Today sees the worldwide release of Alien: Isolation, potentially the best Alien (not Alien vs Predator mind you) game ever released. It's reviewed well, with most highlighting the xenomorph's lifelike hunting as being a real scare generator, even if some of the game does feel a bit padded. Still, for …
Read More »Revenge porn charges could lead to 14 year jail sentences
New guidelines from the government's Crown Prosecution Service in the UK, could see sentencing for revenge pornography, the practice of posting nude images of someone online with malicious intent, extended so that the person responsible is sent to jail for as much at 14 years – though this would be for …
Read More »Dotcom explains his departure from Baboom, Internet Party
Kim Dotcom has been a personality we've covered here a lot in the past couple of years, mostly because he's been working on some exciting new platform. Over that time he's launched the phoenix like file-locker site, Megaupload, a music sharing site and his own political party, but since then he's …
Read More »Man at Arms forges real life Squall’s Gunblade
As ridiculous as the idea of a sword that can do a little more damage at point blank range by having a revolver in its handle is, it was still the most badass thing that I'd ever seen when I first played through Final Fantasy VIII in the late 90s. Combine …
Read More »Bitcoin starts to recover after new bottom reached
Bitcoin has had quite a star studded history of headlines and peaks, though over the past year has found some stability after hitting a new high of over $1,200 per coin back in December last year. Unfortunately for those that invested in large quantities however, its value has tumbled in …
Read More »Microsoft wants Samsung to pay $6.9 million in unpaid interest
Unsealed court documents have revealed that Korean device maker, Samsung, owes Microsoft $6.9 million in unpaid interest. The debt somehow relates to Android licensing and the associated royalties, Microsoft has been quick to comment on the recently revealed documents, stating that the debt is real. David Howard, Microsoft Deputy General …
Read More »Gearbox Headquarters receives hoax bomb threat
Gearbox, the developer behind the Borderlands series and Aliens: Colonial Marines, received a bomb threat at its headquarters last Friday. Oddly enough, the threat was called in at around 7:30 PM, after most of the employees had already gone home but once the bomb squad arrived, it was revealed that …
Read More »Battlefield Hardline will launch with 9 maps and 7 modes
EA and Visceral Games have confirmed that Battlefield Hardline will come with nine new maps and seven game modes at launch early next year. However, five of those game modes will be brand new to the Battlefield franchise, although this will come at the expense of some other notable game …
Read More »Sony developing social games for Project Morpheus
Sony has been working on its virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, for a while now but as we inch closer to consumer grade VR one thing is becoming more increasingly important to the likes of Oculus and Sony, headset users are going to need some social experiences. Virtual Reality may seem …
Read More »Facebook has managed to sue spammers for around $2 billion
Facebook is apparently in a constant legal battle against spammers abusing its network and so far, the company has managed to obtain around $2 billion by suing companies selling ‘fake likes' to page owners. According to a Facebook blog post, the social network has tools in place to render fake …
Read More »HP to fracture into two businesses
Long standing PC giant, Hewlett Packard, is going to split its business into two distinct ventures, according to reports. As it struggles to remain relevant in a decreasingly hardware focused technological world, HP will spin off its PC and printer business and separate it from its corporate hardware and services …
Read More »PewDiePie could leave Maker Studios, start own Youtube network
PewDiePie, perhaps the world's most well known and certainly the most well subscribed Youtuber and Let's Player, is currently signed to the Disney owned, Maker Studios, in a deal that's likely worth a lot of money to the Swedish born gamer. However his contract with the promotional company is up …
Read More »Steam’s Halloween Sale coming 30th October
Steam Sales tend to bring mixed emotions to the gaming community. Some, get excited by the prospect of cheap games, others clutch their wallets in fear of what they might not be able to stop themselves from doing and others still, see them as something that's undermining the industry. Whatever …
Read More »Microsoft’s RoomAlive is augmented gaming with Kinect projectors
Remember Microsoft's Ilumiroom project? It was a technology that used a projector to make your gaming room the entire screen, rather than just the main display you were using. It was an interesting concept, albeit a little unnecessary seeming, considering whatever was being projected was hard to make out and …
Read More »Bill Gates: Microsoft Office should get dramatically better
Microsoft Corp.’s Office productivity suite is, without any doubts, the most popular set of applications ever developed. Nonetheless, at present the suite lacks something here and there, which is why it cannot be called ideal. Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, claims that he actually wants to make Office dramatically …
Read More »Apple plans to slash price of Beats Music subscription
