The big Star Citizen CitizenCon 2016 show certainly had a lot of exciting new technology to tease the player base with this year, giving them a look at new planets, mission types and enemies to combat, but none of it is coming soon. With a delay announced for the Squadron …
Read More »Final Fantasy XV could come to PC but it would take over a year
We have been hearing murmurs of Final Fantasy XV coming to the PC for a while now. Back in February some traces of a PC version were discovered in the source code of the game's official website and then in March, Square Enix said that it would be ‘looking into' …
Read More »Bioshock Collection patch improves FOV, 21:9 support and fixes bugs
Update: While there was some initial excitement for the HD-remasters if Bioshock 1 and 2, PC gamers were greeted with some issues at launch. At the time, 2K promised that a patch would be coming to address any shortcomings in the PC version and now, that update has arrived, bringing …
Read More »Gears of War 4 PC Game Analysis
Back at the start of 2016 it was starting to look like Microsoft had completely forgotten how to deliver a solid PC game. Efforts like Quantum Break underperformed on PC hardware and the early days of the Universal Windows Platform were riddled with missing features. However, today might mark the …
Read More »Dungeon Keeper is free on Origin, On the House
EA is not the most well loved company. In fact it earned the most hated company in America award several years in a row. But now and again, it does something right, like giving Dungeon Keeper away for free. Not the claimed “free to play,” mobile title that tried to …
Read More »Russia’s head of anti-piracy arrested for ‘fraud’
The head of one of Russia's largest anti-piracy agencies has been arrested and charged with fraud, stemming from an alleged incident where he offered to drop the case against a well known pirate site in exchange for monetary compensation. He is said to have demanded as much as 50 million …
Read More »PC gamers may want to hold off on Mafia 3
Mafia 3 launched on the PC today so in preparation for our full game analysis and benchmarks, I sat down to play the game this morning and get started on forming my first impressions. Unfortunately, the problems with Mafia 3 on the PC are immediately apparent with a very limited …
Read More »Robo Recall is Epic Games’ first full VR title
Bullet Train was Epic Games' first forray into developing something for virtual reality and it offered a compact, first person shooter experience for those who were lucky enough to try it. Now at the Oculus Connect event, it's debuted the spiritual sequel to Bullet Train and its first full VR …
Read More »Mouse and keyboard support still planned for Xbox One but still a long way off
Way back in July of 2015 Microsoft's head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, confirmed plans to bring mouse and keyboard support to the Xbox One. This was reiterated earlier this year at E3, though Spencer admitted at the time that support was still “months away”. Well, months have now passed and …
Read More »Sony finally agrees to let Bethesda bring mods to PS4
Last month, Bethesda let PlayStation 4 owners know that Sony wasn't playing ball when it came to bringing mods to the console. Given that Bethesda has had mods running for Fallout 4 on the Xbox One for months now, this news didn't go down well. Fortunately, it didn't take long …
Read More »Snowden 2.0? Another NSA contractor arrested for classified theft
The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed that a government contractor was arrested in August and charged with removing and retaining classified materials without permission. Other sources have confirmed it was an NSA contractor who was detained, though it isn't clear at this time what information he is alleged to …
Read More »Gambling Commission wants Valve to end game skin gambling
Following on from the revelation that not only were lots of people gambling away their in-game skins for games like CS:GO, but that Youtubers were marketing the practice to children, a lot of people have asked Valve to do something about it. Throwing their weight behind that cry now, is …
Read More »Yahoo responds to ‘misleading’ email scanning reports
Earlier this morning we learned that email provider, Yahoo, had been accused of secretly scanning the emails of all of its users at the request of the United States government. Using a specialised piece of software, Yahoo is said to have scanned the emails of all users for specific phrases …
Read More »Good luck preloading: Gears 4 downloads broken for many on Windows 10
Gears of War 4 kicks off its launch on Friday this week so to give PC and Xbox gamers plenty of time to sit through the massive 73GB download, Microsoft kicked off preloading last week. Unfortunately, on the PC side at least, the Windows Store doesn't seem to be cooperating, …
Read More »TalkTalk fined £400,000 for poor security practises
It has been almost a year since TalkTalk suffered a huge cyber attack, in which the personal information of over 150,000 customers was stolen. Now, the UK-based ISP has to face the consequences, as the firm has been fined a record £400,000 for poor security practices, which left consumer data …
Read More »4chan is going broke, may need drastic changes
