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 …

The war of the smartphone manufacturers is continuing unabated across the world and in the court room, with Nokia now managing to secure a block of microphone parts for HTC's One smartphone, with the judge ruling that Nokia invented the part and has an exclusive production deal for it. The …

Netflix is set to offer a new £8 a month service, which while offering the same content to users, allows them to simultaneously stream from the service in four separate locations. The idea is for families to be able to watch different media around the house or t0 accommodate roommates that have differing tastes. Wired also …

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 …

Remember Lawnmower Man? If like me you saw that and began eagerly counting the days to when you too could fly through virtual reality with a pre-James Bond Pierce Brosnin, then you and I were both sorely dissapointed, as here we are over 20 years later and nothing much has …

PC hardware enthusiasts have always been about bleeding edge performance. Overclocks, voltage mods, extreme cooling, it's all part of PC aficionado's arsenal. However, while we all know that keeping up with the latest and greatest can be expensive, it rarely gets as pricey as one ebay user's recent acquisition: an engineering …

The Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project just got the go ahead by the local Board of Land and Natural Resources to be built in Hawaii, meaning that in the near future, the little island will house the biggest telescope in the world, with new imaging technology allowing deeper looks into the cosmos than …

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 …

If like me you're sat here feeling rather jealous that you can't afford or don't have the connections to get yourself a set of Google's Glass eyewear, you're about to get even more so – as there's potential there for multiplayer gaming via the little device. Ron Amadeo over at …

With all this talk of next-generation consoles, it's time we took a pause and considered the next-generation of more out there hardware: like the next-gen of shark tracking robots that will help us understand how reclusive species like the Great White, actually live. If you've watched shows like Shark Week, …

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 …

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. …

Since Bitcoin has become more of an accepted form of monetary transaction across the internet connected world, the bubble burst that hit its value last week, was going to be felt far and wide. It's not surprising then that one of the places that helped pioneer the currency has been …

Following on from an upsurge in activity during the heady days of Bitcoin's plus $200 value at the start of last week, Bitfloor has suffered in the wake of the crash and now apparently its US bank account is set to be closed, forcing the exchange to shut down – …

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 …

Be Quiet has announced its joint partnership with Esports organisation Team-Dignitas, in a move that will see it provide hardware for the systems used by the team players, but also likely some monetary support too, in exchange for the team wearing the BeQuiet logo on their apparel (among others) and …

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 …

One of the co-founders of torrent search site The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm was indicted yesterday for hacking charges, which have nothing to do with his already applied one year prison sentence for running TPB. According to the charges (and Wired), Svartholm stands accused of hacking in the Nordea Bank …

Anyone that used ebay back in the day as a buyer, or has used it at any time during its life as a seller, will know that feedback is incredibly important. Not only does it give people an idea of the quality of service you provide, but maintaining that 100 …

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, …

In an effort to even out the cost differences between shipping to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Aria PC has switched to a flat rate fee for Ireland as a whole. However, it's asking Irish customers to show that it's worth cutting into its profits, or the change …

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, …

Federal lawyers have defended the police's and GCSB's illegal raid on Dotcom's home, suggesting that despite the fact that warrants were invalid, Dotcom is owed nothing by the police and that unauthorised copies of Dotcom's electronics were covered under the Search and Surveillance Act. Off the bat this is obviously erroneous, …

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 internet is all about getting people involved: flash mobs, DDOS attacks, and now crowd sourced music videos. Coming from the band Light Light, their song Kilo, features the mouse pointers of everyone that watches the video, which now numbers in the thousands. Those watching must take part and follow …

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, …