Streaming music is cheaper than buying all the tracks that you would like to hear. Modern streaming services charge from $7 to $10 per month, which may not be a lot for music fans, but which keeps a lot of people away from them. Apple wants to change that and …
Read More »AMD’s lowest-cost eight-core FX processor costs just $125/£79/€99
About a month ago Advanced Micro Devices unveiled several new FX-series eight-core microprocessors that featured either increased performance, or lower power consumption compared to previously released chips. Apparently, since then the company has also quietly rolled-out a new affordable eight-core chip that costs $125 now in the U.S. The AMD …
Read More »Apple Watch to launch on Valentine’s Day, production looms
Apple reportedly plans to start sales of its “most personal” device ever – Apple Watch – on the Valentine’s Day next year. Quanta, a contract maker of various electronics, is already gearing up to start mass production of Apple Watch in January. Quanta, which will exclusively manufacture Apple Watch, has …
Read More »Microsoft Windows 10 will ship with DirectX 12 API
Microsoft Corp. has announced that its next-generation Windows 10 operating system will ship with DirectX 12 application programming interface (API). Keeping in mind that the OS is designed for all types of devices and DX12 is a corner stone for Microsoft’s ecosystem-related strategy, the news is hardly surprising. This week Microsoft …
Read More »CoD director wants US to ‘brainwash’ public to like police state
If you could pick one game franchise for politicians to take notes from in order to potentially affect policy changes, what would you pick? Maybe Gone Home for its positive message of accepting different sexualities, or the Walking Dead for the way it lets you empathise with people from all …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes may come to PC in December
A little while back it was announced that both Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes would be coming to the PC on Valve's Steam platform. While MGS V won't be coming out for a while, Ground Zeroes may be coming to the PC …
Read More »You can currently pick up an AOC 4K monitor for £399
If you're in the market for a monitor upgrade then look no further as you can currently pick up the AOC U2868PQU 28″ 4K display for £399, which is actually cheaper than most other offerings currently available. This monitor packs in a 1ms response time and 60Hz refresh rate, making …
Read More »Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity delayed until 2015
Obisidian's upcoming crowd funded PC RPG, Pillars of Eternity, has been delayed for a few months so that the developer can incorporate beta feedback. The title was originally supposed to release by the end of this year, the new release window is ‘early 2015'. Posting on the Pillars of Eternity …
Read More »Twitch tightens policy on paid or sponsored content deals
Twitch is set to tighten its policies when it comes to paid and sponsored content deals in response to concerns over transparency and disclosure. The streaming platform will start labeling videos that are created as part of a partnership between the content maker and a third party. However, this level …
Read More »Intel cuts advertising with gaming site over #GamerGate complaints
Intel has pulled its advertising from gaming news site, Gamasutra, after the chip maker received complaints about an opinion piece claiming that ‘gamers are over', this article was part of a co-ordinated attack on the gamer identity as over ten big gaming sites posted similar articles all preaching the same …
Read More »Reddit to fire any employees that don’t move to San Fran
Following on from its announcement of a successful $50 million round of funding and a pledge that 10 per cent of that money would go to rewarding the site's community for making it what it is, the “front page of the internet,” Reddit, has told all remote workers that if …
Read More »Female celebrities sue Google over leaked images
It seems like the celebrity nude picture scandal has yet to die down, not least because the leakers are continuing to dump their trove of images every few days, but because a number of the women that took or featured in the photos have now begun legal action against Google …
Read More »UK finally makes it ok to rip your CDs, DVDs
If there's any clearer indicator that the copyright law is falling far behind the pace of modern technological advancements, it's the fact that the UK has only just made the practice of ripping personally owned digital content from physical media like CDs, DVDs and others, legal. Until now, while the law …
Read More »Dying Light trailer shows what it’s like to be dead
Dying Light is really hoping that you haven't had enough of shooting at zombies just yet, but in case you have, then perhaps you'll enjoy playing as one. In the latest trailer for the game, developer Techland shows off the new “Be the Zombie,” mode, that has you taking on …
Read More »ARM and TSMC expect first 10nm tape-outs in late 2015
ARM Holdings and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday outlined some details regarding transition of chip production to 10nm FinFET manufacturing technology. The company’s reaffirmed that risk production of chips made using 10nm FF fabrication process will start in late 2015. The two companies agreed to work together on 10nm FinFET …
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