Software & Gaming

While we might not all be thrilled with the way Valve handled this year's Steam Summer Sale, in terms of getting people to play games, it was a resounding success. Over this weekend the digital distribution platform broke all previous records for concurrent players, topping eight million. This is its …

We are receiving a lot of reports from you guys telling us that Steam is currently revoking Sniper Elite III keys bought from sites like CDKeys and Kinguin. Valve has yet to offer an official explanation or statement but this could be a sign that the company is going to …

Steam accounts are under attack from a new phishing scam that tricks users in to downloading malicious software that bypasses Valve's Steam Guard system, according to Malwarebytes Unpacked. Valve launched Steam Guard in 2011 and has since made it mandatory for all Steam trades. Steam Guard works by placing an SSFN …

Today we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Sniper Elite III. It means you can put all …

Valve's Dota 2 tournament dubbed as ‘The International', has just seen its prize pool shoot passed $10 million, which is all thanks to the sales of the Compendium. Now Dota 2 players have unlocked the Compendium's 22nd and possibly final milestone, a victory prediction taunt. Valve began selling the Compendium …

Blizzard is aiming to release its first Hearthstone expansion, Curse of Naxxramas, in July, Community Manager, Aratil posted on the game's forum. The Curse of Naxxramas will be the Collectible Card Game's first single player expansion, featuring a small story line and adding 30 new cards to the game. “Just wanted to give …

If there's one thing PC gamers hate, it's those horrible, by-the-numbers, mobile gaming mechanics championed by the likes of King and Zynga. The micro-transactions, pay to win scenarios, games that become more about some meta-management, rather than actually playing the game itself. Scores of companies have been smashed for this, …

British retailer ShopTo has become the first retailer in the world to list Nintendo amiibo figureines for both the Wii U and 3DS, giving us our first idea of how much each of them will cost. While prices are certainly not final and should be considered changeable before the release, …

The Xbox One reveal was mostly a disaster but the console had a few redeeming features, one of which was Microsoft's game sharing program. Since Microsoft reversed its policies, this feature disappeared but Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, has said that the sharing plan is set to return, it …

This may be too little too late at this point but EA's CEO, Andrew Wilson, has admitted that the company made a lot of mistakes with the “free to play” mobile version of Dungeon Keeper. “You have to delivering value, and always err on the side of delivering more value, …

If you weren't quite done with killing zombies just yet, then you might want to check out this new security forces training video from Horzine Biotech, the Umbrella Corporation of the Killing Floor world, as it's got clips of various nasties that you may face when you play Killing Floor …

Few console-related subjects raise the blood pressure quite as much as storage. Should you live with what Microsoft/Sony etc give you in the standard package? Should you pay more to get a model with a better spec?  Does it make more sense for you to pick up a screwdriver and …

Oculus VR on Wednesday responded to the accusations of ZeniMax Media, which filed a lawsuit against the company last month. Oculus VR, which will soon become a part of Facebook, expectedly denied all the charges and said that the only reason why ZeniMax filed the complaint was its attempt to …

Last year Nintendo reorganized its hardware development teams and now has one big group that conducts R&D operations for both home and portable consoles. While the move greatly strengthens the company’s hardware development organization, the company thinks that eventually it could also unify mobile and home console games, at least …

We're used to messing around with mods on the PC but getting one to run on a console is a lot harder. However, that hasn't stopped XBLToothPik from turning Grand Theft Auto V in to a first person game using a modded Xbox 360 and a custom script. The script allows the …

Sony is currently facing heavy criticism from gamers, YouTuber's and traditional media outlets over its Playstation Now beta pricing. Right now the service is offering plenty of older titles such as Saints Row the Third and Final Fantasy XIII-2 but the rental options are more expensive than buying a physical …

Despite getting far less praise, attention and respect from society as a whole, the gaming industry has grown over the past few decades to dominate every single entertainment medium. Today it's worth more than the entire music and movie industry combined and it's just getting started. According to a new …

While PC gamers might be sitting pretty with their Saints Row franchise pack, heavily discounted yesterday (and today for a little longer) in the Steam Summer Sale, console gamers just aren't quite as lucky. Fortunately for them, they're getting a re-release of the iconic, open-world, anarchy simulator in mid-July, called …

Oculus VR on Tuesday said it agreed to acquire Carbon Design, one of the premier industrial design and product engineering teams. Carbon Design is known for the Xbox gamepad as well as the Kinect motion sensor. The design team will help Oculus VR to design its first commercial virtual reality …

If you thought Watchdogs' pre-release sales were ridiculous, with its countless versions and pre-order bonsues, clearly Ubisoft didn't see things the same way, as it's taken pre-release extras to a whole new level with Assassin's Creed Unity: a weekly lottery where you can win real prizes, but only if you've …

If you were planning to buy Sniper Elite 3 for the Xbox One then be prepared to wait a while before playing as the game as buyers will have to download a mandatory 10GB patch first. The patch will bring various improvements and fixes to the game, it will also …

Update: As many of our other users have pointed out, any bandwidth improvements seen by those that sent in the original story were likely coincidental, as browser is very unlikely to affect that. However, something like rendering speed for certain browser properties is very much affected by your choice. Putting …

West Games, the company packed full of developers that worked on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Metro series of games, is soon set to announce the spiritual successor to its post apocalyptic, giger-counting title, with its Kickstarter launching in just two days time. It's called Areal and is set in a future, …

We've already seen first hand that Ubisoft had downgraded the PC graphics for Watch Dogs, the publisher is also claiming that Far Cry 4 on the PS4 and Xbox One will look the same as the PC's ultra high settings. However, now we have some information suggesting that The Division …

More than 300,000 servers are still vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug as websites aren't bothering to patch it up. So far, only 9000 servers were patched last month, leaving behind plenty of vulnerable servers. We've known about Heartbleed for a while now, since security researcher, Robert David Graham, warned the Internet …

It turns out that Microsoft's Games for Windows Live PC gaming service isn't going anywhere, despite many assuming that it was being killed off. Even developers thought it was shutting down at the start of July as plenty of games switched from Microsoft's service to alternatives like Steam Works. Rumors …

With Gamespy set to shut down at the end of this month, the fates of many a multiplayer game mode have been sealed, or so it seemed. While Game Ranger might be swooping in to save some games, a cooperation between Revora and a handful of supporters will see Command …

CD Projekt Red has been hard at work on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for some time now and many gamers are looking forward to finally playing it. Unfortunately though, plot details and the ending of the game have leaked online but the developer warns fans not to look as …

Far Cry 4 is expected to be one of the best-looking video games ever made, judging by the trailers that Ubisoft published earlier this month. What is somewhat surprising is that according to a representative of the game developer, the game will look equally good on all modern platforms, including …

The PlayStation 4 video game console from Sony Computer Entertainment has been on the market for over seven months now. Nonetheless, Sony still cannot meet the demand for the system in Europe. A good news is that the things are improving and the tight supply situation may soon be over. …