Software & Gaming

We already talked about Microsoft adding achievements to its Xbox One for simply watching TV, but that isn't the only changeup it'll be making. It'll also be introducing challenges that transcend individual games, can be temporary or long term and even unlock new content. Challenges are not just your regular …

Money launderers and account thieves have been using money mules for years to help clean up their cash and make it difficult for authorities to trace and a common method for recruitment in the past was job sites. Now though, security teams at those firms are beginning to crack down …

While competitive gaming these days is all about MOBAs and Starcraft and Call of Duty, there's a growing number of individuals attempting to push the boundaries of what's possible in the ghosts of gaming's past. One such man is David Race, who recently set a new world record for the …

While some companies may have been pleased by the announcement by Microsoft that its next generation console, the Xbox One, would come packing built in DRM that locked games to individual accounts, disallowed game lending and required online activation on a regular basis, developer of the Witcher, CD Projekt is …

Nintendo used a direct video presentation at E3 to show that they are focusing on big titles for their Wii U console. The 45 minute presentation highlighted many titles, both old and new, from third party developers and Nintendo themselves. One of the big problems with the latest Wii U …

While Sony might be riding on a wave of good publicity from its announcements at E3, Twitter has also been abuzz from comments made by the president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, who said that the console would be region free. It was a simple tweet, but those are …

The Sony Playstation 4 will go on sale in Europe and America in time for the year end holiday season and it will cost $399, according to their E3 press briefing in Los Angeles. If you read our report last night you will already know this is $100 less expensive …

$499 in the US. 499 euros in the EU £429 in the UK. I know we always have to pay a little more for things, but really? For those who don't fancy Google converting those currencies, here's the breakdown: we're getting screwed. $499 works out at about £320. This is …

As if the lacklustre selling Wii U, upcoming next-gen systems from Microsoft and Sony, a very competitive PC market, the Ouya, Nvidia Shield and Gamer Stick consoles weren't enough, Mad Catz is set to debut its own Android console in the coming few days, at the E3 conference. Announced to …

Even though Microsoft has been hammered with bad press for its Xbox One console over the past few weeks, it's still managing to beat out the much more favourably viewed PlayStation 4 in pre-orders, according to a new report from Amazon.co.uk. First there was the fact that Microsoft just loved …

Cementing the idea of the future that we won't own any console games, merely rent licenses to play them, Microsoft has announced that while it personally won't stop you selling Xbox One games, game publishers will have the right and the ability, to opt out from resales as a feature …

Sega has announced its intention to support the Ouya, that little android console that seems to have lost a lot of ground in the months following on from its impressive Kickstarter funding last year. However, it'll now see compatible versions of Sonic CD (arguably the best Sonic game ever made) …

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that they have cut prices of Windows 8 and Windows RT licenses to hardware partners building smaller sized tablets as an incentive to drive sales. Analysts have been discussing if the cuts are enough to dramatically lower tablet prices and drive sales and are unsure if Office …

You know what I've spent the last few years doing? Avidly attempting to find toys and games from my childhood. This is partly to collect them and partly to play with them – seriously I swear apart from a few things, my hobbies have reverted to the same as when …

“Well, why not?” you might be asking yourself, and it's a good question. 1: Because there's a big rumour going around that GameStop in America is going to stop selling it, because nobody is buying it,  and 2: Because nobody is buying it. To make sure that the cut price, …

Kim Dotcom's file locker website, Mega.co.nz, was hit earlier this morning by a denial of service (DoS) attack and no one has yet to claim responsibility. Perhaps more surprisingly though, internet mogul Kim Dotcom, has yet to point the finger or even mention the attack on his oft-used Twitter account …

We all know that China isn't afraid of a little copyright infringement now and again. This is the country with actual stores that are rip offs of Western ones. However, fake Apple devices is one thing, but copying League of Legends in almost every way possible? Adding heroes that bear …

While we don't have any concrete pricing information on the next-gen consoles from Microsoft or Sony just yet, that doesn't mean speculation isn't abound. One analyst, by the name of Michael Pachter, has given a talk to investors in an E3 preview show and he thinks he's got a handle …

One of the biggest concerns people have with free to play games, is that by monetising them through unlocks or experience boosters, it can often make it far easier to make your way through game content or unlock more powerful stuff, if you simply dump cash into the game instead …

If you've been sat there with your Android smartphone, seething with envy at how your Apple equipped pals can send each other six second videos of them being as nonsensical as they are on other social outlets, see red no longer my friends, as Vine just hit Android. Despite being …

While it might end up putting a bit of a dampener on the plot of the AVGN movie, one company could finally be about to find out what exactly Atari dumped in the El Paso desert all those years ago. Chances are, it's more than a few E.T. cartridges. If …

Microsoft has made it quite clear that it's taking a pickaxe to the used game industry and it's mining a chunk of change from it before dismembering it over the next few years. At least that's the plan, but not everyone is keen to let the software giant have all …

If you thought Microsoft was pussy footing around with its commitment to no backwards-compatibility with the Xbox One, you are sorely mistaken. The Xbox One will not only not be able to play Xbox 360 games, but you won't be able to play your XBLA games on it either. Speaking …

Password strength and account security have been a hot topic for a long time, as it always seems like those making the security are one step behind those breaking it. Now though, Motorola is proposing a jump in an entirely different direction – bio-tattoos. Discussed by the head of the …

It's been a long time since games consoles were solely about playing games. Since they started adding CD playing functions, consoles have been more than just a tool for gunning down digital enemies, but you'd have been forgiven with the recent Xbox One reveal for thinking that nobody uses them …

Did you play my game of the year 2012, The Walking Dead? If not, now's your chance to get it at a steal. The Humble Weekly sale is up and this one's offering a large collection of Telltale's back catalog, for just a few dollars. So what's available in this …

After a lot of complaints – Microsoft have decided to bring back the Start Button in the Windows ‘Blue' update. Microsoft finally announced that the much discussed menu system will make a reappearance in Windows 8, in Version 8.1. Antoine Leblond, the corporate vice president of Windows Program Management, delivered …

One of the biggest problems of running a MOBA title like League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth or DotA 2, is that the communities that play them can be extremely caustic. Most players are nice enough, passively playing away with the odd ping to give you a heads up, but …

Let's face it, there's very few people that don't think the idea to make people pay full price licensing fees for games they borrow from friends for their Xbox One is a dumb idea. Everyone's talked about it, from consumers, to journalists, to analysts. No one wants it. Microsoft has …

Nintendo has announced a new rechargeable pack for its Wii-mote controllers – as if there weren't enough of those out there already – with a quick-charge function, that should see you gaming for a full hour off just a ten minute charge time. Currently listed at 4200 Yen (£27.5), the …