Read More »Thieves target cash machines with pen drive hack
The last time I legitimately saw someone hack into an ATM cash machine was John Connor in Terminator 2, but apparently that's still going on, as earlier this year a spree of thievery took place at different cash machines, with the people behind it using memory sticks to upload their …
Read More »China bans Battlefield 4
Some bad news came down the pipeline over the weekend as Battlefield 4 has been officially banned in China and as you might know, a Chinese ban is pretty strict. Not only can the game not be sold but the Chinese Ministry of Culture has issued a notice prohibiting the …
Read More »You can play PC games on your Wii U gamepad
While the number of people that want to and are capable of doing what the title suggests might be a relatively small group – even smaller if you consider the technical know how required to make it happen – that doesn't mean it's not a pretty impressive hack. During the …
Read More »Silkroad’s DPR 2.0 enters ‘exile’
The administrator of the second iteration of drug marketplace Silkroad, Dread Pirate Roberts, (DPR) has entered “exile” according to another of the site's admins, DefCon, who in a lengthy blog post over the weekend talked about the problems that was causing, as well as the solutions his team had come …
Read More »BBC servers compromised, auctioned to hackers on Christmas Day
If you had a few spare sheckles around on Christmas Day and consider yourself a bit of an (anti)security buff, then perhaps you shelled out a portion of that for access to a BBC server? This was all possible thanks to a Russian hacker who on Christmas Day managed to …
Read More »If Bioshock Infinite was a text adventure…
A lot of people, myself included, enjoyed Bioshock Infinite immensely and found it to be one of the better games released this year; it certainly wins an award for the environment of Columbia and its impressive immersion. However, I likewise wasn't alone in thinking that the weakest part of it …
Read More »Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter issues delay release
The two supplementary software applications Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter, which have been available to Eastern gamers for some time and provided them with the ability to store their beloved pocket monsters in the cloud and transfer them between previous editions of the Pokémon games, have had their Western releases delayed due to …
Read More »Notch debunks Minecraft Wii U rumour
The rumour had a good run but it's over now, Notch has officially debunked the Minecraft Wii U rumour although, he does agree that the game would be a good fit for the console. A Wii U version isn't completely off the cards forever but right now Notch and the Minecraft …
Read More »How did you nerd out this Christmas?
Christmas is a time for hanging out with families, drinking and eating too much and more often than not, breaking out a game or two. Usually these are simple affairs like Scrabble, Monopoly or perhaps something without a board and dice, like charades. However, this being a site of tech …
Read More »Sony is pulling online support for a few first party games
Sony is going to start shutting down online support for a few of its older first party Playstation 3 titles throughout 2014. Starting on the 28th of January, MAG along with two PlayStation 3 SOCOM games, Special Forces and Confrontation, will be the first titles to go and since neither MAG or SOCOM have offline …
Read More »Gaming for Good charity raises over $10 million
Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity. Earlier this year, Gaming for Good …
Read More »Nintendo’s online services are suffering from server issues
If you managed to score yourself a shiny new Nintendo system this Christmas, you might have noticed that the online functions aren't working. This is because Nintendo has been suffering from a long series of server issues since Christmas morning. how to make counterfeit money The issue is affecting those …
Read More »Minecraft might be coming to the Wii U
It seems like at this point, everyone that's going to play Minecraft, probably owns a copy of it. It's available everywhere from its humble PC beginnings, on consoles and smartphones, but now it might be hitting the Wii U too, with an emphasis on using the Gamepad to construct and …
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