Software & Gaming

If you thought Microsoft's about face on DRM, online connectivity and game lending meant that it had fallen out of love with TV (tv, tv, tv) you'd be sorely wrong, as it's looking to introduce US Xbox 360 owners to over 300 Time Warner channels. If they pay for it. …

We have given away around 100 codes in the last couple of months for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next 24 hours. We are giving away codes for Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider courtesy of AMD …

We've mentioned it a few times in recent months, how the current gaming landscape is the most crowded it's ever been, hardware wise. You have the PC as strong as ever and the Xbox 360 and PS3 starting to wind down but still with a big install base and plenty …

Watchdogs, the upcoming next-gen console and PC title from Ubisoft, is all about moving around in and manipulating a heavily interconnected world of smartphones, cameras and local networks – all ripe for the invading. To show how non-fictional that upcoming reality is, Ubisoft has now launched the WeAreData website and …

Sony might have detailed what we'll likely find in the PS4 box when it's released, but we've yet to get an official confirmation through something as hard hitting as a picture; until now. Snagged from an Amazon product listing, the following picture has the whole family of cables and accessories …

We're all pretty good at spotting a phishing scam, a fake page, a phony form to fill in. KitGuru readers and many internet users are pretty well versed in keeping their PCs secure and not giving anyone their details unless they're a legitimate source – and have good reason to …

Sony released a patch earlier this week that caused a small number of PS3 owners to suddenly have a useless machine – as the main menu wouldn't appear after a reboot. Sony quickly pulled the patch but for some people it was too late. Now though, with a little bit …

Microsoft have been listening to their customers this year. When they announced the Xbox One and all the DRM and lock out practises they were incorporating the user base went ballistic. The problems were so widespread for Microsoft that they ran back to base and came out with a new …

Pro gaming, as we've discussed before, is one of the easiest professional sports to get into. While you still need to be extraordinarily skilled and get extremely lucky, you can simply play and play and end up as part of a team. You don't need to wait for it to …

Microsoft have said that the Xbox One will not have a headset in the bundle, but that the Kinect will provide the console with out of the box ‘in game chat capabilities'. Xbox Live has long been accepted by gamers as a more ‘vocally active' multiplayer platform than the Sony …

We have given away around 100 codes in the last couple of months for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next 24 hours. We are giving away codes for Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider, meaning you …

Star Citizen, the space faring sim set to come out out Cloud Industries sometime in the latter half of 2014, has passed the Pebble Watch for smartphones, making it the most funded project since the concept of crowd funding hit the internet. Of course Star Citizen didn't do it in …

While this is clearly a big advert for Battlfield 4 (and doesn't have anyway near enough Mirror's Edge 2 in it(read: none)), EA has released a new video explaining some of the benefits of its new Frostbite 3 engine and it's very impressive – even if the term “levolution” still …

We talked yesterday about the problems Blizzard was having with its World of Warcraft Mobile Armoury app causing account hacks and gold thievery, with only a couple of tweets from the publisher acknowledging it. Today though, Blizzard has come right out and said it: there's a lot of unauthorized account …

Fans of competitive retro gaming, listen up, as the results of the first round of the Donkey Kong, Kong Off #3, Wild Card Qualifier #1, are in. They saw a couple of people break the million point barrier and an amazing number of people hitting the Kill Screen, but who …

While digital downloads are certainly becoming a dominant distribution platform for PC gamers, consoles users aren't quite there yet according to Sony's VP of PlayStation brand marketing, Guy Longworth, who thinks disc based gaming will be around for much longer than people give it credit for. During a chat with …

Microsoft Corp will be bringing their popular Age Of Empires PC game to the Apple iOS and Android market thanks to a tie in with Japan's KLab Inc. They expect that sales will be strong for such an iconic game. The Microsoft gaming business is focused almost entirely now on …

Valve has announced that the Steam Trading Cards, that achievement like, collectible, reward scheme announced earlier this year, is set to leave beta as of 26th June, meaning everyone can get ahold of them. However, the Half Life maker also teased something else on that date, “an event we think …

There's been a lot of talk recently about used games, about loaning games, renting games, borrowing games, trading games – the whole second hand game market has been up for scrutiny. You've had Microsoft looking to kill it then backpedaling, you've had developers discussing aggressive GameStop tactics, reams and reams …

Update: Blizzard has now released a further statement, updating the situation: “The Mobile Auction House is still in maintenance mode. We're working to restore full service as soon as possible. #WoW #BlizzCS” World of Warcraft's Mobile Auction House, the smartphone tool that lets residents of Azeroth check out stats from …

Since the Middle Ages, Swiss Banks have had a reputation for keeping your most valuable assets safe. The country also has a ton of secrecy laws enshrined into its national identity. Cue the 21st Century. KitGuru gets Bourne again. The Cypriot government decided to snatch money directly from bank customer's …

Cliff Bleszinski, or Cliffy B as he's more commonly known, used to run the show over at Epic when it came to Gears of War development. Now he's off doing other things but that doesn't mean people haven't been asking him what he thinks of the whole Xbox One debacle. Expanding …

While Microsoft and Sony have both publicly stated that their respective consoles would be available worldwide during the Christmas period this year, retailers have begun putting up release dates for both systems, suggesting something a little more concrete. German website Media Markt has listed the PS4 for a 13th November …

Jimmy Fallon has been continuing his Game Week by showing off some game cover art from Imagination Land, which apparently him and Elijah Wood co-developed and co-starred in. Would you believe it? The first one is Milk Glug, a game that sees you slamming down bottles of milk as fast …

Remember The War Z? Me neither really, but it was that game that caused controversy earlier this year (and a bit late last year) for releasing without many of its advertised features, being bug filled, banning gamers for playing too much; all of which resulted in the shyster producer of …

While Microsoft might have down an about face on its policies for the upcoming next-gen Xbox One system, the console landscape is now more confused than ever. Yes there's no 24 hour check-in system, yes you can resell, trade and lend your game discs to people, but you still need …

I don't think I have ever seen a worse prelaunch than the Xbox One. Microsoft had set so many restrictive rules in place that gamers didn't know which way to turn. Was this really an easy to use console to enjoy on the sofa with friends in the evenings or …

We have given away around 100 codes in the last month for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next week or so. Every day we are giving away a code for GRID 2, all you need …

Russia and the USA spent a large part of the 20th century in a stand off of global proportions. Posturing went back and forth, spies and information wars were won and lost but ultimately there was no out and out conflict, most likely because neither party really wanted to go …

Nintendo's CEO, Satoru Iwata, has said that it's Nintendo's fault that the Wii U isn't selling well, mainly because the company didn't market it well enough and that ultimately a lot of the console's audience, is still confused about the relatively new console. This is something we've talked about here …