Message board 4chan is in serious financial trouble and unless some drastic changes can turn the ship around, much of the site may need to close. The current owner told users on Sunday that the site may need to implement pop-up adverts, a cap on upload sizes and potentially even close …
Read More »Yahoo said to be complicit in email scanning for U.S. intelligence
If you're a Yahoo email user, you should be aware that in 2015 the web giant built a specialised piece of software to scan all incoming emails to all Yahoo mail accounts, searching for certain phrases and statements related to U.S. intelligence. Three former employees have claimed to have seen the …
Read More »Exclusive Multi-GPU DX12 Frame Pacing Interview with AMD’s Scott Wasson
KitGuru was recently given the chance to fire some questions over to AMD's Scott Wasson on the topic of frame pacing for multi-GPU (mGPU) configurations using DirectX 12. Frame pacing has long been an issue for enthusiasts wanting smooth gameplay from their multi-GPU configurations. High frame rates are one aspect …
Read More »Battlefield 1 campaign shown off in new 12 minute video
Update: Dice is continuing to pump out new details on Battlefield 1. A couple of weeks ago we learned which game modes and maps we could expect to find in the game's multiplayer at launch and now, we have our first good look at the campaign mode, which is based …
Read More »Developer that sued Steam gamers is ‘destroyed’
Former-Steam developer, Digital Homicide has dismissed its lawsuit against gamers following Valve's removal of all of its games from Steam, as it can no longer viably afford to continue with it. Claiming that it's company had been “destroyed,” by the move, representatives still say that the suits were valid, but …
Read More »Street Fighter V PC update removes backdoor security risk
Last month, Capcom tried out a new ‘anti-crack solution' to help prevent Street Fighter V piracy on the PC. Unfortunately, this was achieved by installing a hidden, completely insecure rootkit in Windows, leaving a huge security loophole in people's systems. This obviously led to a lot of complaints from those …
Read More »You can’t sell your Infinite Warfare disc if you want to play COD 4 Remastered
Activision is trying something different with Call of Duty this year. In an effort to boost the series' declining sales, it will be bundling in a download of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare remastered with deluxe editions of Infinite Warfare. While Modern Warfare will be a digital game, if …
Read More »DJ Steve Aoki now owns Rogue Esports teams
It's not that uncommon for people with lots of success and lots of money, to indulge in their best loved sports and purchase stakes in teams. Just look at Steve Ballmer. Well that sort of thing happens in Esports too and it turns out that famed DJ and producer, Steve …
Read More »Gears of War 4 keys are being revoked
If you were planning to buy Gears of War 4 on the PC, you may want to stay away from key marketplaces for now as it turns out that copies of the game are being revoked. This has come about after a significant loophole was discovered at some retailers participating …
Read More »Battleborn isn’t going free to play anytime soon
It is no secret that Battleborn is in a tough position right now, with very few players still logging in to play the game regularly. This has led to speculation about the game going free to play and while reports this week claimed that it would very soon, it looks …
Read More »It looks like Ubisoft is giving Far Cry a break too
Earlier this year, we learned that Ubisoft would be giving the Assassin's Creed games a break this year to give the developers more time to make something truly great. That sentiment was echoed by the publisher's CEO this week, with Yves Guillemot stating that we might not see a new …
Read More »Pokémon Go launch traffic was 50 x what Niantic expected
Even the best/worst case scenario for Niantic's launch of Pokémon Go traffic, was 10 times off in its estimation. The augmented reality developer ended up receiving 50 times the predicted traffic when it launched Pokémon Go earlier this year, which is why there were so many server issues and likely …
Read More »Zerodium ups iOS bug bounties to $1.5 million
Cybersecurity bug-hunting firm Zerodium has announced that it's increased its payouts for bug bounties on iOS v 10, to $1.5 million (£1.16 million) from $1 million. The reason it's now put a higher price on those exploits' heads, is because iOS 10 is harder to crack than previous iterations, so …
Read More »Amazon debuts Breakaway, Crucible and New World
As the proud owner of the Twitch gaming platform, Amazon believes viewers deserve better than games with live streaming built in, they deserve games that were built for livestreaming. That's why at this year's Twitchcon it announced three brand new games from its Amazon Game Studios, all designed from the ground up …
Read More »Mozilla kills off Firefox OS for good
The Mozilla Foundation has tried to branch out numerous times over the past decade, with varying levels of success. One area where it really didn't do as well as it hoped though, was in the creation of Firefox OS powered Mozilla smartphones. Less than a year on from discontinuing the …
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