Software & Gaming

The US has been leading the way with regards to data backup and remote computing for some time now, but in the wake of recent allegations and revelations over the PRISM controversy, Switzerland has seen a big upsurge in people taking out cloud backup services with companies from its nationality. …

It was big news yesterday: Don Mattrick, the guy that had been just a few weeks before touting the virtues of Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One console, was now headed to Zynga to try and save the dilapidated Facebook game maker. The question remained however, who would replace him? Now we …

Double Fine's Broken Age Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful to date, generating nearly ten times its budget (of $400,000) with a total of around $3.3 million. Despite that, Tim Schafer, head of the company, has reached out to the community to explain that the game's development has …

One of my favourite games in the last couple of years was the awesome ‘Journey' on the Playstation 3. The game received acclaim from critics in all parts of the globe and scooped up some of the top awards too. Developer Thatgamecompany seem to be keen to release titles on …

While World of Warcraft could easily be considered the most successful subscription based MMO ever made, not everyone thinks that's a positive thing. One ex-Blizzard developer believes that making the game so accessible, killed the idea of a traditional MMO. Mark Kern is the man behind this statement and he …

There's always been a lot of speculation about what happened at Rare during its Microsoft buyout. There've been rumours that the atmosphere of the once great British developer changed, that the people there weren't keen on the new direction – but it's all been rumours. Now one ex-staff member has …

That title might sound like an odd part to highlight of the ten minute video of Star Citizen's live stream below, but it's my favourite detail of the whole thing. Why? Because it means when you're under attack, you'll need to physically get out of your co-pilot seat and move …

If you're a fan of the Walking Dead point and click, conversational adventure title from Telltale Games, tonight you might want to tune in to Twitch TV to see the voice actors behind Lee and Clementine playing through the final episode of the game. *POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD* Considering from my …

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 …