Software & Gaming

Microsoft have been listening to their customers this year. When they announced the Xbox One and all the DRM and lock out practises they were incorporating the user base went ballistic. The problems were so widespread for Microsoft that they ran back to base and came out with a new …

Pro gaming, as we’ve discussed before, is one of the easiest professional sports to get into. While you still need to be extraordinarily skilled and get extremely lucky, you can simply play and play and end up as part of a team. You don’t need to wait for it to …

Microsoft have said that the Xbox One will not have a headset in the bundle, but that the Kinect will provide the console with out of the box ‘in game chat capabilities’. Xbox Live has long been accepted by gamers as a more ‘vocally active’ multiplayer platform than the Sony …

We have given away around 100 codes in the last couple of months for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next 24 hours. We are giving away codes for Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider, meaning you …

Star Citizen, the space faring sim set to come out out Cloud Industries sometime in the latter half of 2014, has passed the Pebble Watch for smartphones, making it the most funded project since the concept of crowd funding hit the internet. Of course Star Citizen didn’t do it in …

While this is clearly a big advert for Battlfield 4 (and doesn’t have anyway near enough Mirror’s Edge 2 in it(read: none)), EA has released a new video explaining some of the benefits of its new Frostbite 3 engine and it’s very impressive – even if the term “levolution” still …

We talked yesterday about the problems Blizzard was having with its World of Warcraft Mobile Armoury app causing account hacks and gold thievery, with only a couple of tweets from the publisher acknowledging it. Today though, Blizzard has come right out and said it: there’s a lot of unauthorized account …

Fans of competitive retro gaming, listen up, as the results of the first round of the Donkey Kong, Kong Off #3, Wild Card Qualifier #1, are in. They saw a couple of people break the million point barrier and an amazing number of people hitting the Kill Screen, but who …

While digital downloads are certainly becoming a dominant distribution platform for PC gamers, consoles users aren’t quite there yet according to Sony’s VP of PlayStation brand marketing, Guy Longworth, who thinks disc based gaming will be around for much longer than people give it credit for. During a chat with …

Microsoft Corp will be bringing their popular Age Of Empires PC game to the Apple iOS and Android market thanks to a tie in with Japan’s KLab Inc. They expect that sales will be strong for such an iconic game. The Microsoft gaming business is focused almost entirely now on …

Valve has announced that the Steam Trading Cards, that achievement like, collectible, reward scheme announced earlier this year, is set to leave beta as of 26th June, meaning everyone can get ahold of them. However, the Half Life maker also teased something else on that date, “an event we think …

There’s been a lot of talk recently about used games, about loaning games, renting games, borrowing games, trading games – the whole second hand game market has been up for scrutiny. You’ve had Microsoft looking to kill it then backpedaling, you’ve had developers discussing aggressive GameStop tactics, reams and reams …

Update: Blizzard has now released a further statement, updating the situation: “The Mobile Auction House is still in maintenance mode. We’re working to restore full service as soon as possible. #WoW #BlizzCS” World of Warcraft’s Mobile Auction House, the smartphone tool that lets residents of Azeroth check out stats from …

Since the Middle Ages, Swiss Banks have had a reputation for keeping your most valuable assets safe. The country also has a ton of secrecy laws enshrined into its national identity. Cue the 21st Century. KitGuru gets Bourne again. The Cypriot government decided to snatch money directly from bank customer’s …

Cliff Bleszinski, or Cliffy B as he’s more commonly known, used to run the show over at Epic when it came to Gears of War development. Now he’s off doing other things but that doesn’t mean people haven’t been asking him what he thinks of the whole Xbox One debacle. Expanding …

While Microsoft and Sony have both publicly stated that their respective consoles would be available worldwide during the Christmas period this year, retailers have begun putting up release dates for both systems, suggesting something a little more concrete. German website Media Markt has listed the PS4 for a 13th November …

Jimmy Fallon has been continuing his Game Week by showing off some game cover art from Imagination Land, which apparently him and Elijah Wood co-developed and co-starred in. Would you believe it? The first one is Milk Glug, a game that sees you slamming down bottles of milk as fast …

Remember The War Z? Me neither really, but it was that game that caused controversy earlier this year (and a bit late last year) for releasing without many of its advertised features, being bug filled, banning gamers for playing too much; all of which resulted in the shyster producer of …

While Microsoft might have down an about face on its policies for the upcoming next-gen Xbox One system, the console landscape is now more confused than ever. Yes there’s no 24 hour check-in system, yes you can resell, trade and lend your game discs to people, but you still need …

I don’t think I have ever seen a worse prelaunch than the Xbox One. Microsoft had set so many restrictive rules in place that gamers didn’t know which way to turn. Was this really an easy to use console to enjoy on the sofa with friends in the evenings or …

We have given away around 100 codes in the last month for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next week or so. Every day we are giving away a code for GRID 2, all you need …

Russia and the USA spent a large part of the 20th century in a stand off of global proportions. Posturing went back and forth, spies and information wars were won and lost but ultimately there was no out and out conflict, most likely because neither party really wanted to go …

Nintendo’s CEO, Satoru Iwata, has said that it’s Nintendo’s fault that the Wii U isn’t selling well, mainly because the company didn’t market it well enough and that ultimately a lot of the console’s audience, is still confused about the relatively new console. This is something we’ve talked about here …

Chances are you haven’t finished playing even half the games that Humble Bundle has put out in recent months, but it’s time for another bundle, this time with Android support – get your smartphones ready. It comes complete with Aquaria, Fractal, Organ Trail: Director’s Cut, Stealth Bastard Deluxe and Pulse, …

The newly released (and most recently pulled) patch from Sony for its PS3 has been bricking the consoles of many that download it. The patch in question shouldn’t be available any more so don’t fret, but just in-case, don’t download anything that looks like a 4.45 firmware update, just yet. …

If you’re one of the few out there that thinks the Xbox One is great, or you’re one of the larger group that aren’t fans, you have to admit, the ability to share and lend games with your Xbox “family” is a pretty cool feature. Fortunately, it seems Valve did …

Starladder TV, a competitive esports network, has announced the immediate ban of two DotA 2 players after they were caught fixing games, in order to receive a payout. But this wasn’t even some shady offer from a nefarious individual, they just got caught betting against themselves. According to Joindota, Aleksey …

It’s been surprising, considering how much of a public opinion beating that Microsoft has taken in the past few weeks over its Xbox One console, that it hasn’t done more damage control – but it seems to be doing some now. Major Nelson has announced that even if you get …

We all mourn the passing of the huge number of high street gaming stores. Steam and the other online download engines provide an excellent service and there’s no turning back the clock, but the high street stores provide a ‘finger on the pulse’ which KitGuru loves. Here’s a great example. …

If you’re a PC gamer, chances are the majority of your games aren’t installed from the disc anymore. Maybe you use Steam, maybe you use GoG, or MAME or play a standalone, downloadable game like League of Legends; whatever your choice though, there likely isn’t a stack of game boxes …