Software & Gaming

Back towards the end of 2016, we once again heard that Crytek was facing financial troubles, causing the company to downsize its operations and sell off certain studios. One such studio to was Crytek Black Sea, which has now found a home over at Creative Assembly, the team behind the …

Since last summer, G2A has been working on improving its relationships with developers by launching services like G2A direct and giving studios the access required to ensure fraudulently obtained keys are taken down from the marketplace as quickly as possible.  It turns out the company’s efforts to turn a new …

Some new details have come to light about EA’s upcoming Mass Effect Andromeda trial for EA/Origin Access members. It was revealed earlier this year that members of the service would get to play ten hours of the game five days before its initial release date, which you could spend doing …

It looks like Microsoft is finally going to make it easier to avoid Windows 10’s forced reboots with a new ‘snooze’ feature, which will allow you to delay your Windows 10 machine from updating itself for a few days. The creators update next month will also increase the hours you …

About a week before the Nintendo Switch officially launched, those with early review units began reporting connectivity issues with the left Joy-Con, which appeared to be desyncing during regular play with the Switch docked in TV mode. That problem unfortunately still persists even after the Switch’s day-one patch, leading to …

Riot Games has settled its lawsuit with League of Legends cheating service ‘Leaguesharp’, which would take a monthly subscription fee from users in exchange for scripts and bots to help win matches or artificially level up. Leaguesharp would take anywhere between $15 and $50 a month depending on which cheats you …

It’s been a few years since EA bought exclusive rights to the Star Wars franchise in games and in that time, several projects have been revealed to be in the works but we have only seen one full game in the form of Star Wars Battlefront. That may change this year …

Valve has been working on its Source 2 engine for a long time now and while the engine has popped up in the likes of Dota 2, we have yet to see a game truly showcase what the new engine is capable of. Fortunately, it seems like Valve is currently …

The Game Developers Conference is underway right now and it appears that Final Fantasy XV director, Hajime Tabata had something very interesting to show off. After months of talking about a PC version of Final Fantasy XV in interviews, we finally got to see a public demonstration of what the …

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment would start working on a new game based on the Avatar movie franchise. This was understandably alarming news for fans of The Division, as such a project could potentially impact support and future content. Fortunately, today Ubisoft clarified that this …

While Bioware is traditionally a single-player focussed studio, they have experimented with multiplayer in Dragon Age and Mass Effect games in the past. That’s not changing with Mass Effect Andromeda this year, which will have its own multiplayer. Unfortunately though, we are no longer going to get the chance to …

It looks like indie developers may soon have free reign on Xbox Live and Windows 10 as yesterday at GDC, Microsoft announces the new Xbox Live Creators Program. This new program targets indie developers and gives them the tools to “rapidly publish Xbox Live enabled games on Xbox One and …

Stardew Valley may have released over a year ago but the developer behind it isn’t done with updates just yet. Throughout 2016, Chucklefish updated the game a few times with interesting feature additions. However, perhaps the biggest feature being worked on right now is multiplayer, which is still in the …

Conan Exiles has been out on the PC for a little while now and during that time, the early access title has received a ton of support, generating tons of sales with the help of streamers and YouTubers. However, unlike quite a few other early access titles, Funcom appears to …

The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is launching an investigation and consultation on how best to tackle the problem of Kodi boxes, the set-top devices that allow Netflix-like access to pirated content. While a seller of those media streamers was arrested back in 2016, rights holders argue that Kodi piracy …

As much as there are many advantages of using a massive cloud infrastructure for your website, when that service crashes, it can take a lot of the internet with it. Take yesterday’s downing of Amazon’s S3 cloud service, which pulled down a lot of popular websites and services. Ironically enough, …

In the latest trailer for hellish survival title, Agony, we see that players can be the demonic hammer as well as the nail. Along with possessing the wayward souls of the underworld, they can also take control of some of its more powerful demons, giving them access to greater strength and …

The Nintendo Switch is based on a very interesting concept, with Nintendo attempting to use the console to bridge the gap between handheld and traditional console gaming. However, it turns out that not all Switch games will be required to support the console’s TV mode, meaning there will be some …

Yesterday we received the official announcement for Middle Earth: Shadow of War, a sequel to the highly rated 2014 game, Shadow of Mordor. We have already had an awesome looking trailer and confirmation of an August release date but now, we have a few more details about the game, including …

If you’ve ever wanted to invest more time in a modification but can’t afford to because of work commitments, Studio Wildcard wants to help. Moving forward, it will select 15 modders a month to give $4,000 (£3,220) to, to help them complete their mods, with the potential that they become …

Twitch is often a platform used to not only stream games, but to promote them too. Many game publishers will pay for sponsored streams of their games to help drum up sales and soon, you will be able to buy those games directly through Twitch as well. Today, Twitch announced …

Update: Following the leak over the weekend, it looks like Warner Bros has pulled the trigger early on Shadow of Mordor’s sequel announcement. As previously reported, the next game in the series is called ‘Middle Earth: Shadow of War’ and there is already a trailer for it, confirming the story …

It looks like we can expect a Shadow of Mordor sequel announcement this year as Monolith’s next game appears to have leaked over the weekend. Rather than being titled ‘Shadow of Mordor 2’, the game’s sequel will instead be called ‘Middle Earth: Shadow of War’ and will focus on Talion’s …

Mass Effect Andromeda is coming out very soon, which means it is time for Bioware to start unveiling new gameplay, alongside other important details like PC system requirements. Not only has a new Mass Effect Andromeda trailer dropped this week, but now we also know what hardware we are going to …

Back in December, an Australian federal court ordered a $3 million fine against Valve after finding that the company had breached Australian Consumer Law between 2011 and 2014. This had been an on-going case for some time and was a huge factor in Valve’s decision to finally start offering refunds …

The Nintendo Switch is coming out in just a couple of weeks, which means plenty of press outlets already have units in hand and are preparing reviews. Unfortunately, it looks like some of those with early units are experiencing a concerning issue with the Joy-Con controller as several prominent members …

It looks like Cloudflare has been suffering from a bug recently, causing the passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users by millions of sites to leak. Cloudflare is a security and performance tool that is used by 5.5 million websites, including big names like Reddit, Discord, Patreon and more. …

Back when 343 Industries was building up to the launch of Halo 5, one of the big negatives against the game was the lack of split screen. Split screen and couch co-op has been a major part of the main Halo games ever since Combat Evolved so quite a few …

It looks like Dead Rising 4 is finally making its way over to Steam after a brief stint as a ‘Windows 10’ exclusive as part of Microsoft’s exclusivity deal with Capcom. Dead Rising 4 initially launched on Xbox One and Windows 10 back on the 6th of December but the …

Following controversy surrounding Ubisoft’s quoting of player numbers in some of its other games, it’s been much more forthcoming with For Honor. That’s meant we can keep a much better eye on how many people are actually playing and though there’s been a bit of a drop off since it …