Software & Gaming

Baldur's Gate is often looked at as one of the best classic isometric RPGs of all time and now, 17 years after the original game, we are getting a new expansion titled ‘Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear', set between the events of the first and second game. The new entry …

When the White House's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was cracked wide open by some unknown actors earlier this year, it was thought that as many as 4.2 million people had had their records copied away. That included their medical histories, employment details and potentially confessions made to help them …

IO Interactive announced that it was working on a brand new Hitman game some time ago and we finally saw a bit more of it last month at E3. However, it has a somewhat weird release schedule, with part of the game launching digitally in December, with the rest of …

This year, Treyarch returns to the Call of Duty series with Black Ops 3 and it looks like some may get to try out the new multiplayer a little early as a beta test is scheduled to take place in August. Today Treyarch announced that on the 19th of August …

With the official launch of Windows 10 coming towards the end of this month, many different technology companies are updating their drivers and systems to have everything ready for the big switchover. That includes AMD, which has just released its new Catalyst GPU and APU drivers with full Windows 10 compatibility for …

Another day, another leading public figure who's calling for the breaking of encryption so that it can effectively track terrorist organisations. This time it's the head of the FBI, James Comey, who said that his policing agency needed a “backdoor” to encryption standards so that the FBI could track the …

Daybreak CEO John Smedley is the man who's flight was downed last  year when hackers called in a bomb threat and leaked his personal information. So you can understand that now one of those responsible from Lizard Squad have been convicted, he's rather pleased. What he isn't happy about though is that …

It is no secret that free to play team-based games like League of Legends have a somewhat hostile community, after all, League alone has 67 million players so there is bound to be a few bad eggs in there. However, Riot says that its new “governance systems” seem to be …

Sony will be launching a new app to allow Xperia smartphone users to broadcast Android games on Twitch. Users can also capture footage for use later, which would be good for those looking to make smartphone game content for YouTube. The app is called Screen Recorder and will work on …

A new draft law being considered by Chinese parliament could increase the censorship of its internet even more, making information harder for average citizens – without the knowledge of proxies – to access. It's raising concerns among international businesses operating in the region too, as they would need to comply …

Although 2016 looks likely to be the biggest year for virtual reality yet, with the commercial release of several bits of hardware and the unveiling of many commercial games, we're starting to get our first look at finished products now. Like London Heist, a gangster theft title, which we can …

It is pretty evident that one of the reasons why Nintendo Wii U has failed on the market is its low performance and lack of support of high-definition resolutions. While it is very logical for Nintendo to add support for full-HD graphics to its next-generation video game system to be …

Studio Wildcard, the team behind the most recent early access survival game success story, ARK: Survival Evolved, has just released modding tools for the game. Since ARK runs on Unreal Engine 4, the developer teamed up with Epic Games to create mod support and tools for the community currently playing …

Square Enix was forced to pull the OS X/Mac version of its MMO, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn this week after users reported serious issues with the game. To make matters worse, the Mac version was not developed natively for the operating system but instead put in a ‘wrapper' to allow …

A few months back, Microsoft announced that it would be rebranding its Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps for Windows 10, with the former being reborn as ‘Groove', Microsoft's own music streaming service for all Windows 10 devices. These new changes were detailed in a new blog post yesterday. Microsoft …

The last generation consoles are on their way out, although the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 still managed to receive a few of last year's biggest releases, one of which was Dragon Age: Inquisition. Unfortunately, last gen console gamers are going to have to move on soon if they want …

In a world where DotA 2's International tournament can crest $15 million thanks to crowd funding, many people have been wondering whether it will raise the bar for other tournament holders around the world and in other games. Hi-Rez, the makers of SMITE, believe it should be handled a bit …

Two brothers who run a school in China have chosen to pledge $20,000 towards the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign in order to help spread awareness of underprivileged schools in China. These two brothers run a program aimed to teach English to young adults and children, with many students coming from …

CD Projekt Red has been hard at work since the launch of The Witcher: Wild Hunt. While the game was pretty great even on launch, it has needed a few patches to squash some things out and this week's patch, 1.07, will bring some significant additions and changes to the game. …

Apparently the backlash caused by the blatant graphical downgrade of Watch Dogs following its release compared to the initial E3 reveal ended up sparking a policy change over at Ubisoft, according to the company's CEO, Yves Guillemot. According to Guillemot, Ubisoft has now changed the way it shows off new …

Windows 10 is due out in just a few weeks time, so as you would expect, Microsoft is preparing to finalize its launch build ahead of time. According to sources close to the Windows 10 project, Microsoft is currently working on the final version of Windows 10, which will release …

When we first learned about the NSA's XKEYSCORE software back in the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations, it was clear that it was (and is) a pretty versatile piece of software, able to parse huge swatches of recorded information in order to store the most juicy bits of data on every …

Minecon 2015 kicked off today so the news has pretty much been dominated by future Minecraft related happenings. Today we got our first look at TellTale's Minecraft: Story Mode and now we've learned that when Windows 10 launches at the end of this month, it will do so with its …

A couple of weeks back at E3, Bethesda announced its new little mobile game, Fallout Shelter, whilst also showing off tons of new Fallout 4 footage. While Fallout Shelter is a neat little mobile time killer and has been received very well, it is currently limited to iOS users, leaving …

We heard that TellTale was put in charge of making a single player ‘Minecraft: Story Mode' for Microsoft a while back and now this weekend at Minecon, some new details about the game have been announced. Like with every other TellTale game, it is set to be an episodic adventure …

Team fortress 2 is set to get its first major update in quite some time, with new maps, challenges and guns soon to head to the game. This new update will consist of both free and premium content, there will also be a new campaign by the name of ‘Gun Mettle', …

Back in the day, when Nintendo dominated the console market and Sony was looking to break in to it, the two companies tried collaborating to manufacture the SNES-CD otherwise known as the PlayStation SNES. Unfortunately, the console never released but today, someone came across an old prototype of one. These prototypes …

The Xbox 360 enjoyed a long and successful life cycle since its launch back in 2005. However, many of you will remember that things almost went south for Microsoft back then thanks to overheating issues, which resulted in the commonly known ‘red ring of death' scenario. Obviously Microsoft had a big …

Plex, the service that allows users to stream videos stored on their local hard drives to other devices was hacked earlier this week. At the time, Plex said that it only believed its forums were affected and that user payment information should be safe. While this remains true, things are …

Update: Following the well received announcement that the PC platform would be getting its first ever Tales game in the form of Tales of Zestiria, Bandai Namco has also announced that one of the most popular games in the long-running JRPG series, Tales of Symphonia, will also be heading to the …