What do you know guys, just under two months since that whole kerfuffle with Ubisoft not including playable female characters in the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Unity, and here we have a new trailer showing an important female character: the templar, Elise. She's not playable, but she does have her own figurine. …

Longtime Chairman and CEO at Warhammer maker Games Workshop, Tom Kirby, has announced in a recent chairman address, that he's stepping down from his roles, though he does plan to stay on in a non-executive chairman role if possible. The reasoning for the move isn't quite clear, though perhaps the …

AMD is continuing its inroads into the gaming software scene, by updating its Raptr Gaming Evolve client with better streaming and recording functions. With the growth of companies like Twitch and Ustream, AMD wants to provide added functionality to these services through hardware acceleration. In the release, it talks up the …

The next old-action-star pay-cheque-generator, Expendables 3, isn't set for release until 15th August in America, with the première here in the UK on the 4th. However many people have seen it already, as the film was leaked in its entirety at DVD quality on torrent sites just a few days ago. …

The Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union have come out with a report to condemn the actions of the US government and spy agencies like the NSA, which have been mass collecting data on American and international citizens. The 120-page document is titled, “With Liberty to Monitor All: …

Sports channel network, ESPN, has said it's looking into broadcasting more eSports tournaments in the future, after the viewer numbers for its coverage of the DotA 2 International 2014 were impressively strong, exceeding all expectations. Unfortunately we don't have hard numbers, but it's thought likely that ESPN will be pushing …

Looks like the Nerd got his movie finished just in time, as the documentary for Atari's downfall that also touches on what happened with that infamous ET landfill site is set for release soon. To whet our appetite, Microsoft has released a trailer for the film, which will ultimately be …

The makers of Reviveaphone, the £15 solution for bringing a water damaged phone back to life, have today announced that they're soon to launch a new full phone repair service and a mobile repair van that can be called out, if you don't want to wait for the postage option. …

Tax avoidance is a difficult topic, not least because anyone that's ever filed a tax return through an accountant is likely engaged in it one way or another. However while many morally deplorable newspapers like to point the finger at rich individuals who have dodged tax on their several millions, …

Musician and director Rob Zombie isn't necessarily the man you'd associate with explaining the real history behind something as nuanced as the French Revolution, but that's what's happened. He's teamed up with comic book artist Tony Moore (of Walking Dead fame) to give the world an animated, comic and violent …

Amazon is just one of those web entities that you assume is big enough to support itself almost indefinitely. It has the world's most recognisable web retail outlet and has its fingers in so many pies, something must be going well, right? Not so, as this last quarter it posted …

Despite being a decade plus old technology, torrents are still one of the most popular ways to share pirated copies of movies and TV shows, but in recent years, thanks to influences from popular streaming services like Netflix, torrents have too entered the streaming game. That's often something handled by …

The Russian interior ministry has offered a bounty of just under four million roubles (£66,000) for information that allows the government to track users of the Tor browser anonymising network. It's believed that the authorities were keen to not only find out who's using the technology and what hardware they're …

League of Legends is the world's most popular game at the moment (if you disregard mobile and social titles) so it's understandable that it gets its fair share of what developer Riot Games calls, “toxic players.” To help combat these Riot has several initiatives set up, including the player moderated …

Middle Earth – Shadow of Mordor, or Assassin's Creed plus goblins, has a new trailer, this time showing us a little more of the game's story and setting. So far we know that as Talion, we're set to avenge the death of ourselves and our loved ones, but now we …

Despite assurances that the second development kit for the Oculus Rift, dubbed DK2, would be arriving around the middle of July to the earliest of buyers, delays caused a bit of a push back – until today. We've just gotten word that the Oculus Rift DK2 is now shipping and …

Surveillance, snooping, the mass collection of data and the oppressive oversight of governments around the world has been a big topic over the past year. Kim Dotcom is someone that knows about it all too well, considering he himself was spied upon illegally before being arrested with an invalid warrant …

The most oft-cited reason for movie and music lobby groups to go after torrent sites, is that they take money away from artists, by “stealing,” content. However what those same lobby groups don't talk about, is how copyright law can do the same thing and that in those situations, piracy …

Wii U exclusive Hyrule Warriors is a curious mashup that I don't think anyone saw coming, but for fans of the ‘Warriors' series of games, be it Samurai, Gundam or Dynasty, it certainly mixes up the traditional in some interesting ways. Yes the endless mobs of unthreatening enemies are back. …

Epic Games announced earlier this year that it was beginning work on a brand new Unreal Tournament game, bringing the old school, fast paced shooter into the 21st century while maintaining its most iconic features. We got a quick look at how guns will fire and players will move at …

While most of the world has to turn on a TV or pull up a news site to have a close up view of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, astronaut aboard the ISS, Alexander Gerst, can simply look out his window. Just a few hours ago, he tweeted his “saddest …

Google isn't a stranger to giving away money to those that impress it with their ingenuity, so it's not that surprising that it's looking to dole out a million dollars to someone once again. This time though it's not trying to send robots to the moon, but is looking to …

Three years ago, when the world was new and the PlayStation was three rather than four, the PSN went down for a whole month. Since then Sony has been fighting a class action lawsuit in the United States, battling claims that it give compensation for the downtime. It's now made an official …

The Open Rights Group has launched a new campaign of mockery aimed squarely at David Cameron's porn filters, with a video promoting its “Department of Dirty.” In the fictional – but not far off – world portrayed, accessing anything remotely sounding like adult material is much harder and much more …

Cliff Blezinski is back ladies and gentlemen. After a near two year imposed retirement, he's returned with Boss Key Productions, his own developmental studio and to staff its offices and corridors, he's nabbed some of the world's top AAA developers from a variety of other studios, to work on his …

It seems like I'm not the only one that doesn't want David Cameron censoring the web with his China sponsored pornography filters, as when it comes to new users opting out of them, almost everyone is doing so. In fact, the numbers of people agreeing to the filters are in …

When it looked like MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom's legal team might actually win his extradition trial, the MPAA and RIAA announced new law suits to try and cripple his funding. Those suits are still ongoing today, but now Dotcom's representatives want them delayed, since once again, the extradition trial has …

It's a strange day when a trend like “selfies,” can lead to hundreds of millions worth of investment. It looks like Sony just threw 35 billion yen (£202 million) at its imaging sensor factory in order to increase its production by around 13 per cent, all in a push to …

The Kickstarter for West Games' Areal is a project that's seemed a bit fishy from the start. It featured grandiose claims of a true STALKER sequel, despite a miniscule budget/threshold, faked assets and Unity stock models in demos, strangely frequent comments that drown out complainers and even the claim that …

League of Legends had a CGI trailer when it launched back in the day and Riot has played with a couple of others since then, but CGI cut scenes have never featured heavily in the MOBA game. However, put that history aside today, as Riot has just unveiled a new, six …