Software & Gaming

DICE has released details of its new and improved Battlelog system. Battlefield 3 had you exiting the game and returning to a webpage every time you wanted to change multiplayer servers or play some campaign on your own for a while; it was a confusing and unnecessary experiment. However, now Battlelog …

Despite scientific evidence on the matter being somewhat inconclusive, a new survey is suggesting that a large portion of people still believe that video game violence can lead to the real version being perpetrated by the player, even though a similarly large number of people also think games can be …

Steam OS has been revealed as the first of three announcements Valve has planned for this week. What many were expecting to be the ‘Steambox' console turned out to be a whole new stand alone operating system, based on Linux architecture, designed for the living room. Valve has already improved …

Project Reality, a mod that took eight years of hard labour on various game engines to create, is now set to grow from a simple mod to a whole standalone title focusing on realism, immersion and teamwork. All too often those types of shooters end up being tactless affairs with …

Despite the near universal praise of GTA V and its rampant success, there's been a few kill joys in the media that decided to take it upon themselves to bad mouth the game and the industry, by suggesting that violent games breed real world violence. Myself and Carl covered some …

Tech entrepreneur and internet mogul, Kim Dotcom, recently announced that between 28th and 29th September, at the Digital Nationz show – New Zealand's first digital entertainment expo – he would play 100 people at Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3 and for every person he beats, he'd donate $100 to …

If you've been keeping even a lazy eye on the gaming press headlines for the past couple of weeks, you'll have noticed that GTA V has been kind of a big deal. It's been hyped, raised controversy, but most crucially for Rockstar and its publisher Take Two, it's sold a …

It only took two days before Apple's fingerprint sensor got hacked. Germany's Chaos Computer Club cracked the protection around the Apple fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S, only two days after the device went on sale worldwide. The group posted on their site saying that their biometric hacking team …

Last week Gabe Newell hinted at a steam box announcement sometime soon. Now there is a website with space for three clocks, the first countdown has already begun, and it ends in 32 hours at time of writing. The signs pointing towards a console announcement are strong, the url ends …

Crytek, the development group responsible for one of the most beautiful game engines to date, Cryengine, and subsequent games Crysis and the original Farcry, have challenged software makers to create a programme that could use open source street maps to render open world environments, in turn saving on development time. …

Japanese game publisher Square Enix is set to release the Android version of the hit game Final Fantasy V, originally released just short of 21 years ago on the Super Famicom/SNES. The wonderful little RPG will re-debut on Android devices next week on the 26th of September, following the release on …

Oh dear, let's not hope this is going to be a growing trend with Kickstarters, as it could really dampen people's interest in giving to fledgling developers. Another big Kickstarter project has run out of money, with not much hope in sight of completing it. The game in question is …

Console orientation has been something the last generation experimented with, all of them – Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 – offering either vertical, or horizontal as a potential option. Each of them had feet on the ‘side,' but could be mounted either way. Likewise, the Wii U has a stand and …

Google Chromecast, the $35 dongle that made the ‘smart' tv redundant, has it's first competitor, with Sony announcing it's Google OS based ‘Bravia Smartstick,' priced at £100.  However, at that higher price point does it stand much of a chance? It doesn't really have the  sleek and simple design of …

Listen up fellow commodity transporters. Put down your track tools for a second, this is big news. Chris Sawyer, the man behind the original beloved classic that was Transport Tycoon (and Deluxe) has announced that he's working on an upcoming mobile remake of the game and it's coming in just …

It's not uncommon for hardware makers in all sorts of tech areas to take a loss on the initial release. Sony did it with the PS3, Amazon did it with the Kindle Fire – it's a way to make sure you sell lots of the base kit, in the hope …

Sony has stated that demand for the Playstation 4 could outstrip supply. Pre order stock has officially sold out, with 1 million consoles reserved in the first week of pre orders. Microsoft faces a similar problem with the Xbox one, with many countries having to wait until 2014. PS4 pre …

Soul Calibur is a long running franchise of fighting games and many might remember it's fourth iteration for featuring either Darth Vader or Yoda, depending on which console you bought it on. Well now it's getting a free to play version on the not-quite-dead-yet PlaySatation 3. This free to play …

In-game and out-of-game trolls, are something that gaming has struggled to deal with for a long time, but particularly in recent years. With the advent of Twitter and other social interaction platforms, the lines of communication between developers and players and just between gamers themselves, have been shortened, making for …

Sony have announced that the Playstation 4 console is going to start shipping in December 2013 in Asia. It is limited to five countries – Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, it is still two months before the launch in Japan, Sony's home country. The console will be released …

Grand Theft Auto 5, one of the greatest games released this year has taken in more than £500 million on the first day of sales, according to the publisher. Take Two interactive has said that Grand Theft Auto 5 ‘delivered the highest first day retail sales of any title in …

The popular open source software company, Mozilla, has officially released the latest version of its well-known internet browser Firefox, bundling the program with 17 fixes to the original security system. Firefox 24 was released to the public earlier today and is downloadable from the Mozilla website now. This version of …

Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to Megaman, just hit $2.2 million on Kickstarter. This means the game will officially head to current generation consoles including the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, PC, Mac and Linux. The game will play like a retro action platformer much like Megaman did, where you …

Media lobby groups like the MPAA and RIAA in America and the BPI over here in the UK, have been using all sorts of nefarious tactics over the past few years, to try and block sites related to piracy. They've used DMCA takedown requests – that have even targeted their …

Yesterday it was revealed that one of the most anticipated launch titles for the Xbox one would run at 1600×900 natively and instead be upscaled to 1080p. Aaron Greenberg, chief of staff for devices and studios at Microsoft, mistakenly tweeted that both Forza 5 and Ryse: Son of Rome would run at …

Our very own Facebook king, lord Carl, wrote a great piece this morning about how the Daily Mail has completely missed the point when it comes to many of Grand Theft Auto's digs at society, or the fact that it has an an 18 age rating, describing it instead as …

Legally embattled Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, worker on Baboom and one day possible political driving force, has announced that his cloud backup service MEGA, has won a prize for security and privacy in 2013, from the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards. Known as the ANZIA, these prizes are …

Diablo III was a big hit. It sold millions and millions of copies and remained a headline grabber for many sites and publications for quite some time. Unfortunately though, quite a few of those headlines revolved around gold hacks, or items being stolen from accounts – all of which stemmed …

Grand Theft Auto has always been a franchise to court controversy and there is no doubt that Rockstar really don't seem to care. They have never shown an interest in being politically correct, or even fitting into what many people deem as ‘acceptable'. There is also no doubt that Grand …

Gabe Newell, the man behind Valve and the much loved Steam platform, gave a keynote presentation at Linuxcon yesterday, during which he went over how his vision for the future is to bind Linux and gaming together. However, the most exciting thing about his keynote was towards the end, where …