Software & Gaming

It looks like we can expect a Shadow of Mordor sequel announcement this year as Monolith's next game appears to have leaked over the weekend. Rather than being titled ‘Shadow of Mordor 2', the game's sequel will instead be called ‘Middle Earth: Shadow of War' and will focus on Talion's …

Mass Effect Andromeda is coming out very soon, which means it is time for Bioware to start unveiling new gameplay, alongside other important details like PC system requirements. Not only has a new Mass Effect Andromeda trailer dropped this week, but now we also know what hardware we are going to …

Back in December, an Australian federal court ordered a $3 million fine against Valve after finding that the company had breached Australian Consumer Law between 2011 and 2014. This had been an on-going case for some time and was a huge factor in Valve's decision to finally start offering refunds …

The Nintendo Switch is coming out in just a couple of weeks, which means plenty of press outlets already have units in hand and are preparing reviews. Unfortunately, it looks like some of those with early units are experiencing a concerning issue with the Joy-Con controller as several prominent members …

It looks like Cloudflare has been suffering from a bug recently, causing the passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users by millions of sites to leak. Cloudflare is a security and performance tool that is used by 5.5 million websites, including big names like Reddit, Discord, Patreon and more. …

Back when 343 Industries was building up to the launch of Halo 5, one of the big negatives against the game was the lack of split screen. Split screen and couch co-op has been a major part of the main Halo games ever since Combat Evolved so quite a few …

It looks like Dead Rising 4 is finally making its way over to Steam after a brief stint as a ‘Windows 10' exclusive as part of Microsoft's exclusivity deal with Capcom. Dead Rising 4 initially launched on Xbox One and Windows 10 back on the 6th of December but the …

Following controversy surrounding Ubisoft's quoting of player numbers in some of its other games, it's been much more forthcoming with For Honor. That's meant we can keep a much better eye on how many people are actually playing and though there's been a bit of a drop off since it …

Troll and I is a game that we first had a look at back at EGX 2016 in the Leftfield collection and it looked and played well then. Now though we're just a few weeks away from its official release, so Maximum Games' latest trailer is giving us a much …

It looks like new tax jurisdictions on digital goods are coming in to play in several countries, forcing Valve to raise Steam prices across the board in ten different countries. Most countries on the list will see Steam game prices rise by well over ten percent, while some others will …

Digital Homicide, the studio perhaps most famous for releasing bad games and then trying to take legal action against those with negative feedback, recently had one of its two massive lawsuits dismissed. Last year, Digital Homicide's James Romine filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against game critic Jim Sterling but this …

Although gaming isn't as harmful for you as the tabloids would suggest, marathon sessions do seem to have some potential for health concerns. In the case of one Twitch streamer, fatally so, as 22 hours into a 25 hour gaming marathon, he died from what are currently considered unknown causes. …

Microsoft has been drip feeding us details about the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update for a few months now and while it is set to be a major update, Microsoft does have more planned for the rest of 2017. The Creators Update will bring along native Windows support for things …

Last year, Bethesda announced that it would be reworking Fallout 4 and DOOM for virtual reality and while things have been fairly quiet on that front since, this week, Todd Howard opened up a bit more about it. It turns out that right now, the entirety of Fallout 4 is …

Yesterday, the long awaited 60 frames per second patch for the PS4 Pro version of Final Fantasy XV launched. The patch changes the ‘lite mode' within the game options, which previously gave 1080p visuals at 30 frames per second. Now, the visuals remain at 1080p in lite mode but the …

The Humble Freedom Bundle has proved to be the second most popular in the history of the platform, generating more than $6.5 million for charity and selling 200,000+ bundles. The only bundle to have a better showing was the Humble Origin bundle, which generated more than $10 million in 2013. …

Completed manga comic series fare far better with piracy than those series which are ongoing, according to a new study. Research suggests that manga readers will more readily pirate content if a series is still ongoing, but if it's completed, they might not know it existed without a pirated version. The relationship …

Taking advantage of the fact that the cartridges for the Nintendo Switch are some of the smallest of any console to date, Nintendo has printed some beautiful artwork inside the cases. However, it does seem like rather a lot of plastic for something that occupies barely one per cent of …

The port of Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ for the upcoming Nintendo Switch, will not be a launch title as originally intended. Although the game's publisher, Nicalis, still claims the game will debut on the new-gen system in March, it won't quite be ready for the originally planned release date of …

Ghost Recon Wildlands is coming out in just a few weeks but before you head into the desert to take down the drug cartel, you may want to check you have the right tools for the job. Ubisoft has revealed Ghost Recon Wildland's full PC system requirements, giving you recommended …

The European Union's data protection watchdog appears to still be concerned about Windows 10 and Microsoft's privacy settings. Several countries within the EU have taken issue with Windows 10's privacy policies over the last year and while some changes have been made, it appears that the union isn't satisfied just …

If you are a bigger fan of frame rates than you are visual fidelity, the new patch for Final Fantasy XV will give you a chance to hit something a little smoother than the 30 FPS you've been used to. On PS4 Pro consoles, gamers can now expect to hit …

Last week we got our first real look at the back-end menu system of Nintendo's upcoming Switch console, thanks to one lucky owner who claimed to have received it several weeks early. However the story surrounding that console has taken a darker turn, as Nintendo is now claiming that the …

For Honor has proved an impressively popular brawler, despite what many people feel are a few key problems with balancing. Ubisoft is listening to the community though and has announced plans for a number of tweaks to specific characters that will arrive in the upcoming updates. “We are excited to …

Felix Kjellberg, most commonly known as the Youtuber, Pewdiepie, has released an even pitched, sober response to the lambasting he received in the media over the past week. In it he airs his side of the story and highlights some of the scare mongering and click-baiting that traditional media sources …

One lucky Nintendo fan received their Switch two weeks early when an unnamed U.S. retailer sent it out accidentally. Although they weren't lucky enough to receive some games with the system, this does mean we get a look at the menu and back-end options of the upcoming console. The Nintendo Switch …

Over 80 new Pokémon from the second generation of the games have been added to hit augmented reality Pokémon mobile game, Pokémon Go. Chikorita, Cyndaquil and Totodile are joined by many of their pals, along with Pokémon genders, new encounter mechanics, new berries, a night mode and a whole lot …

As fun as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can be, you will occasionally run into cheaters and while progress can seem slow at times, Valve does work to fight back against them. Unfortunately, hard-coded cheat detection often leads to an arms race with cheat developers, leading to a constant cycle of new …

Sony has had its PlayStation Now service available for quite some time and over the years the service has been thrown onto plenty of devices, from Samsung and Sony smart TVs, to PS4/PS3/Vita and PC. Unfortunately, it looks like that list of compatible devices is going to get a lot …

It looks like there won't be a ‘Patch Tuesday' for a little while as Microsoft has run into some ‘last minute issues; with its latest round of security fixes for Windows 10. As a result, patches are being withheld until mid March, at which point Microsoft will roll out a …