Put on your tin foil hats guys, it's time for a good old conspiracy theory. Answer this question though: why isn't GTA V on the PC yet? According to one guy at Intel, it's because some serious money changed hands to make sure it remained a console exclusive; for now …
Read More »New Portal fan-film lands
A new fan film called “Portal: Survive” and based in the Portal universe has been released, showing Chell as she attempts to escape incineration, as well as jumping back in time to the day that GLADOS became the deadly psychopath we all know and love her as. “The engineers tried …
Read More »John Carmack endorses AMD Mantle API
John Carmack, co-founder of id Software and creator of some of gamings most revolutionary titles, has given a lot more credence to AMD's Mantle API and DirectX workaround, by suggesting that big performance gains should be viable. It's on his Twitter, but that's about as official as you get now outside …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V breaks a few world records
Well Grand Theft Auto V broke a few world records, are you surprised? The game has been recognized as breaking seven Guinness World Records now making the achievements official. The confirmation came yesterday as Guiness World Records Editor in Chief, Craig Glenda, praised the game with the following statement: “GTA totally deserves …
Read More »MPAA denies study that suggests piracy not as bad as it thinks
The MPAA has released what it describes as a ‘debunking' of the recent London School of Economics study that suggested piracy wasn't having anywhere near the negative impact that media lobbyists have been saying for years. The LSE's response? This is all par for the course. The study was “debunked” …
Read More »Nexus 5 price leaks
In recent weeks we've seen a lot of Google Nexus 5 rumours circulating and a bunch of supposed leaks, from the manual coming out to the phone itself being shown off in a bar. We have rough ideas on what it'll look like, the specs we'll be getting and the …
Read More »NSA’s PRISM surveillance may extend to New Zealand too
While companies like Lavabit have fearless leaders that are willing to shutdown their long term businesses to protect their customers, governments seem less and less willing to do the right thing for their people. According to a few New Zealand journalists, the Dotcom spying case involved not only the country's …
Read More »Square Enix partnering with Indigogo
Square Enix has announced the launch of its own Steam Greenlight type system called ‘Collective'. As part of it, the publishing giant will be giving Indie developers the chance to pitch ideas and garner enough interest to be put up for crowd funding. The real exciting part however, Square Enix …
Read More »Which of you keeps asking for half naked women in games?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm not too bothered who the protagonist is in a game, as long as it's written well. I'm as happy playing a character like James Earl Cash in Manhunt, as I am Chell in Portal. It doesn't matter to me as long as the …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed IV has PlayStation exclusive missions
Despite one of its high ranking officials stating just yesterday that console exclusives don't benefit anyone, Sony fans are set to get an hour of extra gameplay in the upcoming Assassin's Creed IV, with an exclusive campaign based around Assassin's Creed Liberation's Aveline de Grandpre. This new miniature campaign was announced …
Read More »BBC Playlister announced
The BBC is launching its new ‘Playlister' service today, which partners with Youtube, Spotify and Deezer allowing you to save songs you hear on the radio to a playlist to listen back to later on one of the partnering services. Last year we suspected the BBC was going to enter …
Read More »Minecraft toys coming to a store near you
Minecraft is this generation's Mario. It's the game that's going to define a genre and generation of gamers for years to come and for many, will be the first game they really invested themselves in. Not us, we're too old, but those kids, this will be the one they remember. …
Read More »Whatsapp website briefly defaced by protestors
A group of protesters demanding peace for Palestine took it upon themselves to paint their message across the Whatsapp website this morning. Taking responsibility, is KDMS, a team of pro-Palestinians claiming to be a part of the Anonymous group. The Whatsapp page title was changed to ‘You got pwned', the reasoning …
Read More »Club3D debuts Radeon R9 280 x and R9 270X PokerSeries
AMD's Radeon 7 series cards have been kicking around for a while at this point, so it's about time we got a look at what's coming next. Fortunately, Club3D is here to save the day, with its custom back plates (which we saw at i49 earlier this year) on the …
Read More »Next-gen is all about being given XP for not playing
You know what developers realised a few years back? “Ooh, level up mechanics exploit that part of the brain that gives us a chemical reward for achieving a goal, let's use that to pad gameplay!” You know what the problem is now? People are getting impatient for their fix. They …
Read More »Call of Duty Ghosts hates 32bit too
