Software & Gaming

This week, following on from many, many leaks, Take Two officially announced that it would be launching the Bioshock collection in September, rounding up all three games and DLCs with graphical upgrades for the PC as well as current generation consoles. However, if you already own Bioshock 1 and 2 …

Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus VR, has become the latest technology executive to have his social media accounts hacked, with a particular individual claiming responsibility for it on Twitter, announcing themselves as the new head of Oculus. Purportedly, they were able to crack his accounts by discovering his four-year …

Authorities in the U.S. have begun investigating the death of a man after he collided with a lorry in his Tesla Model S while it was using the autopilot mode. Although the legal liability may not lie with Tesla, this marks the first time that a person has died while …

If you're a fan of old-school body horror movies like Alien, The Fly or The Thing, then Scorn may be right up your street. It takes an H.R. Giger aesthetic and blends it with bio-guns from eXistenZ and Videodrome, into a first person puzzler, shooter, where you as the lipless protagonist, …

Valve is a very secretive company so it is hard to really know what is actively being worked on and when. However, right now it would seem that Left 4 Dead 3 is still actively being developed as new evidence came to light this week, with the upcoming game showing …

Trek Industries hasn't had the best week, the Steam Summer Sale is well under way but the studio found its game ‘Orion: Prelude' abruptly taken off of Steam due to a DMCA request from Activision, who claimed that the game ripped off gun models from Call of Duty: Black Ops …

Denuvo is a name that sends shudders down the spines of pirates the world over, as it has meant that some games, no matter how hard people tried, have remained uncracked and unplayable for those not willing to pay for them. But there are whispers that that mightiest of foes …

Total War: Warhammer's first DLC release may have been inadvertently leaked to the world, with a Russian trailer showing up on Youtube before any official announcement. Like Total War games of the past, it brings the blood and the gore, though this time with a very Warhammer flavour. In the …

Microsoft and Sony spent much of this latest generation of consoles trying to convince us that it was a good thing that they could only put out 30 frames per second in most games, but that's not something id software agrees with for Quake Champions. It wants to push such …

Valve has been promoting the use of its Steam mobile application for a while now as a way for users to enhance account security. Using Steam Guard has become tied to things like the marketplace trading system and there is even a new CS:GO matchmaking system that verifies users by …

Windows 10 is almost one year old and to mark the occasion, Microsoft will be launching the ‘Anniversary Update' on the 2nd of August, just a few days after the official one year milestone. This new update will be free for all current Windows 10 users and will include some …

While Overwatch did initially have a competitive mode in its closed beta, Blizzard chose to take it out of the launch version of the game in order to rework it. Now, we can finally see the changes for ourselves as the Overwatch competitive mode has launched on the PC today, …

When Twitch announced earlier this week that it would soon allow stream viewers to tip their favourite presenters with “cheer,” essentially pre-paid emotes, there were a lot of questions people still had about the idea. How much streamers would actually receive was one of the biggest, so we're glad to …

Microsoft received a lot of flak when it made the Windows 10 upgrade ‘recommended,' so something that would automatically install if you didn't opt-out. So much so that one woman sued and won. It seems finally though that Microsoft is going to scale back its pushy pop-up and will soon offer …

Chatbots of the future might be the customer support representatives we deal with the most, but we might be able to fight back with AI conversationalists of our own. The Do Not Pay bot, created by a British programmer has been used by more than 160,000 people to challenge parking …

Godus is the game that time and seemingly 22 Cans, Peter Molyneux's developer, forgot. Despite being re-released earlier this year as Godus Wars, the god sim that was supposed to reinvent the genre is still being developed (apparently) and according to staff, it's still got a long way to go. …

We have been hearing reports of PCs upgrading themselves to Windows 10 without the owner's knowledge for a while now and for businesses in particular, this can be a big problem. Teri Goldstein, a California based business owner had this happen, and in response she sued Microsoft for $10,000 and …

If the issues with The Division haven't scared you off yet and you have been sticking it out to check out the paid DLCs, then you might want to log in to uPlay this week as the Underground expansion is now live. Underground is The Division's first paid DLC and …

Over the past couple of years, the age old dominance of adware, spyware and trojans has begun to die off in favour of something new and far more malicious: ransomware. The evolution continues to this day, with the latest version of the CryptXXX ransomware bringing in over £34,000 in the …

It has been quite the week for G2A, who had something of a PR nightmare when indie developer TinyBuild put up a blog post criticising the company's business practises. However, it seems that G2A is willing to make some changes in order to be more developer friendly going forward, this …

With the season finale of Game of Thrones now complete and the world struggling to come to terms with what happened (and that we need to wait another nine months to find out what happens next), Microsoft is hoping to ease that pain with some special hardware: a Game of …

Blizzard has been paying close attention to feedback on Overwatch since its launch in order to prepare any balancing changes. However, given the different play styles between PC and console, sometimes changes need to be made on a platform by platform basis, which is why in July, Torbjorn will be …

Superhot impressed many when it launched earlier this year, taking what people loved about the original browser demo and improving on it all while adding a compelling story. If you have been wanting to dive back in to the game, then you will probably be happy to hear some new details about …

Following the surprising move late last week that saw Oculus VR remove headset checks from its DRM, the developer of the Revive driver which makes it possible to play Rift games on the HTC Vive, has been able to get back to improving compatibility. They've been working fast too, as …

One of the core elements to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's success is the item skin trading system. People buy keys to crates, sell old skins and buy new ones on the Steam marketplace constantly but there is also a vert successful, though unofficial, gambling scene for CS:GO. Valve is pretty hands-off …

Microsoft has revealed that it plans to stop manufacturing its current entry-level Surface device by the end of the year. The Surface 3 first launched in May of last year at a lower price point to try and capture those who want a tablet that could also act as a …

The Steam Summer sale kicked off last night and there are plenty of great discounts going around. However, some people use opportunities like this to stock up on certain games to gift to alternate accounts and in the case of CS:GO, people doing this usually do so with the intention …

This has been quite a week for the indie developer Tinybuild, after the studio's blog post on G2A's grey market practises spread widely across the web. This isn't the first time that sites like G2A have been called into question but in this case, Tinybuild lost out on $450,000 worth of …

If you have a HTC Vive headset and want to continue playing those games Oculus has popped behind its storefront wall, you can do so with the latest version of the Revive driver. It's not a bad time to download it either, as Oculus is discounting a bunch of its …

Ark: Survival Evolved is a game all about monstrous dinosaurs stomping around a mixed-tech island with a few humans running between their feet, but it turns out they were all just an appetiser. In its latest update, developer Wildcard has added the Titanosaurus, the largest dinosaur in Ark and very …