Software & Gaming

It looks like Wildstar might be heading to Steam as a free to play MMO, if a recent Steam Database update is anything to go by. If you have been following any of the MMOs that launched last year, then you are probably aware of Wildstar's troubles. The subscription based …

Amazon is looking to poke its digits into more digital pies this week, with the announcement that it has launched a new advertising scheme for mobiles, designed to help app makers promote their software on Android and Amazon Fire devices. This scheme will go after the two dominant companies in …

The Nintendo World Championships are a legendary entry in the history of gaming. Back before Esports, before LoL and StarCraft and Quake, before all of it, Nintendo held a competition to find the best gamers in America, by having them play a custom NES cartridge featuring three specific levels from …

Nvidia Corp.’s first Tegra-based Shield portable video game console has failed to become popular on the market, but the company still believes that it can create a commercially successful dedicated gaming device for Google Android titles. In fact, Nvidia’s second-gen Shield powered by its latest Tegra X1 application processors has …

Payday developer, Overkill Studios, has had a Co-op based Walking Dead game in the works for a while now but so far we have only heard little bits of information here and there. However, it looks like we will finally get our first look at the title during E3. Overkill parent …

It seems that Ubisoft is eager to break in to the virtual reality space as it turns out that the publisher has several games in the pipeline for then virtual reality headsets launch later this year with Steam VR and early next year with the Oculus Rift. Ubisoft CEO spoke …

Today Microsoft officially revealed all of the different editions of Windows 10. This is common practice for Microsoft, the company has regularly launched ‘Home', ‘Pro' and ‘Enterprise' editions of its operating systems for years and Windows 10 won't be breaking tradition. Windows 10 Home is Microsoft's “consumer-focused” edition of the …

Visceral Games, the studio behind the Dead Space series, Battlefield Hardline and an unannounced Star Wars title, has been hit with a small number of layoffs. EA is working to ensure a smooth transition for the employees affected and they may be moved to other parts of the company. In …

Transport Tycoon Deluxe is one of my all time favourite games, so the fact that a new title has been released that lets you build tracks, manage resources and build up your cash reserves but with a new, cutesy, toybox art style, my interest was peaked. Through nearly 200 years …

Ubisoft has revealed that one of its upcoming games, Tom Clancy's The Division, has been delayed once again. The title which was delayed until 2014 around this time last year. Now the game has been pushed back further, targeting a Q1 2016 release window. The Publisher's quarterly financial report revealed …

Ubisoft has officially announced this year's big Assassin's Creed title: Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, set in Victorian era London, featuring an all new fast-paced hand to hand combat system, a new protagonist known as Jacob Frye and new modes of transport, including carriages and trains. The announcement was made in a …

Blizzard is giving European Hearthstone players two free card packs as an apology for connection issues that users faced last week. If you made your Hearthstone account before the third of May this year, you will be greeted with two classic card packs when you next log in. The Battle.net …

Some hackers have gone ahead and cooked up Breaking Bad themed ransomware, which is currently affected a few people over in Australia. The new malware, which encrypts a PC's images, videos and documents, was recently discovered by Symantec. The ransomware is named Trojan.Cryptolocker.S. Once a user is affected, their files …

If you are one of the million people that pre-ordered The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, then you will be happy to know that you can now pre-load the game ahead of its release date early next week. Pre-loading is now live on GOG and Steam, along with the Xbox …

Although Nintendo disclosed earlier this year that it is working on a new video game console, it did not reveal any details about the system. Last week the company re-emphasized that it will not talk about its NX console till 2016. The company also implied that the new device will …

E3 is coming up and Bethesda is hosting its own press conference for the first time. That alone was enough to get people excited for the possibility of Fallout 4 but it seems that it might actually happen as someone out there has broken NDA by confirming the existence of …

It turns out that people do still pre-order games from time to time as CD Projekt Red has revealed that The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt has managed to surpass the 1,000,000 pre-order mark worldwide ahead of its release date on the 19th of May. The Witcher 3 is set …

A little while ago, Frontier Studios brought Elite: Dangerous over to Steam. At the time, there were no plans to give early adopters a chance to switch over to the Steam version but that seems to have changed. Now those who bought Elite: Dangerous through the official website, or those …

Windows 10 retail is almost upon us and today we wanted to take another look at Windows 8.1 – as it stands this year. Based on our polls a substantial percentage of KitGuru readers didn't move to Microsoft's latest operating system … but is it time for a look now …

For the past couple of years, Korea has been head of the pack when it comes to professional League of Legends play, with two out of the top three teams last year hailing from the small nation. However that may no longer be the case, as Chinese team Edward Gaming has …

It looks like some people have managed to get their hands on The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt a couple of weeks early. Some stores have apparently sold the game early to a few people, resulting in Twitch streams and spoiler filled videos starting to pop up. The stores selling …

Dark Souls 2 initially launched over a year ago on the PC and since then, it has even had a re-release in the form of the ‘Scholar of the First Sin' edition. However, for whatever reason, one of the game's most frustrating bugs has only just been fixed. The Dark …

Sales of high-end graphics cards are primarily driven by product launches, introductions of demanding video games as well as by general industry trends. In the coming quarters there will be four to three additional factors that could improve sales of graphics processing units, according to Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer …

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 10 operating system will be the last version of Windows as we know it, a developer evangelist from the company said this week. This does not mean that Microsoft is killing off its operating system. In the future Microsoft will bring innovations and updates in an ongoing …

Nintendo has discussed more details on its plans for mobile gaming. Last year, the company announced that it would be teaming up with DeNA to create specific games for mobile devices, now we know that we can expect at least one game to launch this year, with another four arriving …

Those of you who played around with mods on Grand Theft Auto IV likely came across iCEnhancer at some point. It was by far the most popular and impressive graphical update for the game and it looks like it is set to return as a version is in development for …

Ubisoft is teasing an Assassin's Creed announcement for next Monday. Judging from the teaser image, it is likely that we will see the next title in the main series announced officially, although we already know a little bit about this year's game. Following the disappointment that was Assassin's Creed: Unity, …

Bank holiday weekend is upon us and our good friends at MSI UK wanted to offer up some shiny game codes. If you ever fancied yourself as a modern day Sun Tzu – then dust off your copy of The Art Of War and join in the fun with other …

Wasteland 2 is one of the more popular Kickstarter success stories. Those of you that own the old-school isometric title will be getting a free upgrade to the Game of the Year edition on the PC, Mac and Linux, developer InXile has announced. The post-apocalyptic RPG is getting some enhancements, …

Tinder, the application and service that is designed to help people hook up for relatively anonymous… hang outs, has hit back at research that suggested over 40 per cent of its users were either married or already in relationships, by pointing to the small size of the sample used and …