Software & Gaming

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is regarded by fans as one of the best Star Wars games of all time and we've been hoping for a return to the series for quite some time. Last year, Aspyr Media confirmed it is working on a remake, and now, it …

The team at noblechairs has been working with Bethesda for years, producing several special edition gaming chairs based on games like Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls Online. Today, as part of Bethesda's continued 10-year anniversary celebrations for Skyrim, noblechairs is launching a 10th Anniversary Edition Skyrim chair.  Like previous …

When Borderlands 3 was first announced and released, many of us were surprised to find the game being part of the Epic Games Store program, receiving funding in exchange for timed exclusivity on the EGS Store. Now, Gearbox and Epic have teamed up once again, this time to give Borderlands 3 away for free...

With the launch of the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles, developers across the industry have been pushing for 60FPS gameplay to be the new standard for this generation. Ubisoft in particular has been looking to boost the frame rates of its previous titles. We've already seen Assassin's Creed Odyssey …

While initially CD Projekt Red had planned to release next-gen updates for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 in 2021, both were later pushed to 2022. The enhanced version of The Witcher 3 was being developed by Saber Interactive, but CD Projekt Red has since taken over development, which unfortunately …

Last year for the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda released the game once again, replacing the ‘Special Edition' on Xbox, PlayStation and PC with a new ‘Anniversary Edition' with some new tweaks and additional content. The Anniversary Edition was never announced for Switch, despite the Special …

Over the last five years, accessibility has been a huge area of focus for both Microsoft and Sony. We've seen first party studios from both platform holders releasing new titles with extensive lists of accessibility features, and the PS5's upcoming exclusive, God of War: Ragnarök, will continue this trend.  In …

Roller Champions is a competitive roller skating game with three simple rules: catch the ball, do a lap while keeping it in your team’s possession, and score. Announced all the way back in E3 2019, the game was originally intended to release in 2021. Though that never came to be, …

Shortly after the release of The Last of Us Part II, rumours about a PS5 remake of the first game began popping up. It has been a while since we last had an update on this, but according to reports this week, the remake will be coming ‘this holiday'.  According …

A couple of weeks ago, Fortnite came to Xbox Game Pass, complete with touch controls for the cloud streaming version of the game, enabling full mobile play on unsupported devices, like the iPhone. Now, GeForce Now is also adding a touch control interface for Fortnite, so you can play the …

Babylon’s Fall launched earlier this year to middling reviews at best, with the game – intended as a live service title – seeing next to no players. Despite this, the team at PlatinumGames are determined to steer the ship around, and have now detailed the latest set of improvements coming …

Nacon is currently hosting its own gaming event, with multiple new game reveals spread out over the next few days. On day one, we had two particularly big announcements, for starters, GreedFall will be getting a sequel, and Nacon will also be releasing WRC Generations this year.  WRC Generations will …

Crossovers are all the rage at the moment. It seems as though any and all live service games are champing at the bit to align themselves with equally or more popular franchises through the use of crossovers. One game which typically uses crossovers well is Dead By Daylight. Their latest …

The video games industry is more open and accessible than it ever has been, with games which would previously be console exclusives being brought over to other systems. What’s more, nearly all new multiplayer games now offer crossplay, meaning you can play with whoever you want regardless of your platform of choice. Sony has begun to adopt this mindset, with the company claiming to be taking a “major step forward in becoming more multiplatform.”

Despite the continuous growth of the video games industry, very few games (relatively speaking) are able to say they have sold more than a million copies. Even fewer have sold 10 million, but the latest mainline Final Fantasy game – FFXV — has managed just that. Making the announcement on …

Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service offers a robust and ever-evolving library of games for a relatively small monthly fee. The next set of titles coming to the service has now been announced, and it includes a number of exciting day-one releases. Making the announcement on the Xbox Blog, Megan Spurr, …

Hot off the heels of the successful open-world zombie game Dying Light 2, the team at development studio Techland has now announced their next game, revealing that it will be an open world fantasy action RPG. Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Techland page revealed that the studio is …

Microsoft Flight Simulator released in 2020 to a positive reception with many praising the game’s rendering of the entire Earth – even if there were a few mistakes. Asobo Studio has since been updating its world country-by-country with accurate and bespoke mapping – the 9th World Update of which is …

For decades, we have had a love-hate relationship with 3D. From its earliest iterations using blue and red lenses to the 3D TV boom of the late 2000s. Unfortunately, 3D’s cool factor was always outweighed by the inconvenience of needing to wear glasses, among other technological limitations. A decade on from the Nintendo 3DS, Acer is bringing the 3rd dimension back into gaming...

Contrary to the claim from Dolmen's developers, Intel XeSS won't be available in the game at launch, meaning XeSS won't release on May 20th after all. Instead, the new upscaling tech will debut this summer, with no specific date announced yet. It wasn't long ago that Dolmen's studio stated that …

Norwegian developer Eztheory AS has created a free benchmarking tool based on Unreal Engine 5, featuring 8K textures, raytracing and high-quality assets, capable of stressing even the most powerful gaming systems. The new benchmark tool is already available to download. According to the developer, EzBench is a stress test representing …

The release of GTA V’s Online mode was met with an overwhelming amount of success, seeing the team at Rockstar games respond in tow with multiple significant updates for the 2013 open world game. Red Dead Redemption 2 has unfortunately been met with much less post-launch support, but according to …

Recently we reported that a new rumour has surfaced claiming that horror studio Bloober Team have been tasked with remaking the classic survival horror game Silent Hill 2. This seems to be but one cog in a much larger plan by Konami for a franchise revival, with multiple new Silent …

Late last year saw the release of GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, a re-release and remaster of the franchise's first 3D outings. Alongside the confirmation of this remaster was the announcement of a mobile release of this latest ‘Definitive Edition’. Originally intended to launch in the first half …

Being a free-to-play game, Fortnite makes almost all of its money from selling in-game cosmetic items and battle passes – both of which require the use of an in-game currency called V-Bucks. Previously, spending real-world money on V-Bucks would lock the currency to one system. Fortunately this is now no …

Despite being nearly a decade old, Grand Theft Auto V continues to sell like hotcakes. As part of Take-Two Interactive’s most recent quarterly fiscal earnings report it was announced that the 2013 open world game has sold 165 million copies, making it almost as big as the entire Mario Kart …

Apex Legends launched in a surprise manner back in early 2019 as a fresh take on the battle royale genre, offering a third prong in the Fortnite / PUBG duopoly present at the time. This helped the game carve a significant chunk of the market for itself, now having made …

In preparation for the launch of the new PlayStation Plus service, Sony is set to introduce a raft of new games to the Extra and Premium tiers. Alongside PS4 and PS5 titles such as Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut and Demon's Souls remake, Plus subscribers will also get classics from PS1 and PSP, including Tekken 2 and Syphon Filter...

Fall Guys has become one of the most popular party games, offering players multiple games in a physics-based environment where silliness reigns supreme. If you've always wanted to try it, you'll be glad to know the game will become free-to-play on the same day it releases for Nintendo Switch and …

Last generation, there was a rumour that The Coalition was working on a remaster for the full Gears of War trilogy, similar to Halo's Master Chief Collection. Ultimately, we only ended up getting a remaster of the first game on Xbox One and not a full ‘Marcus Fenix Collection'. However, …