Software & Gaming

I would report about this tomorrow, but of course it's Saturday and I won't be around to give you guys the heads up, so here it is a day early: The Wii U Virtual Console is arriving in the UK tomorrow, bringing with it the ability to play old Nintendo …

While the Oculus Rift is being hailed by many as the future of gaming, opening up new avenues of future development, one user has given it a chance to reinvigorate the past as well by hooking it up to a Virtuaboy emulator; and by all accounts, it works really well. …

It's one thing to release a game that's single player experience requires always-online DRM and then have those same always-on servers crash soon after launch, but it's another thing entirely to release game breaking patches that were supposed to fix everything weeks after launch. That's the situation EA, Maxis and …

As technology permeates every corner of the planet, so the threat of significant security attacks grows. Articles that run on world famous newspapers like the New York Times, result in massive hacks into every PC owned by that organisation – within 24 hours. It's a very serious world and security …

Pizza Hut has introduced a new app for the Xbox 360, which allows users to order pizzas online and even design their own custom toppings with the use of Kinect. Whether this will evolve into some sort of social-network mini-game remains to be seen, but it does sound intriguing. “We're …

Some images have shown up online for a supposed live-action trailer of Rockstar's upcoming GTA V game, featuring crashed cars, destroyed environments and all the sort of mayhem you'd expect from a game in the GTA series – apart from cops getting shot with rocket launchers that is. The following …

Some of the final assets of the defunct publisher, THQ, have now been sold off, with Darksiders not going to its expected home in newly formed Crytek USA (made up of mostly old Vigil staffers) but to Nordic Games, which had a hand in publishing the Gothic series of games through JoWood Entertainment and …

Games Workshop, the company behind such hit tabletop experiences as Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and Blood Bowl, has continued its expansion into the digital realm, with a reimagining of the hit boardgame Talisman, set for a launch on iOS and Android devices on 25th April. Don't get too excited though, as …

Twin Galaxies, the organisation featured in documentaries Chasing Ghosts and King of Kong and founded back in the early 80s by videogame score keeping pioneer, Walter Day, has now reopened its doors for accepting scores – after a six month hiatus – but now it wants you to pay for …

If you play World of Tanks, listen up. Developer Wargaming is urging everyone to change their passwords, after a possible breach of security, “may have compromised,” user information. It's unknown at this point what if any information was taken by those responsible for the breach, but it's better to be …

Some of the rarest video games, consoles and accessories are prototypes that never made it into full production. Finding them in the wild is nearly impossible as they're usually in the basement/attic of a previously fired and (at the time) disgruntled employee, who decided they would take the latest and …

Ok so I said last week that the Twitter music app was going to launch over the first Coachella weekend. My bad. In all fairness though, everyone else said that it was going to, so at least a lot of us were wrong. That said, the Twitter music app is …

Bioshock and Tomb Raider have sold well in the United Kingdom, and the same sales pattern has been mirrored in America. Interestingly the Xbox 360 is also the best selling console, which is now a record 27 months. The NPD numbers show that Bioshock Infinite has taken the top position …

Hawken is a free to play first person shooter, featuring giant mechanical walker bots, that players pilot and shoot at one another with. In the latest trailer from Nvidia, the developers show off what new effects have been added to the game with the inclusion of more advanced PhysX features. …

I know this is usually a spot for more serious news, but sometimes you have to stand up for something you believe in and say enough is enough. Capcom, stop releasing Monster Hunter games in non-Western markets. I know there's not so many fans over here, but my god would …

The oft promised tax breaks for British game developers have been delayed once again, this time because the European Commission has announced its intention to perform a full scale investigation into the scheme, suggesting that too hefty a tax cut, could give UK devs. too much an advantage over European …

If you're still playing SimCity despite all the problems with its always-on single and multi-player gameplay and you happen to live in North America, then you're in with a chance of getting a giant garden gnome for your city. You know, like every real city has? All you have to …

Maybe it's mean to rank the Ouya in terms of its hardware power, as for £99 it was never going to be a real workhorse, but when you're using an Android OS that doesn't have access to the Google Play store, you better have something else to sell the hardware, …

It looks as if Microsoft are finally listening to their customers and they will be bringing back the Start Menu in their Windows 8.1 release later this year. Additionally they plan on allowing the end user to boot directly to the desktop, rather than dealing with the tile based Metro …

According to Sony's worldwide studios vice president Michael Denny, the company learned plenty from its launch of the PS3 and its pricing, which would suggest that the PlayStation 4 will debut with a far more acceptable price point than that of its predecessor. When it was released in the UK, …

Yannis Mallat , the CEO of Ubisoft Montreal has thrown his two cents into the always-on argument flames that have raged across the internet in recent weeks thanks to comments by both ex-Microsoft creative director Adam Orth and Epic Games alumni, Cliff Blezinski, suggesting that a lot of people are …

The Chinese run G-1 esports League that was set to run qualifying games for its DotA tournament, found itself under a DDOS attack, that was supposedly used in order to manipulate results of the games to affect the outcome of a large bet placed on the games. According to PCGamesN, …

EA and Maxis have spoken up about the impending closure of three games featured on social network Facebook: Sims Social, Simcity Social and Pet Society. All of these games will no longer be available as of 14th June this year. But should this really surprise anyone? Free to play games …

Considering I've been running  a set of Razer Mako speakers for the past few years, it's obvious I'm a fan of odd shaped sound setups. With that in mind, my interest is certainly peaked by the Edifier Predator 2.1 speaker system which comes heavily inspired by an unnamed sci-fi universe …

I'm a big fan of retro gaming. Not only does it let you get a good dose of nostalgia, but it's a great reminder that a game doesn't need to be the latest and greatest AAA offering to be great – there are games made over 20 years ago that …

Microsoft suffered some problems with its Xbox Live platform over the weekend, with downtime that caused problems for people wanting to play online as well as access accounts with partner services and game saves. While most users are now back to issue free gaming, the outage highlights further problems with …

Twitter's not-so-secret music app is set to launch today according to some, following on from several unplanned leaks by random people give early access. The app works by suggesting tracks and artists to users based on several factors, including who they follow. The social blogging network has tried to keep …

The Office of Fair Trading is set to investigate what it describes as “aggressive” in-app purchases, especially in games aimed at children, following on from several instances where kids playing on parents' phones has resulted in bills that are thousands of pounds deep. “We are concerned that children and their …

It's an interesting question – and certainly something that can be classified, for now, as a ‘first world problem'. But, sooner or later, the question of ‘What happens to a person's data when they're dead' will come up for almost everyone on the planet. KitGuru plays the theme tune from …

Driven by BioShock Infinite and Cadbury's Creme Eggs, retail game sales in the UK hit an annual high of more than £20m over Easter – only to see spending drop like a brick in the week that followed. KitGuru casts an eye over the runners and riders in the race …