Software & Gaming

DinoPC hosted its very own LAN party this weekend just gone, with VR, table tennis, arcade systems and more for people to play with. There was food, drinks and lots of gaming camaraderie to be had at the DinoPC showroom in Edmonton, London. We sadly couldn't attend this one, but …

If you open up your Steam account this morning, the Store page will look a little different than you remember. In a large update, Valve has overhauled the aesthetics and layout of its storefront once again, this time easing back on the free-flowing look that had dominated for a while …

It looks like Tesco Bank has had a bit of a security breach over the weekend as the bank has had to freeze a huge number of fraudulent transactions over the weekend. Action was promptly taken after it was discovered that suspicious amounts of money had been taken from 20,000 …

Last week, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was released and unfortunately for Activision, it doesn't appear to be doing much to stop the falling sales of the franchise as UK charts show a near 50 percent dip in launch sales compared to Black Ops III last year. Call of Duty: …

For over a decade, the cycle of updates and releases for World of Warcraft has seen the biggest and most game changing content come from expansions, rather than patches. Moving forward though that paradigm is going to shift, to allow Blizzard to deliver story updates and more on an increasingly …

IO Interactive has wrapped up development on the first season of Hitman with the final content drop taking players to Japan. It turns out that the experimental release schedule has paid off too as not only have critics been quite fond of Hitman as it's gone on throughout the year, …

There have been plenty of rumours in the build-up to Blizzcon with lots of talk surrounding Diablo in particular. However, it turns out most of the rumours fell slightly off the mark as Blizzard announced this week that Diablo 1 has been recreated within Diablo 3, bringing back the 16 …

With the launch of Radeon Software Crimson Edition, AMD embarked on a mission to deliver monthly driver updates to Radeon GPU users and so far, the company has been keeping on top of it, with new driver updates for almost every major game release this year. That isn't slowing down …

Digital advocacy organisation, the Open Rights Group, has lambasted a number of politicians for making a proposed amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, which would make it perfectly legal to block porn sites which don't add effective age registration. On top of labelling the idea censorship, the ORG criticised the …

Foveated imaging, or foveated rendering is a technique that holds a lot of promise for virtual reality. By rendering only the focal point of the user at high detail, it can massively reduce graphical overheads. But it turns out that the technique could also be used on 2D monitors with eye …

If you're looking to buy Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare at some point today or in the near future, make sure you check which version you friends are buying. We're not talking PC or console either, but Steam Store or Windows Store, as whichever one you buy, you won't be …

LastPass is one of the more popular password managers around, giving users a convenient way to create unique passwords for every account and keep track of them all. Previously, LastPass has a pricing scheme in place, forcing users to pay out if they wanted their password database to sync across …

Since its initial announcement, things have been fairly quiet when it comes to the PlayStation 4 Pro. However, with the PSVR launch now out of the way, Sony is starting to open up a bit more about its upcoming upgraded console, releasing a full, definitive list of games that will …

Like a real world game of Agar.io, Facebook is swallowing up everything around it as it expands into new fields of advertising and absorbs old ones. With the release of its second quarter financials, we've learned that its net income has tripled year on year, thanks to a huge expansion …

As much as Pokémon Go is still a game enjoyed by many millions of people around the world, it's far from the peak of its popularity. To try and encourage some of the absent players back, Niantic is easing up on the grind a little, with the introduction of daily …

Titanfall 2 has been off to a great start critically, with many praising the game's multiplayer changes and new single player campaign. The PC version is also particularly good. Unfortunately, the game has been released between two massive blockbuster titles: Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The chosen …

Valve is tightening up its Steam Store policies this year, introducing new changes that will require developers and publishers to use real in-game screenshots to advertise their games on Steam, rather than concept art or rendered stills. The change was revealed in Valve's updated developer guidelines, though the company admits …

Due to a disagreement with a local licensing body, German Youtube viewers haven't been able to watch much in the way of music videos on the streaming site – without using a proxy – for years now. However, finally, after much negotiation, a deal has been struck and the blocks …

A recent episode of Black Mirror that addressed the idea of social networking ratings affecting the real world, could be closer to reality than you might think. Admiral is currently looking to use analysis of Facebook posts, searching for triggers like exclamation points and confident statements, as a bearing on …

For people who really want to keep track of their pet should they run off, GPS collars offer a really easy way to get find out where they are. But if you aren't around to do that, or you want your pet to have a backup option should you fall …

Unity held its annual Unite conference yesterday, where it launched the new 5.5 game engine and a new Timeline feature for the editor. However the big news was some of the partnerships it has made recently, including ones with Nintendo, Facebook and Google, each of which will be using the …

Ubisoft has been known to partner up with hardware makers from time to time in order to offer up free copies of newly released games. In the past, Ubisoft has had game bundle partnerships with Nvidia and AMD but this year for Watch Dogs 2, the publisher is teaming up …

At E3 earlier this year, Microsoft officially announced that it would be coming out with a more powerful console in 2017, currently known as Project Scorpio. One of the big goals for this device is to support “high-fidelity VR”, but it seems that support may take some time to arrive …

This week, Google went ahead and disclosed details surrounding a critical vulnerability currently present in Windows and it turns out that Microsoft isn't too pleased about it. The vulnerability is apparently being actively exploited by hackers, something that Google apparently knew about prior to making the bug public. Google disclosed …

In an effort to try and hurt Call of Duty sales this year, EA has gone ahead and released two massive multiplayer shooters within the space of one week – Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1. We have already taken a look at Titanfall 2 this week, so today we will …

The UK government has announced plans to invest £1.9 billion over the next five years in improving the defences of the country's digital infrastructure. It's hoped that with better education, more investment in newer systems and a more proactive approach to defence, the UK can prevent a greater number of …

Passwords have been around for so long at this point that it is almost hard to imagine a world without them. That said, Biometric options are now on the rise in our everyday devices, with fingerprint sensors now shipping in many flagship smartphones, some devices even come with Iris Scanners. …

In an effort to try and hurt Call of Duty sales this year, EA has gone ahead and released two massive multiplayer shooters within the space of one week – Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2. In this performance analysis, we will be focussing on Titanfall 2, which is Respawn Entertainment's …

If you happened to check out our Gears of War 4 analysis back in early October, then you may have noticed that some incredibly significant improvements have been made to Microsoft's UWP platform since the start of this year, leaving us with a much brighter outlook when it comes to …

The last month has seen DDOS attacks on various sources on a magnitude no one has ever seen before: in some cases more than a terabit per second of data. This was more than anyone thought possible, but it was all because whoever was responsible, rented some of the most …