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Setting up your own multiplayer server on Minecraft is the holy grail of grief avoidance whilst still being able to play with your pals, but it's never been the easiest of things. I'm sure there's Kitguru readers that would scoff at this, but not everyone is as technically proficient as …

The first trailer for the first game to come out of Czech developer Warhorse studios has been released and it's very, very pretty. Known as Kingdom Come Deliverance, it's said to be an open world RPG, action-adventure, with first person combat, stunning visuals and a non-linear story. Sounds like a …

Turkish developer Taleworlds has been hard at work on the true sequel to its seminal Mount and Blade (and Warband) for a while now and details have been very, very thin on the ground. Until recently all we knew is that it existed, was called Bannerlord and that it was …

It's been a big 24 hours for open world, multiplayer titles. First Just Cause 2 MP landed late yesterday and now the standalone version of DayZ has finally appeared on Steam too. It's still an early access alpha, so don't expect a completely polished experience, but it's certainly got a …

Frictional Games, the developer behind the terrifying first person Amnesia and Penumbra series, has released a new in-game trailer for its next project, SOMA, which shows us its deeply creepy atmosphere, as well as a detailed break down of what the team is focusing on during development. nora ephron essays …

Riot Games has announced the release of its new API in beta form, meaning anyone with a bit of coding knowledge can now make much more interesting apps and tools to help users play the game. In the past this has been limited to simple functions like manual reset timers …

We're all a bit jaded on Alien games at the moment, I understand that. Aliens: Colonial Marines was such a colossal disappointment, it's either stupidity or bravery that has Creative Assembly taking that horse away from Gearbox and clambering back on it this soon after release. Which is perhaps why …

At the VGX awards ceremony over the weekend, footage was shown from an upcoming game being developed by a small team over at Hello Games and it completely stole the show. It's a procedurally generated, open sandbox title that features hundreds of planets, suns and solar systems, giving the player …

Despite the fact that it only announced an expansion of the Canadian based Victoria development studio last year, Microsoft has announced that it'll be shuttering it. While a large expansion was announced and planned in 2012, ultimately growth wasn't quite as high as expected, though this will still leave around …

FTL was a great, great game. Honestly, I put 50+ hours into that little indie roguelike. I even wrote thousands and thousands of words of extra content for a mod called Infinite Space. But that doesn't matter because I don't play that any more. What I do want to play …

Anyone with more than a fraction of a bitcoin sitting in a wallet at the moment, is no doubt starting their day by popping up MtGox or a similar site and checking the current value. It's understandable, that currency's individual cost is flying up day after day. But if you're …

A new game has popped up asking for funding on Kickstarter shadow dweller, IndieGogo, which purports to be able to help fix eye related disorders like strabismus (crossed eye) and amblyopia (lazy eye), by using the Oculus Rift and a game designed specifically with this treatment in mind. As the …

Skyrim's main game was impressive when it was released, sure, but it will perhaps be better remembered for its sheer number of mods, conversions, tweaks and content packs. Now it's that latter category of work that has landed Alexander J. Velicky a job at Bungie, a year after he released the …

Only on something like the Oculus Rift, could you pitch the idea of playing as a tree, a lizard and a person with other players in a single world and you aren't allowed to kill any of them. No in Wander, you do just that, you walk, swim and fly …

Its early morning rumour time everybody, but this one's worth paying attention to, since the potential for an awesome game is there. Telltale Games, the developer behind the emotional point and click title, Walking Dead and the recently released Wolf Among Us, might have teamed up with George R.R. Martin …

While Call of Duty Ghosts has sold incredibly well, its launch has been anything pain free. There was the whole resolution-gate scandal on the next-gen systems, struggling to break contemporary resolutions at a decent frame rate and then there was the fact that reviewers felt the developers had just gone …

Mods are one of the best selling points of PC gaming. Not only can they add elements to gameplay that weren't there before, but they can improve the graphics and fix problems that the original developers never saw coming; or in the case of Black Mesa, it can completely remake …

A new teaser website has appeared, titled Survivor 2299, with a countdown date and a morse code background message, that some people believe could be hinting at a possible future release of Fallout 4, set 19 years after the last game in the series: New Vegas. The main reason for …

If you've logged into League of Legends recently, you might have wondered why you ranked stats haven't been reset yet. The reason for this, is that it's not happening until the beginning of season 4 sometime in the next couple of months. While this might sound counter-intuitive, since season 3 …

Don't you just hate it when you have a bunch of tabs open and one of those tabs starts making noise? Well that can still happen, but actually finding the culprit is going to get a lot easier as Google has shown off in its new beta version of Chrome. Google's …

Mass Effect was hugely popular and probably one of the best RPG franchises to come out of this generation, so it's no surprise that the universe will carry over to the next generation too. Maybe you didn't like Mass Effect 3's ending specifically or maybe Shepard's story wasn't wrapped up …

SlightlyMad Studios, the developer behind the upcoming, stunning looking, racing title Project Cars, has announced that while it will be bringing the game to Xbox One, WiiU and PlayStation 4, it will not be making a version for current gen consoles. Steam OS is also getting a look in, alongside the …

If you tried to login to GTA V's online mode near its launch on 1st October, than chances are you ran into one of the myriad of connection problems, as you and millions of other players tried to get on at once. While that's all patched up now, Rockstar is …

Square Enix has just announced Project FLARE, a new way of delivering game content to users through the cloud by using super computers to create game worlds. Streaming services like Onlive work by having console data centres miles away that process your input and send the video feed back to …

Riot Games has been talking a lot about the changes it's making to League of Legends' pre-season, but it isn't finished yet. Next up on the chopping block, are small LP gains in ranked matches and tier-dropping immunity. Explaining it in a recent Reddit post, “Riotsocrates,” (all we are, is …

Rambo these days, isn't quite the hot property it was a few years ago and it certainly isn't as relevant as it was back in the 80s – 30 years ago for those not feeling ready for maths yet this morning. Still, there's some blood left in that stone and …

Last month AMD lifted the curtain on the new Mantle API it developed, promising lower level hardware access similar to how developers create games for console hardware. The announcement got many people wondering just how much of a performance gain they could get from it and at the same time …

It's been a long time since we heard anything about Epic Game's scavenging, base building, defence title Fortnite, but now that's it's surfaced again to grab a breath of foetid air, the news isn't particularly exciting. We now know there's another developer working on it and that that developer has …

Outerra is an in-development game engine that just keeps getting more impressive. It already scales wonderfully from space like distances, all the way down to close up fields of grass, without a hint of stutter (and not much pop in) despite the huge draw distances involved. In a new trailer …

Despite their mammoth budgets, contemporary games often ship with a host of unexpected bugs, you just have to hope they don't affect you on day one. A good measure of the developer that released the title is how they deal with these problems and DICE seems to be taking Battlefield …