Ubisoft made the big announcement a few days ago that it would not be supporting 32bit operating systems with its upcoming titles: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, as each requires upwards of 4GB of RAM to run properly. Well now it's not the only one to leave …
Read More »Leaked Service manual gives an insight into Key specifications of Nexus 5
The Nexus series of smartphones and tablets has been prone to leaks prior to its official release and this time is no exception, as we have full details of the Google Phone days before its launch. A service manual for the Nexus 5 has leaked online and reveals most of the …
Read More »Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition announced
Injustice: Gods Among Us is getting a game of the year edition of sorts, with the ‘Ultimate Edition' including all previous DLC and will release to a few new platforms, including: the PS4, Vita and PC. Warner Bros just announced the new release coming out on the 29th of November, …
Read More »Half-Life 3 trademark is gone but at least we have Steam Machine specs
Last week the Internet was flooded with pictures and articles on the Half-Life 3 trademark filing, we even reported on it. However the trademark filing seems to have disappeared along with our hopes of seeing the long awaited sequel any time soon. The filing had not been examined by the …
Read More »Amazon is making a set top box too
If you thought Valve would be the last company to crowd into the already cramped set-top-box industry, think again, as online retail giant Amazon is also looking to get into the game, with plans for its own media device pushing for a release sometime before Christmas. Currently it's codenamed Cinammon, …
Read More »PlayStation executive says exclusives don’t help anyone
It certainly seems like Sony is taking its pro-developer stance seriously, as one of the PlayStation division's executives has come out and said quite brazenly, that he doesn't believe console exclusives are good for anything but bragging rights and what really helps developers, is cross platform sales. Remember when another …
Read More »The robot uprising is now wireless
The creation of super batteries, wearable armour plating and augmented strength suits are a double edged sword. While on one hand, it could potentially turn us all into Iron Man, it's also giving rise to the creation of fast, powerful and now wireless robots that will surely one day overthrow …
Read More »Xbox One day one update will take about 20 minutes
Microsoft dug itself into quite a hole earlier this year with its Xbox One reveal. It wasn't so much that every idea was bad, family sharing would have been pretty cool, but other than that all of the restrictions and privacy concerns with Kinect just didn't seem worth it. After …
Read More »Valve files another trademark, guess what for
Valve has been smashing out headlines this past couple of weeks, whether you're talking about the SteamBox, SteamOS, the new touchpad/joypad controller or the Half Life 3 trademark. You can't look left or right without bumping into a new Valve story and today we have another: Valve just trademarked Portal …
Read More »Kid gets Xbox One because of ‘reasons,’ posts videos
Would you be excited if you managed to get hold of an Xbox One today, over a month before the official release date? I would be and I'm not even planning to buy one. With that in mind, you can understand why the kid in this video is pretty excited …
Read More »GTA V has already sold more than GTA IV
In the wake of the GTA V release, if you still think there was a big splash surrounding the release of its predecessor GTA IV, back in 2008 (it was the reason I bought my 360), forget it, that game's got nothing on its younger brother. GTA V ladies and …
Read More »New League of Legends champions crowned
If you haven't been keeping up with the latest season of League of Legends championship series, you may have missed that over the weekend, a new team was crowned champions, netting not only the glory of being the best team in the world for (potentially) a brief moment, but a …
Read More »Computer 2000 disappears – is no more
For many years, one of the most famous brands in the distribution channel was Computer 2000. With huge sales, massive organisation and just about the most extensive customer base in town, it stood astride the UK IT market like a giant. But it is no more. KitGuru pulls out the …
Read More »Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X Motherboard Review
Today we are going to look at one of the first Socket FM2+ motherboards designed for gaming, the Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X. This has similar characteristics as the other products in Gigabyte's gaming range, including the trademark green and black colour scheme. As its name suggests, the Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X features the …
Read More »Lo and behold, Simcity might get an offline mode after all
The latest SimCity game did not have a good launch. Or a good launch aftermath, or a good review from the original creator of the series, who described the lack of offline play as “inexcusable.” But this was all for our good, according to developer Maxis and publisher EA Games. …
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