Software & Gaming

In Microsoft's never ending quest to improve its Xbox One console, the company has revealed that it will soon be making changes to its ‘reputation' system, which has been around since the early Xbox 360 days. These changes will be coming soon, ahead of the new dashboard. The newly designed …

It is Friday, which means its time to get your weekend gaming plans in order. If you happen to be looking for something new to play, then you'll be happy to know that Killing Floor 2 and Evolve will be free until Sunday evening. On Evolve's side, the game and …

Yesterday, we got a brief look at the upcoming Arkham Knight PC patch. Described as the interim patch, setting the stage for the last wave of fixes to hit later on in the year. Now, that patch is officially available, adding in several fixes, mostly focussing on graphics and gameplay …

Back at the start of the year, Nintendo finally announced its intention to start making games for mobile devices, after years of losing out on the market to emulators and ROMs. The company hired outside firm, DeNa to handle its mobile titles and now we know what game is set …

Like many multiplayer games these days, Star Wars Battlefront will be moving away from traditional server browsers in favour of a new matchmaking system. While matchmaking systems have become much more common in shooters over the years, it seems that many were still hoping for a server browser as plenty …

Earlier this year, it was announced that WildStar would be going free to play, in an effort to salvage the game and its dwindling subscriber base. As with any free to play transition, this means that plenty of changes are coming to the game, so WildStar will be relaunched with …

PC gamers weren't impressed when Batman: Arkham Knight launched on the PC a few months ago. Warner Bros  has been pretty quiet on the subject in recent weeks but it looks like the next patch for Arkham Knight is set to feature some pretty important fixes. The new patch for …

Konami gave us plenty of cause for concern in the run up to the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The unexpected drama that has occurred between Hideo Kojima and Konami in recent months cast some doubt over the final product, particularly where the PC port is concerned. …

Valve has had to pull a game from its Steam Greenlight platform, after a link on its page sent users to a link that downloaded malware, which when activated made changes to their account without permission. In one instance, it even went so far as to automatically rate the game highly and …

When you fill in a form on a website, you expect that information to go straight to the company who owns the site (and the NSA), not its entire mailing list of customers. But that's exactly what happened recently with WHSmith's site, which had a misconfigured “contact us” form on …

Although Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain has been incredibly well received, its release has been bittersweet for many fans of the series, as it marks the end of Hideo Kojima's career working on Metal Gear games. Konami took the surprising move to remove almost all mention of him relating …

Steam has expanded a lot over the last couple of years. The platform has experimented with movies in the past in the form of gaming documentaries, like Indie Game the Movie or Valve's own documentary on the 2011 International tournament and now it looks like things are set to expand even …

Star Wars Battlefront is finally launching at the end of this year, though there are still plenty of people who have yet to get their hands on it. Fortunately, that may change soon as the Battlefront beta is apparently arriving in October on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. …

Some time last year, Activision's Deadpool game vanished from digital stores without a trace. At the time, neither the publisher or Marvel commented on what was going on but clearly it was some form of licensing issue. Then a few months ago, Deadpool reappeared on Steam and was once again available …

The United States is said to be considering applying sanctions to both Russia and Chinese individuals and companies for conducting aggressive hacking attempts against U.S. targets, according to several unnamed U.S. officials. While no decision has been made one way or another just yet, they claim that the Obama administration …

The TeSPA collegiate esports organisation has announced a new scholarship fund of $100,000 that will go up for grabs for teams of three that play Blizzard's collectible card brawler, Hearthstone, in an effort to cultivate more competitive esports talent in the U.S. Known as the Collegiate Hearthstone Championship, the competition …

If you were looking in to getting an Xbox One this year, then Microsoft's latest bundle might be worth looking in to. It's called the Elite bundle and as you would expect, that means it comes with Microsoft's highly customisable Elite controller, but it also throws out the standard 500GB hard …

CD Projekt Red just recently wrapped up its series of free DLCs for its latest hit game, The Witcher: Wild Hunt and now all focus is turning to the expansions, the first of which shall be out in October. While we have known about the two planned expansions for The …

We now know when Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is due to come out. The sequel to Human Revolution was announced earlier this year alongside a début trailer giving us an early look at the story. While pre-orders have been available for a while, like with any Triple A title, we …

While many PC gamers have moved on to the all digital trend, there are still some out there that prefer to buy their PC games on disc.  This helps out those with slower internet connections as well as those who are tied in to bandwidth caps. Unfortunately, this method won't …

Although movies based on videogames have a terrible pedigree – thanks Uwe Boll – there are still some properties that have the potential to be great films. Borderlands, with its strange, but familiar-ish world, bombastic setting and excellent writing is one such IP and that's a good thing, as it's …

Back in January, ArenaNet announced the next Guild Wars 2 expansion, known as Heart of Thorns. Since then, we've heard a ton about the expansion and the future of Guild Wars 2. Current owners of the game even had a chance to get in to the beta and now, the …

Divinity Original Sin 2 is crushing it on Kickstarter right now. Not only did the game manage to hit its $500,000 funding goal within the first 24 hours, but now the campaign has managed to hit the first two stretch goals, which were just announced. Larian Studios announced its Divinity Original …

Earlier this year, Firaxis and 2K Games announced XCOM 2, a sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown. While at the time the strategy game was expected to launch towards the end of this year, it has now been pushed back a bit and will launch in 2016 instead. In a post on …

Cliff Bleszinski's next game with new studio, Boss Key Productions was revealed earlier this week. Set in a futuristic world where we have the technology to defy gravity, LawBreakers is set to be a 5 versus 5 free to play arena shooter, sort of like Overwatch from Blizzard. While at the …

If you have been thinking about trying out Company of Heroes or the latest hit survival game, Ark: Survival Evolved, then this weekend is the perfect opportunity as there will be a Steam free weekend for both of those games. Ark is probably the most surprising addition to the free …

Fable Legends is on the way at some point this year as a free to play action co-op game. Up to this point, we have known that Microsoft is marketing this as a ‘Windows 10' game, though we did not know how the company intended to keep it exclusive to the …

Divinity: Original Sin 2's crowd funding campaign launched just yesterday and has already managed to surpass its $500,000 goal. At the time of writing, overall funding sits at around $660,000 with 33 days left to go. Right now, none of the stretch goals have been announced, though there will likely …

Facebook has thrown its hat in the ring of digital, personal assistants with the announcement of its own competitor to the likes of Cortana and Siri, called M. The single lettered software will have something that separates it from the pack of contenders however, in that M will not only …

Since the start of 2014, Microsoft has been working hard to take on fan feedback and incorporate new features in to the Xbox One. This was all helped by the Preview Program, which gave console owners access to beta features, like Xbox 360 backwards compatibility for instance. Unfortunately, it soon …